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• Sheriff: Sixth Person Found Dead In Northern California Wildfire That Has Destroyed More Than 500 Buildings.

  29-07-2018 23:25
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  ANDERSON, Calif. (AP) — Sheriff: Sixth person found dead in Northern California wildfire that has destroyed more than 500 buildings.
  REDDING, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on fires in California (all times local):2:25 p.m.
  A Northern California sheriff says a sixth person has died in a raging wildfire that has destroyed more than 500 buildings.
  Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko said Sunday that the remains were found within the boundary of the Carr Fire near Redding, about 230
  
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• Mission: Impossible Fallout’ Shoots To No. 1

  29-07-2018 22:30
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — After six movies, 22 years, countless bruises and a broken ankle, Tom Cruise’s death-defying “Mission: Impossible” stunts continue to pay off at the box office.
  “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” easily took the No. 1 spot on the domestic charts this weekend. Paramount Pictures estimates that it earned $61.5 million from 4,386 North American theaters.
  Not accounting for inflation, it’s a best for the long-running franchise, which h
  
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• Rising Backlash As US Firms Seek Trump’s Steel Tariff Waiver

  29-07-2018 21:21
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. companies seeking to be exempted from President Donald Trump’s tariff on imported steel are accusing American steel manufacturers of spreading inaccurate and misleading information, and they fear it may torpedo their requests.
  Robert Miller, president and CEO of NLMK USA, said objections raised by U.S. Steel and Nucor to his bid for a waiver are “literal untruths.” He said his company, which imports huge slabs of steel from Russia, has already paid
  
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• Frustration As Fire Evacuees Await Word On Homes

  29-07-2018 10:30
  REDDING (AP)- Some evacuees from a deadly Northern California wildfire say they are frustrated because they don’t know whether their homes are standing or were destroyed.
  Authorities on Sunday had not reopened neighborhoods in Redding that were devastated by the flames.
  Fed up, Tim Bollman, hiked 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) up steep terrain to check on the home he built for his wife and two sons 13 years ago.
  He found rubble.
  Bollman took hundreds of photos, recorded video, texted his wife a
  
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• The Deadly Power Of The Carr Fire

  29-07-2018 08:00
  Redding, CA (CBS 13 Sacramento)-  The deadly power of the Carr Fire hit home for Redding residents, Saturday.
  Family members tell us the bodies of two children James and Emily Roberts ages 5 and 4 and their great grandmother 70-year-old Melody Bledsoe were discovered dead inside their rural home.
  The three had been unaccounted for since fire ripped through the area Thursday.
  I’ll miss the love, the camaraderie said close family friend, Gary Baldwin “I could talk to her about any
  
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• Sacramento Father Confesses To Shooting His Son Dead

  29-07-2018 07:38
  SACRAMENTO – It was a split-second decision a Sacramento father had to make in order to stay alive. He is admitting of shooting his own son after being brutally attack during a fight with him at their home.
  Steve Lamb is a retired welder and sharing his story.
  Nearly ten years ago, Lamb was stabbed by his son.  The two stopped speaking to each other until six months ago when Steven Roy Lamb, 33, showed up at his father’s house in east Sacramento.
  “I’m going to cry,&n
  
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• No Mystery To Supreme Court Nominee Kavanaugh’s Gun Views

  29-07-2018 06:30
  SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says he recognizes that gun, drug and gang violence “has plagued all of us.” Still, he believes the Constitution limits how far government can go to restrict gun use to prevent crime.
  As a federal appeals court judge, Kavanaugh made it clear in a 2011 dissent that he thinks Americans can keep most guns, even the AR-15 rifles used in some of the deadliest mass shootings.
  Kavanaugh’s nomination by President Do
  
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• Cal Fire Lifting Some Carr Fire Evacuations

  29-07-2018 06:28
  Redding, Ca (CBS 13Sacramento) – Cal Fire has lifted some evacuations in the Carr Fire Burn area.
  Here is a list of  all of the evacuations which have been lifted.
  Effective immediately the following areas are no longer evacuated and residents can return to their homes:Canyon Road
  Ranchette Drive
  Prospectors Road
  Copper Drive
  Valley View Road
  Silverado Drive
  Windsor Lane
  Redbank Road
  
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• California Students Flocking To Universities In Arizona

  29-07-2018 04:42
  PHOENIX (AP) — Californians, including many turned away by public universities in their own state, are flocking to four-year state and private universities in neighboring Arizona.
  Four of the top five schools where California freshmen go out of state are in Arizona, according to 2016 data from the U.S. Department of Education.
  Arizona State University, the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University each enrolled more than 1,000 first-time freshmen from California this year, The
  
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• Fire Starts In Steele Canyon Saturday Afternoon

  29-07-2018 03:29
  Steele Canyon, Napa County, (CBS 13 Sacramento)- Cal Fire as well as other State Mutual Aid Participating Fire Agencies are fighting a new fire in Napa County.
  The fire Began at 4:30pm Saturday afternoon according to Cal Fire who tells us the Blaze is threatening multiple structures and has burned about 100 acres at this time.
  Crews from as far away as Grass Valley are currently enroute.  Fire officials have evacuated the Berryessa Highland areas of Steele Canyon from Rimrock to Headlands D
  
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• Group Prepares For Possible Blood Shortage As Carr Fire Burns

  29-07-2018 03:04
  SACRAMENTO – Blood Source in Redding is anticipating a significant decrease in blood donations over the next couple of days as firefighters continue to battle the Carr fire.
  Right now, there is a push to get more donors through the doors, in the event there is a shortage.
  Blood donations are usually low during the summer with people on vacation and less blood drives and now the Carr fire is threatening an even bigger drop. 
  Leaders with the organization say there have been cancellatio
  
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• Police Investigate Looting In Carr Fire Zone

  29-07-2018 02:12
  REDDING, Calif. (AP) —  Authorities say they are investigating reports of looting in Northern California neighborhoods that were evacuated because of a deadly wildfire and that officials have identified several suspects.
  Redding Police Chief Roger Moore says his department has been receiving reports of people driving around evacuated areas and shouldering doors of houses still standing.
  Moore said Saturday no arrests have been made.
  Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko says official
  
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