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• Fatal Shooting At Howe Avenue Apartment Complex

  04-08-2018 23:07
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Police are investigating a fatal shooting from early Saturday morning that left one man dead.
  Sacramento Sheriff Shaun Hampton said officers responded to reports of a male shot at the Eleven Hundred Apartment Complex in Sacramento. Police located a 27-year-old male victim with a gunshot wound on the scene and were unable to find a pulse.
  According to police, the victim was pronounced dead on the scene.
  Hampton said police do not believe this was a random act of violenc
  
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• Car Crashed Into Rancho Cordova Apartment, Starts Fire And Injures Five

  04-08-2018 22:36
  RANCHO CORDOVA (CBS13) — A vehicle pursuit ended in flames Saturday morning at a Rancho Cordova apartment complex.
  According to the Sacramento Sheriffs, an officer attempted to stop a vehicle for a traffic violation just after 10 a.m. Saturday. Officers said the vehicle failed to stop, and the sheriffs were in pursuit for a short time.
  (source: Metro Fire)
  Sheriffs said they called off the pursuit due to erratic driving of the vehicle, but a short time later they got a call that the vehicl
  
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• Fleas Stop U.S. Mail Delivery in Sacramento Neighborhood

  04-08-2018 08:56
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of thier appointed rounds.
  But fleas are a whole other issue.
  The U.S. Postal Service is suspending mail delivery in a Sacramento neighborhood over carrier claims of a flea infestation. About 50 homes on a three block stretch of Thornhill Drive in the Rosemont section of Sacramento are not receiving mail.
  Sherri Byrd lives in one of the homes where delivery has stopped. She says the
  
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• Architect Builds $3 Million Shipwreck House Overlooking Folsom Lake

  04-08-2018 08:42
  NEWCASTLE (CBS13) — Above Folsom Lake, there’s a new ship in town, a labor of love taking years to build and it’s finally on the market.
  Yes, it’s a home transformed into a vessel, and it defines a nautical oasis crashed on shore.
  “They considered it unbuildable because there are no leech lines, nobody would ever buy it, so I thought I’ll figure it out,” said architect Martin Tarafdar.He purchased the property knowing he’d have to hoist the home in
  
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• Cemetery Yard Sale, Flashing Cause Uproar In Vacaville

  04-08-2018 08:15
  VACAVILLE (CBS13) — Outrage in Solano County after a social media post shows young woman disturbing the peace and acting inappropriately inside a Vacaville cemetery. But, as bad as the pictures looked, police say nothing the women did was actually against the law.
  “It’s disgusting,” said Vacaville resident Breanna Hernandez, “I think they disturbed a lot of souls here.”
  Pictures posted on social media show women setting up shop inside the Vacaville Elmira
  
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• 2 Suspended In River Delta Fire District In Gas Card Investigation

  04-08-2018 05:26
  SOLANO COUNTY (CBS13) — Two members of the River Delta Fire District have been suspended amid an investigation of improper use of gas cards.
  Rio Vista Fire Chief Jeff Armstrong said the two were suspended without pay.
  During an review of the fire district’s financial situation, Armstrong found unusual activity on fuel cards used in the district. The case is under investigation by the Rio Vista Police Department.
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• Pediatric Surgeon Develops Groundbreaking Less-Invasive Heart Surgery

  04-08-2018 04:42
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — It’s a fairly common birth defect that often corrects itself as the child gets older, but when it doesn’t doctors have to open up the chest leaving large scars on the child’s chest.
  But one Sutter Health doctor has come up with a way to avoid that invasive approach and speed up recovery time for his patients with heart defects.
  Sutter Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon Naruhito Watanabe made history as the first doctor in the United States to fix a congenital
  
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• Stockton Street Vendor Attacked By Three Boys

  04-08-2018 03:53
  STOCKTON (CBS13) — Stockton police officers are looking for three boys that attacked and attempted to rob another street vendor before a witness stepped in to help.
  It’s an area with few businesses, abandoned buildings and some homes.  The perfect setting, neighbors say for a crime.
  “I just know that they were trying to get his money,” said Jeff Dault, who lives in Stockton.
  Stockton police say the latest street vendor to be attacked happened near the intersection of
  
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• Vacaville Wallet Thief Victim Speaks: ‘I Should Have Turned Around’

  04-08-2018 02:49
  VACAVILLE (CBS13) — Vacaville Police are looking for two men who boldly stole a woman’s wallet from her purse while sitting next to her at a restaurant.
  The incident was caught on surveillance video.It happened Monday at the Spice Thai Kitchen restaurant in the Nut Tree Complex.
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  The video shows the men entering the restaurant and sitting at a table they moved closer to their target.
  One o
  
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• Transients Caught With Hundreds Of Stolen IDs, Credit Cards, Mail And More In Rancho Cordova

  04-08-2018 02:27
  FOLSOM (CBS13) — Two alleged mail thieves were arrested in Rancho Cordova Friday, and police found much more than stolen mail in their hotel room.
  (source: Folsom Police Department)
  Folsom Police said they found two transients, 30-year-old Patrick Cannon and 31-year-old Nicole Freitas, who both had outstanding warrants for their arrest out of Conta Costa County for fraud-related charges.
  (source: Folsom Police Department)
  According to authorities, the pair were found in possession of hundr
  
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• Fire Whirl Matches Strongest California Tornado In 40 Years

  04-08-2018 01:25
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A deadly Northern California wildfire burned so hot in dry and windy conditions that it birthed a record-breaking tornado of flame, officials said Friday.
  They also warned of worsening conditions throughout the region.
  Winds in the “fire whirl” created July 26 near Redding, California, reached speeds of 143 mph, a speed that rivaled some of the most destructive Midwest tornados, National Weather Service meteorologist Duane Dykema said. The whirl uprooted tr
  
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• Report: Trump commission did not find widespread voter fraud

  04-08-2018 01:19
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The now-disbanded voting integrity commission launched by the Trump administration uncovered no evidence to support claims of widespread voter fraud, according to an analysis of administration documents released Friday.
  In a letter to Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who are both Republicans and led the commission, Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap said the documents show there was a “pre-ordained outcome” and th
  
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• Conference Focuses On Black Women’s Health

  04-08-2018 00:59
  These ladies are getting ready for the 2018 Black Women’s Health and Wellness confab on Aug. 11. Shown left to right are Belinda VanZant, co-founder Chioko Greivous, Blair Imani, Jamilah Lemieux, Camela Smith, and co-founder Jessica Brown.
  SACRAMENTO — The Third Annual Black Women’s Health & Wellness Conference, BWHWC, Sacramento, will take place on Saturday, Aug. 11, at the University of California, Davis- Education Building in Sacramento.
  The conference, “A Healthie
  
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• Conrad Crump Called ‘N-Word’ By Attendee At Sac City Council Meeting

  04-08-2018 00:37
  Conrad Crump, the grandson of youth activist Harrison Crump from Oak Park, was in total shock when a person called him the ‘N’ word at the Sacramento City Council meeting earlier this week. (OBSERVER photo by Antonio R. Harvey)
  DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO — Sacramento social justice activist Conrad Crump went to the Sacramento City Council meeting this week to voice his opinion about Measure U, a proposal to increase the temporary half-cent tax to a permanent full cent tax that would b
  
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• Caltrans: Tahoe Traffic Impact Expected For Retired Fire Chief Memorial Service

  04-08-2018 00:20
  TAHOE (CBS13) — Motorists headed to Tahoe this weekend should expect delays on Sunday due to the memorial service for former North Tahoe Fire Chief Duane Whitelaw.
  According to Caltrans, the memorial service will affect traffic and parking in the Kings Beach area Sunday morning.
  The celebration of life will be held from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. at the North Tahoe Events Center, 8318 North Tahoe Boulevard (State Highway 28). There will be fire apparatus parked along the shoulder of Highway 2
  
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