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• Woman Arrested On Arson Charge In Connection With Fire Along Vacaville Freeway

  07-08-2018 20:52
  VACAVILLE (CBS13) – Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a string of fires along a Vacaville freeway that police are calling suspicious.
  The fire broke out around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday on he shoulder of Interstate 80 at the Interstate 505 interchange. Firefighters from the Vacaville Fire Department and Vacaville police were on the scene, according to a statement from the CHP who were also on-scene.
  Police arrested 46-year-old Jessica Ann Warne of Sacramento on a felony arson
  
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• DMV Redirecting Employees To Help Reduce Long Lines At Field Offices

  07-08-2018 19:42
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Hours before a hearing is set to begin at the State Capitol about the long wait times at the DMV, the department announced a number of new measures to help reduce those wait times.
  The California Department of Motor Vehicles announced Tuesday morning it’s redirected 173 employees from its headquarters, along with 67 employees from other state agencies, to help deal with the long lines. Those employees will walk the line and make sure customers have all of the req
  
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• Person Dies In House Fire In Gated Roseville Community

  07-08-2018 18:07
  ROSEVILLE (CBS13) – Authorities say a person has died after a fire at a home in a gated Roseville community Tuesday morning.
  The scene is on Hazeltine Lane, off of PFE Road, in southwest Roseville.
  It appears the fire started in the garage of the home.
  Scene of the fire on Hazeltine Lane.
  A battalion chief at the scene confirmed the fire had claimed the life of a person.
  Firefighters are still looking into what caused the fire.
  More information to come.
  
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• Person Dies In House Fire In Gated Placer County Community

  07-08-2018 18:07
  ROSEVILLE (CBS13) – Authorities say a person has died after a fire at a home in a gated Placer County community Tuesday morning.
  The scene is on Hazeltine Lane, off of PFE Road, outside of  southwest Roseville.
  It appears the fire started in the garage of the home.
  Scene of the fire on Hazeltine Lane.
  A battalion chief at the scene confirmed the fire had claimed the life of a person.
  Firefighters are still looking into what caused the fire.
  More information to come.
  
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• Person Killed In North Highlands Crash

  07-08-2018 16:45
  NORTH HIGHLANDS (CBS13) – A person has died after a car crashed into a fence in North Highlands Tuesday morning.
  The scene is on Roseville Road, a little bit north of Madison Avenue.
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• Questions Over Long Wait Lines Expected To Take Center Stage In DMV Budget Hearing

  07-08-2018 15:46
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The Department of Motor Vehicles is facing tough questions on hours-long wait times and half-staffed offices.
  Tuesday, California lawmakers will be holding a hearing about the DMV’s budget at the State Capitol.
  In 2017, lawmakers approved $226 million in additional funds to hire additional staff and keep the doors open on Saturdays at some DMV field offices.
  Since then, some lawmakers – including Fresno Republican Jim Patterson – have called for an au
  
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• Black Lives Matter Protesters Crash Wedding Of Cop Linked To Stephon Clark Shooting

  07-08-2018 09:24
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — One of the two officers who shot and killed Stephon Clark was confronted by Black Lives Matter protesters on his wedding day.
  Sacramento police have not released the names of the two officers who opened fire on Clark on March 18 due to safety concerns. CBS13 has blurred the faces of the newly released video to protect their identities.
  RELATED: New Campaign Aims To Raise Awareness Of Stephon Clark Shooting
  The small group of protesters had gotten word about the we
  
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• Sacramento Laws Still On The Books Bar Unlicensed Astrology, Spitting, Selling Comic Books To Kids

  07-08-2018 08:37
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — There are some unusual laws enacted decades ago, designed to protect the community, but do they still make sense in the present day?
  “Mr. Freeze kills this guy,” pointed out Kenny Russell in a comic book.
  He owns Big Brother Comics in Midtown.
  For years he’s been selling these superhero crime-fighting comic books to kids, they make up a big part of his collection
  “50 percent or more,” he added.
  RELATED: Handyman Accused Of Stealing $2
  
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• Ash Can Leave Lasting Damage On Your Car

  07-08-2018 07:57
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Smoke and ash from the largest wildfire in California history is drifting more than 150 miles to the Sacramento Valley.
  “Man, I seen it everywhere,” said Reginald Bowers. “It’s all on cars, it be all on my shirts.”
  Thick, dusty ash is swirling in the air and settling on every available surface outside.
  RELATED: Mendocino Complex Fire Now Largest In California History
  “I took a hose and washed it and wiped it down,” said Ja
  
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• Lodi Teen Kicked Out Of Class Over NRA Shirt

  07-08-2018 07:38
  LODI (CBS13) — An angry mother is speaking out after she says a Lodi High School history teacher targeted students wearing T-shirts advertising the National Rifle Association.
  “She was basically being attacked in class,” said mother Charlene Craig.
  RELATED: Anonymous Note Leaves Lodi Homeless Man In Tears
  Two sophomores were wearing the NRA shirts when they say they were singled out in class by their teacher, who started schooling them on why guns are bad.“That guns
  
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• Vacaville Power Outage Leaves Seniors Without Power For 4 Days

  07-08-2018 07:10
  VACAVILLE (CBS13) — Hundreds of residents faced their fourth day without power after their electricity went out on Friday.
  Many of the residents say they’re getting no information from the owner of the El Matador Mobile Home Park.
  No power means no air conditioning for senior citizens, children and those with other health issues.
  RELATED: Cemetery Yard Sale, Flashing Cause Uproar In Vacaville
  “Everybody’s hot; everybody’s miserable,” said Catina Wolett. &
  
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• Mendocino Complex Fire Now Largest In California History

  07-08-2018 05:00
  LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) – Twin Northern California blazes fueled by dry vegetation and hot, windy weather grew Monday to become the largest wildfire in state history, becoming the norm as climate change makes the fire season longer and more severe.
  The two fires burning a few miles apart and known as the Mendocino Complex are being treated as one incident. It has scorched 283,800 acres, fire officials said Monday.
  The fires, north of San Francisco, have burned 75 homes and is only 30 percent
  
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• Tracy Man Dies At HARD Summer Festival

  07-08-2018 03:45
  FONTANA, Calif. (AP) – Authorities say one person died and 23 were hospitalized after attending last weekend’s HARD Summer music festival in Southern California.
  The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department says Andrew Cole Click of Tracy, California was pronounced dead at a hospital at 11:45 p.m. Sunday. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of his death.
  Twenty-three other people were hospitalized for various medical issues. Two women remain hospitalized.
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• Mail Service Coming Back To Sacramento Neighborhood After Flea Problem

  07-08-2018 03:32
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The mail is coming back to a Sacramento neighborhood where service was stopped because of fleas.
  The U.S. Postal Service told CBS13 on Monday that it’s resuming mail delivery in one Sacramento neighborhood, following concerns over fleas.
  It comes after we first reported the story Friday.
  RELATED: Fleas Stop U.S. Mail Delivery in Sacramento Neighborhood
  Postal officials first went to the county supervisor for a flea fix, but now says they have their own. Mail
  
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• PG&E Employee Working Near Carr Fire Died In Car Crash

  07-08-2018 02:31
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The death of a 21-year-old PG&E employee while working in the area of the Carr Fire is now under investigation.
  The young man was an apprentice lineman for the utility company. Authorities say he was on an unpaved access road when his vehicle crashed.
  Officials say the utility worker was restoring power Saturday near Whiskeytown lake at the time of the crash. Now, his employer and the National Park Service are looking into his death.
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• Experts: ‘We Have Plenty Of Water’ For Fighting California Wildfires

  07-08-2018 00:58
  WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is claiming that California’s water policy is shortchanging firefighters of water to battle the state’s raging wildfires. That’s not so, according to wildfire and water experts.
  RELATED: California’s Second Largest Wildfire Leaves Smoky Haze Across Sacramento
  A look at his tweets and the facts behind them:
  TRUMP: “California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which
  
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• California’s Second Largest Wildfire Leaves Smoky Haze Across Sacramento

  07-08-2018 00:28
  LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) – Twin Northern California blazes fueled by dry vegetation and hot, windy weather grew Monday to become the second-largest wildfire in state history, becoming the norm as climate change makes the fire season longer and more severe.
  The two fires burning a few miles apart and known as the Mendocino Complex have scorched 428 square miles since igniting July 27 about 100 miles  north of San Francisco, the state’s firefighting agency said.
  RELATED: Experts
  
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