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• Detectives: Colfax Fraud Suspect Also Accused Of Financial Elder Abuse

  28-08-2018 20:53
  COLFAX (CBS13) – A 41-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of elder abuse after Placer County sheriff’s deputies say he stole money and credit cards from his roommate.
  Detectives say a search of suspect’s Jonathan League’s room found a number of identity theft items.
  During the investigation, it was also uncovered that League had once moved into a 71-year-old Colfax woman’s home without her knowledge and installed a deadbolt on a bedroom door.
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• Stockton Motorcycle Officer Seriously Injured After Being Struck By Vehicle

  28-08-2018 20:20
  STOCKTON (CBS13) – A Stockton motorcycle officer was left seriously injured after a crash near the Weberstown Mall Tuesday morning.
  The scene is in the area of Yokuts and Claremont avenues, between the Sherwood Mall Shopping Center and Weberstown Mall.
  It’s unclear, at this point, exactly what led up to the officer being struck by another vehicle. Police say the driver stayed at the scene.
  The officer has been taken to the hospital and is said to be in serious condition.
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• Shuttered Oak Park Motel Was Crime Hub; Boutique Hotel Now Planned To Replace It

  28-08-2018 18:10
  OAK PARK (CBS13) – It’s been an eyesore and a central hub for crime and illegal activity for years, and now a long-standing Oak Park hotel is being forced to close.
  “It’s been a blight and cancer to the neighborhood, drug dealing, prostitution,” said Councilman Eric Guerra.
  Johnson’s Greenbrier motel is located on Stockton Boulevard. It shut down last week, vacating all tenants. It sits across from a church in a residential area, and has raised concerns about
  
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• Irrigation Overflow, Not Levee Leak, To Blame For Standing Water On Rural Delta Road

  28-08-2018 16:49
  RIO VISTA (CBS13) – A levee road in rural Sacramento County is closed Tuesday morning due to high water.
  The scene is on Jackson Slough Road, off Highway 12 and near Rio Vista.
  Some residents were originally concerned that a levee could be leaking. However, an official from the Brannan-Andrus Levee Maintenance District blames irrigation – saying the slough got too full and overflowed its banks, spilling into the roadway.
  Water has been shut off to the area.
  The water table should ret
  
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• Man Shot, Killed In Parking Lot In Stockton

  28-08-2018 15:34
  STOCKTON (CBS13) – A man is dead after being shot in the parking lot of a Stockton business late Monday night.
  The scene is along the 3400 block of Manthey Road.
  Stockton police say officers responded to the area a little after 10 p.m. to investigate a report of a person shot. At the scene, a man in his 20s was found suffering from a gunshot wound.
  Medics soon pronounced the man dead at the scene.
  Detectives are now investigating the incident. No motive or suspects have been identified at
  
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• Bill Requiring Rape Test Kit Backlog Count Passes California Legislature

  28-08-2018 08:57
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — California is a step closer to getting an idea how large its backlog of untested rape kits is.
  Assembly Bill 3118, which would require law enforcement agencies count and report untested rape kits, is on its way to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk.
  For many sexual assault survivors, a rape kit is the only shot at justice.
  Sacramento County District Attorney Deputy Chief Steve Grippi says the county receives about 250 to 350 rape kits every year. As of March 2018, there wer
  
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• Student Who Took Classmate’s MAGA Hat Says She Was Making Political Statement

  28-08-2018 08:02
  EL DORADO (CBS13) — A Union Mine High School student is facing battery charges after an altercation in her classroom over a Donald Trump “Make America Great Again” campaign hat.
  Cellphone video shows some of the tension inside this high school classroom.
  The teacher is seen trying to subdue fired-up 17-year-old senior Jo-Ann Butler, after she became enraged at a classmate for wearing the “Make America Great Again” hat.
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• Sacramento Regional Transit Temporarily Drops Fares As Ridership Dips

  28-08-2018 07:33
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Sacramento Regional Transit is lowering its fares for the first time in 50 years, after two years of declining ridership following a controversial rate hike.
  “Believe it or not a 25-cent difference can make a difference,” said Mark Shepard who think the lower fares will help.
  To the average rider says the cost matters.
  RELATED: Sacramento Regional Transit Fighting Declining Ridership
  “It’s very high,” said Lillian Thomas, without the
  
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• Fairfield Police Increase Patrols After Deadly Shooting Near Armijo High School

  28-08-2018 03:43
  FAIRFIELD (CBS13) — Security at a Fairfield high school was increased after a deadly shooting near the campus prompted a lockdown on Friday.
  Fairfield Police identified 16-year-old Ahmar Willis as the victim. An 18-year-old man was also shot and remained in critical condition.
  Police described the scene as a gun battle between two groups blocks from Armijo High School. After the suspects fled, police locked down the school during the junior varsity game on Friday night. One of the suspects
  
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• Missing Teen Believed To Be With Stockton Wrestling Coach

  28-08-2018 03:34
  STOCKTON – A 16-year-old Stockton student who investigators believe is on the run with her high school wrestling coach has not been found.
  Police said the two may be involved in more than just a teacher-student relationship. Both went missing almost a week ago.
  Investigators have not released the name or a picture of the student believed to be with 25-year-old Phillip Maglaya.
  A spokesperson for the Stockton Unified School District said Maglaya started volunteering just last year and
  
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• Student Arrested After Fight Over Trump Campaign MAGA Hat

  28-08-2018 02:50
  EL DORADO (CBS13) — A hat bearing President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan was at the center of an altercation that landed a student in juvenile hall, the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said on Monday.
  A student at Union Mine High School got into a verbal altercation with another student who was wearing a red hat with the words “Make America Great Again” on it. Investigators say the student grabbed the hat and threw it to the ground, prompting the teacher to send
  
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• San Jose Catholic Diocese Buys $2.3 Million Home For Retiring Bishop

  28-08-2018 00:55
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The Catholic Diocese of San Jose has purchased a five-bedroom, $2.3 million home in Silicon Valley for its retiring bishop despite the 640,000-member diocese’s mission of charity and serving the poor.(Source: MLS Listing)
  Bishop Patrick J. McGrath, 73, acknowledged in an interview with the Mercury News of San Jose that the price tag is “a lot of money,” saying “I could understand” it might not sit well with some parishioners.
  
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• $2.3 Million Home Bought For Catholic Bishop Will Be Sold After Backlash

  28-08-2018 00:55
  6 p.m. UPDATE: After public outcry over the purchase, the Bishop Patrick McGrath will not move into the house and the diocese will work to sell the property.
  McGrath released a statement saying he had planned to move into a house owned by the diocese on cemetery property, but it was too costly to retrofit.
  He says the house that was purchased made sense through the lens of financial return on the investment and that the money spent on the house was from the sale of a previous bishop’s cond
  
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