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• Delta Fire Grows To More Than 36,000 Acres, Interstate 5 Remains Closed

  08-09-2018 23:45
  SHASTA-TRINITY NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. (AP/CBS13) — A roaring wildfire that shut down a stretch of a major interstate near the California-Oregon border exploded in size as crews on Saturday scrambled to prevent flames from reaching rural communities.
  The blaze in California’s Shasta-Trinity National Forest was burning out of control after chewing through 36,970 acres of timber and brush since Wednesday.
  According to the U.S. Forest Service, the evacuation shelters for the Delta fire
  
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• Serial Killer’s House Will Host Art Exhibit This Weekend

  08-09-2018 08:42
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Three decades after bodies were found buried in the capital city’s most notorious murder house, people’s curiosity still hasn’t died down.
  “This is where she buried the first body the one that she cut the head, hands, and feet off,” Tom Williams said as he pointed to an area just feet away from the sidewalk.
  Barbara Holmes and Williams now live in the F Street Victorian home once owned by serial killer Dorothea Puente.
  “People come b
  
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• Delta Fire Leaves Truckers Stranded After Interstate 5 Closure

  08-09-2018 08:24
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The Delta Fire continues to impacting traffic in Shasta County today. But truck drivers headed through Sacramento felt the long delays as Interstate 5 remains closed.
  “Right now, I’m staying here and probably not leaving until tomorrow morning,” said Juan Martinez, who drives food products up and down the West Coast.
  CalTrans says the closure is expected to last throughout the weekend. But accidents on the 60-mile detour around the interstate have bro
  
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• Week Four High School Football: Lincoln Shuts Out Whitney

  08-09-2018 08:17
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — In week four, some kept their undefeated streaks while others failed to find their first win. Conference games start next week.This week’s schedule posed many questions: how does a back follow a 6-touchdown performance? Is number one for real? What does a high school crowd of 15,000 look like? 
  We got answers and followed along on social media.
  LINCOLN 30, WHITNEY 0 — CBS13’s Game of the Week!
  LINCOLN — The game started out w
  
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• Barbershop Workers Quit After California Supreme Court Ruling

  08-09-2018 08:04
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Some small businesses are scrambling to figure out how to stay afloat after a high court ruling.
  A recent California Supreme Court decision is changing the way independent contractors are classified, and it’s already having a big impact on local shops. May fear it will hurt millions of workers and affect businesses’ bottom lines.
  The work doesn’t stop at Downtown Sacramento’s Bottle and Barlow, even if it became a one-man shop.
  “I los
  
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• Barbershop Employees Quit After California Supreme Court Ruling

  08-09-2018 08:04
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Some small businesses are scrambling to figure out how to stay afloat after a high court ruling.
  A recent California Supreme Court decision is changing the way independent contractors are classified, and it’s already having a big impact on local shops. May fear it will hurt millions of workers and affect businesses’ bottom lines.
  The work doesn’t stop at Downtown Sacramento’s Bottle and Barlow, even if it became a one-man shop.
  “I los
  
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• 1 Dead In Stockton Shooting

  08-09-2018 07:08
  STOCKTON (CBS13) — A shooting in Stockton left one person dead on Friday.
  The shooting happened at around 5:10 p.m. on Friday in the 1500 block of Ishi Goto Street.
  A 22-year-old man was transported to the hospital by a private vehicle and died at the hospital.
   
  
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• How A California Supreme Court Ruling Changed Independent Contractors

  08-09-2018 06:45
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A ruling by the California Supreme Court changed the way independent contractors are classified in California, making it much more difficult for employers to put employees under that label.
  Dynamex Operations West v Superior Court of Los Angeles dates back to 2004 when Dynamex changed the status of its delivery drivers from employees to independent contractors. The employees filed suit when they say their work didn’t really change or justify the reclassification.
  
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• Company Behind 2015 Santa Barbara Oil Spill Found Guilty

  08-09-2018 04:10
  LOS ANGELES (AP) – A pipeline company was convicted of nine criminal charges Friday for causing the worst California coastal spill in 25 years, a disaster that blackened popular beaches for miles, killed wildlife and hurt tourism and fishing.
  A Santa Barbara County jury found Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline guilty of a felony count of failing to properly maintain its pipeline and eight misdemeanor charges, including killing marine mammals and protected sea birds.
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• Police Suspect Crew Of Suspects Robbed Multiple Cell Phone Stores

  08-09-2018 03:15
  WEST SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Police from several departments are actively tracking down a crew of suspects that allegedly have robbed multiple area cell phone stores.
  The latest robbery took place at a West Sacramento Sprint store around 7:30 p.m., Thursday night.
  West Sacramento police say four men entered the store with hoodies covering their heads, indicated they had a gun, stole an unknown amount of product, and left.
  And while police aren’t officially linking the robbery to one cre
  
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• Man On Bike Robbed After Car Hits Him In Stockton

  08-09-2018 02:41
  STOCKTON (CBS13) — A man was robbed in Stockton after he cashed a check Friday.
  Stockton Police say the man was riding his bike in the area of Church and Hunter streets at around 9:30 a.m. on Friday when a vehicle came up and knocked him to the ground.
  After he was hit, police say a suspect got out of the passenger side of the vehicle and pointed a gun at him, demanding his money. The suspects were able to flee with the victim’s cash.
  The victim was not seriously injured.
  The ve
  
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• Police: Road Rage Turns Violent, Man Stabbed At Stockton Gas Station

  08-09-2018 02:32
  STOCKTON (CBS13) — People living in a north Stockton neighborhood are concerned over safety after another incident at a gas station.
  In a dramatic video caught on cell phones, two men argued at the station moments after one of the men stabbed the other with a knife. The incident is now being investigated by Stockton Police.
  A 37-year-old man is shown in a cell phone video moments after being stabbed multiple times.
  A woman who witnessed the incident shared the video wit
  
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• Black-Owned Supplements Launched

  08-09-2018 01:34
  Photo by Ray Johnson
  SACRAMENTO – He doesn’t call them magic pills, but a local agriculturalist and entrepreneur Gene Murry is launching a line of natural food supplements he believes can help get to the “root” of many of the health issues disproportionately facing African Americans today.
  Murry is the owner of Healthberry Nutraceutical and grows specialty crops and utilizes them as in encapsulated pills, sold through his product line, NutraKing. Healthberry Nutraceutical
  
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• Stockton Record Closing Press Facility, 40 Jobs Lost In GateHouse Media Slashing

  08-09-2018 00:59
  STOCKTON (CBS13) — The Stockton Record announced it’s the latest victim of a tariff fight over the cost of newsprint and will close its operations facility, ending local printing of the newspaper.
  The closure will happen in October. The daily newspaper will continue to be printed, though where has not been specified as that deal has not been finalized, the Record said on Friday.
  About 40 jobs will be lost in Stockton as a result of the move.
  The news comes just a week after the sudde
  
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