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• Suspects Sought In Sacramento State Parking Lot Break-ins

  01-11-2018 23:52
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Sacramento State Police are searching for three suspects tied to early morning break-ins in the campus parking lot.
  Two parked cars were broken into in Lot 10 at around 5 a.m. on Thursday. A Sac State police officer noticed the suspects and when he ordered them to stop, they fled in a vehicle.
  The officer pursued them toward the freeway until the watch commander stopped the pursuit.
  The suspects are described as the followingA dark-skinned male, standing 5’8&Prim
  
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• Man Dies After October Double Stabbing, Attempted Kidnapping In Vacaville

  01-11-2018 22:37
  VACAVILLE (CBS13) – Police say a man stabbed during an attempted kidnapping in Vacaville in October has died.
  The incident happened back on Oct. 23. Deputies from the Solano County Sheriff’s Department responded to the 5000 block of Fry Road that day to investigate a report of an assault with a deadly weapon.
  Deputies found that two men had been stabbed by a third man, 32-year-old Vacaville resident Kristopher Williams.
  Kristopher Williams’ booking photo. (Credit: Solano County
  
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• Sacramento Loses To Cleveland In Bid To Host 2022 NBA All-Star Game

  01-11-2018 21:59
  CLEVELAND (CBS13/AP) — Sacramento has officially lost on to Cleveland on a bid to host the 2022 NBA All-Star Game.
  NBA Commissioner Adam Silver made the announcement that Cleveland won the bid on Thursday at Quicken Loans Arena, the site of the game.
  Silver said he had a number of discussions with Cavaliers chairman Dan Gilbert and chief operating officer Len Komoroski about bringing the game to Cleveland.
  Sacramento Kings President of Business Operations John Rinehart released a statement
  
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• 110 California Sex Offenders Arrested In Halloween Sweep

  01-11-2018 20:56
  SACRAMENTO (AP) – California corrections officials say they arrested 110 sex offender parolees during an annual Halloween sweep designed to keep the offenders from contacting children or engaging in other Halloween activities.
  That’s about 9 percent of the 1,252 parolees contacted statewide Wednesday.
  Officials said Thursday that eight parolees face new charges while the rest allegedly violated conditions of their parole.
  Thirty offenders were found with pornography, including two wi
  
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• Police Find Metal Objects In Candies Reportedly Given To Trick-Or-Treaters In Oakdale

  01-11-2018 20:45
  OAKDALE (CBS13) – Police in Oakdale are investigating after metal objects were discovered in candy reportedly given out to trick-or-treaters on Halloween.
  The Oakdale Police Department says a parent turned over chocolate candies that they said had been tampered with. The candies were allegedly collected while trick-or-treating in Oakdale’s Burchell’s neighborhood.
  Officers analyzed the candies and found that there were small, metal objects inside some of the chocolates.
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• Bob Seger Adds February 2019 Sacramento Date To Farewell Tour

  01-11-2018 19:35
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Classic rock lovers rejoice: Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band have added a Sacramento stop on their final tour.
  Segar announced a total of seven more shows for the farewell tour on Thursday.
  7 MORE SHOWS ADDED! Milwaukee, Sioux Falls, Vancouver, Fresno, San Diego, Sacramento & Albuquerque. Tix on sale Nov. 9! https://t.co/xSpDxXeChH pic.twitter.com/gn4WkZTOSU
  — Bob Seger (@BobSeger) November 1, 2018The band will be playing at the Golden 1 Center on Feb.
  
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• Auburn Home Depot Theft Suspects Arrested After Chase, Crash

  01-11-2018 17:47
  PENRYN (CBS13) – Arrests have been made after a chase of a car going the wrong way along Interstate 80 in Placer County Thursday morning.
  The incident apparently began a little before 9 a.m. near I-80 and Penryn Road.
  Two suspects arrested by deputies for grand theft from Home Depot in Auburn. More than $4,000 worth of tools stolen. At least one suspect has several outstanding warrants. pic.twitter.com/S7w5engSLV
  — Placer Sheriff (@PlacerSheriff) November 1, 2018Placer County authori
  
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• US Foods Planning To Build Distribution Facility At McClellan Park, Creating 180 Jobs

  01-11-2018 15:20
  NORTH HIGHLANDS (CBS13) – Hundreds of new jobs are coming to the region as US Foods looks to expand.
  The company will build a distribution facility in McClellan Park that will service restaurants across Northern California.
  The move will create up to 180 new jobs. The average pay: $60,000.
  The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors recently approved an incentive package that saves the company millions of dollars.
  The groundbreaking is expected to begin next year, with an opening in 2020.
  
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• Sacramento Cop Killer Luis Bracamontes Featured In New Trump Ad Many Are Calling Racist

  01-11-2018 15:01
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13/CNN) – A jarring new campaign video with Sacramento ties is now on the national stage less than a week before the midterm elections.
  The video is part of a tweet by President Donald Trump featuring Luis Bracamontes – who was in the country illegally and had been deported two times before he killed Sacramento County Sheriff’s Deputy Danny Oliver and Placer County sheriff’s detective Michael Davis Jr. in a crime spree.
  It is outrageous what the Democrats a
  
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• Modesto Man Found Fatally Shot In Garage

  01-11-2018 14:37
  MODESTO (CBS13) – Police are investigating after a Modesto man was found dead after a shooting Wednesday night.
  The scene was along the 3700 block of Coffee Road.
  Modesto police say, just after 7 p.m., officers responded to the area to investigate a reported shooting. A man who had been shot was soon found in a garage in the alley behind a home.
  The man was taken to the hospital, but he was later pronounced dead.
  Investigators believe the incident is isolated; no suspect has been identifie
  
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• America’s gender, racial divides on display in House races (VIDEO)

  01-11-2018 14:09
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Perhaps nowhere is the choice facing voters on Tuesday more vividly on display than in the battle for control of the U.S. House. Democrats are fielding more women and minority candidates than ever, while Republicans are trying to hold their majority with mostly white men.
  The disparity highlights a trend that has been amplified under President Donald Trump, with the two parties increasingly polarized along gender and racial lines as much as by issues. The result is that,
  
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• In Georgia, Stacey Abrams faces balancing act on race

  01-11-2018 13:52
  COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — If Stacey Abrams becomes America’s first Black female governor on Tuesday, former President Jimmy Carter and Oprah Winfrey could be the keys to her success.
  Her ability to win over a 94-year-old white man with deep ties to the rural South and one of the world’s most famous Black women who rarely dabbles in campaign-style politics highlights Abrams’ strategy to win the Georgia governor’s mansion. She’s betting that charm, unabashed liberali
  
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• Where Is Ethel? Instagram Star Tortoise Goes Missing From Fairfield Home

  01-11-2018 08:53
  FAIRFIELD (CBS13) — The search is on for a missing tortoise that escaped from her Fairfield home. Ethel is no ordinary tortoise.
  She’s an Instagram star with thousands of followers who are rooting for her to be returned safely to her owners.
  “She really was a spot of sunshine in our life, part of our routine, part of everything we did, so losing that feels very much like losing a loved one,” said Kacey Kuchinski, her owner.
  It’s been an emotional and frantic two wee
  
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• Man Steals SUV With Child Inside

  01-11-2018 08:00
  OAKDALE (CBS13) — Police are searching for the man who hijacked an SUV with a 6-year-old inside.
  The worst scare came to a local family just a day before Halloween on the popular Cindy Drive.
  “Scared out of my mind, scared out of my mind because I have my 8-year-old and 12-year-old up here, if that happened to me I don’t know what I would do,” said Carla Barth while trick-or-treating with her family.
  ALSO: Caught On Camera: Suspect Steals Halloween Decorations From N
  
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• Outrage Over Carmichael Little League Embezzlement Arrest

  01-11-2018 07:44
  CARMICHAEL (CBS13) — A former treasurer will face charges on Thursday accusing her of embezzling more than $130,000 from a parent-teacher organization and two youth baseball teams while she served as their treasurer.
  Jennifer Haymart is in jail without bail awaiting her arraignment. Carmichael’s Little League is one of the organizations the Sacramento County District Attorney says Haymart allegedly targeted.
  “Over $50,000 has been taken from Carmichael Little League,” lea
  
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• RV Parking Ban Has West Sacramento Residents Concerned

  01-11-2018 07:38
  WEST SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — An effort to get rid of blight has some West Sacramento residents looking for ways to stop the controversial parking ban.
  Ron Crayne just bought his boat this spring. Now he’s concerned the city could change the rules on where he can park it.
  “It’s my yard,” he said. “It ain’t hurting nothing.”
  RELATED: The Barn’s Doors Are Open In West Sacramento After Delays
  The ban on storing boats and recreational vehicles i
  
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• Bloody Car Found That Prompted Dixon Investigation Was A Prank

  01-11-2018 07:09
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — It’s the time for trick-or-treating but how do you know when the trick has gone too far?
  Police say there’s a fine line between a good Halloween scare and a false alarm, and that line was crossed on a Dixon parking lot.
  “Why someone would dump fake blood on a car and leave it in a public place?” said Robert Thompson, Dixon Police Chief. “Is there someone lying in a ditch somewhere? Is there someone that’s been hit by a vehicle?&rdquo
  
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• Plans For New I Street Bridge Announced, Set To Be Finished In 2022

  01-11-2018 05:41
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The City of Sacramento made a big announcement Wednesday about the replacement of the I Street Bridge. San Francisco-based architecture firm, T. Y. Lin International has been selected to design and build the new bridge.
  Sacramento Mayor Derrel Steinberg said this project has been a long time coming and that this will be the first bridge in over 50 years to cross the Sacramento River.
  “The I Street bridge has been a workhorse bridge since 1911 and it was desi
  
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• Concerns Swell Over President Trump’s 14th Amendment Challenge

  01-11-2018 04:38
  STOCKTON (CBS13) — President Donald Trump called the 14th Amendment ridiculous in a television documentary and said he plans to sign an executive order to challenge it. The 150-year-old constitutional standard states anyone born in America is an American citizen.
  In an HBO documentary, Trump said he has talked with white house counsel about an executive order that will challenge birthright citizenship.
  “How ridiculous, we are the only country in the world where a person comes in, has
  
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• Law Enforcement On High Alert After Suspicious Package Arrives At Political Headquarters

  01-11-2018 02:50
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Ninth Street between R and S in downtown Sacramento is back open after being closed off while police investigated calls of a suspicious package. The call came from the California Democratic Party headquarters.
  “It was a thin package and that it was addressed to Tom Perez, the chairman of the Democratic Party,” said Frank O’Connor, a California Democratic Party volunteer.
  O’Connor was shocked to see the headquarters evacuated Wednesday
  
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• PG&E Report Details Logic Behind Intentionally Cutting Power In High Winds

  01-11-2018 02:25
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A Northern California utility said Wednesday it received 146 demands for reimbursement from customers who say Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s controversial decision to cut power to prevent wildfires hurt them economically.
  The utility said in a report to California regulators that it won’t pay any of the claims. Most of the complaints were over spoiled food.
  READ THE REPORT: PG&E Oct. 14-16 Power Shutoff Report
  The utility also detailed how long cu
  
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• CHP Officer Found Guilty Of Downloading Child Pornography While On Patrol

  01-11-2018 01:37
  SOLANO COUNTY (CBS13) — A California Highway Patrol officer was found guilty of downloading child pornography while he was on patrol.
  Eric Lund, 49, is from Chico, but was arrested in Fairfield at the CHP office where he worked in 2014.
  He was found guilty by a Solano County jury on Tuesday.
  RELATED: California Highway Patrol Officer Arrested On Child Pornography Charges
  A Vacaville Police detective was tracking an unknown person downloading child pornography in Suisun, Fairfield and Vacav
  
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