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• South Sacramento Celebrates Local Businesses With Buy Black Friday

  24-11-2018 08:44
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Business owners in south Sacramento celebrated Black Friday by featuring local black businesses in Northern California.
  “We have to depend on the hearts of the people to support us,” said Dana Maeshia, one of the Black Friday Coalition organizers. “We have to start out small.”
  With line dancing, lemonade and oxtails, it wasn’t your average day-after-Thanksgiving celebration. But this party took the meaning of Black Friday to a whole new le
  
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• Are Black Friday Deals Really That Good?

  24-11-2018 07:13
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Black Friday is the most popular shopping day of the year. More than 100 million people are expected to hit the stores for the best deals holiday season.
  Analysts predict Americans will spend two billion dollars more than last Black Friday, but shoppers are split on whether the deals this year are that great.
  Bags after bags, shoppers came out of stores with their hands full at Arden Fair Mall. Take Tonnesha Armstrong for example, who brought her own cart to the mall t
  
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• ‘We Gave It Our Best Shot’: Sugar Bowl Tries To Open Early, Rain Pushes Back Date

  24-11-2018 06:56
  DONNER SUMMIT (CBS13) — After big snow storms rolled through the mountains over Thanksgiving, Sugar Bowl Resort said they received two feet of fresh snow. This prompted the resort to move up their opening date six days early to Saturday.
  But just hours after announcing their early opening, representatives for Sugar Bowl announced that the rain that followed the snowfall prompted the resort to push back their opening date to their original plan, on Nov. 30.
  The resort posted on their websit
  
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• Folsom Fire Department Made Their Instagram Debut With Holiday Video

  24-11-2018 05:29
  FOLSOM (CBS13) — The Folsom Fire Department made their debut on Instagram Friday in a big way, posting a spirited holiday video.
  The video shows a multitude of fire engines and other vehicles shining their lights to a trap-inspired holiday tune.
  The fun video is just a minute long but kicks off the holiday right for this agency.
  Check out the agency’s Instagram page here.
  
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• Crews Prepare Stockton Marina For Upcoming Holiday Events

  24-11-2018 04:45
  STOCKTON (CBS13) — Homeless camps surrounding the Trash and hyacinth in the Stockton marina has made the city’s crown jewel into an eyesore. Now community leaders are trying to clean things up.
  The official start to the holiday season in Stockton is just days away. A number of events are taking place downtown which means organizers want to make the marina into a safe, family-friendly place.
  “We have enough, law officers, firemen. We have enough visibility and everyone seems to
  
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• First Snowfall Sends Thousands To Sierras For The Holiday

  24-11-2018 04:14
  SIERRAS (CBS13) —The first snowfall of the season sent hundreds of thousands of folks to the Sierras this holiday.
  “It’s a nice way to start the holiday,” said one man with a smile as he got on the ski lift at Boreal.
  People packed the slopes trying to take advantage of that first Sierra snowfall on the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
  Virginia Xu was skiing with her sister.
  READ: Camp Fire Evacuees Look To Restock and Restart on Black Friday
  “Well it’s powd
  
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• Camp Fire Evacuees Look To Restock and Restart on Black Friday

  24-11-2018 03:12
  ROSEVILLE (CBS13) — As Black Friday shoppers descended upon the Roseville Galleria, Lily Higby was out looking for bargains in her pajamas, but it wasn’t because she was waiting in a Black Friday line all night.
  “I’m from the Camp Fire in Paradise, so I’m just trying to get some deals,” she said.
  And she wasn’t the only evacuee there.
  “We have seen a lot of our customers affected by the Camp Fire,” said Macy’s Cosmetics Manager Camille
  
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• Bullets Fly Past Modesto Police In Thanksgiving Shooting

  24-11-2018 02:50
  MODESTO (CBS13) — Modesto Police officers had a close call Thursday when stray bullets flew past them while they responded to an unrelated call.
  The incident happened Thursday afternoon near Riverside Avenue and San Ignacio where officers were investigating a call. Five blocks away a shooting occurred and a bullet flew past officers.
  READ: Rain Delays The Opening Of Global Winter Wonderland
  When the officers went to investigate the shooting, they concluded that the bullets were not ai
  
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• Heavy Snow In The Sierra Causing Traffic Delays

  24-11-2018 01:51
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — If you were planning to travel through the mountains today, you might want to delay your trip. Heavy snowfall has led to chain controls and multiple crashes on Interstate 80, causing significant delays.
  Chain controls are in effect for eastbound lanes at Kingvale.A statement on the Caltrans website provides more information what controls mean: “Chains or traction devices are required on all vehicles except four wheel/ all wheel drive vehicles with snow-tread tire
  
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• Rebuilding Paradise (Video)

  24-11-2018 01:23
  PARADISE – OBSERVER photographer Robert Maryland captured these images and video from Paradise, CA last week following the devastating Camp Fire that ravaged Butte County. The fire leveled the town of Paradise and has destroyed more than 150,000 acres. Relief efforts are ongoing as the death toll is nearing 100 people.
  
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