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• New Boat Dashed Against Rocks, Destroyed By Storm On Lake Tahoe

  31-05-2019 21:58
  NORTH LAKE TAHOE (CBS13) – It was destroyed before that new-boat smell could even wear off.
  Authorities in Placer County shared photos that could bring any boating enthusiast to tears. A storm on Lake Tahoe earlier this week apparently broke a brand-new Formula-brand boat from its mooring and slammed it up against rocks, according to a statement from the Placer County Sheriff’s Department.
  The hull of the boat was broken open, causing the boat to become a total loss.
  The owner says h
  
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• Photocopied License Plate Tips Roseville Cop Off To Stolen Car

  31-05-2019 20:58
  ROSEVILLE (CBS13) – A fake license plate did not help a woman suspected of driving a stolen car in Roseville.
  On Tuesday, a police officer was driving in the 900 block of Pleasant Grove Boulevard when he happened on a vehicle that, instead of having a real license plate, had a photocopy of a license plate complete with a real registration sticker on the photocopy.
  The license plate came back as clear and valid, but when the driver turned suddenly into a gas station parking lot, the officer
  
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• Man Accused Of DUI Crash That Killed 3 In Sutter County Formally Charged

  31-05-2019 20:33
  SUTTER COUNTY (CBS13) — A man accused of driving drunk, slamming into a mobile home and killing three people in Sutter County has been formally charged with multiple crimes.
  On May 5 just before 10 p.m., Ismael Huazo-Jardinez, 33, of Yuba City was driving on an s-curve of State Road 113 when he missed the curve, left the road and slammed into the home where four residents were sleeping.
  Among the victims was a 10-year-old boy.
  “We heard a big bang in and we dropped everything and ran
  
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• Man In Wheelchair, Gregory Wright, Hit And Killed While Crossing South Sacramento Intersection

  31-05-2019 20:08
  SOUTH SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A pedestrian is dead after he was hit by a car in South Sacramento early Friday morning.
  Police say around 3:30 a.m., 63-year-old Gregory Wright, was crossing Mack Road at Center Parkway in his wheelchair when the driver, who was in a BMW sedan, was heading westbound and hit and killed the man.
  The driver stayed on scene and called 911, say police.
  Traffic cameras at the intersection will play a factor in the crash investigation.
  “There’s a variety of
  
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• Gov. Newsom Welcomes Women Seeking An Abortion To Come To California

  31-05-2019 18:44
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Governor Gavin Newsom took a step Friday to support women’s rights to have an abortion and even indicated women can come to California to have one if they want.
  Newsom signed Friday what he calls a “Proclamation on Reproductive Freedom.” He says it reaffirms the state’s commitment to protecting women’s reproductive choices, educates Californians about their rights to reproductive freedom, and welcomes women to the state to exercise that ri
  
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• Dog Rescued From Drainage Pipe In Sacramento

  31-05-2019 17:47
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A dog is safe after it became stuck in a drainage pipe in Sacramento.
  The incident happened in the 100 block of Commerce Circle. The dog, a 10-year-old blind husky, was hoisted out by a technical rescue group using a tripod system around 8:30 a.m.  Friday.
  Animal control officers were alerted to the trapped dog after someone reported hearing a whimpering sound coming from the pipe.
  The dog had been missing for two days, according to its owner, who had been frantic
  
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• Suspected NorCal Rapist, Roy Waller, In Court Friday

  31-05-2019 16:04
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Roy Waller, the suspected NorCal Rapist, is scheduled to appear in court on Friday.
  Sacramento County prosecutors filed five new charges against 49-year-old Waller, reportedly linking him to the rapes of two women from Davis.
  Waller was arrested in 2018 after the Sacramento District Attorney’s office linked him to the crimes used DNA evidence and a genealogy database. At the time of his arrest, Waller had been working as a safety specialist at UC Berkeley.
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• Man In Wheelchair Hit And Killed While Crossing South Sacramento Intersection

  31-05-2019 15:41
  SOUTH SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A pedestrian is dead after he was hit by a car in South Sacramento early Friday morning.
  Police say around 3:30 a.m., the man was crossing Mack Road at Center Parkway in his wheelchair when the driver, who was in a BMW sedan, was heading westbound and hit and killed the man.
  The driver stayed on scene and called 911, say police.
  Traffic cameras at the intersection will play a factor in the crash investigation.
  “There’s a variety of cameras here at thi
  
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• 3 People Arrested In Connection With Deadly Road Rage Shooting On Hwy. 70 In Yuba County

  31-05-2019 15:23
  YUBA COUNTY (CBS13) – Deputies have arrested three suspects in connection with a Yuba County road rage shooting that left one man dead and injured another.
  The shooting happened last week, but this morning, three people are being held in the Yuba County Jail — two of them are charged with murder.
  Investigators say the three men opened fire on Highway 70 last week south of Plumas Lake. There was an argument with a person in another car, and that’s when shots started going back a
  
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• Old City Cemetery Committee Celebrates Contributions of Historic African Americans in Sacramento

  31-05-2019 14:54
  The Old City Cemetery Committee presents a tour that celebrates the contributions of historic African Americans in Sacramento.The cemetery tour is set to begin at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday. It’s the first time the event has been held in the evening. Celebrate the contributions of Sacramento’s African American community as they struggled to gain a foothold in a dynamic and often hostile environment, and meet barbers, doctors, caterers, soldiers, singers, pastors, and others who settled th
  
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• CHP Officers Attend 8th Grade Graduation For Fallen Officer’s Daughter

  31-05-2019 08:35
  STOCKTON (CBS13) — Stockton CHP officers went above and beyond to support the family of a fallen officer Thursday.
  The officers attended Reese Miller’s eighth-grade graduation. According to the department’s Twitter, Reese was only two-years-old when her father, John Miller, was killed in the line of duty.
  Tonight, Reese Miller, graduated from 8th grade! Reese was 2 years old when her father, John Miller, was killed in the line of duty.We were honored to stand with her because h
  
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• Gang Member Arrested For Stockton Triple Homicide

  31-05-2019 08:23
  STOCKTON (CBS13) — Police have a 19-year-old gang member in custody in connection to a shooting that left three teenagers dead inside a car. 
  The shooting happened near F Street and Finland Avenue in March. A 19-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman were pronounced dead at the scene, officers say. Another man, age 18, was transported to a hospital in critical condition; he later died at the hospital from his injuries, police say.
  After the shooting, Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs sent h
  
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• Large Tree Branch Falls On Car

  31-05-2019 08:07
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The branch fell onto a car on 17th and Broadway Thursday night.
  Police say no injuries were reported in the incident and no one was in the car at the time of the incident.Officials do not know if the tree branch broke off due to weather.
  Officers said the city will handle the incident.
  
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• Independent Contractor Controversy At State Capitol

  31-05-2019 07:49
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Last year a state Supreme Court decision changed the employment status of hundreds of thousand California workers.
  Some are in support and some are not.
  “I’ve done 5,000 rides and I can’t think of one that I’ve had a bad experience with,” said Chris Labrada.
  He has been driving for Lyft for more than a year and likes working when he wants.
  “If there’s anything more important that I love about Lyft it’s the flexibility,&rd
  
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• UC Davis Marching Band Suspended After Sexual Misconduct, Hazing Allegations

  31-05-2019 07:39
  DAVIS (CBS13) — Officials have suspended a university marching band following a newspaper investigation into allegations of hazing, binge drinking, and sexual misconduct.
  According to the website, “The California Aggie Marching Band is one of the proudest, most spirited and best-loved organizations on the UC Davis campus,” but some band members told a different story.
  “Stereotypically, you think band geeks or whatever. When you hear they’re getting into binge drinki
  
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• Family Seeks Justice With $100,000 Reward For Information About Murder

  31-05-2019 07:07
  STOCKTON (CBS13) — A family has come forward offering $100,000 for information about the murder of a beloved brother and soon-to-be uncle.
  Jose Pablo Flores Martinez was found shot in the chest inside his car in Stockton last week. His family believes offering a huge reward is necessary to get people to come forward about this crime.
  Police are struggling to get people to talk, and they agree, the money could be a game changer.
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• Police Arrest Fry’s Electronics Burglary Suspects After Short Pursuit On I-80

  31-05-2019 06:20
  NORTH SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Sacramento Police say multiple people were detained after a reported theft at Fry’s Electronics and short pursuit around 8 p.m. Thursday night.
  Police received reports of multiple subjects stealing from the electronics store on Northgate Boulevard near Interstate 80 and said there were reports that one of the subjects had a firearm.
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  When officers responded to the store, they located th
  
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• Northern California Inmate Killed; 2 Prisoners Suspected

  31-05-2019 05:51
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say an inmate has been killed at a Northern California state prison and two other prisoners are suspects in his death.
  Officials say the 63-year-old man was stabbed with a homemade weapon in an exercise yard Thursday at California State Prison, Sacramento.
  Guards saw two inmates fighting with him and used pepper spray and a blast grenade to stop the violence.
  The dead inmate was serving life without chance of parole at the maximum-security prison east
  
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• Nurses Get Drenched During Demonstration, Hospital Warned About Water Use

  31-05-2019 04:14
  MODESTO (CBS13 ) — After nurses in Modesto got soaked by sprinklers during a picket in front of Doctors Medical Center, the city of Modesto said it issued a warning for watering on the wrong day.
  A video shared with CBS13 shows a large group of nurses picketing outside the hospital Tuesday morning.
  They said the demonstration was designed to draw attention to inadequate staffing for nurses which has forced them to work overtime or miss breaks.
  “When you have adequate staffing, you&rs
  
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• Authorities Tracking New Trend In Jewelry Store Burglaries: Cutting Power

  31-05-2019 04:03
  FOLSOM (CBS13) — A Folsom jewelry store owner is warning others to be on the lookout for burglars breaking in with a new strategy: cutting the power.
  In surveillance video shot May 21, two would-be burglars are seen scoping out Adrian Blanco Jewelry in Folsom.
  “Low and behold I turn on my camera and see these two guys lurking outside my store,” said Adrian Blanco.
  Blanco decided to check when he received a notification his power was out.
  “What was suspicious was it was 11
  
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• California Approves Wide Power Outages To Prevent Wildfires

  31-05-2019 02:54
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators on Thursday approved allowing utilities to cut off electricity to possibly hundreds of thousands of customers to avoid catastrophic wildfires like the one sparked by power lines last year that killed 85 people and largely destroyed the city of Paradise.
  Utilities’ liability can reach billions of dollars, and after several years of devastating wildfires, they asked regulators to allow them to pull the plug when fire risk is extremely hig
  
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• Mystery Letter Shames Voters In Placer County

  31-05-2019 02:22
  AUBURN (CBS13) — A mystery mailer is vote-shaming people across Northern California into heading to the polls.
  What happens inside your polling place is supposed to stay private, but neighbors in Placer County were surprised to learn their voting records are public information.
  A letter is being sent to people’s homes, revealing residents’ voting history to friends, family, and neighbors.
  (courtesy of Glenn McPherson)
  “I was surprised that that information is even availab
  
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• Controversial Musician Adam Calhoun Still Coming To Sacramento After Goldfield Cancels Shows

  31-05-2019 02:06
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) —  His two Sacramento shows were canceled over offensive social media comments, but now the rap artist at the center of the controversy says he’s still coming.
  “I’m still going and I’ll be rocking my American flag next to your gay pride flag. Cause I can, in America…” said Adam Calhoun in a video posted to Facebook.
  Calhoun said despite the backlash, he’s coming to Sacramento during Pride week and wants to show everyone he&
  
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• Family Offering $100K Reward For Information In Homicide Case

  31-05-2019 01:07
  STOCKTON (CBS13) — The family of homicide victim Jose Pablo Flores Martinez is offering a $100,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest of the suspect(s) in the homicide case.
  Police say they found 24-year-old Martinez in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle with a gunshot wound to the chest last week. He was found in the area of Sierra Nevada Street and Poplar Street.
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