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  • Numbers drawn in $600 million Powerball jackpot

    Saturday's jackpot is a record $590.5 million. It marks the largest in Powerball history, surpassing a $587.6 million jackpot split by winners in Arizona and Missouri in November. The jackpot has a cash value of $376.9 million. The largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history was $656 million in the Mega Millions game in March 2012. That was split by three tickets sold in Illinois, Kansas and ...

  • Volunteers seek clues in midtown murder

    Volunteers hung posters seeking information in the slaying of Josiah Humphreys. Sacramento police said Humphreys was found near the corner of 18th and P streets in Midtown just after midnight March ...

  • Armed Men Rob Several Customers At Stockton Business

    STOCKTON (CBS13) – Police are searching for two robbers who walked inside a Stockton business and robbed several people at gunpoint and knifepoint. On Saturday, two men went to the business in the 2700 block of March Lane and one man armed with a gun jumped over the counter and took money from the register and safe, say ...

  • Area Unemployment Rate Inching Lower

    SACRAMENTO-- To be employed - it's what millions of Americans want every single day. "We're seeing an increase in people who are saying 'I'm ready,'" said Genevieve Deignan from Sacramento Food Bank. And here they are, ready to take that next step and get hired. They're inching closer and closer every day. The jobless rate, at least in San Joaquin ...

  • Powerball Fever Ramps Up With $600 Million Jackpot

    SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – With more than half a billion dollars up for grabs, Americans are once again having big jackpot dreams. The line at Lichini's Liquor and Deli in Sacramento wraps around the store, and it’s been that way the entire afternoon, with 10 to 15-minute wait to get up to the counter. People are trying to strike it rich with the $600 million Powerball jackpot being ...


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Movie Review

High Art

"High Art" is an oddly unaffecting, dark character drama about a naive young woman who becomes infatuated with a once-celebrated photographer who left the art scene 10 years earlier. The film marks the writing/directing debut of Lisa Cholodenko, an assistant editor on numerous Hollywood films, and there is no doubt that Cholodenko has talent as a director. "High Art" is filmed with a kind of absor ... ...

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  • Neighborhood watch group assists in Sac murder investigation

    SACRAMENTO, CA - It's been two months since the attack that killed Josiah Humphreys at 18th and P streets and police have no new leads. In March, three unidentified suspects approached Humphreys at the street corner a half-block from his home around 1 a.m. and beat him to death. Police said they have had no new developments recently, which is, in part, why the family asked the volunteer ...

  • Pilot killed in Sierra plane crash

    TRUCKEE, CA (AP) - Federal investigators are trying to determine the cause of a small plane crash that killed a pilot near the Sierra town of Truckee. The Federal Aviation Administration says the pilot was flying alone when the twin-engine Cessna 421 crashed Thursday afternoon in the Tahoe National Forest about 15 miles northeast of Truckee. The pilot's name wasn't immediately ...

  • DART Wear Your Life Jacket

    SACRAMENTO– Did you forget your life jacket? ';Wear it, bottom line.'; says Kelly McFarlane of the Drowning Accident Rescue Team (DART). If more people wore them, she points out, the non-profit organization wouldn’t have to go out on the river to recover and rescue people nearly 100 times a year. The organization got a $25,000 donation from the Sacramento Sheriff’s ...

  • Sacramento Receives $70 Million Fedreal Grant To Build New I Street Bridge

    WEST SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – It's the other bridge that connects Sacramento to West Sacramento: the old I Street Bridge. Federal officials have approved funds to begin building a new one, and the timing couldn’t be better. At 102 years old and with only one lane in each direction, the I Street Bridge can sometimes be a dangerous way to travel. "Folks avoid it because it ...

  • Guardian Angels Looking For New Clues In Midtown Murder

    SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – There’s a renewed effort on the streets in midtown Sacramento to find clues in the beating death of a man a couple of months ...

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