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Report State locking up far fewer young people

A recent study says California can serve as a national model for the way it reduced the number of juvenile offenders incarcerated in state and county ...
Jail programs hope to curb crime funded by prison realignment

ELK GROVE, CA - It's been about a year and half since California Gov. Jerry Brown's realignment plan took effect. Since then, news of jail overcrowding, early release and funding issues became headlines. But now, there's an unexpected success story in a Sacramento County jail to share. Inside the Rio Consumnes Correctional Center (RCCC), there are close to 3,000 inmates and ...
D.A. gets indictment in 2012 Robbers Fire

PLACER COUNTY, CA - A man who was released from custody earlier this year when a Placer County judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to try him for a nine-day wildfire last year has been indicted on the same charges. The Placer County District Attorney's Office sought the indictment against Bryon Craig Mason for allegedly lighting and tossing a commercial-grade pyrotechnic at ...
Man Accused Of Stabbing Father Sawing Off Own Hands

REDDING (CBS13) -- A man who Shasta County Sheriff’s Deputies found with his hands severed is accused of stabbing his father multiple times. Shasta County Deputies reported arriving at a Redding home on Scheer Drive and finding two subjects with visible ...
Sacramento Mother Accused Of Fatal DUI Makes Court Appearance

An emotional Tyesha Garrett, 32, said little in court on Tuesday, only acknowledging to the judge that if she was able to make bail, she won't be allowed to drink alcohol. Police say Garrett is to blame for the accident on the onramp along Northgate and Interstate 80 that took the life of 11-year-old Eric Garrett. Investigators say she was driving under the influence of alcohol while ...

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Movie Review

Beyond the Sea

The nearly unavoidable first reaction to Kevin Spaceys Beyond the Sea, a musical biopic of pop crooner Bobby Darin, is that its little more than an ego project for its director/cowriter/producer/star. After all, with all the fascinating real-life subjects awaiting cinematic t ... ...

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Sacramento Metro fire department now has oxygen masks to save pets lives

The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District says it has recently received dozens of specially designed oxygen masks to save the lives of pets, including snakes and gerbils.The new masks, which primarily will protect cats and dogs, were donated by a national distributor, Invisible Fence Brand, under its Project Breathe program.Fire Capt. Christopher Quinn said the agency received 78 kits that it is ...
Car Crashes into Supermarket Sends 1 to the Hospital

Inside the store after the crash. SACRAMENTO-- A car that crashed into the Welco Supermarket knocked over a high-end liquor display and sent one person to the hospital. The crash happened just after 4 p.m. at the Fruitridge Boulevard store. Inside, the wall of the store looks to have buckled. A high-end liquor display came crashing down. One person from inside the store was taken to the ...
DA Davis Teen Charged with 2 Counts of Murder Will Be Tried as Adult

FBI officers searching a home in Davis on Monday. WOODLAND-- The official charges against a Davis boy arrested for the murder of two elderly Davis residents were released by the district attorney’s office Tuesday. In the three page complaint field by Yolo DA Jeff W. Resig, 16-year-old Daniel William Marsh is being charged with two counts of first degree murder for the deaths of ...
Climbing Half Dome with Paul Robins

Paul Robins, Bethany Crouch and Darren Peck are taking part in a 3-day event at Yosemite National Park to raise awareness about the park; it’s ...
Doctor Becomes Heart Transplant Patient At Sutter Medical Center

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento is only one of two heart transplant programs in Northern California. And CBS13 was there Tuesday as they discharged their 155th patient. They say no man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. For one local doctor, that proved to be true after receiving his own transplant. Research doctor Stephan Lakos suffered heart ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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This substantial hotel is easily accessed on Century Boulevarde. Driving in to the entrance area, the hotel main lobby greets ...

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US immigration bill clears key senate hurdle

As a major immigration bill that would give over 11 million people, including some 260,000 Indians, living illegally in America a path to citizenship, it received a full endorsement from President Barack Obama.

"If you're serious about actually fixing the system, then this is the vehicle to do it," he said Tuesday at the White House, flanked by immigration reform supporters, hours before a strong Senate majority voted to open debate on it.

"If you're not serious about it, if you think that a broken system is the best America can do, then I guess it might make sense to try to block it," he said referring to the bill drafted by a bipartisan "gang of eight", four Democrats and four Republicans.

"But if you're actually serious and sincere about fixing a broken immigration system, this is the vehicle to do it," he said flanked among others by young undocumented students and the US Chamber of Commerce president and CEO, Tom Donohue.

"This bill isn't perfect, it's a compromise," Obama said. "And going forward, nobody is going to get everything they want. Not Democrats, not Republicans, not me. But this is a bill that's largely consistent with the principles that I and the people on this stage have laid out for common-sense reform. ...