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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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Powerball mania Jackpot hits $600 million
That's all it took for Mammie Hicks to plunk down money at a Riverside, Mo., convenience store for a chance at Saturday's record $600 million multistate Powerball ...
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No One Injured in Fairfield Shootout Men on Bicycles Opened Fire
File photo FAIRFIELD-- Police are looking for the suspects in a shootout that had men on bicycles opening fire. Several residents near Orchid Street and Atlantic Avenue called police around 1:35 p.m. to report the shooting. Officers who showed up at the scene discovered that gunfire had been exchanged between two men on bicycles and another man near a car. Apparently, an argument between ...
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Teen dies after refusing to give iPad to thieves
Ivan Arenas told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he bought the iPad for his oldest son, Marcos, less than two months ago. The father says the family has never had a lot and his 15-year-old son knew the value of everything he had. But police say the Bonanza High School student's refusal to surrender his iPad to the thieves cost him his life Thursday and serves as a lesson for owners of ...
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Sailor Gets Warm Welcome Home
SACRAMENTO– A hug eight months in the making is a pretty special thing. Naval Airman Dominick Valencia has been gone from home for eight months – this time. He’a been away from home for most of the last four years since his high school graduation in Roseville, but not Friday night. ';I’m feeling great. It’s good to be home,'; he said. ';Oh my God ...
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Powerball Jackpot at $600 Million – Second Largest in History
File photo (CNN) — Two dollars and a dream. That’s all it took for Mammie Hicks to plunk down money at a Riverside, Missouri, convenience store for a chance at Saturday’s record $600 million multistate Powerball jackpot. ';People are more important than money. I’d just give it away … to help people,'; she told CNN affiliate KCTV5 of Kansas City. The ...
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He is the most evil, vile, demonic criminal. He is dead to me. There will be no visits, there will be no phone calls. He can never be Daddy again. I have no sympathy for the man.
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Gregg was speaking about her father Ariel Castro who allegedly kidnapped, raped and held captive for a decade, three young women in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Hotel Galvez, Galveston, Texas
Coming off Highway 45, about an hour's drive and 50 miles south of Houston, and as we approached Galveston my ...
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