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  • Sacto 911 Former dispensary operator gets 6-year prison term in pot case

    Police carry bags of marijuana seized Thursday at the R&R Wellness Center in south Sacramento. Medical pot advocates protested the bust, denying the shop broke state law as police allege. Bryan Smith, 27, the shop operator, and his father, Kelly Smith, 54, were ...

  • Appetizers Sacramento second grader cooks on national TV

    Nicolas Come may be only 8 years old, but the Sacramento second grader brings his hometown's "Farm-to-Fork" campaign to a national audience Saturday morning. Broadcast live from New York City, Nicolas will appear on "FOX & Friends Saturday" on the FOX News network, starting at 3 a.m. PDT. Nicolas' scheduled segment will air about 6:30-6:45 a.m. in Sacramento. ...

  • Funeral held for 8-year-old tornado victim

    Some 300 mourners crowded inside Eagle Heights Baptist Church here Friday to pay their respects to an elementary school student killed when a tornado churned through nearby Moore, ...

  • Classes train babies to float rescue themselves

    ROSEVILLE, Calif. - According to the CDC, besides birth defects, drowning is the number one cause of deaths among children one to four years old. Most of those drownings occur in home swimming pools. That is why parents around the world are taking steps to prevent drownings by teaching their babies how to float and rescue themselves ...

  • More than 50 Aftershocks Since Thursday’s Earthquake

    Map courtesy: USGS GREENVILLE-- Since the magnitude 5.7 earthquake from last night, there have been 54 more tremors near Greenville as of noon Friday. Almost all the aftershocks have registered, preliminarily, under 4.0 - although one came in at 4.9. Thursday night's earthquake was centered near Lake Almanor in Plumas County. No significant damage or injuries have been reported as a ...


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Movie Review

The General's Daughter

In "The General's Daughter," a new anti-military, one-man-versus-the-establishment mystery thriller from director Simon West ("Con Air"), John Travolta plays Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, a cocky military investigator looking into the brutal strangling and apparent rape of the daughter of General "Fighting Joe" Campbell (James Cromwell), a famous Army officer with political aspirat ... ...

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  • Fight over ‘American Idol’ Sparks Stabbing Between Couple

    A Pennsylvania couple apparently takes their "American Idol" very seriously. Cops say 48-year-old Karen Elaine Harrelson and 57-year-old Gregory Stambaugh were watching the singing competition show last week at Stambaugh's York home when suddenly an argument erupted between the pair as to which contestant should win the title -- Candice Glover or Kree ...

  • Sacramento suburb warns of plague danger from infected squirrels chipmunks

    Did you ever notice how the most scenic places around Sacramento suburbs, at higher elevations and plagued by rodent droppings infected with the bacteria that carries the plague? Sacramento's El Dorado suburb is infected with plague from squirrels and chipmunks as well as other rodents, according to the May 24, 2013 Sacramento Bee article ...

  • Tip In 1990 Cold Case Leads Stockton Police To Manteca Home

    STOCKTON (CBS13) – A Stockton missing person case from 1990 is getting renewed interest after a tip led investigators to a house in ...

  • Cables up at Yosemite Half Dome open for business

    A summer rite of passage is underway at Yosemite National Park, where the handrails on Half Dome are in place and hikers began scaling the granite monolith Friday ...

  • 79-year-old woman missing from Sacramento care home

    SACRAMENTO -Sacramento County Sheriff's deputies are looking for a 79-year-old woman who disappeared from a board and care home on Thursday. Sergeant Jason Ramos of the sheriff's department said Anh Pham was last seen on the 8000 block of Summer Falls Circle at approximately 11 p.m. Pham was described as a petite Vietnamese female, 5'4" tall, weighing approximately 100 ...

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