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  • Californias political power couple collaborate compromise

    Jerry Brown wasn't supposed to end up dating Anne Gust. She only intended to play matchmaker for a friend. "I grew up a Republican in Michigan, and didn't think much about Jerry Brown in my life," she says of that time back in the early 1990s in San Francisco. "In getting the two of them together, it sort of backfired on me." Now more than two decades later, Anne ...

  • Two-Mile-Wide Tornado Kills at Least 51 Including 7 Elementary School Students

    Rescue workers raced against time and the oncoming night Monday looking for survivors after a powerful tornado blasted an area outside of Oklahoma City, leveling homes and killing at least 51 people. At least seven of the dead were children from Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, which lay directly in the path of the monster storm’s wall of wind. Seventy-five students and staff ...

  • Sacramento Kings Season Ticket Sales Keep Phones Ringing

    SACRAMENTO (CBS13) -- With the future of the Sacramento Kings set, the team's become the hottest ticket in town. There is a renewed energy inside Sleep Train Arena. The ring of a new sale is a familiar sound. "Current season ticket holders are renewing at about a seat a minute," said spokesman Chris Clark. "We are getting new season inquiries about once every three ...

  • Electric Buses Ready to Roll in San Joaquin County

    STOCKTON (CBS13) -- The San Joaquin Regional Transit District rolled out the quietest pair of buses in all of Northern California on Monday. The new buses are battery operated. "They're all electric, we aren't using any diesel or hybrid technology at all," said district spokeswoman Donna DeMartino. A grant from the California Energy Commission and the bus manufacturer, ...

  • New Sacramento Kings Arena Could Be Bad News For Small Businesses

    SACRAMENTO (CBS13) -- News of a new downtown arena for the Sacramento Kings is a boon for some businesses, but could be a bust for some small-business owners. A downtown arena is good news for the Downtown Sacramento Partnership--the group that represents property and business owners looking for quality and high-profile tenants to fill property near the proposed arena. "During this last ...


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Movie Review

Holes

Holes

Holes is definitely not your typical Disney family movie. Set in a work camp for convicted juveniles in the middle of a dry lakebed in the desolation of deep West Texas, it is visually striking, with the harsh images on screen matched by a surprisingly genuine depiction of troubled youth. Granted, in the end all the juvenile delinquents turn out to be generally good kids at heart, but the ... ...

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  • North Highlands 10-Year-Old’s Shooting May Be Gang-Related

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  • Nevada County school gets EPA grant to clean up toxic site at future campus

    The Yuba River Charter School stresses love of the arts and the outdoors in a "whole child" learning program "to serve the whole world."Yet when administrators and parents for the unique Nevada County school went looking for pastoral locations for a new campus, they ran into a world of abandoned mines and toxic contamination from the region's gold mining era."Some ...

  • Dead sheep found floating in Sacramento County slough

    People were able to see the sheep from Highway 160 in Sacramento County near the Antioch Bridge. They said they had no idea how the sheep ended up in the ...

  • Texas beating California in the battle for jobs

    California and Texas are locked in a battle over business. But when it comes to creating new jobs, Texas is the national leader, while the Golden State comes in ...

  • Detectives N. Highlands shooters knew they were killing a child

    NORTH HIGHLANDS, CA - Sheriff's detectives released new details about a gang-related shooting that killed a 10-year-old girl. Elvira Campos died Saturday when two gunmen came to her North Highlands home. Family members showed up early Monday morning to clean the blood off the walkway in front of the Campos home and to cover the front window full of bullet holes. The girl died when ...

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