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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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