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  • Group says keep kids home on Harvey Milk Day

    SACRAMENTO, CA - May 22 is Harvey Milk Day in California, a day recognizing the state's first openly gay lawmaker. Public schools are encouraged to commemorate him. However, a family values group called SaveCalifornia.com is running radio ads in certain cities, calling on parents to boycott the day by keeping their children home from school. "Children belong to their parents, not to ...

  • Probationers Going Unsupervised in Sacramento County

    SACRAMENTO COUNTY- There are nearly 20,000 probationers in Sacramento County andthere’s no way the Probation Department can monitor every single one of ...

  • Serial Tree Killer Chopping Cedars in El Dorado County

    EL DORADO COUNTY (CBS13) -- Someone is targeting cedar trees and Robert Dietz isn't happy about it. The El Dorado County resident has taken extreme measures against the person cutting down cedar trees including placing boobie traps and hidden cameras nearby. The trees he said, were planted about 25 years ago to keep out noise from busy Lotus Road. He finally caught the tree chopper in ...

  • Sacramento disaster relief experts eager to help Oklahoma

    SACRAMENTO COUNTY, CA - Sacramento-area disaster relief workers are waiting for the call to go to Oklahoma. The American Red Cross had already planned a mass feeding training long before the tornadoes in Oklahoma, but the recent disaster shows that volunteers need to be ready to go at a moment's notice. Ladon Mellen is a veteran of disaster relief in Japan, but Tuesday's drill was ...

  • Heroes or Just Doing Their Jobs Teachers Save Lives During Okla. Tornado

    Second-grade teacher Tammy Glasgow walks around what’s left of Briarwood Elementary, struggling to pick out of its wreckage the things that once made a school. ';This was the cafeteria.'; ';This is where my desk sat.'; ';This is my classroom door.'; ';That yellow wall that’s standing, that’s where we were,'; said Glasgow, pointing to ...


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Mission: Impossible [DVD]

Mission: Impossible [DVD]

Throughout its history, Hollywood has tended to run in cycles, latching onto an idea and running with it until they run it into the ground. From screwball comedies, to Biblical epics, to disaster thrillers, to juvenile gross-out comedies, Hollywood producers love to run in ... ...

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  • Detectives Continue to Investigate Shooting of 10-Year-Old

    NORTH HIGHLANDS- The search for the killer, or killers, of 10-year-old Elvira Campos continued Tuesday. The 5th-grader was gunned down while watching television in her homeSaturday night. The Sheriff’s Department tells FOX40 it has leads but no suspects yet. ';This person is a sociopath. They just don’t care'; Sacramento StateCriminal Justice Professor Jim Hernandez ...

  • U.C. Medical Workers Hit Picket Lines

    SACRAMENTO- More than 12,000 U.C. Medical Workers hit the picket lines across the state Thursday. In Los Angeles, workers in their green and yellow-colored shirts paced the street and held their picket signs high. There was a different dress code in San Diego, but a similarly sized crowd marched. U.C. San Diego Medical Centers says they had to cancel almost 200 surgeries and delayed other ...

  • Sacramento Firefighters Physically Attacked

    SACRAMENTO- Two Sacramento fire fighters were attacked in separate incidents this weekend while responding to medical calls. The police department said 29-year-old Daniel Sevall came at a paramedic after they responded to a call for help. The firefighter grabbed him until police came, but he suffered a slight muscle strain. Sevall was arrested for assault. Later that same day paramedics had ...

  • Downtown Plaza owners No deal to sell to Kings

    JMA Ventures LLC president and CEO Todd Chapman said tonight in an emailed statement that the sale of Downtown Plaza cannot be confirmed at this point, and more information will come later. The owners of Downtown Plaza have backed off of an earlier confirmation of a sale of the mall to the Sacramento Kings investors. JMA Ventures LLC president and CEO Todd Chapman said tonight in an emailed ...

  • Roseville Solar Firms Show Bright Dim Sides of Industry

    ROSEVILLE (CBS13) -- Two Roseville solar companies are at opposite sides of the spectrum--one says it's seeing a lot of green while another says it's losing power. Liz Freeman works at Paramount Solar in Roseville. Their focus is residential solar panels for homeowners. She says the phones have been ringing off the hook. "It's just been booming," she said. ...

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