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26/09/2024

The set turned green for the A's final game. They won.

There’s a hint of green to our studio tonight as we welcome the A’s to West Sacramento next season. A bittersweet day for so many loyal fans who are sad to see the end of such a storied era for this franchise. Join us while we get both sides of this story live from Oakland and Sutter Health Park 💚💛

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24/09/2024

A Natomas mother discovers a Catholic cemetery moved her daughter's grave without telling her. She now wants her daughter exhumed and out of Sacramento's St. Mary's.

In a heartbreaking incident that has left a mother devastated, a Natomas woman recently learned that the cemetery where her daughter is buried moved her grav...

23/09/2024

A Natomas mother discovered her daughter's grave moved and no-one told her.

20/09/2024

Friends for nearly 25 years. Lots of fun catching up with Lisa Gonzales

19/09/2024

Celebrating our team of volunteers today who have generously helped thousands of our viewers for the better part of 19 years. They have literally put millions of dollars back in our viewers' pockets.

15/09/2024

An excellent look back at 70 years of KOVR. Our executive producer Lindsay Walters did a beautiful job pulling this together.

To celebrate 70 years of KOVR, we put together an hour-long special to take you behind the scenes and give you an inside look at the stories we have covered ...

13/09/2024

We're celebrating 70 years here at KOVR. The station was a young 48 when I got here. It's been fun looking back at our station's history.

03/09/2024

I brought the dogs to CBS13 CBS Sacramento this Labor Day. DJ was a real crowd pleaser when he sang the theme song to his favorite morning show CBS Mornings

31/08/2024

WELCOME JEFF HARRINGTON!!! Please help us welcome our newest member of the First Alert Weather Team who joined us for his debut on the 4 oclock today.

Jeff is from Canada but joins us after forecasting in the Middle East most recently. We’re so excited to have him. CBS13 CBS Sacramento Call Kurtis Nic Merianos

30/07/2024

Are drones buzzing neighborhoods looking for reasons for insurers to drop you?

A San Joaquin County woman said her home insurance company of nearly 40 years abruptly canceled her coverage over what it spotted from a drone's view high ab...

25/07/2024

What's the rule on damaged cash? We found out after a bank refused to accept $6k.

What does a 66-year-old Sacramento woman do after she finds an envelope containing $6,000 in cash she misplaced years ago?

24/07/2024

Another, July 24th, and I think about my high school teacher who ended up murdered.

Every year on this day, I think about my high school English teacher Rebecca Patterson-Bibart. I was in the first class she ever taught at El Camino High School in South San Francisco. She had fiery red hair and a baby face, blending in with the students. She moved to California from her home state of Pennsylvania as her fiancé attended college in California. As a punk freshman, I'd often give her a bad time, and point out the shades of red her neck and cheeks turned as she put me in my place.

At the end of freshman year, she shared her excitement about her summer wedding, planned for July 24th, 1993. It's a date that stuck with me.

I found a way to be in Ms. Patterson's class every year of high school, including Yearbook Class as a senior. It was the closest class we had to journalism. She's the teacher who wrote my college recommendation letter and she spoke at my Eagle Scout Ceremony.

After her husband graduated college, they returned to the east coast, where they started a family. Every Christmas, I made the mailing list with the family updates as their two kids grew.

When she later returned to California, she called me and a classmate to meet up. It was fun sharing a beer with someone we once called a teacher. In fact, Ms. Patterson had to leave early after drinking a bit too much on an empty stomach.

Christmas of 2010, something was different. For the first time in 14 years, her Christmas letter didn't show up.

A google search revealed why. Her marriage went south, and she wanted a divorce from the same man she was excited to marry my freshman year. Instead of allowing it, he savagely murdered her inside the family home, and left a note for their young children not to enter. He was a scientist and used chemicals to take his own life in a much less brutal fashion.

In a selfish act, that man stole a life, and left two children without both parents. And her parents, without a daughter. I wonder how those children are doing now as they enter adulthood.

As I get older, it's hard to imagine I've already lived a life four years longer than Ms. Patterson lived. If everything worked out, she would've been married 30 years today.

It didn't work out. Once again on this July 24th, I pause to remember Ms. Patterson.

21/07/2024

Biden is the first sitting president to drop out of running for reelection since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 — leaving the race against Donald Trump in turmoil.

05/07/2024

That fire in Mariposa really exploded last night, but firefighters saved the community. Here's my 3d map showing where it burned.

04/07/2024

A 3D tour I built shows where the fire is burning this afternoon, on July 4th. It also shows the flames distance from the populated area of Kelly Ridge and where we lost structures.

04/07/2024

A lot of people are wondering what's on fire right now in Oroville. Using NASA heat signatures, I put this animation together. It also shows its distance to Kelly Ridge and a neighborhood where we lost homes.

27/06/2024

It was an honor to emcee the Northern California Publishers and Authors annual book awards banquet in Elverta. Congratulations to all of the winners. https://www.norcalpa.org/

27/06/2024

Do you still have photo albums? Where do you store them? How many digital photos do you have? How do you store your digital photos? We're working on a story.