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Michael Johnson was on a mission to give back when he encountered waitress Callie Blue at a Wisconsin diner.
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Michael Johnson was on a mission to give back when he encountered waitress Callie Blue at a Wisconsin diner.
An agent spotted the animal inside a traveler's checked bag as it passed through the machine, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
Darrell Brooks Jr., 40, told the court before he was sentenced that he had suffered from mental illness since he was young and didn't plan to drive into the parade route.
Five people were killed and more than 40 people were injured during the Waukesha Christmas Parade after a vehicle plowed into the parade route Sunday, police confirm.
A Wisconsin family is sending out pleas for help after their infant son was told he has just weeks to live without a new liver.
A pickup truck lurched off a road in western Wisconsin Saturday and hit a group of Girl Scouts picking up trash in a ditch, leaving three girls and one adult dead, police said. A fourth girl was critically injured.
A family's vacation on Lake Superior took a tragic turn when a kayak capsized, killing the father and three young children and leaving the mother as the sole survivor.
Greg Manteufel contracted Capnocytophaga canimorsus, a bacteria found in dog saliva that can cause sepsis.
Anthony Scherg became the first person in the state to receive a liver transplant and have part of his pancreas removed at the same time.
A fast-thinking bartender in Wisconsin is being hailed as a hero after jumping into a river to save a drowning goat.
Wisconsin is taking a radical step to curb abuse and get reliable evidence for prosecutions — handing out free surveillance cameras to family members so they can secretly record caregivers suspected of hurting their loved ones.
A man who was apparently annoyed by a suspicious package investigation by Milwaukee police and the bomb squad decided to take matters into his own hands and quickly found that wasn't such a good idea.
The senior class at a high school in Wisconsin is being praised by police for their prank showing a car "crashing" into the school.
Donald Gorske broke his world record by officially eating 30,000 McDonald's Big Mac's Friday in Fond Du Lac.
Dave, Kayte, and Nate recap the weekend and set up the week on The Drive.
A Wisconsin police officer who stopped a speeding college student who was late for a presentation ended up tying his necktie for him.
As part of the "Guiding Greatness" series presented by Delta Air Lines, Wisconsin men's basketball head coach Greg Gard talks about replacing Bo Ryan.
Ethan Happ, now a redshirt freshman, is a starter for Wisconsin averaging 11.9 points, 7.8 rebounds, and a Big Ten-leading 1.8 steals.
It's all come down to these next two weeks for college football fans. CBS Radio's Kevin Boehlke talks about the Holiday Bowl featuring the 8-5 Trojans versus the 9-3 Badgers.
The Blue Devils have young talent that's ready to bolt for the NBA in a year or so, while Wisconsin's personnel has withstood the test of time.
The Blue Devils and Badgers play for the title tonight at 9:18 p.m. ET on CBS.
Trucks are at minimum restrictions.
One person suffered unknown injuries and was able to walk away.
First Lady Jill Biden arrived in the Los Angeles area Saturday, where she plans to attend and be a presenter at Sunday night's Grammy Awards.
California Highway Patrol Auburn says that roughly six vehicles were involved in the collision.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said President Biden authorized the operation to shoot down the balloon.
Trucks are at minimum restrictions.
One person suffered unknown injuries and was able to walk away.
First Lady Jill Biden arrived in the Los Angeles area Saturday, where she plans to attend and be a presenter at Sunday night's Grammy Awards.
California Highway Patrol Auburn says that roughly six vehicles were involved in the collision.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said President Biden authorized the operation to shoot down the balloon.
One part of the new $1.3 billion project, dubbed "SMForward," is a pedestrian walkway that will run along the existing tram that runs between Concourse B and Terminal B, giving people the option to walk instead of ride.
A man is facing life in prison after being convicted on dozens of child sexual assault charges against several young girls in Sacramento County.
Tyre Nichols ' family and friends gathered Wednesday for a funeral that blended a celebration of his life with outrage over the brutal beating he endured at the hands of Memphis police and heated calls for police reform.
The largest construction project ever at Sacramento International Airport is taking flight. It's called SMForward and it's designed to improve passenger experiences and eliminate so-called pinch points.
Firefighters battled a fire on the outside of a home in Sacramento on Wednesday.
California's new law banning new oil and gas wells near homes, schools and other community sites has been put on hold until after voters decide next year whether to throw it out, officials announced Friday.
Children in California won't have to get the coronavirus vaccine to attend schools, state public health officials confirmed Friday, ending one of the last major restrictions of the pandemic in the nation's most populous state.
Two gang members suspected in the massacre of six people last month in central California were arrested early Friday, one after a gunbattle, the Tulare County sheriff said.
Tax season has arrived — the IRS began accepting and processing 2022 tax returns on Jan. 23. Taxpayers will get an additional three days to file this year; the typical April 15 deadline falls on a holiday weekend, so the deadline was pushed back to April 18.
In a first-of-its-kind enforcement, the Federal Trade Commission has imposed a $1.5 million penalty on telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx Holdings Inc. for sharing users' personal health data with Facebook, Google and other third parties without their consent.
Buddy Hield scored 21 points against his former team and the Indiana Pacers beat the Sacramento Kings 107-104 on Friday night to stop a four-game losing streak.
California approved a plan Friday to make flag football a girls' high school sport amid soaring popularity of the game and a push to get more female athletes on the field.
Domantas Sabonis has been selected to represent the Kings at this year's NBA All-Star Game.
Kylie McDevitt will be 38 weeks pregnant when the big game gets underway.
In a recent TikTok, Sydney Warner said she was heckled by Eagles fans.
Groups that help advocate for domestic violence survivors fear that the ruling isn't just dangerous but is a deadly combination.
The countdown is on as California's reparations task force examines the harms of slavery and systemic racism. A final report is due by July.
California's new law banning new oil and gas wells near homes, schools and other community sites has been put on hold until after voters decide next year whether to throw it out, officials announced Friday.
GOP lawmakers have incorrectly blamed the spike in fentanyl overdoses on migrants, whom they blame for bringing the drugs across the border.
Government's new classification of cars that qualify for the generous tax credit is a win for Tesla and other automakers.
Children in California won't have to get the coronavirus vaccine to attend schools, state public health officials confirmed Friday, ending one of the last major restrictions of the pandemic in the nation's most populous state.
Although cigarette smoking has declined in recent decades, it remains the leading cause of preventable disease, disability and death in the US, where an estimated 30.8 million adults currently smoke.
Global Pharma's eye drops have been linked to a U.S. outbreak which has led to at least five people losing their vision.
It's an effort to bring chemistry, neuroscience and modern-day medicine together under one roof, giving the future of psychedelics a new trip.
U.S. health officials said Thursday a company is recalling its over-the-counter eye drops, EzriCare, that have been linked to an outbreak of drug-resistant infections.
In simple terms, this means the site's innumerable automated accounts will grind to a halt, unless the person in charge of them decides to pay for access. It also means researchers who leverage Twitter's API to collect public data from the site will lose a key resource -- again, unless they pay.
A Sacramento viewer says Macy's sent her furniture in the wrong color and she's tried for more than a month to send it back. When she couldn't get a replacement, it was time to call Kurtis.
A San Joaquin County viewer was surprised to get a 1099-MISC for his Middle Class Tax Refund of $700. When Brian Johnson of Morada entered the info into the tax program he was using to file his taxes, it showed he owed the IRS more money. California says it would not tax the money.
People with upcoming DMV written and behind-the-wheel tests are struggling to get their hands on a physical California Drivers Handbook.
It was an all-you-can-eat buffet for a Michigan boy last weekend.
Wage theft robs workers of billions of dollars a year and costs Americans more than any other type of theft. In an effort to identify the scope of wage theft in California, and potential solutions, CBS News Sacramento teamed up with the CalMatters "Divide" team to produce this series of reports.
Overall, graduation rates are up on California State University campuses. But stubborn racial inequities remain. In partnership with CalMatters, CBS Sacramento examined the graduation equity gaps on CSU campuses.
The California State University system graduates Black students at lower rates than other groups – but why, and what can be done to fix it?
While at least one California court is so backlogged that judges are dismissing hundreds of criminal cases, the Sacramento County Superior Court is bucking the trend of delayed justice.
In California, police were called at K-8th grade campuses more than 10,000 times in a single year and data reveals that students with disabilities were far more likely to be arrested than their non-disabled counterparts.
After pressing the IRS for answers for more than a week, the agency says it is working on guidance on whether you owe federal taxes for your California Gas Tax Rebate also known as the Middle Class Tax Refund.
A Sacramento viewer says Macy's sent her furniture in the wrong color and she's tried for more than a month to send it back. When she couldn't get a replacement, it was time to call Kurtis.
A San Joaquin County viewer was surprised to get a 1099-MISC for his Middle Class Tax Refund of $700. When Brian Johnson of Morada entered the info into the tax program he was using to file his taxes, it showed he owed the IRS more money. California says it would not tax the money.
People with upcoming DMV written and behind-the-wheel tests are struggling to get their hands on a physical California Drivers Handbook.
Crooks around the country have been successfully stealing money by convincing people they may go to jail.
A $24 million settlement has been reached over the massive Dixie Fire with ten public entities agreeing to a deal with Pacific Gas and Electric to pay for some of the damage.
The climate crisis is among the key factors in a new assessment that shows more than 85% of California's rural and unincorporated land is now in "high" or "very high" severity zones for wildfire danger, the state's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) recently announced.
California's office of the State Fire marshal released an updated fire hazard map showing which unincorporated parts of California are most at risk for fires and what future destruction could look like.
Recent rains have been heaven-sent during California's years-long drought, but concerns over flash flooding in wildfire burn scar areas have fire crews watching and working.
In the wake of the devastation, a new generation of foresters is taking interest in wildfire prevention.
Local seniors with vision loss are sharpening their cooking skills thanks to the Society For The Blind.
You may remember when people lined up outside the Front Street Animal Shelter right before Christmas last year to offer up their homes over the holidays so pets didn't spend them alone in a kennel. It's well into 2023 and time to bring them back, but CBS13 learned many just can't seem to let go.
The Sacramento Zoo announced on Monday the birth of a female giraffe.
Shirley Allen was surrounded by family and met with applause as she blew out the large candles on her 102nd birthday Tuesday, Jan 17. For more than a century, Allen has marked another year gone by, but she's never taken one for granted.
As a deadly and historic blizzard barreled through Erie County, New York, last weekend, some residents found themselves in a dire scenario -- stranded in howling snow with nowhere to go, their cars dwindling in gas supply with police unable to come to the rescue.
Turlock community members teamed up to donate a specialize wheelchair to a little girl living with Spina bifida.
The winning numbers for the Powerball $700M jackpot have been drawn.
A six car crash has left one person dead and several injured.
Recent rain storms continue to help with California's drought.
California Highway Patrol Truckee has announced chain controls on multiple highways.