Dusty Baker has won the fourth Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Baseball Digest.The beloved Baker retired following the 2023 season after spending 56 years in the majors as a player, coach and manager. He was honored Thursday with an annual distinction that "recognizes a living individual whose career has been spent in or around Major League Baseball and who has made significant contributions to the game."Willie Mays won the inaugural award in 2021, followed by Vin Scully in 2022 and Joe Torre last year."Receiving this award is a tremendous honor," Baker said in a news release. "I never thought that...

SACRAMENTO - Four members of the trans community are calling out a fight that occurred at a Sacramento bar at the end of March. They say the attack and fight were motivated by prejudices against transgender individuals. A disheartening feeling, they say, as it happened four days after the city declared itself a safe haven for members of the community."For Sacramento to be listed as a sanctuary space for trans people, we need to be better and that was not better," said Kimora. It started with a disagreement inside Golden Bear Bar."As I'm spreading out my hands because I'm focusing on the...

TikTok could be under new ownership at this time next year, after President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a bill that gives the social media company about 12 months to either divest from its Chinese owner or face a U.S. ban. TikTok is vowing to fight the new law in the courts, with CEO Shou Chou saying in a video posted to the service yesterday that "the facts and the Constitution are on our side." He added that TikTok expects "to prevail again," referring to Montana's efforts to ban the app, which was blocked by a federal judge.That being said, TikTok...

A unique phenomenon that could be mistaken for spiders scuttling across the planet's surface has been spotted on Mars, according to the European Space Agency.The ESA said in a news release that one of its Mars Express orbiter captured images of the "spiders," which are really just small, dark-colored features that begin to be formed when sunshine falls on carbon dioxide deposited during the planet's winter months. The light causes the carbon dioxide ice at the bottom of the deposits to turn into gas, which eventually bursts through ice that can be up to three feet thick, shooting dust out...

As pro-Palestinian protests spread on university campuses across the United States, leading to hundreds of arrests, young Palestinians in the war-torn Gaza Strip have told CBS News they appreciate the support from America. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, has condemned the demonstrations as antisemitic and even compared them to rallies held in Germany almost 100 years ago, as the Nazi party rose to power on a wave of anti-Jewish hate.Fida Afifi had been attending Al Aqsa University in Gaza City before the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers sparked the ongoing war with their bloody Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel....

Washington — The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Thursday appeared open to recognizing some level of immunity from federal prosecution for the official acts of former presidents as they weighed a blockbuster dispute that will be critical to the fate of former President Donald Trump's 2020 election case in Washington, D.C. But the court expressed skepticism toward Trump's broad argument that he should be absolutely immune from charges related to conduct that occurred while he was in office. Across nearly three hours of arguments, several members of the court's six-member conservative bloc signaled that they believed a former president should be...

SACRAMENTO — For weeks, campuses across the nation have been at the center of the debate over the Israel-Hamas war.This week, things reached a boiling point as demonstrations turned violent over calls for a ceasefire and for campuses to cut ties with companies supporting Israel.Professor Rory Little of UC Law San Francisco said we're seeing echoes of a movement that started 60 years ago."This year is an interesting year," Little said. "We're in the 60th anniversary right now of something which started in Berkeley, California called the Free Speech Movement when students started protesting the Vietnam War and taking over...

FAIRFIELD -- A mother said she has now pulled her child out of Fairview Elementary School in Fairfield after he was allegedly choked with a jump rope by another student during an after-school program on April 16.The Fairfield Suisun Unified School District confirmed to CBS13 that an investigation involving police is ongoing. "Our kids are very precious to us. If you can't protect them at the school, why are we giving you our children for eight hours a day?" asked Jessica Tyo.Her 5-year-old son Daniel Etue Jr. has a harder time communicating due to his autism. Tyo says for this reason,...

A 21-year-old mother is luckily sitting in her home with her two children after she was ambushed and shot in the face outside an Apple Valley gas station last week. "I got shot in the face with a 45 [caliber gun] and shot in the back," Brenae Smith said. "So it's like, a lot happened to me."The young mother said the man who shot her in the face aimed to kill her. However, Smith believes the man met his match in her after she was strong enough to survive the ambush. "I got to fight," she said. "I got to show him...

SACRAMENTO -- Convicted attempted murderer Kyle D. Frank may soon be let out of prison after being granted parole in his initial suitability hearing.Frank, who received a 90-year sentence for his involvement in four drive-by shootings in 2009, served just 15 years before his hearing.On August 22, 2009, Paul Adcock was driving home on Interstate 80 when he glanced over to the car on his right to see Frank yelling a racial slur at him. Adock sped away but was eventually caught up to before he heard gunshots."My side view window shattered. I hear bullets off to the side of...

ELK GROVE — The city of Elk Grove is taking a new approach to fight the use of illegal fireworks.Many residents there say they're frustrated by illegal fireworks."It's loud. It's annoying," said Elk Grove resident Sharon Anderson. "It's worse when it goes until the wee hours of the morning where none of us sleep."Anderson said she's called the police in the past about the illegal activity."We've had fires in my neighborhood caused by illegal fireworks that just—it's too close for comfort," she said.The City of Elk Grove said it's a growing problem. Last Fourth of July, they received 413 firework...

The pace of babies born each year in the U.S. has slowed to a new record low, according to an analysis of 2023 birth certificate data published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year's slowdown marks an official end to the uptick in new babies that began during the COVID-19 pandemic. At least 3,591,328 babies were born in the U.S. in 2023, down 2% from the 3,667,758 born in 2022. This is on par with annual declines seen before the pandemic, the report said, which averaged around 2% fewer babies each year.There were already signs in the year before...

STOCKTON - Stockton Taking Action Against Retail Theft (STAART) aims to put the power to stop retail theft into a business owner's hands and it could help the San Joaquin District Attorney put more cuffs on more suspects.On Stockton's Miracle Mile, a lot of the businesses are so fed up with retail theft. So much so, they didn't even want to talk about it on camera.A lot of them say theft still happens to them almost every day. Now officials, want to put an end to this."They are interested in a place where you can get in, get out, near...

STOCKTON - A suspect in a deadly Stockton shooting last summer was arrested during a traffic stop in Alameda County on Tuesday, police said. The shooting happened just before 10 p.m. in the area of Sierra Nevada and Oak in Stockton on July 23, 2023. This is where police said they found a man shot. He was rushed to the hospital, where he later died. Detectives identified Bradley Vargas, 38, as a suspect in the homicide and issued an arrest warrant. On Tuesday, the Livermore Police Department contacted Vargas during a traffic stop, which is when he was detained without incident. He was arrested in connection with the homicide and was booked into the San Joaquin Jail. 

SACRAMENTO - Multiple sources have confirmed with CBS13 that the victim who was stabbed to death near Tower Bridge over the weekend was a sophomore at Center High School in Antelope.He has been identified by family and close friends as 16-year-old Kirill Trush. Multiple staff members and students confirmed with CBS13 that Trush was a student at Center High School who had been in the district since kindergarten."He was like a brother to most of us. What happened to him was a tragedy, should have never happened," said Jeremiah Patterson who was a friend of the victim.The high school student...

SACRAMENTO — Governor Gavin Newsom is seeking a bold new step to open California medical facilities to Arizona doctors for abortions on their patients after the state's Supreme Court upheld an 1864 abortion ban.Governor Newsom rolled out new legislation in a press conference on Wednesday."This Arizona law is the first border state law that will directly impact the state of California," Newsom said.Newsom is crafting a proposed law to allow licensed Arizona doctors to perform abortions on their patients inside California state lines. The bill restricts doctors only to performing abortions. It does not allow Arizona doctors to fulfill other...

PLACERVILLE - The Senate Committee on Insurance passed a bill Wednesday that lawmakers said will address the cost and availability of fire insurance in California. Senate Bill 1060, or the Fire Insurance Risk Evaluation (FIRE) Act, would require property insurers to consider wildfire mitigation efforts when setting the price of insurance for homeowners. "We have to recognize that this is a crisis. People are losing insurance every day or the exorbitant markups in their insurance. So we have to start treating it like a crisis," said Senator Josh Becker, who proposed the measure.Lorianna McArthur said she currently has two homes in El...

STOCKTON — A one-of-a-kind facility in the heart of Stockton is training the next generation for high-paying careers.We got to tour the Eyes of Science display at Delta College, which held a free open house on Tuesday.Jose Jimenez is an instructor at Delta College's electron microscopy program, the only one of its kind in the nation at a community college level."We are actually looking down into an atom's cell structure. We are looking down into the nanoworld," Jimenez said.Hitachi trained and mentored Jimenez to work on powerful microscopes known as the Eyes of Science because of their use for critical...

SACRAMENTO - As protests continue to erupt across the country, Jewish leaders in Northern California say the rate of antisemitic incidents has now broken records. Universities across the nation have become ground zero for people protesting the Isreal Hamas war. At Columbia, classes have moved to online learning to keep students safe, barricades have gone up around New York University, and at Yale, things have reached a boiling point. Tensions on campuses have led to concerns about harassment and safety for the schools' Jewish communities. "So they started taunting me and giving me their middle finger and yelling in...

A Pro-Palestinian protest at University of Southern California's Alumni Park that started Wednesday morning grew in size and intensity by the afternoon after campus police confronted the crowd and ordered the dismantling of the encampment.Tensions grew after officers forced the protesters to take down their tents and a protester was detained. The encampment went up at the park Wednesday morning, similar to other pro-Palestinian encampments that have been part of other college campuses across the nation.The group issued a list of demands including university divestment from any organizations that "profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupation in Palestine."Campus Department of Public...