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    SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Lucas Ye, 8, is the brains behind the masterpiece, “Rise,” that won NASA’s mascot competition for Artemis II.

“This is the Apollo on the right side, and it’s the past moon mission. And this is the space launch system,” he said, motioning to his plushie design of a moon with an Earth cap.

“I especially did the design and the idea,” he told CBS News Bay Area.

Ye said he was inspired by the iconic photograph of Earth from Apollo 8.

“It was called Earth Rise, and the Earth on top of the plushie’s head was representing Earth Rise,” he said.

NASA said they had more than 2,600 submissions from around the world for the zero-gravity indicator mascot. Officials added that the Artemis II crew was inspired by Ye’s creativity.

“The view that the Artemis II crew has indicated they’re really excited to be able to see for themselves with their own eyes,” Lora Bleacher, the strategic communications director for NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, told CBS News Bay Area. “Representing what they see as their role and representing all of humanity. And helping to bring humanity along for the ride, and having this iconic experience for this new Artemis generation of explorers.”

Ye’s parents said his passion for space started when he was 3 1/2 years old.

“He sometimes talks like that he’s a rocket scientist,” Clara Zhao, Ye’s mother, told CBS News Bay Area. “He likes to read. He enjoys sometimes his quiet time.”

Ye is excited that a version of his plushie will be orbiting the moon on Artemis II. It was a surreal moment seeing his design in the hands of NASA astronauts.

CBS News Bay Area’s Sooji Nam asked Ye what he wants to be when he grows up.

“Probably work at NASA or be an astrophysicist,” Ye said.

Additionally, inside the plushie is an SD card that contains the names of 5.6 million people who submitted their names on NASA’s website. There are also digital images of the 25 finalists of the competition.

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By Sooji Nam

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    SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Lucas Ye, 8, is the brains behind the masterpiece, “Rise,” that won NASA’s mascot competition for Artemis II.

“This is the Apollo on the right side, and it’s the past moon mission. And this is the space launch system,” he said, motioning to his plushie design of a moon with an Earth cap.

“I especially did the design and the idea,” he told CBS News Bay Area.

Ye said he was inspired by the iconic photograph of Earth from Apollo 8.

“It was called Earth Rise, and the Earth on top of the plushie’s head was representing Earth Rise,” he said.

NASA said they had more than 2,600 submissions from around the world for the zero-gravity indicator mascot. Officials added that the Artemis II crew was inspired by Ye’s creativity.

“The view that the Artemis II crew has indicated they’re really excited to be able to see for themselves with their own eyes,” Lora Bleacher, the strategic communications director for NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, told CBS News Bay Area. “Representing what they see as their role and representing all of humanity. And helping to bring humanity along for the ride, and having this iconic experience for this new Artemis generation of explorers.”

Ye’s parents said his passion for space started when he was 3 1/2 years old.

“He sometimes talks like that he’s a rocket scientist,” Clara Zhao, Ye’s mother, told CBS News Bay Area. “He likes to read. He enjoys sometimes his quiet time.”

Ye is excited that a version of his plushie will be orbiting the moon on Artemis II. It was a surreal moment seeing his design in the hands of NASA astronauts.

CBS News Bay Area’s Sooji Nam asked Ye what he wants to be when he grows up.

“Probably work at NASA or be an astrophysicist,” Ye said.

Additionally, inside the plushie is an SD card that contains the names of 5.6 million people who submitted their names on NASA’s website. There are also digital images of the 25 finalists of the competition.

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By Hannah Hilyard

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    MILWAUKEE (WISN) — A fallen officer’s partner takes the stand in the trial of Tremaine Jones, not as an investigator, but as a witness and victim himself.

Jones is the man accused of ambushing and shooting two Milwaukee police officers in June 2025 near North 24th Street and Garfield Avenue. The shooting killed Officer Kendall Corder and injured his partner, Officer Christopher McCray.

McCray testified for the state on Wednesday in front of a packed courtroom full of the officer’s supporters. Even with the large crowd, you could have heard a pin drop.

McCray explained that they were responding to a shots-fired call and searching for a subject with a gun when the shooter ambushed them minutes after their arrival. McCray said he ran for cover as the gunfire erupted. The jury watched McCray’s raw body camera footage of the incident in its entirety.

“2121 Shots fired! Shots fired! My partner’s hit. My partner’s hit. Corder! Shots fired! Shots fired! My partner’s down,” McCray is heard saying.

The footage showed McCray, who was shot in his foot and leg and had a graze wound to his back, tending to Corder and pleading for him to respond while protecting him from the shooter still at large.

“Corder, Corder, Corder, Corder, Corder, Corder! No, no, no, no, no, no! No, Corder! Stay away!” McCray said in the body camera footage.

Other officers arrived and pulled McCray off his partner. The moment was overwhelming for McCray, with tears streaming down his face, but he remained steadfast in describing the chain of events that night.

“Did you ever see who shot you and Officer Corder?” McCray was asked. “No,” he replied.

The jury also watched Officer Corder’s body camera footage, which was similar to McCray’s. The court took a break after viewing the footage.

Earlier in the day, eyewitnesses identified Tremaine Jones as the person with a gun walking around the neighborhood that night, but none of them saw who shot the officers. Jones has pleaded not guilty to all the charges he faces.

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By James Taylor, CBS13 Photojournalist

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    SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — Friday marks four years since the worst mass shooting in Sacramento’s history.

On April 3, 2022, a mass shooting on K Street left six people dead and 12 others shot. It instantly became one of the darkest days in California’s capital city.

“I think this year is heavier than past years because we’re finally starting trial,” said Leia Schenk, the founder of the anti-violence group Empact.

Schenk says the families of those killed are still struggling.

“They grieve just as much today as they did that day, and so it doesn’t get any better,” she said.

Since then, Sacramento police say they’ve been successful in reducing these types of violent crimes.

“We focused our resources where violence was highest,” Police Chief Kathy Lester said.

Lester noted that the number of homicides has fallen 22%, shootings have dropped 25%, and more than 4,200 guns were seized in over the last four years.

“We knew that getting guns out of the hands of people that were not supposed to have them had to be a top priority,” Lester said.

Despite those successes, there were still 131 people shot in Sacramento in 2025.

“It’s still far too many people that are the victims of gun violence,” Lester said. “I want to make sure that that’s clear. There’s still a lot of work to do.”

Schenk is urging city leaders to take more preventative measures to reduce violence.

“It’s frustrating to me because I don’t see a decline,” Schenk said.

She’s continuing to work with families as they prepare for the murder trial of the two mass-shooting suspects, which is set to begin later this month.

Smiley Martin and his brother, Dandrae Martin, along with another man, Mtula Payton, all faced charges in the shooting. Smiley Martin died from methadone toxicity while in custody back in 2024.

“When this is all over with, and court is over, and the judge decides whatever he decides, there’s still no winners in this, and that’s the heartbreaking piece,” Schenk said.

The City of Sacramento is currently facing a $66 million budget deficit, and there’s concern that some violence prevention efforts and police positions could be cut beginning in July.

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By Julie Sharp

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    SIMI VALLEY, California (KCAL, KCBS) — Michelle Bluestone got a call last month that she never expected to get: an animal shelter in Echo Park said they had her dog, Lola, and that she could come get her.

It had been five years since Lola escaped from her Reseda backyard. “One day I had her, and one day she went missing,” Bluestone said.

She adopted Lola in 2018 from an animal shelter; at the time, the schnauzer mix was three years old.

After she escaped in 2021, Bluestone said she put up flyers, looked at shelters, and was hoping someone would call her, because Lola was microchipped. Weeks turned into months, and nothing.

“I just assumed that she was just not alive anymore, maybe she got hit by a car, maybe she got eaten by a coyote, I don’t know.”

Bluestone said she was very depressed, grieved the loss, and had to move on. She moved out of her parents’ house, got married, moved to Simi Valley, and even got a new dog over the last five years.

Then, on Feb. 26, “I picked up the phone, they asked if this was Michelle, I said ‘yes, this is she,’ Lola didn’t even cross my mind…and they said ‘we have your dog Lola here.'”

Lola was dropped off at an Echo Park shelter, and they scanned her microchip and contacted Bluestone.

Her whereabouts all these years remain a mystery. Bluestone said she was a bit nappy, chunky, had severely overgrown nails and some bad teeth, but she had been eating

“She’s still cuddly, she still likes to be held, belly rubs, you know, her tail wags, she makes these cute little sounds – she’s very much the same dog.”

Bluestone said she wishes Lola could talk and tell her where she’s been all these years.

“Whoever had her kept her alive, but I don’t think she was well taken care of … but thankfully, overall her health was ok, I’m very grateful for that,” Bluestone said.

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By Sera Congi

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    HUDSON, Massachusetts (WCVB) — A man fatally beat his grandmother with a skateboard in an attack that also injured two other family members in a Hudson, Massachusetts, home on Tuesday, officials said.

Devin Dube, 29, was arraigned in Marlborough District Court on several charges, including murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. He was held without bail and sent to undergo a competency evaluation at Bridgewater State Hospital after a doctor testified he suffers from schizophrenia. He will return to court on April 17.

A woman called 911 from a residence on Munson Street, reporting that her brother Devin Dube, who lived at the home, was attacking her with a skateboard. A second 911 call indicated that the suspect was also attacking his 90-year-old grandmother, Elaine Dube, with a skateboard.

“The defendant allegedly attacked Elaine Dube in the basement apartment where she lived in that house, striking her several times with a skateboard. Following what would be the fatal attack, the defendant also got into an altercation with his sister and his father, striking them with the skateboard,” Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said.

Devin Dube fled the area and was later arrested without incident at another Hudson address, where he was hiding in a van, officials said.

Elaine Dube was taken to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, where she later died. The suspect’s sister and father were not seriously injured.

“She was very open, very, always a bright spirit, you know?” neighbor Russell Gutknecht said. “She certainly didn’t deserve to go like that, you know?”

Hudson Police Chief Richard DiPersio said there is no ongoing threat to the public.

“This is a senseless tragedy, and our thoughts are with everyone impacted during this incredibly difficult time,” DiPersio said.

Devin Dube does have a criminal record, but Ryan said he does not have any domestic violence history.

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By Tori Mason

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    AURORA, Colorado (KCNC) — A woman in Aurora is in critical condition after a dog attack that involved three pit bulls outside her home. Her family told CBS Colorado it will leave her with permanent, life-altering injuries. The attack comes less than two years after residents of Aurora voted to repeal a citywide pit bull ban.

Aurora Police Department and the city’s animal services responded around 11:40 a.m. Monday, March 30 to the 1500 block of North Lima Street for a reported animal attack. When officers arrived, they found 57-year-old Hilda Lorena Cifuentes suffering from multiple bite wounds. She was transported to the hospital, where she has since undergone multiple surgeries.

Cifuentes suffered extensive injuries to her face, arms, legs and abdomen, along with head trauma. It’s possible that she may lose vision and her left leg.

Her daughter, Sandy Aparicio, says the attack happened during a routine morning while cleaning the yard. Aparicio said her mother had been moving items between her front yard and a shared parking area when three of her neighbor’s dogs got loose. The neighbor had moved into the duplex roughly 10 days earlier, Aparicio said.

“We don’t know if the door was left open or if it was an accident,” Aparicio told CBS Colorado. “But the dogs came out to the parking space, and that’s when they started attacking my mom.”

Cifuentes was alone when the dogs attacked her.

“She started yelling, ‘Help, help, help!’ but no one was near her,” Aparicio explained.

Brenda Chacon, who is homeless, was nearby when she heard the screams of Cifuentes, and she immediately tried to intervene.

“I tried to do whatever I can, but the dogs started coming at me too,” Chacon told CBS Colorado. “I saw her suffer. That’s what hurt.”

Chacon says she yelled for help and tried to get others in the area to call 911. She ran to a nearby store where she flagged down assistance.

Eventually, neighbors and bystanders began throwing rocks at the dogs to stop the attack.

The family estimates the attack lasted between eight and 10 minutes. Chacon says the owner was present, but was unable to control the dogs.

“It was terrible, something traumatic. I’ve never seen anything like that,” Chacon said.

The family says the three dogs involved in the attack have been euthanized.

“What if it was a child? Two or 3 years old?” Aparicio said. “Her life is not going to be the same. How is she going to go back to work? Everything is going to change.”

City officials say Aurora does not currently have a ban on pit bull-type breeds. A previous breed-specific ban was lifted in January 2025 after voters approved a ballot measure in 2024.

In a statement, the Stop Aurora Pit Bull Ban Team, a group that advocated for repealing the city’s breed-specific ban, urged caution in drawing conclusions about the incident.

“We are wishing a full recovery to the woman involved,” the group shared in a statement. “This is a heartbreaking situation for everyone, including the dogs. As we do not yet know the full circumstances, it’s important to avoid assumptions. Situations like this reinforce the importance of responsible ownership, proper training and understanding each individual dog — regardless of breed.”

Cifuentes’ family is demanding answers and accountability.

“If you’re the owner, you have to make sure your dogs are secured,” Aparicio said. “Why were they free?”

The family is raising money online to help cover medical bills, rehabilitation and living expenses, as they prepare for what they describe as a long recovery.

CBS Colorado reached out to the owners of the three dogs that have since been put down and have not heard back.

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By Tori Mason

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    AURORA, Colorado (KCNC) — A woman in Aurora is in critical condition after a dog attack that involved three pit bulls outside her home. Her family told CBS Colorado it will leave her with permanent, life-altering injuries. The attack comes less than two years after residents of Aurora voted to repeal a citywide pit bull ban.

Aurora Police Department and the city’s animal services responded around 11:40 a.m. Monday, March 30 to the 1500 block of North Lima Street for a reported animal attack. When officers arrived, they found 57-year-old Hilda Lorena Cifuentes suffering from multiple bite wounds. She was transported to the hospital, where she has since undergone multiple surgeries.

Cifuentes suffered extensive injuries to her face, arms, legs and abdomen, along with head trauma. It’s possible that she may lose vision and her left leg.

Her daughter, Sandy Aparicio, says the attack happened during a routine morning while cleaning the yard. Aparicio said her mother had been moving items between her front yard and a shared parking area when three of her neighbor’s dogs got loose. The neighbor had moved into the duplex roughly 10 days earlier, Aparicio said.

“We don’t know if the door was left open or if it was an accident,” Aparicio told CBS Colorado. “But the dogs came out to the parking space, and that’s when they started attacking my mom.”

Cifuentes was alone when the dogs attacked her.

“She started yelling, ‘Help, help, help!’ but no one was near her,” Aparicio explained.

Brenda Chacon, who is homeless, was nearby when she heard the screams of Cifuentes, and she immediately tried to intervene.

“I tried to do whatever I can, but the dogs started coming at me too,” Chacon told CBS Colorado. “I saw her suffer. That’s what hurt.”

Chacon says she yelled for help and tried to get others in the area to call 911. She ran to a nearby store where she flagged down assistance.

Eventually, neighbors and bystanders began throwing rocks at the dogs to stop the attack.

The family estimates the attack lasted between eight and 10 minutes. Chacon says the owner was present, but was unable to control the dogs.

“It was terrible, something traumatic. I’ve never seen anything like that,” Chacon said.

The family says the three dogs involved in the attack have been euthanized.

“What if it was a child? Two or 3 years old?” Aparicio said. “Her life is not going to be the same. How is she going to go back to work? Everything is going to change.”

City officials say Aurora does not currently have a ban on pit bull-type breeds. A previous breed-specific ban was lifted in January 2025 after voters approved a ballot measure in 2024.

In a statement, the Stop Aurora Pit Bull Ban Team, a group that advocated for repealing the city’s breed-specific ban, urged caution in drawing conclusions about the incident.

“We are wishing a full recovery to the woman involved,” the group shared in a statement. “This is a heartbreaking situation for everyone, including the dogs. As we do not yet know the full circumstances, it’s important to avoid assumptions. Situations like this reinforce the importance of responsible ownership, proper training and understanding each individual dog — regardless of breed.”

Cifuentes’ family is demanding answers and accountability.

“If you’re the owner, you have to make sure your dogs are secured,” Aparicio said. “Why were they free?”

The family is raising money online to help cover medical bills, rehabilitation and living expenses, as they prepare for what they describe as a long recovery.

CBS Colorado reached out to the owners of the three dogs that have since been put down and have not heard back.

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By Tanner Kahler

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    MILWAUKEE (WISN) — A Wisconsin Department of Transportation camera captured the moment a law enforcement vehicle crashed and rolled over during a pursuit Wednesday afternoon on Interstate 43 in Milwaukee.

According to video obtained by WISN 12, authorities were chasing a dark-colored SUV near Locust Street moments before the crash.

The video shows law enforcement appearing to throw spike strips at the vehicle.

The chase continued, following the SUV that was swerving in-and-out of traffic.

At one point, a squad car rear-ended another vehicle and rolled over near the northbound Keefe Avenue exit ramp.

WISN 12 is working to learn if anybody was hurt in the crash, which caused traffic backups on I-43 Wednesday afternoon.

It’s not clear which agencies were involved in the crash.

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