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The Sacramento Brief Tuesday October 13, 2026| Steelhead Creek Rescue, Halloween Town Takes Over Old Sac · The Sacramento Brief

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  This is the Sacramento Brief, your weekday roundup
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  of overnight headlines and what's ahead across
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  the city. I'm Carol. It's Tuesday, October 13th,
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  2026. Let's get you caught up. A driver is safe
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  after a vehicle went off the road into Steelhead
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  Creek Monday evening. Sacramento police officers
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  responded near Garden Highway and Truxel Road
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  just before 6 p .m. after reports of a vehicle
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  leaving the road. When officers arrived, they
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  found the vehicle in the water, but the driver
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  had already made it out safely and was not injured.
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  And in Midtown, Sacramento police made an arrest
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  following a reported robbery. Officers responded
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  to the 1700 block of J Street after a suspect
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  allegedly took merchandise from a store and refused
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  to pay. Police say when employees tried to stop
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  the suspect from leaving, the person pushed past
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  them and exited the store. Officers arrived,
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  detained the suspect, and booked them on related
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  charges. For your weather today, expect plenty
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  of sunshine with a high near 77. North -northwest
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  winds will run from 7 to 13 miles per hour with
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  gusts reaching high as 25. So warm in the sunshine,
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  but definitely a little breezy out there today.
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  link is in today's show notes. And now back to
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  the brief. In City Watch, Sacramento County agriculture
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  is proving it's about more than just what comes
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  out of the ground. The county's newly released
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  crop and livestock report says agricultural agriculture
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  generates a gross. production value of more than
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  $555 million in 2025, up about 2 .6 % from the
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  year before. Wine grapes remain Sacramento County's
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  number one commodity, valued at more than $164
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  million, followed by processed tomatoes, milk,
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  pears, aquaculture, and nursery stock. But this
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  year, the county also took a wider look at the
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  agricultural's overall economic impact. Using
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  the latest complete economic data from 2024,
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  agriculture, food processing, and related activities
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  contributed nearly $1 .2 billion to the Sacramento
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  County economy. That works out to more than $3
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  million a day. And the industry supported nearly
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  7000 local jobs with both direct employment and
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  related economic activity as are included in
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  those numbers. County officials say the diversity
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  of local agriculture from grapes and tomatoes
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  to rice, cattle and aquaculture also help make
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  industry more resilient when individual markets
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  struggle. The full report is available through
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  the Sacramento County's Department of Agricultural
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  Company. For events, Sacramento is getting a
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  little spooky. Halloween Town is underway throughout
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  Old Sacramento Waterfront for the entire month
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  of October. Visitors can check out the Giant
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  Pumpkin, hunt for scarecrows around the district,
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  hear ghost stories, and find Halloween -themed
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  food, drinks, and shopping activities at participating
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  businesses. Movies Under the Stars contributes
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  every Thursday and Friday with Halloween favorites.
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  cult classics, and family -friendly movies, along
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  with food vendors, costume contests, and themed
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  activities. For grown -ups participating, bars
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  also are offering Fright and Flights, featuring
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  Halloween -themed beverage flights after the
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  movies. And beginning this Friday, October 16th,
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  the Sacramento History Museum Annual Ghost Tour
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  returns with stories from Sacramento's strangest
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  and Very Real Death. The tour runs select Fridays
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  and Saturdays through October 30th. You'll find
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  hideaways, Halloween mini golf, specialty drinks,
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  spooky treats, crafts, shopping, discounts, and
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  plenty more throughout Old Sacramento all month
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  long. That's all for today's Sacramento Brief.
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  You'll find the links to today's events in the
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  show notes. I'm Carol. Thank you for trusting
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  me with your morning. Be safe, stay sharp, and
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  I'll see you tomorrow.