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California is getting its 1st professional women’s hockey team. Here are the details
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- California is getting its 1st professional women’s hockey team. Here are the details
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- The Professional Women’s Hockey League is adding its 12th and final team for the 2026-27 season, and the league is expanding into California for the first time ever.
On May 19, the PWHL announced its newest franchise, which will be based in San Jose. The announcement wrapped up development of a four-team expansion for its fourth season.
To read more, check out https://www.sacbee.com/sports/article315813068.html?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social
✍️ and 📸: Camila Pedrosa
#news #sports #hockey #womenssports #womenshockey #pwhl #california #sanjose
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- How one rare $900K South Land Park midcentury found a buyer in single weekend
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- 2:57
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Streng Bros. and Carter Sparks model hits sweet spot: lots of glass and natural light, modernist charm and good neighborhood “draws people.”
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- Social media swells with support for couple engaged at UC Davis grad ceremony
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- 0:25
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Social media is roaring with support for a couple who got engaged during the UC Davis School of Medicine commencement ceremony over the weekend.
Habib Salamah, a medical student at the California school, dropped to one knee to propose to his partner, Alaa’i Alshabrawy, as he crossed the stage to receive his diploma at the UC Davis School of Medicine graduation ceremony on Saturday. The moment, posted to the university’s social media pages, has since gone viral, with users sharing messages of congratulations at the surprising moment.
“A love story built at the @UCDavis School of Medicine,” the school captioned the moment. #marriageproposal #graduation #futuredoctors @ucdavismedschool #commencement
✍️ Reeti Malhotra
📹️ UC Davis School of Medicine
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- LivingForGod to Barack Obama Shaw: Meet the overlooked hopefuls for governor
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- 2:12
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- In a governor's race with no clear frontrunner, dozens of outsider candidates are betting they can pull off the political upset of a lifetime.
LivingforGod AndCountry DeMott — yes, that’s his real name — doesn’t remember when exactly he decided to run for California governor. The interdenominational chaplain has no campaign to speak of in his hometown of Redding. No staff, no political party, no social media presence and no budget beyond the $10,000 personal loan he took out to help get his name on the ballot.
Still, as better-known candidates pour millions of dollars into the race, DeMott, the former owner of a Northern California pest control empire, and several dozen other low-profile gubernatorial hopefuls are betting they can defy the odds and pull off a June 2 primary day miracle. Only two candidates, regardless of party, will advance from the primary that includes 61 names.
To read more, check out https://www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
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- Granite Bay’s biggest home for sale brings French chateau vibes to Sacramento
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- 1:57
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The largest home for sale in the coveted Sacramento suburb of Granite Bay — rising three stories and spanning 12,000 square feet — commands a hilltop perch and imbues the quiet landscape with French chateau elegance.
At 9300 Touchstone Court, first impressions say it all.
“When you come down the court and see this house — a three‑story home on the hillside — it isn’t like anything else you’ve ever seen,” listing agent Samantha Gray of eXp Realty said. “It’s not your traditional Mediterranean home, it’s not the modern farmhouse you see every day. It is truly spectacular.”
The sprawling estate — with six bedrooms, nine bathrooms — is on the market for just under $5 million. The home sits on 4.1 acres and comes with an additional 1.9-acre parcel.
#realestate #luxuryhomes #granitebay,#mansions
✍️ David Caraccio
🎞️ David Caraccio & STEFDPHOTO
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- Bee Appetit: Take a tiny trip to Puerto Rico by way of this Land Park back patio
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- 2:22
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Bee food and dining reporter Sean Timberlake takes you to Land Park in Sacramento to discover Lola’s Lounge El Jardin de Elda — where a colorful back patio awaits for you to try Puerto Rican classics like pernil, empanadillas and tropical cocktails. This is part of our Bee Appetit series. #restaurants #PuertoRico #food #dining
✍️ + 🎥 Sean Timberlake
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- With AI boom support, Newsom’s final budget again sets California as Trump foil
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- 3:04
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The governor says his final budget proposal wipes out deficit in the short term, halves it in the long term — with significant education investment.
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- Need a hand voting? Our California 2026 primary voter guide is here to help
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- When it comes to politics, it’s rough out there: There’s no clear favorite for governor in California’s top-two primary on June 2, and the list of statewide, congressional, judicial and local races and measures is seemingly endless.
The Sacramento Bee has you covered. From candidate facts to campaign finance to our endorsements, we’ve created your one-stop shop for the June 2 election with our recently published voter guide. The guide includes candidate information, voter-registration information, maps and, in many races, candidate endorsements made by our McClatchy California editorial board.
The board’s endorsement process is walled off from the newsroom, so it doesn’t influence our reporting. We see endorsements as a public service — regardless of whether you disagree with the board’s opinion. Our voter guide stories also delve into who’s funding the races, and in some cases include searchable campaign-finance graphics created by the non...
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- Did one California agency block another from investigating Esparto fireworks blast?
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- 2:11
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- After an explosion tore through a fireworks warehouse in Esparto last July 1, killing seven workers, it prompted investigators from multiple agencies to descend on the small farming town to determine how it happened.
Cal-OSHA, the agency charged with investigating workplace safety and finding out what happened, was one of the agencies on the site. Sources familiar with the investigation said Cal-OSHA’s team was repeatedly prevented from doing its job by Cal Fire, another state agency.
According to multiple officials and emails, a unit of four arson and bomb investigators from Cal Fire’s Office of the State Fire Marshal — which regulates fireworks in California — told witnesses at times not to talk to Cal-OSHA investigators and did not provide documents vital to Cal-OSHA’s investigation.
To read more of the story, check out https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article315549181.html.
✍️ and 📸: Joe Rubin
#cal...
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- 2 people with possible hantavirus exposures are in CA. Officials say don’t panic
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- 1:58
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Two Californians who may have been exposed to the hantavirus are back in the state — but they’re both asymptomatic, and health officials are urging residents not to panic.
In all, four California residents were in contact with people infected on the cruise ship MV Hondius, including one Sacramento County resident, California Department of Public Health Director Erica Pan said in a news conference Monday. Two individuals have not yet returned home.
✍️ Ariane Lange
📽️ David Caraccio | Reuters | CDPH
#hantavirus #cruiseship #publichealth #outbreak
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- Are Hiram Johnson logos and Warriors imagery offensive? School principal says no
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- 3:34
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Assembly Bill 3074, an expansion of the California Racial Mascots Act, was passed by the Legislature in 2024 and goes into effect July 1 of this year. It bars California public schools, except those operated by an Indian tribe or that have obtained the written consent of a local tribe, from using a “derogatory Native American” term in school nicknames or mascots.
The Hiram Johnson Warriors and their use of Native American imagery throughout the Sacramento City Unified School District campus have come into the spotlight recently. The district’s trustees in a board meeting last week directed staff to initiate the process of removing offensive imagery from the campus as soon as possible.
Hiram Johnson’s principal, Garrett Kirkland, defended the Warriors name as one that students and alumni take pride in and said the large mural in the school’s gymnasium depicting a Native American man wearing a bonnet and regalia is not offensive.
To read ...
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- Late News10 anchor Dick Cable memorialized: ‘The Walter Cronkite of Sacramento’
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- 2:03
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Colleagues and family members of longtime news anchor Dick Cable gathered Saturday for his memorial service at The Invitation Room in Old Sacramento. They paid tribute to a veteran Sacramento newsman who set a standard for fairness, accuracy and a style of journalism that remains appreciated by those who knew him.
Cable, who died Feb. 25 at 89, spent roughly 30 years as a News10 anchor until his 1998 retirement.
To read more, check out https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article315688066.html
✍️: Graham Womack
📸: José Luis Villegas
#dickcable #memorial #news #sacramento #history #journalism
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- We’re endorsing an underdog for California governor. Why she should get your vote
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Opinion | This year’s election for governor of California barely resembles any of those within living memory. In decades past, a favored candidate or two would have emerged long before ballots went to voters, as they will this week. Now, six Democrats and two Republicans continue to fight it out.
McClatchy Media’s California editorial board, which includes columnists and editors from The Sacramento Bee, The Modesto Bee, The Fresno Bee, Merced Sun-Star and The Tribune of San Luis Obispo, agrees unanimously on one thing: The next governor of California must be a Democrat.
For us, that person is former Rep. Katie Porter. The majority of our board believes that Porter has the intellect, the understanding of the issues, the ability to communicate, see the big picture, and the boldness to fight the monied interests who need to be fought. She has the singular ability to uplift Californians struggling with how expensive and exclusive this state has become. We al...
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- Suspect in Arden Arcade knife incident appears in court, cusses about charges
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- 0:35
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- A man allegedly seen on doorbell cameras in an Arden Arcade neighborhood approaching front porches while carrying what appeared to be a knife appeared in court May 5, 2026, for the first time after his back-to-back misdemeanor arrests, raising his voice and cussing during the proceedings.
The man, Brian Tucker Mattson, 56 remains in the custody of the Sacramento County Main Jail following his arraignment, where he did not enter a plea. #court #crime #trespassing #Sacramentosheriff #neighborhoodwatch
✍️ Corey Schmidt
🎞️ Sacramento Sheriff
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- Newsom ridicules Trump over spigot remark and White House water policies
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- 2:02
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- In an address at the California Water Agencies annual conference May 7, 2026, Gov. #GavinNewsom ridicules Donald Trump over the president's spigot remark and his #water policies. #California #Trump
🎞️ David Caraccio | California Governor
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- Your guide to the California governor primary race
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- 2:01
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- This year’s governor’s race is unlike any in recent memory. Less than two months ahead of the June 2 primary, voters have yet to coalesce behind a candidate for the top job in California.
Sacramento Bee reporter Ben Paviour gives an update on which candidates are still in the race for California governor and what voters need to know about the race.
To read more about the governor's race check out: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/election/voter-guide/article315281369.html#storylink=cpy
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/election/voter-guide/article315281369.html#storylink=cpy?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube
✍️ and 📸: Ben Paviour
#news #governor #election #campaign #california #vote #politics
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- Big leaps at the state Capitol this week came through frogs, not lawmakers
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- On May 5, the California Capitol's event to preview the Calaveras County Fair’s famed frog jumping competition hit its 50th year.
Frog jumping is a uniquely California sport. It grew out of a late 1800s fictional story by the author Mark Twain — one credited with launching the writer’s career. Frog jumping’s Superbowl is the Calaveras County Fair, occurring later this month. A frog is set down upon a designated jumping point and from there, winners come down to the exertion of that frog to jump and jump far. At the fair, participants are not allowed to touch their frog once it’s set on the jumping off point and rely instead on shouts, whistles or menacing leaps in the frog’s direction to make it jump.
At the Capitol, participants — which included journalists, lawmakers and members of their staffs — were allowed to poke and prod the frogs to get them to move.
To read more, check out sacbee.com.
✍️: Andrew Graham
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- Investigation of last year’s deadly Esparto blast continues. What do we know now?
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- 2:16
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Since seven people were killed in a fireworks warehouse explosion in Esparto, Calif. last summer, The Sacramento Bee has published more than 30 stories examining the shadowy world of illegal fireworks, lax oversight and missed opportunities which led to the deadly blast.
Sacramento Bee reporter Daniel Lempres gives a recap of the developments in the case since the July explosion and the reporting The Bee has done on it.
For more coverage of this story, check out sacbee.com.
✍️📸: Daniel Lempres
#explosion #esparto #fireworks #california #news #reporting #crime
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- See Sacramento protesters rally against ICE in ‘Day without Immigrants’ march
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- 2:51
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Hundreds gathered at Southside Park May 1, 2026, to march to Capitol Mall and the John E. Moss Federal Building in Sacramento, marking the 20th Day Without Immigrants.
✍️ 🎥 RENÉE C. BYER
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- The Sacramento Bee’s new newsletter lineup: More news for you, all day long
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- 2:00
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The Sacramento Bee has been consistently delivering email newsletters featuring our top stories straight to your inbox. Now, The Bee is offering an expanded lineup of different newsletters, many of them for free, and switching up some of the times they are delivered to you.
For our full list of newsletters and to sign up for them check out sacbee.com/newsletters.
✍️ and 📸: Chris Fusco
#news #newsletter #sacramento #info #california
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- Allora’s vegetarian tasting menu isn’t an afterthought. It’s the foundation
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Vegetarians and vegans needn’t be left out of the fine dining experience at this restaurant, which offers a fully realized meat-free multi-course tasting menu.
At Allora, the fine-dining Italian restaurant in East Sacramento, chef Deneb Williams begins his entire process with vegetables.
“I was raised a vegetarian. My mom was a macrobiotic vegetarian my whole entire life. She still is; I only started eating meat when I started working in kitchens,” he said. “I do enjoy a steak every once in a while, but my passion for food is 100% about vegetables.”
Allora offers three-, four- and five-course tasting menus ($99-$159) in its serene dining room. Rather than just having one vegetarian or vegan dish per course, Allora’s vegetarian menu is as fully realized as its ominvore counterpart, with multiple options to choose from — not just the requisite mushroom risotto.
To read more, check out https://www.sacbee.com/food-drink/...
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- Sacramento County animal shelter seeks help after cat killed in Florin area
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- 0:37
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- “Someone knows who this is,” officials said, urging tips from the public.
Bradshaw Animal Shelter is asking for the public’s help identifying a person of interest in the beating and death of a cat earlier this month in south Sacramento. The shelter said it happened April 21, 2026, in the 8500 block of Sun Florin Drive, near Florin and French roads in the Florin area of Sacramento, California. #pets #animalshelter #cat #surveillance
📹️ Bradshaw Animal Shelter
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- Grieving mom says ‘to get away with murder in California, do it with your car’
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- 1:44
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- On the one-year anniversary of her son’s death, Allison Lyman couldn’t mourn in peace. She had found none after the vehicle crash, and she didn’t want state lawmakers to know peace, either.
Lyman and a group of other women whose loved ones were killed in collisions organized a rally on the west steps of the California Capitol on the anniversary on April 23 to lambast the lax criminal penalties faced by drivers who kill people.
To read more, check out https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/transportation/article315470983.html.
✍️: Ariane Lange
📸: José Luis Villegas
#California #traffic #transportation #news #government #protest
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- Placer sheriff’s detectives arrest suspect in 1991 murder of kidnapped mother
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- 3:31
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Cinthia “Cindi” Wanner was cleaning her sister’s Placer County home 34 years ago when someone kidnapped her, taking the 36-year-old mother and leaving behind her 11-month-old daughter in a high chair where she was found later crying and alone.
Wanner was sexually assaulted and left to die among trees in the Foresthill area, where her body was found more than two weeks later.
The investigation into her murder went unsolved without any arrests for more than three decades until earlier this year, when authorities used DNA to identify a suspect. Last week, a crime analyst in Arizona used facial recognition technology to help investigators find the man believed to have killed Wanner.
James Lawhead Jr., 64, was arrested on suspicion of homicide in Wanner’s November 1991 disappearance and subsequent death, Placer County Sheriff Wayne Woo announced on April 27 at a news conference in Auburn. He said investigators arrested Lawhead in the drivewa...
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- Telework remains energizing force for CA state workers as July deadline looms
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Two years and two weeks have passed since Gov. Gavin Newsom issued his first return-to-office order, which directed state employees to begin working from government offices two days a week. Newsom upped the in-office requirement to four days last year, but subsequently postponed that mandate after facing steep push-back from state employees and labor groups. In the intervening time, unions have filed lawsuits, lawmakers have introduced legislation and state workers have continued rallying, all to push back against the governor’s mandate.
On April 22, the state workers again vocalized their opposition to the governor’s telework policy during a march from the Capitol grounds to the headquarters of the California Department of Human Resources, leaders of which met with SEIU Local 1000’s bargaining team to begin negotiations for a new contract.
To read more, check out https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article315489629.html.
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- Sacramento ex-councilman Sean Loloee pleads guilty to federal fraud. Here are details
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Former Sacramento city councilman Shahriar “Sean” Loloee pleaded guilty in Sacramento federal court on April 23 to fraud and money laundering charges after admitting to obstructing Labor Department investigators and cheating on taxes tied to his Viva Supermarket stores, as well as fraudulently collecting more than $1 million in COVID relief funds.
Shahriar “Sean” Loloee faces a maximum of 59 years in federal prison on the seven charges against him. Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 15 in Sacramento federal court.
As part of Lololee’s deal, federal prosecutors agreed to recommend a prison term at the low end of the sentencing range, according to the court filing.
To read more, check out https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article315506975.html.
✍️: Darrell Smith
📸: Hector Amezcua
#crime #sentencing #sacramento #news #california #court
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- Vegetables take center stage at Sacramento’s most beloved vegetarian restaurant
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- 2:02
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- From mushroom stroganoff to 10-course tasting menus, Mother restaurant defines vegetarian dining in Sacramento.
The current Mother at 2319 K St. in midtown is actually its second incarnation. The original Mother opened in 2014 on the K Street Mall, and became a much-beloved institution. It closed in 2020, shortly before the pandemic lockdown.
Chef Mike Thiemann’s friend Robb Venditti was a fan of the restaurant, and after its closure the two began talking over games of tennis about bringing Mother back. When Venditti sold his catering company, it left him the money to reboot Mother.
To read more about the restaurant, check out https://www.sacbee.com/food-drink/article315269175.html.
✍️: Sean Timberlake
📸: Renée C. Byer
#mother #restaurant #vegetarian #vegan #food #sacramento #feature #california
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- Feather River beach and floodplain to become Yuba County’s first state park
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- 2:39
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- A stretch of the Feather River known for its access to recreation and history of flooding has been slotted as the future site of the first state park in Yuba County.
Feather River Park, along the east bank of the river near Olivehurst, is one of three new state parks planned for the Central Valley that Gov. Gavin Newsom announced April 22 through an initiative called State Parks Forward.
The nearly 2,000-acre park pitched for north of Sacramento was christened along with two more proposed parks: San Joaquin River Parkway in Fresno and Madera counties, and Dust Bowl Camp in Bakersfield.
To read more, check out https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article315497950.html
✍️: Jake Goodrick
📸: California State Parks
#parks #outdoors #statepark #california #news
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- She says ChatGPT is responsible for her son’s death. CA lawmakers are listening
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Maria Raine, the mother of the 16-year-old Orange County teen who killed himself last year after discussing his suicidal thoughts with ChatGPT, is appealing to California lawmakers to place additional regulations on AI “companion” chatbots.
Raine, who filed suit against ChatGPT creator OpenAI in August, came to Sacramento to support two pieces of AI companion chatbot legislation lawmakers are putting forward. Senate Bill 1119 and Assembly Bill 2023 would require chatbot creators to make their products safer for children through design changes, parental notifications, and regular audits. The bills face broad industry opposition, and their movement through the California Capitol will likely be seen as a litmus test for whether states can reign in AI companies. The federal government has signaled it is not interested in putting regulations on the technology, but will not challenge states that do so in the name of child safety.
According to Matthew and Maria ...
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- ‘A daily hurt’: Families of Esparto fireworks victims confront defendants in court
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- After a fireworks explosion in Esparto killed seven men last summer, their families stood in a Woodland courtroom on April 16 and, for the first time, told a judge what they have carried since that day.
In emotional statements during a bail hearing, relatives described lives cut short and families left to navigate daily loss, urging Yolo Superior Court Judge Daniel McGuire to keep the defendants in custody as the case moves toward trial.
The explosion killed seven people: Jesús Ramos, 18; Jhony Ramos, 22; Joel “Junior” Melendez, 28; Carlos Rodriguez-Mora, 43; Angel Mathew Voller, 18; Christopher Bocog, 45; and Neil Li, 41. They were remembered as fathers, sons and providers whose absence continues to shape their families’ lives.
To read more, check out https://www.sacbee.com/community/yolo/article315395369.html.
✍️: Daniel Lempres
📸: Hector Amezcua
#esparto #explosion #news #crime #court #california
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- Sacramento County reports 6 new measles cases, urges vaccinations for children
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- 3:08
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Sacramento County health officials on April 15 reported six additional cases of measles, and urged families with unvaccinated children to reconsider getting immunizations and to stay home if anyone shows symptoms.
Since the start of the year, Sacramento County has confirmed 11 cases of measles, a disease that was only detected twice locally in the previous six years. Placer County has reported eight cases in 2026.
To read more, check out sacbee.com?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube.
✍️: Annika Merrilees
📸: Hector Amezcua
#measles #disease #health #news #sacramento #california
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- Aiona launches with pan-Mediterranean menu anchored on the open kitchen’s grill
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Sean Timberlake, The Sacramento Bee's food and dining reporter, attended a preview dinner for Sacramento's latest restaurant, Aiona, on April 17.
Aiona is the new project from husband-wife team Deneb Williams and Elizabeth-Rose Mandalou, who also own and operate Allora in East Sacramento. Allora serves three-, four- and five-course prix-fixe menus of upscale, refined Italian cuisine while Aiona will offer a broader, pan-Mediterranean palate with influences from Spain, Greece, West Asia and North Africa.
Aiona opened at 11:30 a.m. on April 20 for its inaugural lunch service. The restaurant is well positioned to become a new anchor in the downtown dining scene.
To read more about Aiona, check out .
✍️ and 📸: Sean Timberlake
#news #aiona #restaurant #sacramento #food #foodie #california #dining
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- Nugget opens new market in Rocklin with festivities — and cinnamon rolls
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- 1:46
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- The new Nugget Markets location in Rocklin, Calif. opened April 15, the company's 100th birthday, at 1501 Whitney Ranch Parkway. The market is the anchor tenant of the new Whitney Ranch Retail Center, which is still in development. To mark the event, the market is celebrating with samples, food demonstrations — and its bakery’s new signature cinnamon rolls.
The market is a new build and clocks in at 43,000 square feet, which is about standard for their markets. At the Rocklin store, massive displays of produce beckon you in even before you enter the store. Once through the door, you can continue along through the rest of the produce and meat departments to begin building your basket, or hook left to head to the deli counter, bakery and other prepared food options.
To read more, check out sacbee.com.
✍️: Sean Timberlake
📸: Hector Amezcua
#nuggetmarkets #nugget #california #grocery #shopping #food #news
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- A Sacramento pig got his parents together and won a world record, all in 4 years
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Social media famous pig, Merlin, is best known for his content pressing buttons that play recordings asking for treats, kisses and more.
His propeller hat has become a signature look for the pig — a 4-year-old Vietnamese potbelly — who has more than 1 million followers on Instagram, a surprisingly hefty vocabulary and a Guinness World Record.
For four years, Sacramentan Mina Alali has been posting photos and videos of Merlin on Instagram. The pet pig quickly went viral with videos of him learning how to speak using buttons that, when pressed, play a recording of a word or phrase. He now has over 30 buttons he presses to ask for treats, to go outside and to share his thoughts.
Alali said adopting the pig was one of the best decisions she has ever made. Merlin has not only provided companionship and allowed his mom the opportunity to be self-employed through social media — but he also brought his family together.
“He’s pret...
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- Carmichael woman, 91, survived Holocaust. Here’s why she still tells her story
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Liz Igra has been telling her story for more than 40 years. Igra, who is 91 and lives at Eskaton Carmichael, spoke to about 50 fellow residents on March 24 about how she and her mother fled the Holocaust in the early 1940s.
To read about Igra's life and experience, check out sacbee.com.
✍️: Graham Womack
📸: José Luis Villegas
#holocaust #survivor #news #sacramento #california #history
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- ‘A dreamer’s dream.’ Oak Park accessory shop cultivates girlhood through crafts
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- When the COVID-19 pandemic launched shutdowns across the United States, Amanda Jensen, a Folsom resident, felt aimless. She was home alone all day, and when she wasn’t, she was hopping between waitressing and bartending in midtown. She was in $25,000 worth of debt and couldn’t pay her bills, Jensen recalled.
It wasn’t the life she saw for herself. But an old love from her high school days came back: hand making jewelry. What was once a hobby during her teenage days at Vista Del Lago High School in Folsom became a serious career path. “At the time, I wasn’t really ready to take it seriously,” Jensen said, “I remembered I loved it so much, and I had always felt the calling to be a business owner again.”
So, Jensen took a risk. While she said the world felt “so scary and uncertain,” due to the COVID-19 shutdown, she was determined to change her life. And six years later, she did. Jensen now owns Golden Hour Designs in Oak Park, a hypoallerge...
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- Life without parole for man who killed former CapRadio executive in 2022 robbery
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- 2:42
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- The man who shot and killed former public radio executive Charles Starzynski during a daylight robbery outside an East Sacramento tennis club in 2022 will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder, a Sacramento Superior Court judge ruled on April 10.
DeSean Leon Brasser Jr., shot Staryzynski at close range Oct. 20, 2022, as he reached into the trunk of his car outside the Sutter Lawn Tennis Club in East Sacramento. Sacramento County prosecutors said Brasser tracked the man from a bank’s automatic teller to the club at 39th and N streets, where he snatched a cash bag and shot Starzynski in the head.
Alexander Asterlin, the defense attorney, said Brasser showed remorse and was ready to apologize for Starzynski’s killing, saying the murder was not planned and was committed out of panic. Brasser interrupted his attorney. “I didn’t do anything to be sorry for,” Brasser said. “I’m not a ‘sorry’ person.”
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- Teen gunned down on Natomas High School campus; Sacramento police search for suspect
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- A former Natomas High School student was fatally shot April 10 on the South Natomas campus as school let out for the day, according to school district officials and the Sacramento Police Department.
Police spokesperson Officer Anthony Gamble said the teen victim was not an active student at Natomas or Discovery but was on campus in an open area at the time of the shooting. The victim’s identity was not released pending notification by the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office. Gamble said the victim attended a “nearby school,” but declined to elaborate as officers continued the search for the shooting suspect, who he said is a Natomas High student. The motive of the shooting remained under investigation, though authorities said the victim was intentionally targeted.
Police and other law enforcement responded to the campus and the nearby Natomas Village Apartments across the street, near San Juan Avenue. According to radio dispatches reviewed by The Sacr...
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- DA: Esparto fireworks site had 1 million pounds of explosives when blast killed 7
- Runtime
- 2:57
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- On April 10, Yolo County prosecutors unveiled sweeping grand jury indictments charging seven men and one woman in connection with a July 1, 2025, warehouse explosion near Esparto, Calif. that killed seven people and was tied to an alleged “massive” illegal fireworks importation, manufacturing and sales operation.
Five of the men face second-degree murder charges, accusing them of being criminally responsible for the deaths of workers killed when fireworks ignited at a rural compound at County Roads 23 and 86A just days before the Fourth of July.
At a news conference in Woodland following a monthslong investigation, prosecutors described the site as a “hub of illegal fireworks,” alleging the group repurposed and sold explosives marketed across California as consumer-grade fireworks under the guise of a legal display fireworks business well known across Northern California.
The indictment — handed up 276 days after the blast and unsealed ...
- Title
- Watch lightning crack in the night sky in Fair Oaks during thunderstorm
- Runtime
- 0:29
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Sacramento area residents were treated to a light show as a storm April 9, 2026 moved across the region around 9:30 p.m.. See the lightning and hear the thunder #weather, #lightning #storm #rain
🎥 David Caraccio
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- Do college certificate programs pay off? California must find out | Analysis
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- When California’s free online community college, Calbright, announced a new partnership with Western Governors University in January, the message was simple: Working adults who start with a certificate could turn that training into a bachelor’s degree and a better-paying career.
Under the partnership, Californians who earn workforce-aligned certificates at Calbright could apply them toward WGU degrees in technology, health care and other fields.
For adults whose education was interrupted by work, caregiving or financial barriers, the collaboration offers a ladder back into higher education that California needs. Too many working adults start training programs, then stall before achieving degrees that unlock higher pay. But the announcement also raised a question California struggles to answer: Do these certificate programs actually lead to higher wages?
To read more of Cathie Anderson's column, check out sacbee.com.
📸: Cathie...
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- Man shot by ICE in Patterson was acquitted in El Salvador murder, lawyer says
- Runtime
- 2:42
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, the man shot by ICE on April 7 when he allegedly weaponized his SUV while attempting to flee, was acquitted of homicide in El Salvador, his attorney said.
Documents by the Salvadorian government confirm he was accused of aggravated homicide against a man named Christopher Alexander Melgar Duran but was acquitted in 2019.
Immigration lawyer Patrick Kolasinski, who’s representing Patterson resident Hernandez and his family, held a news conference at his Modesto office Wednesday morning. The attorney said neither he nor Hernandez’s fiancee — who joined Kolasinski at the conference and was identified only as Cindy — has been allowed to talk with the man. Hernandez was taken to Doctors Medical Center in Modesto on Tuesday for treatment, and the only report given on his condition is that he’s “stable.”
To read more, check out sacbee.com or modbee.com.
✍️: Kathleen Quinn
📸: Hector ...
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- California Republican gubernatorial candidate reacts to endorsement by President Trump
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host, reacts to the endorsement by President Donald Trump during a campaign stop in Sacramento on April 7.
📸: Hector Amezcua
#politics #california #governor #news #sacramento #stevehilton
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- Stanislaus Sheriff says FBI is leading investigation into ICE shooting in Patterson
- Runtime
- 2:58
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers shot a man in Patterson, Calif. on April 7, describing him as a wanted gang member who tried to run over an officer during a traffic stop. The subject was taken to a Modesto hospital, and as of early afternoon there was no information on his condition.
A news conference by the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI was held at about 3:40 p.m. and lasted three minutes. Sheriff Jeff Dirkse said that at about 6:30 a.m., dispatchers received a report from ICE about the shooting. He said that because no local law enforcement was involved in the incident, the FBI is the investigating agency.
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Video from our sister paper The Modesto Bee
📸: Andy Alfaro
#news #ice #immigration #lawenforcement #california #shooting
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- Dashcam video appears to show ICE agent shoot at car in Patterson CA
- Runtime
- 0:23
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Dashcam video appears to show ICE agent shoot at car in Patterson, California. ICE said April 7, 2026 that an officer shot a man named Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez near Interstate 5 in Stanislaus County.
🎥 Provided to The Bee
✍️ Graham Womack
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- The Sacramento Bee wants to know: What should Cesar Chavez Plaza be renamed?
- Runtime
- 1:27
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Cesar E. Chavez Plaza in Sacramento has hosted circuses, farmers markers, protests, concerts and more over 178 years. Now that sexual abuse allegations have been made public against the late civil rights and labor union leader Cesar Chavez, city officials support changing the name of the eponymous park in downtown Sacramento.
To have your say in what the park should be renamed to, email the Department of Youth, Parks and Community Enrichment at or submit your ideas for a Sacramento Bee poll at .
✍️: Ishani Desai
📸: Ishani Desai, Lauren Chapman
#cesarchavez #sacramento #news #california #city
- Title
- Slim Shady, a Sacramento tortoise, needs a new home. His owner has to let it go
- Runtime
- 2:05
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Mona Heflin, 71, a Sacramento resident, is searching for a new home for her beloved 22-year-old tortoise, Slim Shady. The longtime pet could live up to 150 years — outliving her — so she's making the decision of finding him a new home to ensure his long-term care.
Heflin's husband died in 2018, she takes care of an adult son with diabetes and she has her own health issues. She said she has an aortic aneurysm and blocked arteries and is reluctant to have the bypass surgery she needs.
She needs the joy her tortoise brings, but not the trouble. Slim Shady needs a new home. She will miss him dancing, which she taught him to do. She will miss him responding to her call and following her. She will just miss him.
To read more, check out https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article315264014.html.
✍️: Graham Womack
📸: Paul Kitagaki Jr.
#tortoise #animal #news #sacramento #california
- Title
- Opinion | Why The Sacramento Bee won’t be endorsing veteran Democrat Doris Matsui
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Opinion | In the June California primary election, Rep. Doris Matsui will not be endorsed by The Sacramento Bee for California's 7th congressional district.
Marcos Breton, The Bee's opinion editor, explains why.
To read his full column, check out .
✍️📸: Marcos Breton
#opinion #dorismatsui #politics #california #congress
- Title
- Survivors recall Sacramento’s infamous Good Guys hostage crisis 35 years later
- Runtime
- 4:23
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- On April 4, 1991, four Vietnamese refugees took over 40 other people hostage around 1:30 in the afternoon at a south Sacramento Good Guys electronics store.
The crisis would end around 10 p.m. with three hostages and three hostage takers dead. A Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department sniper shot at one of the hostage takers and missed, which spurred the hostage takers to start shooting the hostages.
When the incident started, Al Bodnar was by a computer near the front door of the Good Guys electronics store. Bodnar, who is now 66 and lives in Folsom, was a Good Guys salesman.
On April 2, 2026, Bodnar reflected on the incident and how his faith kept him grounded 35 years later.
To read more, check out https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article315253091.html.
✍️: Graham Womack
📸: José Luis Villegas
#news #sacramento #hostage #crime #anniversary #history #california
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- Scorching March heat drops California snowpack to second-lowest mark in 75 years
- Runtime
- 2:36
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- The light snow flurries in the Tahoe area this week after a spell of record-setting March heatwaves across California were not enough to reverse the damage.
California’s water officials gathered at Philips Station near Lake Tahoe on April 1 to measure what is typically the winter’s peak snowpack. Instead, they found only thin, patchy snow and no measurable snow, marking the second-lowest April 1 snowpack in 75 years.
At the Phillips Station snow survey site, much of the field had been reduced to wet, matted grass. From the remaining patchy snow, the Department of Water Resources officials were not able to obtain any measurable snowpack using their survey pole. The devastating final snow survey of the season at Phillips Station aligned with a broader snow drought trend across the state, with the statewide snowpack remaining far below average at 18%.
To read more, check out https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article...
