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The Growlersburg Conservation Firefighting Camp is shown near Georgetown in El Dorado County. David Veramancini, 49, walked off camp on Feb. 23 and remains at large, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.<\/p>\n
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More than half of Sacramento City Unified School District\u2019s schools are operating at under 70% of their maximum-enrollment capacity. It amounts to a financial liability, according to the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team, a state agency that helps districts stay financially solvent.<\/p>\n
That story, plus severe weather, the latest on a fugitive inmate, and more top your evening news roundup for April 21, 2026:<\/p>\n
\u2022 School closures on the table: Sacramento City Unified\u2019s board will hold a special meeting Thursday<\/a> to begin discussing a facilities \u201coptimization and consolidation plan.\u201d The district\u2019s enrollment has dropped from more than 41,000 to around 36,000 students since 2016.<\/p>\n \u2022 Ex-cop\u2019s certification revoked: Former Oroville police officer Robert Sasek had his California law enforcement certification formally revoked<\/a> for leaving a woman near a Butte County dump at midnight in 2022. The woman, Dana Marie James, was struck by a car and hospitalized for 35 days; the city settled her lawsuit for $3 million.<\/p>\n \u2022 Severe weather across California: Did you see the hail in East Sacramento around 6 p.m.? Thunderstorms and a marginal tornado risk<\/a> hit parts of the Central Valley on Tuesday, with a winter storm warning in the Sierra Nevada through 5 p.m. Wednesday. Sacramento rain showers were expected to clear by midweek.<\/p>\n \u2022 Escaped inmate still at large: Thursday marks two months since inmate Juan David Veramancini, 49, walked away from the Growlersburg Conservation Firefighting Camp<\/a> near Georgetown. So what is the status of the state corrections department\u2019s search?<\/p>\n \u2022 Delta cuts Sacramento-Detroit route: Delta Air Lines is suspending a direct flight<\/a> between Sacramento and Detroit from June 1 until March 2027, as airlines adjust routes amid rising jet fuel costs following the start of the war in Iran.<\/p>\n \u2022 Bee hoops writer\u2019s ballot: Sacramento Bee NBA writer Jason Anderson placed Kings second-round pick Maxime Raynaud on his All-Rookie First Team ballot<\/a>, citing his scoring, rebounding and efficiency.<\/p>\n This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence based on our own originally reported, written and published content. Before publishing, journalists reviewed this content in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Growlersburg Conservation Firefighting Camp is shown near Georgetown in El Dorado County. David Veramancini, 49, walked off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-279630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}