![\"Chris](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776913090_966_SAC_342_262104_JV_Crocker_Turf.JPG\" "\\"Chris")
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Chris Ralston, assistant superintendent of facilities for Sacramento City Unified, explains the plan to replace the existing grass field at Crocker\/Riverside Elementary School with artificial turf during a meeting at the school on Tuesday, April 21, 2026.<\/p>\n
JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS<\/p>\n
jvillegas@sacbee.com<\/p>\n
Sacramento parents are pushing back on a plan to install synthetic turf at a local elementary school, while witnesses testified in the K Street mass shooting trial. Meanwhile, Yuba County learned it will get its first state park.<\/p>\n
Here are summaries of these and other top Sacramento region stories for April 22, 2026:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Synthetic turf debate: Parents at Crocker\/Riverside Elementary confronted Sacramento City Unified officials over a plan to replace the school\u2019s grass field with up to 27,000 square feet of artificial turf<\/a>, raising concerns about heat, injuries and potential PFAS exposure.<\/p>\n \u2022 K Street trial testimony: A witness told Sacramento Superior Court she still carries a bullet fragment in her lower back from the April 2022 mass shooting at 10th and K streets<\/a> that killed six people and wounded 12. Dandrae Martin and Mtula Payton each face three murder charges.<\/p>\n \u2022 New state park: Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the nearly 2,000-acre Feather River Park along the east bank of the river near Olivehurst<\/a> will become Yuba County\u2019s first state park, one of three new Central Valley parks.<\/p>\n \u2022 Esparto explosion case: A Yolo Superior Court judge denied a request to allow victims\u2019 families to wear clothing or display images<\/a> of the seven workers killed in the fireworks warehouse blast, citing concerns about jury impartiality.<\/p>\n \u2022 Snowpack reality: Despite recent Sierra flakes, the snowpack stood at just 18% of average as of Tuesday<\/a>. A meteorologist warned there will likely be \u201czero snow throughout the Sierra\u201d by mid-summer.<\/p>\n \u2022 Federal badge law blocked: A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled California cannot enforce a law requiring federal agents to wear identification<\/a>, saying it violates the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n \u2022 Still not too late for free Earth Day transit: Sacramento Regional Transit is offering free bus and light rail rides Wednesday<\/a> to mark Earth Day.<\/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":"Chris Ralston, assistant superintendent of facilities for Sacramento City Unified, explains the plan to replace the existing grass…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-281362","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\/281362","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=281362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}