{"id":283155,"date":"2026-04-24T03:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/283155\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:18:11","slug":"sacramento-bee-april-23-top-stories-loloee-plea-meta-layoffs-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/283155\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Bee April 23 top stories: Loloee plea, Meta layoffs, more"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A workspace is dedicated to Meta in 2023 in the Internation Media Center in Moscone Center in San Francisco. Meta said Thursday that it will lay off about 10% of its workforce in a move to artificial intelligence. File Photo by Terry Schmitt\/UPI<\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee published a wide range of stories on Thursday, from a former Sacramento city councilman\u2019s guilty plea to new high school rankings to a beloved gift shop\u2019s final day looming. Here\u2019s a roundup of just some of the day\u2019s biggest reporting:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ten Sacramento-area public high schools ranked among California\u2019s top 250<\/a> in the U.S. News & World Report Best High Schools rankings, with West Campus High School leading locally at No. 22 statewide with a 100% graduation rate.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The 2026 NFL Draft kicked off Thursday, with the San Francisco 49ers set to make six picks over the draft\u2019s three days. Whether the 49ers find the next Brock Purdy or just add depth for a team that finished 12-5 despite many injuries in 2025 remains to be seen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Meta announced plans to lay off about 10% of its workforce<\/a> starting May 20 and close about 6,000 open roles, citing efforts to run the company more efficiently.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tesla\u2019s California market share dropped to 7.7%<\/a> in the first quarter of 2026, with year-to-date registrations falling 24.3% as overall EV sales plummeted statewide.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Blue Diamond gift shop in midtown Sacramento<\/a> closes Friday after a 42-year run as parts of the company\u2019s processing plant permanently shut down.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Former Sacramento City Councilmember Sean Loloee pleaded guilty to seven federal charges<\/a>, admitting he obstructed labor investigations, underreported taxes and fraudulently obtained nearly $1.2 million in COVID-19 relief funds. He agreed to pay $2.4 million.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sacramento City Unified\u2019s former top financial officer alleged the board of trustees knowingly approved an unaffordable teachers\u2019<\/a> contract despite repeated warnings, as the district faces a deficit that could lead to state receivership.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The CEO of Devastating Pyrotechnics made his first court appearance<\/a> in the deadly Esparto warehouse explosion that killed seven workers last year. Kenneth Kin Chee faces seven counts of murder and is being held without bail.<\/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


\n \"Profile
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Chris Fusco<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Chris Fusco is executive editor of The Sacramento Bee and regional editor for all McClatchy newsrooms in California. Before joining McClatchy in September 2025, he worked as executive editor of the Press Democrat News Group in Santa Rosa, managing editor of the Houston Chronicle and executive editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. A suburban Chicago native, he is a 1994 graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A workspace is dedicated to Meta in 2023 in the Internation Media Center in Moscone Center in San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-283155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283155","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=283155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}