The San Francisco 49ers opened Day 2 of the NFL draft by selecting Ole Miss wide receiver De\u2019Zhaun Stribling with the 33rd overall pick.<\/p>\n
In the courts, a Sacramento jury ordered the city to pay $32.1 million to the family of two brothers killed by a police detective in a 2022 Interstate 5 crash.<\/p>\n
That was only the beginning of a busy news Friday. Here are some of The Sacramento Bee\u2019s other top stories for April 24, 2026:<\/p>\n
\u2022 NFL draft: The 49ers picked Stribling<\/a>, who stands 6-foot-2 and ran a 4.36-second 40-yard dash at the NFL combine, after GM John Lynch said players they wanted at No. 27 weren\u2019t available. Coach Kyle Shanahan called the trade back to 33 \u201ca huge success.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 $32.1 million verdict: Jurors awarded the aforementioned multimillion-dollar payout to the two surviving children<\/a> of Juan Carlos Rodriguez, 33, who was killed alongside his brother Lionel Enriquez Rodriguez, 32, by detective Jonathon Thomas Nangle in December 2022. The city accepted responsibility and admitted liability.<\/p>\n \u2022 Capitol rally: Families of crash victims demanded tougher penalties<\/a> for deadly drivers. \u201cIf you want to get away with murder in California,\u201d organizer Allison Lyman said, \u201cdo it with your car.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Prison settlement: The state of California agreed to pay $1.9 million<\/a> to resolve claims by 13 women who alleged staff at the Central California Women\u2019s Facility assaulted them in retaliation for sexual abuse complaints.<\/p>\n \u2022 Hottest ZIP code: Sacramento\u2019s 95811 \u2014 covering Southside Park, midtown and the Railyards \u2014 was California\u2019s trendiest ZIP code<\/a> for movers in March, with 6.6 moves per capita.<\/p>\n \u2022 School funding: Sacramento City Unified, facing a projected $390 million deficit<\/a> by 2027-28, is considering school consolidations and may ask voters to approve a bond measure this November.<\/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 San Francisco 49ers opened Day 2 of the NFL draft by selecting Ole Miss wide receiver De\u2019Zhaun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[122073,122245,299,752,121,2006,123,122,296,122246],"class_list":{"0":"post-285209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-dezhaun-stribling","9":"tag-juan-carlos-rodriguez","10":"tag-kyle-shanahan","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sacramento","13":"tag-sacramento-bee","14":"tag-sacramento-headlines","15":"tag-sacramento-news","16":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","17":"tag-stribling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285209","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=285209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}