{"id":288443,"date":"2026-04-27T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/288443\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:34:09","slug":"sacramento-ca-weekend-roundup-white-house-dinner-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/288443\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento, CA, weekend roundup: White House dinner shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(L\/R) White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, US First Lady Melania Trump, US President Donald Trump and CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang attend the White House Correspondents’ dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2026. President Trump is attending the annual gala of the political press for the first time while in office.<\/p>\n

MANDEL NGAN<\/p>\n

AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Sacramento saw major stories break over the weekend, from a shooting at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner, leadership upheaval at the Front Street Animal Shelter, a Lodi man\u2019s death in Africa and a city effort to honor a demolished landmark tied to civil rights history.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what you may have missed:<\/p>\n

Shelter shakeup: Sacramento\u2019s Front Street Animal Shelter Operations Manager Staycee Dains has been removed from her role<\/a> after a year of scrutiny. Before her Sacramento hire, Dains was accused of racial discrimination and workplace bullying in Los Angeles, where a third-party investigation corroborated many of the complaints. During a March town hall, Sacramento City Manager Maraskeshia Smith said, \u201cI\u2019m a little bit disappointed that I had to walk into almost 15 pages of emails and complaints from the community.\u201d Because I believe those are things we should address immediately.\u201dHunter killed in Africa: Lodi resident Ernie Dosio, 75, owner of Pacific AgriLands Inc., was crushed to death by elephants<\/a> while hunting for a yellow-backed duiker, a type of antelope, in Gabon\u2019s Lop\u00e9-Okanda rainforest April 17. The five female elephants and a juvenile reportedly appeared \u201cas if from nowhere.\u201dHistoric hotel honored: Sacramento\u2019s preservation commission voted to support nominating Hackett House \u2014 a Black-owned hotel demolished in the 1960s to build I-5 \u2014 for the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program<\/a>. In the 1850s, an enslaved man named Archy Lee was brought to California and fled to the hotel, where he was arrested. Later, he had his freedom affirmed in court. <\/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

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