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
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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.\u201d<\/p>\n Hunter 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Historic 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento saw major stories break over the weekend, from a shooting at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner, leadership…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[84464,2803,121,2006,123,122,17081,2805],"class_list":["post-289353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-front-street-animal-shelter","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-bee","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-todd-blanche","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289353","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=289353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}