The Sacramento Bee covered a range of developing stories on May 6, 2026, from a fresh search in a decades-old murder case to an impending heat wave. Here is a roundup of the day\u2019s top headlines.<\/p>\n
San Luis Obispo County sheriff\u2019s investigators served a search warrant Wednesday at the Arroyo Grande home of Susan Flores, mother of convicted Kristin Smart killer Paul Flores, in a new search for the missing Cal Poly student\u2019s remains<\/a>. Smart\u2019s body has never been recovered nearly 30 years after her 1996 disappearance.Northern California temperatures are expected to climb well above normal through early next week, with Sacramento potentially reaching 97 to 98 degrees by May 11-12 and Modesto possibly hitting triple digits, per the National Weather Service forecast<\/a>.Democrat Xavier Becerra faced sharp attacks from four Democratic and two Republican rivals during a CNN debate Tuesday night ahead of the June 2 primary, in the race to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom<\/a>. <\/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 Related Stories from Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Bee covered a range of developing stories on May 6, 2026, from a fresh search in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-303507","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\/303507","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=303507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}