{"id":311294,"date":"2026-05-12T02:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/311294\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:25:08","slug":"sacramento-bee-wrap-high-gas-prices-kings-draft-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/311294\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Bee wrap: high gas prices, Kings draft picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Traffic<\/p>\n

Traffic crawls on an eastbound ramp to Highway 50 in East Sacramento on Tuesday, June 3, 2025.<\/p>\n

NATHANIEL LEVINE<\/p>\n

nlevine@sacbee.com<\/p>\n

From soaring gas prices tied to overseas conflict to a fatal Roseville crash. Here\u2019s a quick look at the stories making headlines in Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Kings draft: Sacramento Kings coach Doug Christie identified point guard as the team\u2019s biggest roster need heading into the NBA Draft June 23-24 at Barclays Center<\/a>, where Sacramento holds the No. 7 pick and could target prospects like Arkansas\u2019s Darius Acuff Jr. or Houston\u2019s Kingston Flemings.Northern California lottery winner: A SuperLotto Plus ticket sold at the CVS at 1871 El Camino Real in Burlingame<\/a> won $32,299 in the May 9 drawing by matching five numbers but not the mega number, with the next jackpot estimated at $19 million for the May 13 drawing. <\/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":"Traffic crawls on an eastbound ramp to Highway 50 in East Sacramento on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. NATHANIEL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-311294","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\/311294","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=311294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}