{"id":329410,"date":"2026-05-23T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329410\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:14:11","slug":"sacramento-bee-top-stories-may-17-22-2026-weekly-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329410\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Bee top stories: May 17-22, 2026 weekly recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PadillaStudio1.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A tree lies atop the Colfax-area studio of artist Stan Padilla after it fell on Sunday, May 17, 2026.\" alt=\"A tree lies atop the Colfax-area studio of artist Stan Padilla after it fell on Sunday, May 17, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A tree lies atop the Colfax-area studio of artist Stan Padilla after it fell on Sunday, May 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>            Stan Padilla<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento Bee covered a range of stories from May 17 through May 22, 2026, spanning local tragedy, housing disputes, politics and crime.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a quick run down of some of The Bee\u2019s coverage this past week:<\/p>\n<p>With 61 candidates on the June 2 primary ballot and no clear frontrunner, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article315586273.html\">low-profile California gubernatorial hopefuls<\/a> like LivingforGod AndCountry DeMott, Barack D. Obama Shaw and Thunder Parley are betting they can break through.Redding fraudster Matthew Piercey was <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article315845547.html\">sentenced Thursday to 30 years in federal prison<\/a> for a $35 million Ponzi scheme that ran from 2016 to 2020. Piercey, who infamously tried to flee FBI agents by driving a submersible into Lake Shasta, was also ordered to pay $25 million in restitution.  <\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article280707640.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tree lies atop the Colfax-area studio of artist Stan Padilla after it fell on Sunday, May 17,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-329410","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\/329410","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=329410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}