From mountain lion warnings in Lassen County to West Sacramento\u2019s pitch for a Major League Baseball team, the Sacramento Bee covered a busy week of California news.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a quick rundown of the top stories from May 24-29:<\/p>\n
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an emergency bill banning uniformed law enforcement from inspecting ballots<\/a> without a court order. The legislation followed Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco\u2019s seizure of more than 650,000 ballots last month, and violations are now felonies punishable by up to three years in jail.A Lassen County sheriff\u2019s warning about mountain lions near Susanville triggered statewide alarm, but state biologists concluded the animals posed no threat and had moved on, highlighting tensions over California\u2019s predator protections<\/a>. The state has about 4,200 mountain lions, which have been protected since 1972.Three California natives \u2014 Max Arfsten of Fresno, Cristian Roldan of Pico Rivera and Haji Wright of Los Angeles \u2014 were named to the U.S. Men\u2019s National Team World Cup roster<\/a>. The U.S. is the betting favorite to win Group D and will face Paraguay in its opener.The United Farm Workers union faces a reckoning following March revelations<\/a> that co-founder Cesar Chavez sexually abused women and minors for years. Membership has fallen from 70,000 in the early 1970s to just above 5,000, and the union could face significant financial liability under California\u2019s expanded statute of limitations for sexual abuse claims.Cali Rays Sourdough Deli, a fast-growing sandwich chain founded by former nurse Gurdeep Bains, opened five Central Valley locations simultaneously<\/a> last weekend in Lodi-Kettleman, Lodi Reynolds Ranch, Visalia, Porterville and Galt. The chain now has 22 locations, with several sites previously operating as West Coast Sourdough franchises. <\/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":"From mountain lion warnings in Lassen County to West Sacramento\u2019s pitch for a Major League Baseball team, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-339219","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\/339219","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=339219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}