{"id":349401,"date":"2026-06-06T11:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/349401\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T11:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:41:06","slug":"top-the-sacramento-bee-stories-from-may-31-to-june-5-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/349401\/","title":{"rendered":"Top The Sacramento Bee stories from May 31 to June 5, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img-25-07-01-F91E3.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A customer fills up with gas at the AM-PM Arco station on Crows Landing Road in Modesto in 2022. Two state mandates \u2014 an increase to the gas tax and costs from the state\u2019s low-carbon fuel standard requirement \u2014 are expected to add to the cost of a gallon of gasoline.\" alt=\"A customer fills up with gas at the AM-PM Arco station on Crows Landing Road in Modesto in 2022. Two state mandates \u2014 an increase to the gas tax and costs from the state\u2019s low-carbon fuel standard requirement \u2014 are expected to add to the cost of a gallon of gasoline.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A customer fills up with gas at the AM-PM Arco station on Crows Landing Road in Modesto in 2022. Two state mandates \u2014 an increase to the gas tax and costs from the state\u2019s low-carbon fuel standard requirement \u2014 are expected to add to the cost of a gallon of gasoline.<\/p>\n<p>                Andy Alfaro<\/p>\n<p>            aalfaro@modbee.com<\/p>\n<p>From a viral sand cat to an airport explosives arrest, the Sacramento region saw a busy stretch of news in early June.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a digest of top stories from this past week:<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento Bee readers picked the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/sports\/article315993802.html\">Sacramento Solons as their top name<\/a> for a potential MLB expansion team in West Sacramento. The throwback name to a former minor league team drew 40 of more than 130 votes, beating the Bears (12) and Deltas (10).Sacramento will allow a historic 1949 Tower Records \u201cDancing Kids\u201d neon sign to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/article315947996.html\">remain inside Tower District offices<\/a>, where it was installed without city permission. A replica will be installed outside after a structural engineering report found the original is not suitable for reinstallation without significant modifications.A sand cat named Margo at the Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/community\/folsom-news\/article315913872.html\">went viral with her hiss<\/a>, racking up nearly 10,000 Instagram likes and more than 74,000 views. Her audience extended to Japan, Russia, Hungary and Poland.The Sacramento GoldenSky country music festival will <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/business\/article315996393.html\">return Oct. 15, 2027<\/a> after cancellations in 2025 and 2026, backed by a $2 million city grant and about $1 million from Visit Sacramento. The California International Marathon will also double in size after Union Pacific agreed to delay trains along the race route by 45 minutes to an hour.A Sacramento man, Kimani Osayande Jones, 49, faces federal charges after TSA agents <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article315983086.html\">found explosive materials, a timer and a cryptic message<\/a> in his carry-on at Sacramento International Airport. Officials said the explosive\u2019s powder and fuse were \u201cviable and energetic,\u201d capable of sizable damage.  <\/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 customer fills up with gas at the AM-PM Arco station on Crows Landing Road in Modesto in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-349401","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\/349401","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=349401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}