From a viral sand cat to an airport explosives arrest, the Sacramento region saw a busy stretch of news in early June.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a digest of top stories from this past week:<\/p>\n
Sacramento Bee readers picked the 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).<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Sacramento will allow a historic 1949 Tower Records \u201cDancing Kids\u201d neon sign to 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.<\/p>\n A sand cat named Margo at the Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary 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.<\/p>\n The Sacramento GoldenSky country music festival will 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.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n A Sacramento man, Kimani Osayande Jones, 49, faces federal charges after TSA agents 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 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":"From a viral sand cat to an airport explosives arrest, the Sacramento region saw a busy stretch of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[143826,121,2006,123,122,139516,143825,143824,2958],"class_list":["post-351851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-folsom-city-zoo-sanctuary","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-bee","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-solons","tag-sand-cat","tag-tower-records","tag-west-sacramento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351851","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=351851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}