From heroic state workers to the death of a former NFL star, here are the weekend headlines you may have missed:<\/p>\n
Sacramento Pride parade: Attendees of all ages lined downtown streets Sunday morning as floats and entertainers marched from Southside Park to the state Capitol for the 2026 Sacramento Pride parade<\/a>. The celebration, ongoing since 1979, has grown to include a two-day festival and a new Pride 5K race.Former 49ers star dies: Aldon Smith, who recorded one of the greatest rookie defensive seasons in NFL history before his career was derailed by arrests and suspensions, died Saturday at age 36<\/a>. His 19.5 sacks in 2012 remain the 49ers franchise record.State workers honored: 36 state employees from six departments received California\u2019s Medal of Valor at a Friday ceremony for heroic actions including ocean rescues, shielding children from gunfire and pulling people from car wrecks, including transportation workers Anthony Coscia and Tobin Hook<\/a> who swam into the Pacific to reach a drowning woman at Scott Creek Beach. <\/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 heroic state workers to the death of a former NFL star, here are the weekend headlines you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-361851","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\/361851","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=361851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}