Sacramento\u2019s top stories Thursday spanned true crime, public health and basketball \u2014 from Geena Davis\u2019s casting in a Dorothea Puente drama to E. coli warnings at Lake Natoma and Kings\u2019 performance next season.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a quick digest:<\/p>\n
California State Parks is warning visitors away from parts of Lake Natoma<\/a> after elevated E. coli levels were detected at Black Miners Bar Day Use Beach, Nimbus Flats and Willow Creek Day Use Area, per state health guidance for swimmers. Advisories will remain in place until two consecutive weeks of testing show bacteria levels below 320 most probable number per 100 milliliters.Charles Barkley said the Sacramento Kings need \u201ca miracle\u201d<\/a> and divine intervention to compete, speaking Thursday at the American Century Championship near Lake Tahoe. The ESPN analyst praised the Kings\u2019 fan base but said the team is \u201cnot close,\u201d while noting rookie Darius Acuff Jr., the No. 7 overall draft pick, is a promising young player. <\/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":"Sacramento\u2019s top stories Thursday spanned true crime, public health and basketball \u2014 from Geena Davis\u2019s casting in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-392834","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\/392834","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=392834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}