{"id":466641,"date":"2026-09-17T10:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466641\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:12:16","slug":"sacramento-top-stories-school-funding-fix50-delays-and-a-kings-owner-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466641\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento top stories: School funding, Fix50 delays and a Kings owner on trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Opening statements began Tuesday in Auburn in the <a data-ylk=\"slk:wrongful death case against developer and minority Sacramento Kings owner Phil Oates;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/article317258734.html#storylink=var-wtk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">wrongful death case against developer and minority Sacramento Kings owner Phil Oates<\/a>, 75, who was driving the Cadillac that collided with Patrick Mulderrig&#8217;s motorcycle in Granite Bay in 2024. Mulderrig&#8217;s widow, Miranda Flores, is seeking up to $30 million in damages, and her attorney Roger Dreyer told jurors he would show evidence of pain and significant economic loss, including more than $2 million in future CalPERS pension value. Oates&#8217; attorney Chris Hogan countered that Mulderrig was unconscious throughout and never regained consciousness, asking jurors to &#8220;measure it carefully within the confines of the law.&#8221; Oates was not ticketed and prosecutors declined to file charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opening statements began Tuesday in Auburn in the wrongful death case against developer and minority Sacramento Kings owner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[183799,121,123,122,37318],"class_list":["post-466641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-retiree-health","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-school-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466641","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=466641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}