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Also on today's calendar: Historic Petaluma Hosts 43rd Butter & Egg Days Parade & Festival and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: Why are banana jokes so funny 🤔 (Answer below!)
Weather forecast:
1. Sparse Sacramento Regional Transit parking lot could become housing, retail hub (sacbee.com) — Sacramento Regional Transit is moving forward with a plan to turn its mostly empty Meadowview light rail station parking lot into a transit-oriented hub with housing, retail, open space and a transit plaza. The concept, funded through a regional program, explores both affordable and market-rate housing and could significantly reshape how South Sacramento residents live near and use light rail.
2. 'I feel like it's my fault': Sacramento musician recounts carjacking ordeal which ends in deadly deputy shooting (abc10.com) — A Sacramento-area musician says a good deed outside a Citrus Heights Safeway turned into an armed carjacking that ended with deputies fatally shooting the suspect on I-5 near Arena Boulevard. He lost his recently purchased car, musical gear, and work tools, leaving him without transportation and struggling financially, while friends rally support through an online fundraiser.
3. Heavy fire burns through vacant commercial building in Sacramento, investigation underway (abc10.com) — A large, suspicious fire tore through a vacant commercial building on University Avenue in Sacramento Tuesday afternoon, drawing a massive two-alarm response but causing no reported injuries. Fire crews attacked the blaze defensively from outside, worked for hours to stop it spreading to nearby buildings, and are now investigating possible ignition points, utility tampering, and surveillance footage to determine how it started.
4. Sacramento family calls for justice after shooting injures four outside their home (kcra.com) — A Sacramento family in Oak Park is pleading for justice weeks after four relatives, including a grandmother and a 4-year-old, were shot outside their Ninth Avenue home and displaced. With no arrests or clear leads shared, they’re urging anyone with information to come forward and help them find answers and stability.
5. Apollo to Artemis: How a Sacramento company is helping humanity get back to space (capradio.org) — A Sacramento aerospace manufacturer, TECMA, quietly supplied thousands of precision parts that helped power NASA’s recent Artemis II moon mission, continuing a legacy that began with Apollo. Owner Sonia Susac shares how her family firm grew alongside Aerojet, why she keeps the company focused on aerospace and defense, and how Artemis is inspiring a new generation of local workers and students.
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