The Sacramento Bee

1 day ago | sacbee.com | Shelby Stivale

Some notable names certainly had the "no expense spared" mentality when it came to their wedding. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez opted for lavish festivities in Italy, and things seemed pretty pricey even before they walked down the aisle. It was widely reported that the nuptials had a price tag of $50,000 per person, putting the total cost well into the millions. "It will be a big wedding," a source told Us Weeklyexclusively in May 2025.

1 day ago | sacbee.com | Helena Wegner

A rattlesnake was lurking in leaves when it bit a 72-year-old woman at her Arizona home, fire officials said. Firefighters responded to the area at about 11:50 a.m. June 24 in Sahuarita, the Santa Rita Fire District said in a Facebook post. Sahuarita is about a 25-mile drive south from Tucson. The snake struck “unexpectedly” once the woman stepped on her front porch, fire officials said. It was hiding in leaves near the door.

1 day ago | sacbee.com | Mark Gongloff

Weather isn't climate, and a heat wave isn't proof of human-induced global warming any more than a snowball disproves it. At the same time, nothing quite focuses the mind on the causes and effects of a hotter planet than Mother Nature covering half of the United States with a giant pot lid, turning up the burner and letting it boil for a while.

2 days ago | sacbee.com | Brooke Baitinger

A hospitality worker in Yosemite National Park fell to their death while rock climbing in the park, officials said. The employee was “off the clock and engaging in recreational activities during their free time,” an Aramark Corporation spokesperson told McClatchy News in an email on June 25. Aramark is the parent company of Yosemite Hospitality, where the employee worked.

2 days ago | sacbee.com | Julia Marnin

A judge sentenced a former California police officer to seven years in federal prison after prosecutors argued he “began to violently dehumanize the population he was supposed to protect and serve” once he became a K-9 officer. Morteza Amiri, 34, was convicted in March of unreasonably siccing his K-9 on a bicyclist and then writing a false report while working for the Antioch Police Department in July 2019, according to prosecutors, McClatchy News reported.