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The Sacramento Bee’s top stories on July 28, span a major transit planning milestone, a Placer County homicide conviction and a record-breaking Pacific hurricane.
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Here’s a quick digest of what readers need to know:
- Sacramento Regional Transit has secured $700,000 in grants to study a bus rapid transit line connecting downtown Sacramento to the airport through Natomas, with the feasibility study set to begin in spring 2027 and service targeted for 2030. The BRT is being pursued as an interim step while the agency continues pursuing a $2 billion Green Line light rail extension to Sacramento International Airport.
- Hurricane Genevieve became the first Category 5 storm in the eastern Pacific since 2024, with peak winds of 160 mph and 11-foot waves expected to reach Southern California later this week. The storm is headed west into the open ocean and poses no threat to land, but its rapid intensification — doubling wind speeds in roughly 30 hours — is being fueled by El Niño warming ocean temperatures nearly 3 degrees above normal.
- Blake Anthony Rakela, 21, will be sentenced to four years in prison for voluntary manslaughter on Aug. 4 after pleading no contest to using a metal wrench to kill 55-year-old Jeremy Styles in a March 2025 road rage confrontation in Rocklin. His father, Anthony David Rakela, 61, will receive 90 days of probation on a reduced misdemeanor assault charge for his role in the deadly encounter.
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