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From a longtime fan, first-time letter writer My time at SN&R began like a dream. Which is to say there was no beginning. All of…
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Welcome to COVID jail
Infections are soaring inside Sacramento’s jails—just as advocates predicted A COVID-19 outbreak is sweeping through Sacramento County’s jail system, just as attorneys and advocates for…
Will Sacramento see a confederacy of traitors?
State capital tenses for violent extremism heading into inauguration week With President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration just days away, state and federal authorities are chasing rumors…
The roundup: Gun violence, vanity superspreaders and uncaring CARES Act contractor make for rough start to 2021
New year, same social diseases If self-destructive behavior wasn’t contagious before, it sure felt like it during the first, way-too-tragically-eventful week of 2021. A violent…
American idiots staged an insurrection. The reviews were terrible.
Jan. 6, 2021—yet another day of the the Trump presidency that will live in infamy A belligerent Trump mob invaded the U.S. Capitol Wednesday to…
A nurse shot her boyfriend nine times. Was it self defense or another domestic homicide?
Domestic violence and murder-suicides killed nine people in Sacramento County in 2020 The fact that Shauna Lynlee Giffin shot and killed her son’s father inside…
Three years after a sheriff’s vehicle paralyzed her, a 12-year-old girl has died
Sacramento County paid $40.7 million to settle claims against its sheriff’s office in 2018 and 2019 A girl who suffered a traumatic brain injury and…
LowBrau settles labor suit amid pandemic lockdown for restaurants
The Midtown beer hall and East Sacramento’s Mimosa House were each sued last year Two Sacramento restaurants are fending off separate labor lawsuits as California’s…
The police eyes in the skies
Police face few limits on operating unmanned aircraft For two years of his life, Sacramento County public defender Joseph Cress had the unenviable task of…
New surveillance tools allow cops to spy on everyone—including you
Amazon’s Ring may have helped catch a killer. What else does it catch? Homicide detectives Christopher Britton and Courtney Bartilson arrived at the short, gabled…