5* ways to save America from America
The 2020 election revealed just how broken we are. Will we reassemble the pieces? If you’re reading this, America somehow survived its president’s coup attempts….
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Five murders in five days—and now an election
Sacramento County’s recent homicides continue violent trend and coincides with a historic election Five people are dead and another person is injured following a spate…
One of Sacramento’s biggest philanthropists is secretly a Republican megadonor
Building mogul David Lucchetti quietly bankrolls a national conservative agenda Four years ago, before the world tilted, David John Lucchetti stood on a stage waiting…
More people are trying to kill themselves inside Sacramento jail
Already stark conditions have worsened under COVID-19 At least 18 people tried to kill themselves in the downtown Sacramento jail this year—breaking last year’s record…
City says it can clear homeless camps during COVID
Sacramento to levee campers: You have no home, but you can’t stay here. Days after a Sacramento County health order discouraged homeless sweeps to prevent…
Weekend gun violence claimed the life of a 9-year-old Sacramento girl
City and county struggle to contain ‘pandemic shootings’ A drive-by shooting at a Del Paso Heights park on Saturday afternoon killed a 9-year-old girl and…
Trump contracted COVID and Twitter reacted
They didn’t know when they would be called upon, but they answered the call when it came. No, not those nutball Q’Anon freaks or those…
They wanted to join the force. They died trying.
Law enforcement academies face few inquiries when cadets die For the second time in two years, a Sacramento cadet is dead after collapsing in boot…
California had a rare opportunity to lead on police reform. Here’s what happened instead.
Despite historic moment, governor and Legislature fail to enact several meaningful police reforms The watch-a-man-be-strangled horror of the George Floyd video. The staggering unfairness of…
The dungeon master
Sacramento’s sheriff logged the most jail deaths the same year he stopped telling the media about them Sacramento’s jail system is supposed to be a…
Police arrest teenager on suspicion of killing Sacramento rapper Bris
Nearly three months after police found Sacramento rapper Bris shot to death in a crashed car outside a Jimboys Tacos, they are confirming the identity…
Divorces have actually dropped during the COVID-19 crisis
If COVID-19, soaring unemployment, historic civil unrest, suffocating wildfire smoke and a chaotic start to the school year are laying siege to Sacramento families, it…
Exclusive: Death certificates spiked in Sacramento during the pandemic
Is county undercounting its COVID-19 deaths? Sacramento County issued 1,400 more death certificates between March 1 and Aug. 31 this year than it did during…
Are Sacramento authorities denying protesters their right to bail?
Two organizations say Sacramento law enforcement is trying to discourage demonstrations against police brutality by keeping two protesters locked up on trumped-up claims that they’re…
The Golden State Killer is about to vanish again—behind bars
Joseph DeAngelo sentenced to die in prison following days of withering victim statements In his final public moment, Joseph DeAngelo couldn’t muster the courage to…
California’s most aggressive debt collector sued thousands of customers. Now it says it’s stopping.
The most litigious debt collector in Sacramento County—and possibly California—is retreating from courthouses following an investigation by The Guardian into the company’s aggressive business practices…
Sacramento County cops are No. 1 in seizing personal assets
Sacramento County cops have developed a voracious appetite for taking people’s stuff. According to newly released statistics from the California Department of Justice, law enforcement…