South Sacto kidnapping case makes it hard to be rational about crime stats
Curse of the monkey’s tail. Cedric Lain Holland might be a parent’s worst nightmare. On May 11, Holland allegedly drove up beside a mother and…
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No longer funky, Mather base is all Sacramento's
“We get to keep the planes, right?” Twenty years after Mather Air Force Base officially closed, the United States Air Force handed over the…
Don't bring your spear gun to Sactown
Sacramento County’s regional parks department put out a reminder this week that spear guns are verboeten at county parks, to which even Ahab might say, “No…
Youth in revolting behavior
“Yo Ese, you got a problem?” Oh those unruly teenagers. Sacramento police had their hands full with them in the northern part of the city…
One vote for a Nixon-Dubya dinner in 2016
30% of the nation’s oil supply was in that hair. We here at SN&R are sometimes guilty of picking on Republicans. See: Exhibit A Exhibit…
I know squat about T.C. Boyle
“I am T.C. Boyle. I do word magic.” Acclaimed fiction writer T.C. Boyle is scheduled to gab at the Crest Theatre on Friday night and…
Yo slumlords, stop slumming
Sacramento is still figuring out how to ID slumlords. Maybe graffiti? The ink wasn’t even dry in reporter Dave Kempa’s story on slummy residential…
Apparently not having a Walmart puts Sacramento at 'competitive disadvantage'
Walmart may be anti-woman, but it’s pro-coming-to-Sacramento. Philip Harvey was saying how much he hated Walmart when the earth began to shake. For a…
Booze ban gives river partiers good reason for a staycation this Memorial Day weekend
This probably will not be the scene this weekend, but come July, hoo boy. Heading into Memorial Day weekend, all is quiet on the…
Hilary Swank can't save Sacramento's black residents
Race in the criminal justice system is a serious subject, especially in Sacramento, where blacks are overrepresented in traffic stops, searches, youth homicides and jailings….
Driver busted for being police gatecrasher
If they were trying to get the cops’ attention, they succeeded. Sacramento police arrested two men in separate incidents of weird, harassing behavior. The first…
Sacramento-based U.S. attorney says California's bad weed laws lead to 'free-for-all'
U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner drives a mini-van. This may seem like a strange choice for the region’s top federal prosecutor, hand-picked by President Barack Obama…
Hey, suspect armed with ax, you can't out-run a sheriff helicopter
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department went absolutely Twitter-happy during its first-ever “tweetalong” on May 10. During a roughly four-hour patrol aboard one of the department’s…