Missing in the Mountains: obsession, violence and tragedy in a quiet place
Marny Shaffer knew something was wrong almost as soon as she arrived for her daughter. Shaffer had made her way up a tree-lined path bending…
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Editorial: Chronicle of a death unforetold – a reporter is slain in a major American city
It’s been a surreal week for veteran newspaper journalists. The revelation that Jeff German, an intrepid, blue-collar investigative reporter who wore his legs out walking…
Busted by a bulge: On a traffic stop, ballooning bump in man’s front pants was ‘inconsistent with normal anatomy’
Alleged heroin and meth dealer got hooked after trying to play it like a porn star Is that a massive amount of contraband under your…
River visions: Louisiana Sue’s epic quest to make Sacramento another city that care forgot
Crawfish and Catfish Festival on Sept. 10 &11 is the culmination of years of party-throwing experience from one of the city’s true personalities “Louisiana Sue”…
Gang member who sold guns at a Sacramento parole office, not surprisingly, didn’t get far
When violating parole to sell stolen weapons and illegal “ghost guns” around town, the lobby of the parole office isn’t be the best place to…
The Cold 52
A case that investigators never gave up on becomes the oldest murder ever solved in Sacramento history Reflecting on the ominous nature of bloodshed, Nic…
Bidding farewell to a hometown newspaper editor
Restaurant pathfinder Jerry Budrick realized a later life dream becoming a one-of-a-kind journalist in the foothills. Now, that community mourns his passing. What is the…
Analysis: ‘We Own This City’ is the series that both sides of the police reform debate should be talking about
A real story of deep-rooted corruption, questionable incentives and the work of oversight investigators details how problems grow and are confronted in troubled departments …
Sacramento prosecutors get multiple human trafficking convictions, some tied to near-fatal attacks, ‘horrific’ dog abuse
It started when a woman rushed to a fire stationhouse, pleading for help as she bled from deep stab wounds to her stomach. The Sacramento…
Sacramento’s summer of music love
The return of Concerts In the Park is the return of a force helping the city find itself Members of Moxy were determined to take…
Deadly ‘match’: how Tinder brought three into a shared orbit of stalking, torture, white power and an execution linking Rocklin to Rancho Cordova
Porch lights barely broke the blackness. Beyond them, the freight lines pacing Pacific Street were dormant, along with the grizzled overhang and bayoneted marquee of…
Return to travel: Wind-swept wandering in the Mediterranean
Sometime around 850 B.C., the Greek poet Homer first mused about the seduction of a “wine dark sea,” forever linking Dionysian vines to the flaming…
‘Operation Bear Trap’ highlights Sacramento’s place in the Nevada gun-trafficking problem
Alleged conspiracy had meth flowing to Tahoe through the Capital City, guns flowing there from the capitol of the Silver State Five years ago, the…
The original influencer: Darrell Corti’s early whiskeys for Sacramento hit it big on the world-wide market
Whisky Auctioneer proves how badly bourbon collectors want to bring home Corti’s labels If there’s any doubt about Darrell Corti’s legendary tasting palate – or…
Man who committed a series of rapes in homeless camps along Sacramento’s American River found guilty
The extreme vulnerability people face in an outdoor existence was on grim display last month, after a Sacramento jury convicted 40-year-old Layman McFadden of brutally…
Vindicating the vanished: Fifteen years after a modern-day gold seeker went missing, detectives across the West close an investigative saga – and get a murder conviction
The Yavapai County Sheriff’s cold case unit gathered over a scar chopped into the rocky red earth along a hill. It was January 2017 outside…
Testimony in Sacramento about a Dark Web corridor where fentanyl disguised as Oxy gets trafficked for Bitcoin
On the same week CDC announced that 2021 was the worst year ever for fatal drug overdoses in the U.S., prosecutors in Sacramento walked a…