Analysis: When politics infiltrate criminal court
When it comes to making predictions, sometimes it’s fun to be right – sometimes it’s not. Readers of SN&R’s weekly newsletter will recall that, back…
Read MoreWhen it comes to making predictions, sometimes it’s fun to be right – sometimes it’s not. Readers of SN&R’s weekly newsletter will recall that, back…
Read MoreSan Joaquin County Sheriff’s Detective Jeremey Davis grew up in the same no-frills farming town as two of the state’s most inscrutable serial killers. They…
New nighttime economy manager is the face of a multipronged approach to turn the tide Leia Schenk didn’t show up to K Street on April…
It was the morning after Christmas 2022 when Rachel Holman walked into the Starbucks at 1901 J St. and noticed huge pieces of plywood fixed…
One of the most-sedate neighborhoods in West Roseville was engulfed in brief but devastating gunfire Thursday afternoon, leading to a tragic outcome. The incident happened…
I wasn’t a journalist back when the Columbine High School massacre happened in 1999. In fact, I wasn’t too much older than the shooters who…
It was just past 1:35 a.m. when Auburn police sergeant Anthony Davis and his partner Stan Hamelin pulled up to a blue-collar bar on the…
Across centuries of Celtic storytelling, there came this idea about places that draw a floating, fog-shrouded sensation between our edge existence and the grey realms…
The year 2020 was a shocking one for Sacramento County as its neighborhoods endured the worst spike in gun-related homicides the region had witnessed in…
Carson Schewe held to answer for selling lethal dose even after two people he cared for died On a late winter afternoon, Kade Webb walked…
It was the summer of Mohammad “Young Dros” Noor. The northern California heroin dealer had cash in his pockets, guns in his car and plenty…
Time dies when kettle lamps are flickering against the darkened planks of a Creole cottage in Algiers Point. There’s no sense of movement – there’s…
A Sacramento County resident who’d hired human smugglers to bring his relatives up from Mexico eventually turned to law enforcement for help after the “coyotes”…
The memoir Life’s Work, released last fall, is a glowing testament to a writer having one last gift to give. David Milch first made his name as a…
It’s been over four months since the Shearer family found themselves rushing between one Sacramento-area hospital and another in the middle of the night, hoping…
In the wake of the C.D.C. recording America’s deadliest year ever for drug overdoses, federal prosecutors recently announced they have secured a guilty plea –…
After getting off the phone with Front Street Animal Shelter, Dan Aderholt and Claudia Cardoza realized that it would be up to them to save…