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…
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The Cold 52: Vicious Sacramento murder solved after half-a-century
A case that investigators never gave up on becomes the oldest homicide 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 of becoming a one-of-a-kind journalist in the foothills. Now, that community mourns his passing. What is…
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…
Deadly ‘match’: how Tinder brought three into a shared orbit of stalking, torture, white power and an execution linking Rocklin to Rancho Cordova
It was 2 a.m. in the oldest part of Rocklin. Porch lights broke the blackness above some freight lines along Pacific Street and the overhang…
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…
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 a murder saga
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…
Man who ambushed, executed Sacramento librarian convicted of 1st-Degree Murder
Senseless killing led family into gun violence prevention work The deranged stalker who left Natomas in fear, Sacramento’s libraries in shock and a family in…
Revisiting the Watch: In the wake of a numbing, gang-related murder, the Hawk Institute keeps pulling youth triumphs from the shadow of tragedy
Following the horrific mass-causality event in Downtown Sacramento on April 3, community interest in meaningful gang-prevention initiatives is at an all-time high. The following in…
It was Saturday night: The shadow of death
A slow return to the scene that changed everything They just prayed their way through the wind. It was the first Saturday night in Downtown…
Editorial: ‘True at first light’
Sunday morning was like a bad dream. But not a person’s rough, restless hours in the dark, rather the horrible hallucination of an entire living city….
UPDATE: Sacramento’s worst sunrise: Pre-dawn scenes from a nightmare that left 18 people shot
At least six people are dead, 12 hospitalized, as detectives search for answers Fred Harris woke up just after 2 a.m. to his phone…
Rebels, death and beauty in the Irish Republic
William Butler Yeats called it “the Celtic Twilight,” a push to save Ireland’s wandering hearthside storytellers of the past — those oracles who could cast spells of…