A doorway to distant comfort
The gumbo at Tori’s Place brings Gulf Coast greatness to the Capital City For nearly three centuries, gumbo has been warming mouths and spirits across Louisiana’s…
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Symposium of sin
Sacramento Public Library hosts True Crime Mini-Conference Sacramento isn’t just the capital of California: For decades it has been known to crime aficionados as the…
Bull by the tail
Pain and perseverance at the bloodless Portuguese bullfights of the Delta With dying sunlight shifting through the town of Thornton, Donald Alcino Mota lays back…
Unbreakable bond
Former state boxing champion Richard ‘Trino’ Savala emerged from a criminal past to become the region’s most unique youth advocate and bail bondsman Richard “Trino”…
A fortuitous click: Gun malfunction during struggle with suspect may have been the difference between life and death for Folsom police
Folsom police survived a close call with an armed suspect last week. The incident started with a 911 call about shoplifting at a store on…
Red flag of courage: Researchers identified 21 potential shootings curbed by family members or law enforcement in just two years
A man veers his SUV onto a sidewalk, accelerating straight at a group of pedestrians as he screams, “I’m going to kill you!” He misses…
Pure preservation
Torchbearers of New Orleans jazz flash a searing side of themselves in Folsom Local crowds have flocked to bands offering a little taste of New…
Hunting poachers
On the trail of the outlaw shooters threatening the Pacific Deer Herd A black tail deer ducks under some fallen pine branches as a pickup…
Sacramento clubs are watching you
City requires popular entertainment venues to collect customers’ personal information, but doesn’t require disclosure Privacy advocates are worried the city of Sacramento is making its…
A crystalized crisis: As meth trafficking surges, doctors and CPS workers struggle with the fall-out
Ten minutes before sunrise, the team hit the house. The FBI SWAT members approached a darkened stretch of 18th Avenue. The street was narrow, crowded…
Privacy hacks
Democratic lawmakers in California are quietly attacking their own landmark privacy law The California Consumer Privacy Act was hailed as a milestone for reining in…
The road to peace: New initiative sees signs of progress in combating gang killings in Sacramento
In 2018, the city of Sacramento managed to escape a grim statistic: It made it 12 months without a child being murdered. Now, an initiative…
The Chinese connection: Federal investigators map an international scheme to produce black market marijuana
A dozen arrests and 100 home seizures result from operations When federal agents finally looked inside the Cadillac, they saw multiple house keys, four garage door…
Midnight Burning: Three murders, three detectives and the remnants of a savage summer
Doyle Hemling was in his bedroom when a car door slammed in the darkness. Hemling lived on Annabelle Avenue, a one-way country road dipping through…
A Sacramento crime reporter compares notes with Scotland’s top crime novelist
Ian Rankin’s research and hardened realism has universal appeal I first learned of Scotland’s literary shadow weaver while strolling down Edinburgh’s Young Street in 2015. I’d…
What the bones say: Arrest in grisly murder made with luck, determination and a tale beyond the crime tape
The hikers stopped when they saw the skeleton splayed out along the manzanita and scrub brush. It was weather-beaten. A cervical vertebra was missing from…
The Man Who Saved Reading
Dana Gioia’s battle for the future of the Arts, literature and critical thinking in America Dana Gioia stepped through a Romanesque archway, looked at the…