Is Sacramento a Noir town? Driving through Southside Park on a rainy night as showers brush the garden lights and Old I’s blazing, scarlet marquee…
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Multiple violent offenders from Sacramento County have also been granted early release by CDCR in recent months. Looking down at a bloodied and contused teenage…
Darkness can descend anywhere: This is a bleak truth pushing the gravity through Howard Blum’s “When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho…
In a 12-month window, three young people – Spencer Newsom, Hailey Modesitt and Kade Webb – all died of fentanyl overdoses. But these fresh faces…
On an April afternoon, a team of CHP officers confronted a volatile man they’d been tailing – and they did it at a west Roseville…
On October 16, Sacramento Sheriff’s deputies were called to an apartment complex in Carmichael where a dog was discovered with serious injuries. The scene was…
Four decades and four-hundred miles of space had separated Richard Moore from the Roseville alcove where Madeline Garcia was savagely killed in 1984. On Monday,…
Cold case SN&R has been covering breaks open with apprehension of man who was teen suspect in unrelated arson near killing scene ‘You may throw…
Joan Didion wrote that “life changes in an instant.” She was describing how quickly Death appears when we’re not ready; but the same holds true…
On May 2, 1946, six inmates on Alcatraz island made a violent escape gambit – only to find themselves in an ill-fated showdown with prison…
Detectives investigate the killing of Cheyenne Loomer, celebration of life planned for April 27 in Penryn Cheyenne Loomer’s family wasn’t there to see all the…
Working on the crime podcast ‘Trace of the Devastation’ meant revisiting events some would rather forget. But is forgetting them even possible? “I wasn’t sure…
In Placer County’s main courthouse, just past its front metal detector, there is a document pick-up area with stacked metal baskets. One basket is marked…
It is a surreal if tragic moment captured in a still-frame: Two men reaching their arms out, each pointing a weapon at the other, and…
Sacramento police and sheriff’s detectives have tackled ten homicide investigations since the start of November, with four of those murders happening in front of well-known…
Journalist captures sound, fury and lasting symbiosis in ‘Gun Comedy’ Silver-shaded transitions from face to face. A camera’s eye that drifts behind turning wheelchairs and…
The first firefighter who tried to rush into the house that morning found himself struggling with the door. He could see a key sitting in…
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