Irreversible: How chaos at Auburn’s ‘neighborhood bar’ led to a hard-fought murder trial
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…
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Sacramento’s gang and homicide prosecutors close out the winter with multiple convictions
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…
Money, Snapchat and implied malice: Why a fentanyl dealer was charged with murder as Placer’s deaths soared by 450%
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…
Sacramento witness brought down ‘coyote’ engaged in extortion around migrants being trafficked over the border
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”…
In Rancho Cordova, search intensifies for ‘person of interest’ in murder of former high school football star
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…
Member of alleged drug-trafficking ring that owned a gas station and two trucking businesses in Sacramento will cooperate with prosecutors
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 –…
Response to animal abuse case raises questions about Sacramento’s Front Street Shelter
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…
Stolen wheels, lost connections: The story of a theft can be the story of a moment in life
When Nikki Chamberlain’s plans were disrupted by the pandemic, she didn’t sit around stewing in frustration or embracing a sense of helplessness, but instead climbed…
Editorial: When it comes to violent crime, do we even hear victims anymore?
“She was my first-born. He took more than my child – he took the child who made me a mother.” Those are the words of…
The startling real-life crimes that inspired Sacramento’s ‘haunted river’ lore
There’s a menacing mythos along the edges of Sacramento’s waterfront, an array of spoken stories reaching from the Delta King’s pilot house to those iron…
Blood and Fire: the saga of a grisly execution that shocked the Delta is finally revealed in court
Rosa Ventura had only been a volunteer firefighter for a year when she confronted the unimaginable. Ventura belongs to a small group of emergency personnel…
Sacramento neighborhoods experience 8 murders in 12 days, no connections identified yet
From city streets to the avenues of the county, Sacramento’s early fall weather ushered in some startling challenges for law enforcement after 8 people were…
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…
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…
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…