Snowden in hiding, but Obama promised protection to whistleblowers
History will absolve Ed Snowden. It will not be so kind to an Obama administration that does not welcome him home. The former NSA contractor…
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Sacramento's 2013 homeless count: a rise in homelessness?
SN&R has acquired the numbers from last January’s homeless count run by Sacramento Steps Forward. In total, volunteers in the city snapshot-count found 2,538 total…
South Sacto kidnapping case makes it hard to be rational about crime stats
Curse of the monkey’s tail. Cedric Lain Holland might be a parent’s worst nightmare. On May 11, Holland allegedly drove up beside a mother and…
No longer funky, Mather base is all Sacramento's
“We get to keep the planes, right?” Twenty years after Mather Air Force Base officially closed, the United States Air Force handed over the…
Don't bring your spear gun to Sactown
Sacramento County’s regional parks department put out a reminder this week that spear guns are verboeten at county parks, to which even Ahab might say, “No…
Youth in revolting behavior
“Yo Ese, you got a problem?” Oh those unruly teenagers. Sacramento police had their hands full with them in the northern part of the city…
Documentary on mental health in California debuts on PBS tonight
An interesting documentary on PBS tonight, called A New State of Mind, will focus on Californians struggling with mental-health issues. (The film debuts at 9…
Sacramento very close to passing plastic bag ban
Yeah, I thought that plastic-bag scene from American Beauty was ridiculous, too. When the kid said “It’s so beautiful,” I couldn’t stop laughing. Anyway, I’m…
Apparently not having a Walmart puts Sacramento at 'competitive disadvantage'
Walmart may be anti-woman, but it’s pro-coming-to-Sacramento. Philip Harvey was saying how much he hated Walmart when the earth began to shake. For a…
The long leg of the law: Sac sheriff plays soccer for a good cause
I’m dying, here. There’s just too much hype and not enough actual soccer taking place in this town, and I can barely contain myself. Thankfully,…
Booze ban gives river partiers good reason for a staycation this Memorial Day weekend
This probably will not be the scene this weekend, but come July, hoo boy. Heading into Memorial Day weekend, all is quiet on the…
Driver busted for being police gatecrasher
If they were trying to get the cops’ attention, they succeeded. Sacramento police arrested two men in separate incidents of weird, harassing behavior. The first…
Sacramento-based U.S. attorney says California's bad weed laws lead to 'free-for-all'
U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner drives a mini-van. This may seem like a strange choice for the region’s top federal prosecutor, hand-picked by President Barack Obama…
Hey, suspect armed with ax, you can't out-run a sheriff helicopter
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department went absolutely Twitter-happy during its first-ever “tweetalong” on May 10. During a roughly four-hour patrol aboard one of the department’s…
Kings are staying! SN&R so lazy, we wrote our story with other journalists' Tweets!
The Kings are staying in Sacramento. SN&R is of course way too busy hustling ping-pong and scarfing Hot Cheetos and Takis to bother spending thousands…
Anti-arena movement finally shows up on eve of big Kings vote
I guess timing matters. Sacramento Kings arena opposition has been crickets, even since late March, when city council approved its arena-subsidy blueprint. But this afternoon,…
Murder in the Foothills
by Scott Thomas Anderson and Raheem Hosseini It was when he saw the girls’ eyes that Hafed Mohamed Thabet realized what he had become. In…