Placer County attorneys spent weeks battling over whether two teenagers were killed by a recklessly dangerous pill-popper or an accidental victim of Ambien-induced parasomnia. The…
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Last fall, Citrus Heights Police Chief Ron Lawrence summoned his officer to discuss a harassment allegation involving a sitting politician. It wasn’t the first time…
“I am so much like Donald Trump, it’s scary.” Paul Taylor, long-shot Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, was on the west steps of the…
For the second time in four years, law enforcement has broken up an illegal gambling operation in California run by Israeli nationals. The latest investigation…
A former police officer looks to tackle untraceable assault weapons Mike Gipson smiled as he walked through a lamp-studded hallway inside the state Capitol. Not…
Almost every district attorney had a personal story about the monster with many names. Anne Marie Schubert remembered being a 12-year-old suburban girl in the…
Performer’s situation draws sympathy from the judge handing out the sentence At 25 years old, Deandre Rogers is officially out of strikes. The South Sacramento…
Case involves a Ukrainian woman who requested a restraining order against prosecutor and only testified under the threat of arrest By Scott Thomas Anderson and…
Capitol hearing exposes rift between law enforcement lobbies and civil liberty defenders It only took minutes for George Orwell’s1984 to be invoked during an April 3 hearing…
Of the 20 shots officers fired at Stephon Clark, eight hit their target. The first six hit him in the back. The worst fears…
The house is torn down now. Some papers stapled to a hacked-up stump are the only evidence it ever existed. Before getting ripped to pieces,…
South city performer faces gun charges—again By Scott Thomas Anderson Deandre Rogers doesn’t deny he’s a gang member. But the idea that he was cruising through Sacramento…
The Sacramento News & Review has joined ProPublica's Documenting Hate project, which provides members of the public with a discrete channel to report hate…
As murder-suicides flared, officials searched for more effective way to gauge lethality On May 18, Jarrod Hill was supposed to walk into a Sacramento County…
Critics point to company’s record of sharing customer data, environmental damage and stance against net neutrality among reasons to be skeptical of $100 million deal…
Two mentally ill young men, two officer shootings, two different outcomes By Scott Thomas Anderson and Raheem F. Hosseini The night before the civil trial…
Fire season has grown longer and more severe since the Malibu fire in 2013, state fire officials said. (Photo courtesy of the California Department of…