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Welcome to COVID jail
Infections are soaring inside Sacramento’s jails—just as advocates predicted A COVID-19 outbreak is sweeping through Sacramento County’s jail system, just as attorneys and advocates for…
Will Sacramento see a confederacy of traitors?
State capital tenses for violent extremism heading into inauguration week With President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration just days away, state and federal authorities are chasing rumors…
The roundup: Gun violence, vanity superspreaders and uncaring CARES Act contractor make for rough start to 2021
New year, same social diseases If self-destructive behavior wasn’t contagious before, it sure felt like it during the first, way-too-tragically-eventful week of 2021. A violent…
American idiots staged an insurrection. The reviews were terrible.
Jan. 6, 2021—yet another day of the the Trump presidency that will live in infamy A belligerent Trump mob invaded the U.S. Capitol Wednesday to…
A nurse shot her boyfriend nine times. Was it self defense or another domestic homicide?
Domestic violence and murder-suicides killed nine people in Sacramento County in 2020 The fact that Shauna Lynlee Giffin shot and killed her son’s father inside…
Three years after a sheriff’s vehicle paralyzed her, a 12-year-old girl has died
Sacramento County paid $40.7 million to settle claims against its sheriff’s office in 2018 and 2019 A girl who suffered a traumatic brain injury and…
LowBrau settles labor suit amid pandemic lockdown for restaurants
The Midtown beer hall and East Sacramento’s Mimosa House were each sued last year Two Sacramento restaurants are fending off separate labor lawsuits as California’s…
The police eyes in the skies
Police face few limits on operating unmanned aircraft For two years of his life, Sacramento County public defender Joseph Cress had the unenviable task of…
New surveillance tools allow cops to spy on everyone—including you
Amazon’s Ring may have helped catch a killer. What else does it catch? Homicide detectives Christopher Britton and Courtney Bartilson arrived at the short, gabled…
A glutton for political office
Sheriff Scott Jones is raising campaign cash like he might run for a fourth term Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones made it sound like he…
Eight kids are owed money for living in a mold-infested complex. Here’s why they don’t have it.
When you’re poor, even the cracks have cracks Thomas H. Citron has $80,000 he literally can’t give away. The Los Angeles attorney secured the money…
A psychic aunt called me heartless at Thanksgiving. Things got weird at the funeral.
Sixteen years ago, Uncle Bill—which is to say my cousin’s Uncle Bill, an infrequent presence in my life whose reputation as a Southern-bred raconteur cast…
Doing time for a murder he didn’t commit
Sacramento judge: ‘When [SB 1437] passed … the first case I thought of was Danny Hampton.’ Danny Lashawn Hampton went along for a robbery and…
Sacramento should prepare for a COVID death wave
Infections are soaring around the region. We all know what comes next. If the past is any indicator, the Sacramento region will soon experience the…
Eviction lawsuits have restarted in Sacramento
Despite a devastating pandemic that stalled the nation’s economy and a third wave of infections that could do so again, court-ordered evictions are starting…
As requests to carry concealed firearms soared, Sacramento’s pro-gun sheriff holstered his approval
A vocal 2nd Amendment proponent, Scott Jones chose gun control over gun rights during the pandemic In a year that saw rising gun violence, surging…