The dilemma of covering darkness
What does it mean in 2025 to have reverence for those who met a violent end? Believe it or not, some journalists may not want…
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Murder for a changing Media: Serafini trial delves into double-lives, poison fantasies and roses made in jail cells from toilet paper
As far as television producers are concerned, the appeal of Dan Serafini has always been his skill with the ladies. Or his ability to get…
Lawyers clash over whether Sacramento murder suspect Amyis Coogler will stand trial as an adult
With emotions running high from opposing supporters, judge ultimately issued a final ruling Two families just met at a fork in the legal road: Almost…
Chaotic Sunday scene of gunfire on Sacramento’s Ethan Way, teen hospitalized
More than nine police and sheriff’s units raced down Arden Way and Howe Avenue Sunday afternoon as residents of an apartment complex took cover and…
Auburn murder trial opens on tale of cocaine, conspiracies, Reality TV and Major League Baseball
“When he turned on the light, I’m not sure what words were used,” Captain Gary Nelson muttered on the witness stand, his brow rising as…
Sacramento is seeing extremely violent offenders get early parole: A new bill supports prison officials releasing more of them
Rep. Ash Kalra convinces Assembly members Nick Schultz, LaShae Sharp-Collins, Mark González, John Harabedian and Matt Haney to back early parole eligibility for murderers, attempted…
Criminally insane or raging at the world? Trial for Davis serial stabber delves into the corners of a troubled mind
Jurors sat down Monday morning for the opening of what’s expected to be a six-week trial about savage violence and psychological questions. Attorneys made it…
Three victims shot at ‘the Coachella of Davis’
The event that Davis is most famous for took yet another turn into infamy Saturday afternoon, this time seeing a barrage of near-deadly gunfire breakout…
Sacramento sheriff’s detectives made multiple arrests in a gang shooting spree and murder. Five years later, the case still hasn’t gone to trial
It was New Year’s Eve, 2019, and people were gathering at North Sacramento’s Ramada Inn to toast a coming decade. The minutes were counting down…
Nightshades: ‘Sacramento Noir’ is a book that conjures fiction mapping onto the city’s true murders and dark memories
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…
Deliverer of the death blows: ‘Aggro,’ the main killer in Roseville’s barbaric train-hopper murder, is granted early parole by state officials
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…
A lost journalist, an absent friend: Here’s to the memory of a great breaking news photographer
I could tell you stories about Bill Lavallie, the beloved photojournalist from the Gold Country who just passed away. Sitting in a bar with some…
New book on college murders, ‘When the Night Comes Falling,’ may resonate in Chico and Davis
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…
Surrounded by death, area fentanyl pusher kept selling: Now he’s a convicted murderer who could spend life behind bars
In a 12-month window, three young people – Spencer Newsom, Hailey Modesitt and Kade Webb – all died of fentanyl overdoses. But these fresh faces…
Things fell apart: Inside the controversial CHP operation that triggered a gun battle and hostage murder in Roseville
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…
Under the radar – having gone by an alias, suspect in 40-year-old Roseville cold case makes his first appearance in court
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,…
‘What’s done in the dark will be brought to the light’: After 40 years, investigators make arrest in shuddering murder of Madeline Garcia
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…