Crime

Police hope to find missing guitars – and leads to musician's killers

By Julie Johnson - Published: 12:00 am

Keith Fessler's custom-made guitars were just part of the collection of instruments, books, fishing gear and other items that a close friend said represented Fessler's constant hunger to learn new things.

Elk Grove homicide a mystery to cops, neighbors

By Chelsea Phua - Published: Tuesday, July 14 2009 - 12:00 am

Neighbors said the woman was meticulous in maintaining their Elk Grove neighborhood, helping to trim weeds and clear leaves from her neighbors' lawns.

Rise in county gun sales tied to fewer cops, what Obama might do

By Jillian Keenan - Updated: Monday, July 13 2009 - 7:56 am

Gun sales in Sacramento County have grown more than in any other populous county in California since November, the state attorney general's office says.

Female DUI arrests soar in state, capital area

By Marjie Lundstrom - Updated: Sunday, July 12 2009 - 12:27 am

While men lead in drunken-driving busts, teen girls and women of all ages are rapidly gaining entry to this dangerous club. Between 2000 and 2008, DUI cases filed against women in Sacramento County rose 60 percent, according to an analysis for The Bee by the District Attorney's Office.

Placer investigator honored for work as narcotics officer

Published: Sunday, July 12 2009 - 12:00 am

A recently hired investigator for the Placer County District Attorney's Office has been honored as "Officer of the Year" for a region covering 17 Northern California counties, according to the office.

Photos of some of the area's most notorious criminals.
Anne Chadwick Williams / Anne Chadwick Williams - The Sacramento Bee

Former SLA members , from the left, Michael Bortin, Bill Harris, Sara Jane Olson, and Emily Montague appear at a hearing in Sacramento Superior Court on Feb. 11, 2002. Their request that their cases be heard together was granted. The four are in court on murder and robbery charges stemming from the 1975 Carmichael bank robbery during which bank customer, Myrna Opsahl, was killed. SLA Photo Gallery
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Joseph Ferguson, 20, who killed five people on Sept. 8, 2001 and himself the next day during a gun battle with police, is shown in this frame grab image released by Sacramento County Sheriff's Department in Rancho Cordova on Sept. 10, 2001. Ferguson recorded a six-minute video tape of himself. Joseph Ferguson Photo Gallery

Sacto 9-1-1 blog

Sobriety, license checkpoint set for east Sacramento

Posted by Brian Blomster at 9:06 AM

From Nicole Williams: The Sacramento Police Department will conducting a sobriety and drivers license checkpoint today in the city's east area. A specific location will be released two hours before ...