Throughout the 1980s, Puente opened her home as a boarding home to people with mental health and substance abuse issues, ...

But for years, the “white-haired landlady who handed out homemade tamales and fussed over her rose beds and vegetable garden,” as the Sactown Magazine once described her, had been hiding a ...

Darrin Bell, the famed comic strip creator of “Candorville” and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, is based in Sacramento.