Ishani Desai

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Here’s a selection of my stories:

Accountability journalism

  • Why is a California prosecutor pausing drug and mental health court referrals?
  • West Sacramento paid $300K for a landmark sculpture. Why did it scrap its plans?
  • Records expose financial ties between Sacramento leader, public charter school

Breaking news

  • 3 critically injured after medevac helicopter crashes on Highway 50 in Sacramento
  • 2 boys in ‘extremely critical condition’ after California school shooting. Gunman dead
  • Sheriff reveals new details in California school shooting: ‘Everything else stopped’

Court reporting

  • Families who lost loved ones to violence find relief, doubt in California’s death penalty
  • Matthew Queen, convicted in Bakersfield 3 trial, denies murder
  • UPDATED: Jury convicts adoptive parents of murder, involuntary manslaughter in Orrin’s death; deadlocks on Orson’s death

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