By Megan Messerly, Las Vegas Sun Going into the Nevada caucuses, 49-year-old Catana Barnes wanted to help Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders win the state. But that’s not what happened. The Sanders campaign and the state’s Democratic Party had spent weeks reminding nonpartisan voters, like Barnes, that they could register to vote as Democrats in order […]
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A bank robber got away with an undisclosed amount of cash on Monday at the El Dorado Savings Bank in Georgetown. The suspect was armed with a black pistol. He entered the West Slope bank March 21 at 12:49pm and demanded money. He is described as a white male adult, wearing a San Francisco 49ers ball […]
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Two men accused of gunning down a man in South Lake Tahoe in January pleaded not guilty to murder on March 21. Tristan Batten, 18, and Harvest Davidson, 20, are charged with the shooting death of Dennis Wright Jr., 40, of Amador County. Wright died at Barton Memorial Hospital on Jan. 30 not long after […]
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South Shore businesses need employees with basic math and critical thinking skills, better customer service training, and knowledge of technology and computers. Employers have a hard time with reliability, punctuality, and steady work force. Those were some of the outcomes from a two-day Q&A volunteers had with area businesses last week. Businesses said a younger work […]
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By Michelle Rindels, AP While the Nevada Legislature’s lawyers are adamant that no lawmaker communications outside of final votes are public records available upon request, several lawmakers say the blackout is extreme and worth revisiting. Their statements came after the Legislature’s lawyers rejected a request from the Associated Press for a week of emails and […]
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Drumming has been a regular sound coming from inside the Juvenile Treatment Center in South Lake Tahoe. Five youth have been participating in the eight-week Challenge Program that culminated recently with a performance before family and elected officials. Using the traditional African Djembe drum as the vehicle for communication, the program combined the therapeutic potential […]
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Two concerts have been added to the lineup at Harveys Outdoor Concert Series — Tim McGraw and Widespread Panic. McGraw has played the Stateline venue multiple times; most recently in 2013. He will be in town July 23 at 7:30pm. Tickets range from $89.50 to $179.50. Widespread Panic will take the stage July 6 at […]
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By Kathryn Reed Modern and minimalist intersect with high quality and relaxed at one of South Lake Tahoe’s newest motels. The Green Lantern is now the Coachman Hotel. Justin Watzka has taken what was a rundown hotel in the Stateline area that looked like it hadn’t been renovated since it opened in the 1960s and […]
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By Joe Rodriguez, Mercury News Dan Karr’s new year began with sorrow, but the veteran Silicon Valley hand’s new mission in life as an auto-insurance reformer is moving along nicely — for a 21st-century Don Quixote. “Tilting at windmills, hah!” he said over breakfast in downtown San Jose recently to talk about his new company, […]
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By Rodrique Ngowi, AP BOSTON — When Michelle Johnson scribbles out prescriptions, the next stop for many of her patients is the gym, not the pharmacy. Doctors treating chronic health problems increasingly are prescribing exercise for their patients — and encouraging them to think of physical activity as their new medication. In one such program […]
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