By Joy Resmovits, Los Angeles Times For the first time in about a decade, steady academic progress has halted for fourth- and eighth-grade students nationally and locally, according to new standardized test results released Wednesday. After years of small but steady increases in scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress since its first administration […]
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Money In a pharmacy mega-merger, Walgreens is buying Rite Aid. The $17.2 billion deal puts together the nation’s second and third largest pharmacy chains that combined will have nearly 13,000 U.S. stores. That would catapult the merged company above CVS, which has 7,800 stores. Rite Aid (RAD) stores would keep their […]
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To the community, Bread & Broth would like to thank the South Lake Tahoe Moose Lodge No. 1632 for the Adopt A Day sponsorship for the Oct. 12 evening dinner. Thanks to the Moose Lodge’s generous donation, the 91 folks who came for dinner were served baked salmon with orange sauce, spaghetti with red sauce, […]
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By Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee Frank Treanor doesn’t have exit polling to help explain why almost 38 percent of voters in the fire district he leads north of San Francisco voted against a November 2012 ballot measure to increase what property owners pay the district annually. But Treanor, chief of the Rancho Adobe Fire Protection […]
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South Lake Tahoe police officers are now calling an Oct. 10 incident near the state line an attempted kidnapping. A sketch of the suspect was released today. A 36-year-old female tourist told officers a man approached her about 9:40am Oct. 10 near Park and Cedar avenues, telling her to go with him or he would […]
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A Truckee man has been arrested on charges stemming from a fatal motorcycle accident on Oct. 24 on Interstate 80 east of Pyramid Highway in Sparks. According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, Jonathan Navarro, 18, of Reno was riding west on a red Honda street bike at about 11:50pm. Navarro was in the left inside shoulder […]
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El Dorado County Animal Services mailbox in Diamond Springs was broken into last weekend. It is not known how much mail was stolen. Anyone who mailed a check to the Diamond Springs location in the last week is urged to call 530.621.5795. This way staff will be able to verify if the money arrived. Until […]
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A 3.1 earthquake rattled parts of the Carson Valley this morning. The temblor was located 6 miles northeast of Johnson Lane in Gardnerville. It struck at 7:22am Oct. 28. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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The movie “Code Black” is a behind the scenes look at the day-to-day activities of Los Angeles County’s Emergency Department. Three of Barton Memorial Hospital’s emergency physicians attended residency at LA County and will provide an insider’s perspective of LA County and Barton hospitals after a free screening of the movie. “Code Black” will be shown […]
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By Jim Carlton, Wall Street Journal RENO—For much of the past half century, Reno moved in lock step with its glamorous big sister, Las Vegas, their fortunes rising and falling with their mainstay industry, gambling. But Reno is now betting on a different economic future, turning its back on casino tourism as an economic driver […]
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