· Truckee is having a free paint drop day on Oct. 17 from 9am-1pm at the airport. · Barton Health’s smoking cessation class start date has changed to Oct. 14 and will end a week later. It is from 5-6:30pm at 1111 Emerald Bay Road, South Lake Tahoe. Cost is $30. · The Food Bank of […]
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By Mike DeBonis, Washington Post A challenge from hard-line conservatives in the House Republican caucus has Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, wondering how he might pass a bill to fund the government ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline. But one of those conservatives said Wednesday that he’s had enough of the shutdown talk and resigned […]
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By Nicholas Kristof, New York Times The other day, my teenage daughter and I were idly browsing real estate porn, a monument to American inequality: a private island in the Bahamas selling for $17.9 million; a 900-acre retreat in Washington State for $11 million; and an 83-acre estate in Colorado for a cool $100 million. Then […]
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Two people were found dead Sept. 16 in a Truckee hotel room. Officers are calling the deaths suspicious, but are not saying why. “There is no reason to believe anyone else is involved and there is no threat to public safety,” officers said in a statement. The two people were found about 2:45pm in a room at […]
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By Christopher Elliott, USA Today First, there was a $25 “check-in” fee when she arrived, which, though disclosed in the fine print of her contract, was unexpected. And then there was a mandatory $200 “cleaning” fee for her unit after she checked out. Neither was part of the original price.Rhonda Moret’s vacation rental in Park […]
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Two people have died in the Butte Fire burning in Calaveras County. Coroner Kevin Raggio said Mark McCloud, 66, who refused to evacuate, died outside his home. Cadaver dogs located another adult male in the burn area. His name has not been released pending notification of family. This is the third civilian fire related death […]
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Winners of the inaugural WordWave One-Act Play Contest include new and seasoned playwrights whose work will be performed for the first time in staged readings at the Boathouse Theatre on Oct. 10. Two winners took the prize: “Compromising Positions,” by Michelle Benson, and “Woman Running Late in a Dress,” by Dallas Woodburn, with an honorable […]
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By Associated Press Think wagering $20 to win $1 million by picking a winning combination of NFL players for a fantasy team on Sunday is gambling? The league says it isn’t. So do fast-growing daily fantasy sports companies like DraftKings and FanDuel that offer the games and advertise with the long gambling-averse pro football organization. […]
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By Associated Press A black bear that wandered onto a Lake Tahoe high school campus and prompted a precautionary lockdown for two hours today is the same one that was captured with her cub in Carson City three days ago and released in the mountains 30 miles away. The lockdown at Incline High School was […]
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A South Lake Tahoe woman this week pleaded no contest to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and DUI causing injury. Olga Nayeli Pena-Arce, 21, was driving her 2000 Saturn sedan west on Pioneer Trail on Nov. 24, 2014, at a high rate of speed, lost control of the vehicle, and slammed into a retaining wall. […]
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