The sixth annual SiriusXM Celebrity Fantasy Football Draft will be at Hard Rock Lake Tahoe on July 15. The event features a variety of celebrities and SiriusXM personalities together on stage to draft their fantasy football teams for the 2015 season. Participating in this year’s draft will include NBC and Pro Football Focus analyst Cris Collinsworth; […]
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By Abby Phillip, Washington Post A bizarre kidnapping case that police once called a hoax took yet another surprising turn Monday. The FBI issued a warrant for the arrest of a 38-year-old Harvard Law School graduate in connection with the case and a separate alleged home invasion that occurred last month. In court documents unsealed […]
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By Jim Shahin, Washington Post Internet videos and cookbook recipes make grilling corn seem as easy as basic arithmetic. Cob on the fire + cob off the fire = classic summer bite. But the ear of corn I was holding might as well have been a calculus problem. Why? Because after studying those videos and […]
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By Carl Richards, New York Times I have a crazy idea I want to run by you. Imagine that a cultural anthropologist finds one of your credit card statements in 100 years. What would your spending suggest you value the most? Based on your spending, what assumptions might someone make about how you live your […]
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By Jeff DeLong, Reno Gazette-Journal Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a bear at Lake Tahoe last week and say they already know who did it. The unidentified South Lake Tahoe resident said he shot the black bear Thursday night in self-defense, said Capt. Patrick Foy of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. […]
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By Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian ExxonMobil, the world’s biggest oil company, knew as early as 1981 of climate change – seven years before it became a public issue, according to a newly discovered email from one of the firm’s own scientists. Despite this the firm spent millions over the next 27 years to promote climate denial. […]
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By Russ Parsons, Los Angeles Times Beans can seem complicated. They come in different colors — green, yellow and purple are the most common. And in different shapes — round and flat — and different sizes — yard-long and fingernail thin. They grow on different types of plants — pole beans climb to the sky […]
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· Tahoe City Rotary gave $5,000 to the Tahoe Fund for the Tahoe City Aquatic Invasive Weed Removal Project. · Coach Gil Llewellyn and crew are back for a weeklong summer basketball camp at Kahle Community Center. The camp runs July 20 -23 from 9am-3pm with individual or small group lessons available upon special request. For information, call 805.729.5539. […]
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By Mathis Wackernagel, Sacramento Bee The drought in California has made the economic risks of living beyond the means of nature all too clear. Just last month, estimates pegged the state’s economic losses from the drought at $2.7 billion, an enormous number that still fails to capture the toll on individual farmers and farmworkers. Water, […]
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A man was seriously injured in the Rubicon Spring area of the Rubicon Jeep Trail. Because of low clouds, thunderstorms, lightning, wind, and heavy downpours in the area, no helicopter could respond on the morning of July 8. .The patient was stabilized as best as possible and the decision was made to drive him out by an […]
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