By News 10 A lumber truck crashed down an embankment near Twin Bridges Road on Highway 50 early Monday morning. The driver was taken out the truck and transported to a nearby hospital, California Highway Patrol said. His injuries are unknown. Read the whole story
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Jill has been overlooked among the playful kittens and more glamorous orange cats at the shelter. She has beautiful dark gray fur, but she is rather shy and hangs back a bit with new visitors. She does like to be held once she has a few minutes to get used to visitors, and would probably […]
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Updated Jan. 27 3:25pm: Barton received the trauma designation from the Board of Supervisors. By Kathryn Reed In a matter of hours Barton Memorial Hospital is likely to become the only trauma center in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The final hurdle is for approval from the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors. The electeds on […]
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By Larry Weitzman Like Capt. Edwin Smith of the Titanic, our Board of Supervisors didn’t heed the warnings of an impending debacle (in EDC’s case, huge deficits). Smith was advised several times of icebergs and he neither chose to slow down the speeding Titanic nor change to a more southerly course. As with the Titanic, […]
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By Nick Zaccardi, NBC Both Olympic snowboard slopestyle champions came up short in the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo., on Sunday. Jamie Anderson of Meyers finished second to Norway’s Silje Norendal for a second straight year at X Games. Anderson had the lead with a 91.33 in her second run, until Norendal posted 93.66 […]
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By Jason Blevins, Denver Post ASPEN — The future of snowboarding is Chloe Kim. Mere minutes after a brutal practice crash, the 14-year-old on Saturday toppled Kelly Clark’s dynastic halfpipe dominance. Spinning technical combos with a pair of 900s, a switch method and a switch 720 with floating amplitude, Kim’s final run in the best-of-three contest […]
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By USSA ASPEN, Colo. — X Games officially wrapped up on Sunday afternoon with ski superpipe. Fittingly, after four days of nonstop action, the final competition of the 2015 X Games lived up to the billing. With it all said and done, Canada’s Simon d’Artois won the superpipe gold in dramatic fashion, Kevin Rolland of […]
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By Stephanie Pearson, Outdoor Nordic skiing began about 8,000 years ago in Russia but it’s taken until now for the sport to start really catching on in the U.S. The proof is everywhere: Citizen races are booking out months in advance, alpine resorts are grooming new classical and skate-skiing trails (an offshoot of Nordic Skiing […]
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By Carly Ledbetter, Huffington Post Every time Girl Scout cookie season comes around, we can pretty much count on losing money and gaining a few inches on our waist lines. And even when the season’s over, we can still satisfy our hankering for the delicious cookies by drinking them as milk, ordering them online, and, […]
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By Brad Branan, Sacramento Bee David Keyes didn’t wear a suit or work in an executive office, but he was the capital region’s highest-paid local government employee in 2013. As a captain in the Placer County Sheriff’s Office, Keyes received a base salary of $122,000, according to recently released data from the State Controller’s Office. […]
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