By USSA PARK CITY — Dylan Ferguson of Amesbury, Mass., jumped his way through three finals rounds to come in second at the Visa Freestyle International at Deer Valley Resort on Friday, his first career FIS Freestyle World Cup podium. Zongyang Jia of China was the men’s winner. Mengtao Xu led a Chinese sweep of […]
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By USSA GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn of Vail produced a stunning, on-edge downhill run in Garmisch to win the historic 50th Audi FIS Alpine World Cup of her career on Saturday. The victory, Vonn’s 25th in downhill, came after trailing at the first four race intervals and surviving a near crash […]
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By Kathryn Reed What’s up with all this talk of chicken? My Cooking Light and Bon Appetit magazines arrived this week with chicken on the cover. An issue of Single Leaf Winery’s newsletter I picked up last weekend featured a chicken recipe. Food photos can really sell a person on a recipe. Even though I don’t […]
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By Emma Jacobs, NPR A new casino set to open in Atlantic City, N.J., has announced it will set term limits for its front-line staff. When employees’ terms run out, they’ll have to go through the hiring process again. The casino says the policy will keep its service fresh. Others say the company is taking […]
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By Michelle Higgins, New York Times While throngs of tailgaters chug Bud Light and devour Buffalo wings near the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, and millions of other football fans gather in front of their TVs to watch the Super Bowl this year, in-the-know travelers will be sitting down to meals at some of the […]
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By Priya Guha Around the world, nations are looking for ways to accelerate their recovery from the global recession. While the tactics may be different, the strategy is the same: encourage robust, sustainable growth. In the United Kingdom, a central plank of our plan for growth is a reduction in the corporate tax rate. It […]
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• Packers QB Aaron Rodgers will make his debut at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am next week. For the past two years he’s had throngs of followers when he played the American Century Championship in Stateline at Edgewood Tahoe. • Bona Fide HQ (1069 Magua St., No. 4, Meyers) is hosting an evening of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Airport’s new hangar in relation to the old one is like comparing a penthouse to an ordinary hotel room. That’s how Michael Golden of Mountain West Aviation described the executive hangar that is on the north end of the property. While he wouldn’t disclose the exact cost of the building, […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College’s accreditation has been reaffirmed for another six years by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The accrediting commission was in South Lake Tahoe last October to evaluate the two-year school. LTCC has until Oct. 15 to demonstrate that it has addressed the commission’s five recommendations. The recommendations include:continuing LTCC’s current […]
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On Feb. 5, the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office patrol division will have a DUI checkpoint in the Spanish Springs area of Sparks. This DUI checkpoint will be a multi-agency partnership with the Reno Police Department, Nevada Highway Patrol, Sparks Police Department, Washoe County School Police, University of Nevada Police Department, and the Storey County Sheriff’s […]
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