By Nick Zaccardi, NBC Jamie Anderson of South Lake Tahoe clinched the first U.S. Olympic berth in slopestyle snowboarding by winning the third of five women’s events earlier Thursday, while Shaun White crashed in his first run and aborted his second run midway through in the third of five Olympic selection events. No U.S. man […]
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By Jack Gillum, AP WASHINGTON — Personal emails at the center of the brewing scandal for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may have remained secret, had the public and press relied solely on the state’s open records law. Emails disclosed this past week show a top Christie aide asking the Port Authority of New York […]
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Two Marines, one from El Dorado County, who are from 1st Marine Special Operations Battalion will be posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for actions while deployed to Afghanistan last year. The awards will be received by the families of Staff Sgt. Sky R. Mote and Capt. Matthew P. Manoukian, respectively, during a ceremony at 1st […]
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By Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times California community college students starting in fall 2016 will have to meet minimum academic standards to receive financial assistance under rules approved by the system Monday. The California Community Colleges Board of Governors voted to require that students maintain a minimum 2.0 GPA for two consecutive terms and complete […]
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By Kathryn Reed In the same week South Lake Tahoe’s anti-paid parking advocates secured enough signatures to forward their petition to the El Dorado County Elections Department, members were given documents from a 2011 Southern California case that prohibits the initiative process from getting rid of parking meters in any city. Bruce Grego, who has […]
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To the community, Having read the 71-page catalyst project paper, I am appalled and disheartened. If we could take a poll of Meyers residents, I bet the outcome would be this: we like our community the way it is. We moved here to live in the county, not the city. We don’t care if big […]
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The first act for the 2014 Harveys Outdoor Summer Concert Series has been booked — Bruno Mars. He will be in Stateline Aug. 14 at 7:30pm. Tickets go on sale via Ticketmaster on Feb. 3. Tickets are $69.50-$135.50. With 130 million singles sold worldwide, the 18-time Grammy Award nominee and winner has made music history […]
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By Diane Bartz and Carey Gillam, Reuters The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Monsanto Co’s biotech seed patents on Monday, dealing a blow to a group of organic farmers and other activists trying to stop the biotech company from suing farmers if their fields contain a few plants containing the company’s genetically modified traits. The Organic […]
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California Department of Fish and Wildlife had several high profile criminal investigations and convictions in 2013 for resource violations. In El Dorado County, two men shot, but didn’t kill a deer that they then put in their small SUV. The deer woke up and panicked inside the vehicle. The poachers then hacked the deer to […]
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By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times From many corners of the United States — Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Mississippi — recent years have brought heartening news about the relentless rise in obesity among American children: Several years into a campaign to get kids to eat better and exercise more, child obesity rates have appeared to stabilize, […]
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