By CNN The search has been suspended for a U.S. Navy sailor missing after the crash of a MH-53E Sea Dragon off Virginia’s southern coast, a Coast Guard official said Thursday. The search for the sailor lasted more than 30 hours and covered more than 500 square miles, Coast Guard Capt. John Little said. At […]
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By Jim Christie and Sharon Bernstein, Reuters Gov. Jerry Brown continued his message of fiscal restraint in his state budget plan, which would increase funding for education but not restore many recession-era cuts, including healthcare services for the poor. Brown’s plan, which was leaked Wednesday night and posted online, proposes spending $106.8 billion from the […]
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By Lauren Weber, Wall Street Journal It’s Jan. 9. Are you feeling frazzled yet? You might be — especially if you’re a soldier, public-relations executive, newspaper reporter, or airline pilot. Those are among the most stressful careers for 2014, according to a new ranking from job-search website CareerCast.com. Every year, CareerCast.com compiles lists of the […]
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• El Dorado County officials this week will begin construction on a $57 million Highway 50 interchange at Silva Valley Parkway. It is one-half mile east of the El Dorado Hills-Latrobe Road interchange. It’s to accommodate future development. • The Sugar Pine Foundation will be able to plant 10,000 trees this year because of funding […]
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Ben Rooney, CNN Money The business of legal marijuana is booming in Colorado — and investors are catching a contact high. Yes, there are pot stocks. Nearly all of them are thinly traded penny stocks available only on over-the-counter exchanges, but shares of companies that service the growing cannabis market have been blazing in recent […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – A Crystal Bay company has been contracted to come up with two development proposals for the South Shore. One was met with trepidation, a bit of suspicion and some optimism Wednesday. The other the co-founder and principal of One Globe didn’t want out in the public. The first involves Meyers, […]
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By Deborah Cohen, Los Angeles Times At this time of year, a lot of Americans have vowed to develop more healthful habits. Unfortunately, most of those who have made weight loss resolutions will fail. But it won’t be entirely their fault. Americans today live in a food swamp. We are constantly exposed to marketing and […]
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Corey Rosalie McCauley, who graduated from South Tahoe High School in 1996, died Jan. 3 after a valiant battle with cancer. She was 35. Corey was born March 7, 1978, in South Lake Tahoe. She earned an associate of arts degree from Lake Tahoe Community College in 2003 and an associate of science degree in […]
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Dana Benedict, the founder of Pinnacle Real Estate Group in South Lake Tahoe, died Dec. 30. He was 53. Dana was born June 10, 1960, in Willows. He was raised in Boulder Creek, attended San Lorenzo Valley High School and graduated from the University of Oregon. Those that knew him well were drawn into his […]
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By Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — The relentless rise in healthcare spending — which had threatened government budgets and helped pave the way for President Obama’s health law — continued to moderate in 2012, the fourth year of a historic slowdown, newly released federal data show. Overall spending on healthcare rose less […]
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