By T. Susan Chang, NPR At this time of year, we all love tomatoes. Many of us claim we’ll “take a big juicy tomato and bite into it like it’s an apple,” although you won’t often see that happen in actual fact. Yet, even people who love a juicy fresh tomato also are likely to […]
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By Kurt Chirbas, Sacramento Bee In the last four weeks, Sacramento urologist Louis Giorgi and his wife, Joanne, have received countless cards. Envelopes, in a rainbow of colors and sent from people across the nation, overflowed from a bowl on a counter in the Giorgis’ Carmichael kitchen. Personal notes offered condolences for a young teen […]
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By Gary Klien, Marin Independent Journal Joseph Naso, the 79-year-old man convicted last week of murdering and dumping four women in the 1970s and ’90s, is also the prime suspect in the murder of a former Lake Tahoe woman who was found in Tiburon in 1981, prosecutors disclosed in court Wednesday. Sharileea Patton was 56 […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun Nevada’s “A world within, a state apart” slogan may have bombed publicly, but some tourism commissioners think the Killers killed it with the Las Vegas band’s rendition of “Don’t Fence Me In” in a television ad, and now the state may look to expand use of the song. […]
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By Geoffrey Mohan, Los Angeles Times That head-splitting migraine attack that knocks you off your feet may also put you at risk of permanent changes in the brain, an analysis of 19 medical studies found. The potential for increased abnormalities in the signal-carrying white matter of the brain appears strongest among those who suffer headache […]
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By Betty Hechtman They’re called second acts, encore careers or reinventing yourself – they’re the completely new and different jobs people take in midlife or later. Today, making that jump is more likely to be a matter of following the heart than it was during the throes of the economic recession, when professionals caught up […]
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By Shan Li and Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times Motorists hitting the road over the Labor Day weekend may find themselves paying more at the pump as the Syrian conflict fans tensions in the Middle East and roils gas markets. Experts speculate that prices could shoot up 10 cents a gallon or more in the […]
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Stateline casinos brought in more money in July compared to the previous year, which is the opposite of what happened overall in Nevada. Statewide gaming revenue dropped 8 percent, according to the Gaming Control Board. Nevada brought in $925.7 million this July, whereas in 2012 the figure was $1.005 billion. On the South Shore the […]
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The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a dense smoke advisory for the greater Lake Tahoe area, Alpine County, and northern Mono County through 8 tonight. Expect smoke from the Rim Fire to continue to affect the Reno, Carson City and Carson Valley areas, too. While blue sky has been prominent on the South […]
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• New administrators in Lake Tahoe Unified are: Joel Dameral principal at Lake Tahoe Environmental Science Magnet School, Cindy Martinez principal at Bijou Community School, Christina Grubbs is principal at Tahoe Valley Elementary School, Pat Harnett as South Tahoe High School assistant principal and Karin Holmes the South Tahoe Middle School assistant principal. • North […]
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