By Eli Segall, Las Vegas Sun Bondholders are ratcheting up pressure on Caesars Entertainment Corp., saying the debt-laden casino giant defaulted on the terms of possibly more than $1 billion in debt when it sold four casinos to an affiliate this year. Las Vegas-based Caesars, which received the default notice Thursday, rejected the claim as […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a random series of stories about growing vegetables in South Lake Tahoe. By Kathryn Reed Students at Sierra House Elementary School are about to get two nontraditional classrooms. They are going to be full of dirt – and ideally a lot of edible plants. Parents and community members for […]
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By Beth Harris, AP NEW YORK — California Chrome went home to the West Coast on Sunday with a bandaged right front foot — and no Triple Crown — after bumping another horse leaving the Belmont Stakes starting gate. Steve Coburn, who co-owns California Chome, was still smarting, too. He was irked Belmont winner Tonalist […]
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By Jennifer Ludden, KQED-TV The number of dads staying at home with their children has nearly doubled in the past two decades, and the diversity among them defies the stereotype of the highly educated young father who stays home to let his wife focus on her career. A study from the Pew Research Center finds […]
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By Kathryn Reed Is it any more irrational to believe in God than it is to believe in Bigfoot? While that is not a direct question posed by Ann Gelder in her first full-length novel “Bigfoot and the Baby,” it is a thread that is woven throughout the book. This is also Bona Fide Books’ […]
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By Mark Miller, Reuters Once upon a time, bingo was the biggest game in town at the local senior center. But you’re far more likely to find today’s seniors manning a slot machine at the local casino – and some have become gambling addicts. Problem gambling among older people is on the rise. Seniors have […]
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By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times About 1 in 8 American children will experience some form of maltreatment serious enough to be confirmed by government authorities, new research shows. Slightly more than 2 percent of kids are victimized during their first year of life, 5.8 percent are mistreated before their fifth birthday, and 12.5 percent […]
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By Joann Eisenbrandt “There are many people in the community who question the value of the airport and why the city continues to subsidize airport operations. This persistent question must be answered.” — Letter to South Lake Tahoe after the Feb. 13 Airport Master Plan Community Meeting For decades, Lake Tahoe Airport has been a […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Ray Nutting was stripped of his seat on the Board of Supervisors in a dramatic sentencing order Friday that will shake up El Dorado County’s political leadership and force an election to fill his job. Three weeks after the embattled supervisor appeared to emerge victorious when he was acquitted of […]
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By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Richard Nixon was in the White House, his “war on drugs” was in full swing, yet Big Tobacco was secretly exploring the possibility of becoming Big Pot. Newly discovered documents from tobacco company archives at UC San Francisco show that major companies in the cigarette industry investigated joining the […]
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