By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe police Officer Johnny Poland is going to prison. Poland pleaded guilty today to obstruction of an official proceeding. This was one of four charges leveled against the 44-year-old earlier this year. He will be sentenced Aug. 7. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years behind bars, a $250,000 […]
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By Kathryn Reed No longer can opponents to South Lake Tahoe’s expansion of metered parking point to Truckee as an example of a town that continuously loses money with paid parking. Truckee is projected to net $140,000 this fiscal year that ends June 30. And the town council this month agreed – unanimously – to […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee El Dorado County residents and sheriff’s investigators are trying to track down vandals who have laid waste to thousands of dollars’ worth of trees on private property. Detective John Robertson said he has five active cases, all involving cedars that have been felled in recent months. Three of the incidents […]
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By Greg Hanscom, Pique When a report warning of global warming’s disastrous impacts on skiing garnered national headlines in December, activists hoped the news would encourage a serious response both at home and in Washington, D.C. But the ski industry itself, where bad press means all the difference between a banner year and a bust, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Krystal Steadman never learned the lessons taught in Fighting Chance. Her fourth-grade class at Meyers Elementary School was on the calendar that spring of 2000 a week after the 9-year-old was abducted. It would be pure speculation that the then fourth-grader would be alive today had she been taught what to do […]
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By Mary Clare Jalonick, AP CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought. Same goes for soda. Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which […]
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By Tom Hauser, KSTP-TV For George Lamson Jr., every day since Jan. 21, 1985, is a gift. Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 crashed shortly after take-off just after 1am that day. Lamson was the only one of 71 people on board who survived that crash a short distance from the airport in Reno. He’s one of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Despite an ongoing 1½-year-old lawsuit involving Washoe Meadows State Park, improvements at the South Shore park are expected to begin this summer. The bridge crossing Angora Creek is slated for replacement, along with work on the channel so it flows better. Comments for the CEQA documents are being taken until June 5. […]
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By Mary Beth Marklein, USA Today College enrollments declined 2.3 percent this spring compared with a year earlier, a sign that more students are returning to the workforce as the economy recovers, a report out Thursday says. The biggest drops occurred among adult learners attending for-profit colleges and public community colleges, which are most likely […]
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By Kathryn Reed “Crimes of the government can become sins against the innocent, especially in the mind of a child.” “In 1942, all three branches of the government violated the Constitution.” “Immigrants are often scapegoats.” Those are some of the thoughts Jeanne Watatsuki Houston shared with nearly 200 people who listened to her speak this […]
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