By Kathryn Reed Five people from Fresno who were in South Lake Tahoe for a birthday celebration died Saturday when their plane sputtered and then nosedived into a field just after taking off at 9:45pm. Francisco de la Mora, who owned the Piper Cherokee, was piloting the single-engine fixed wing craft. Shannon D. Fleck is […]
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Updated Aug. 26 3:17pm: Javier de la Mora has told KOLO-TV in Reno that his brother Francisco de la Mora was piloting the plane that crashed in South Lake Tahoe on Saturday night. The pilot is one of the registered owners of the plane. The four others on board are believed to be de la […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee As county officials work to implement state legislation requiring tattoo and piercing shops to register and pass a battery of tests, some area practitioners question the need for the new regulations and ask whether the government will crack down on underground artists. AB300 created California inspection and registration protocols for […]
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By Torey Van Oot, Sacramento Bee California’s top Republican operatives are busy raising millions of dollars to pump into the state’s most competitive races. But this election, many of the checks aren’t being made out to the California Republican Party. A new crop of independent committees and fundraising efforts created to support Republican candidates are […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — A Las Vegas assemblyman says the policy of some casinos to force table games dealers to share tips with others isn’t fair, and he wants the 2013 Legislature to examine the issue. Assemblyman Joseph Hogan, D-Las Vegas, calls tip-sharing an “inappropriate intrusion” on what dealers earn […]
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Of the 64 people being laid off by Pacific Monarch Resorts Inc., none is from the Tahoe Seasons Resort in South Lake Tahoe. Las Vegas-based Diamond Resorts bought Pacific Monarch’s unsold vacation ownership inventory for $49.3 million earlier this year in a bankruptcy reorganization deal. “In an effort to consolidate back-office functions with existing Diamond […]
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By Massimo Calabresi, Time If someone wanted to create a global system for tracking human beings and collecting information about them, it would look a lot like the digital mobile-device network. It knows where you are, and — the more you text, tweet, shop, take pictures and navigate your surroundings using a smart phone — […]
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By Alyx Sacks, KRNV-TV Joe Humasti is a golf and ski coach for Incline High School. Humatsi has coached for 30 years and has been trained in CPR since 1972, but until now has never had to use it. “It comes back just like a reflex, the reflex takes over your emotions and you’re just […]
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When the Fallen Leaf Lake Community Services District board meets Sept. 1, the settlement agreement with former General Manager Tom Barnes is expected to be ratified. Barnes had sued the district for wrongful termination after being fired in 2010. He had asked for unpaid leave while he received treatment for cancer. He was denied that […]
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By David Siders, Sacramento Bee A late-hour bid to overhaul the California Environmental Quality Act fell apart Thursday, with Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg saying the upper house will not take up the measure before the legislative session ends next week. “The Senate will not take up comprehensive CEQA reform in the last days […]
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