A 49-year-old South Lake Tahoe man was killed Tuesday night when a van struck him as he walked along Highway 50. The victim’s name has not been released pending notification of next of kin. The highway was closed from Pioneer Trail to Midway Avenue for about three hours starting at 9:15pm Aug. 14. “The pedestrian […]
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By Kathryn Reed TAHOMA – Columbine changed so many things. No longer do officers wait for the SWAT team to arrive. Assault teams of three officers will go find the bad guy. “If a gunman is killing people, it’s our responsibility to engage them,” El Dorado County sheriff’s Lt. Pete Van Arnum said. “We are […]
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By Karoun Demirjian, Las Vegas Sun In the five years since Las Vegas’ summertime summits on renewable energy started, their featured subject has become one of the country’s most politically divisive policy matters. When these things started in 2008, both presidential candidates supported cap-and-trade. Nary a soul knew about Solyndra. And, “Drill, baby drill” — […]
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By David Ruiz, Sacramento Bee The Department of Defense announced Monday the death of a 27-year-old Marine from El Dorado in Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Sky R. Mote died Friday while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, the department’s release said. Mote was assigned to the 1st Marine Special Operations Battalion at Camp Pendleton. Also killed […]
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By Tom Knudson, Sacramento Bee Like a steeple, the Jeffrey pine towers over other conifers and quaking aspen in the Tahoe National Forest north of Truckee. Nearly 13 feet around at its base and believed to be about 250 to 300 years old, it has weathered every threat to come its way, including wildfire, drought, […]
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By Corey G. Johnson, California Watch Most major California cities are failing to address the growing health care costs of government retirees, which have ballooned to more than $1 billion in some areas and soon could threaten municipalities’ ability to pay other expenses, according to a recent financial analysis by a nonprofit research group. Eleven […]
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Three people are challenging the two incumbents on the South Lake Tahoe City Council. Clinton Schue and Austin Sass, who have run before, are in the race, as is JoAnn Conner. Incumbents are Hal Cole and Bruce Grego. Stacey Wheeler had pulled papers to run, but came up short in the number of required signatures […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Based on the title of the 16th annual Lake Tahoe Environment Summit – Public-Private Partnerships-Investing in the Future of Lake Tahoe – a huge component was missing. That component is the private entities that are going to do the work and pony up the money. No one who has tried […]
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A Kings Beach man was arrested on attempted murder charges following a stabbing last week. On Aug. 9 at about 5:30ppm, two local males got into a fight in the 200 block of Fox Street in Kings Beach. During the fight, Carlos Rocha Lara, 24, pulled a knife and stabbed a 19-year-old male in the […]
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By Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times COURTLAND — On the last Sunday of July, this small town in the Sacramento River’s Delta takes a pause from the peak of the pear harvest season by holding its annual pear fair. A pear run, a pear parade, a pear pie eating contest and a pear fair queen […]
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