By Denny Walsh, Sacramento Bee A state appellate court has blocked the release from prison of a man who pumped nine bullets into an El Dorado County sheriff’s deputy more than two decades ago. A three-justice panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento reversed El Dorado Superior Court Judge Suzanne Kingsbury’s ruling […]
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With one week left to file, only one of the six people who has pulled papers for the South Lake Tahoe City Council election has officially qualified for the Nov. 6 ballot. That would be Austin Sass. The people taking out papers are incumbents Hal Cole and Bruce Grego, and challengers Clinton Schue, JoAnn Conner […]
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South Lake Tahoe is in the process of acquiring approximately $25,000 worth of used halogen taxiway lights from Reno airport. City employee Lee Brown was instrumental in obtaining the lights. Brown was borrowing stencils from Reno-Tahoe International Airport when officials offered the lights which had been marked to be disposed of as surplus materials. The […]
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By KTVN-TV The Nevada County coroner’s office has identified the pilot killed in Thursday’s plane crash in Truckee. They say 66-year-old James Ungar — part of the Flying Doctors — was leaving for a humanitarian mission in Mexico when the plane crashed. The Flying Doctors Facebook page says the Yreka man had two other volunteers […]
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By Rory Carroll, Reuters SAN FRANCISCO — California’s electricity sector is more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought, as higher temperatures will impede the state’s ability to generate and transmit power while demand for air conditioning rises, a report said Tuesday. The data is part of the latest report released by the California Natural […]
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By Alison Vekshin, James Nash and Rodney Yap, Bloomberg News Stockton Police Chief Tom Morris was supposed to bring stability to law enforcement when he was appointed to the job four years ago. He lasted eight months and left the now-bankrupt city at age 52 with an annual pension that pays more than $204,000 — […]
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By KTVN-TV A pilot was killed in a small plane crash in Truckee on Thursday morning. The Truckee-Tahoe Airport general manager says the crash happened as the plane was taking off about 8:15am. He says he witnessed part of the crash and it seemed as if the plane was having difficulty climbing while taking. Firefighters […]
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Charges related to the Topaz Ranch Estates Fire have been filed against two Northern Nevadans. Kim Carlin and Steven Cozad are scheduled to be arraigned Aug. 27 in the East Fork Township Justice Court on charges of willful or negligent failure to guard or extinguish a fire. The charges are misdemeanors. Authorities believe the fire […]
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By KOLO-TV CARSON CITY — Sequoia King National Park officials in Inyo County are working to identify a body found during the search for a missing hiker from Carson City. That’s according to an Inyo County spokeswoman. The body was found during the search Wednesday night for doctor Gary Dankworth, who has been missing since […]
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High speed Internet has finally come to Alpine County and parts of Douglas County outside of the Lake Tahoe Basin. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski was in the area June 30 to recognize Frontier Communications’ efforts to expand broadband service to this sparsely populated area. The cable company is partnering with NBCUniversal to broadcast the Olympics […]
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