By Maneeza Iqbal, News 10 SACRAMENTO – A three-state drug trafficking bust led to the arrest of 14 people and the seizure of 1,300 pounds of marijuana. Dylan Hudson, 26, of Placerville was charged with conspiracy to grow and distribute marijuana and possessing marijuana with intent to distribute on Thursday by a federal grand jury, […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe’s reputation for not enforcing its laws is changing. Twenty-three letters went out this month alerting property owners they are violating the city’s sidewalk snow removal ordinance. The city will have enforcers out this weekend to see if more letters need to be written when this storm is over. Fines […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun Gov. Brian Sandoval will solicit all viewpoints on Internet gambling — including those of Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson and other critics — to develop policies to manage and regulate the rapidly changing industry that could be headed to the United States someday. Sandoval, presiding over the […]
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By Josephine Marcotty, Star Tribune The ice went out on Christmas Lake last week, and soon a new gate will go up at its only public boat ramp, signaling the start of what may be the most contentious boating season yet in Minnesota’s two-decade fight over zebra mussels and other invasive species. The gate, installed […]
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By Kathryn Reed No. 8626 is home. While still small at 35 pounds, this black bear left Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care at the break of dawn Thursday headed for Soda Lake near San Luis Obispo. This is the area where she was picked up in September and where California Department of Fish and Game officials […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY – A Carson City casino and its owner have agreed to pay a $2,000 fine and surrender their nonrestricted gaming license for permitting employees to work in the business without registering with the state. The High Sierra Brewing Co. and its owner Alan Adam have signed a […]
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Three Truckee men were arrested March 28 on burglary charges. A second homeowner four days earlier had reported his house ransacked, with skis, snowboards and distinctive-rare alcohol missing. A Truckee officer patrolling the area noticed a pair of the reported stolen skis at a house near the victim’s. A search warrant reportedly led to additional […]
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By Keith Reid, Stockton Record A Stockton chiropractor who dedicated decades of his life as a University of the Pacific booster, as a youth basketball coach and to local service clubs died Saturday in a snowmobile accident in Truckee. James Darnall, 55, was with friends at a popular recreational area Saturday five miles off Highway […]
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South Lake Tahoe police officers are looking for a man who they believe robbed a bank Thursday morning. The suspect demanded money from the teller working at the Wells Fargo Bank inside Raley’s at the Village Center. He did not use a gun during the 10:10am March 29 robbery. Officers are not disclosing how much […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — The state is considering taking another stab at naming a cove on the east shore at Lake Tahoe after Samuel L. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. But an ill-fated campfire at Tahoe is slowing the efforts of the state Board on Geographic Names. The state […]
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