By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY — Nevada’s tough financial situation is holding up two interim studies approved by the Legislature because of the requirement for alternative funding sources to assist in conducting the reviews. One is a study of the state Public Employees’ Retirement System and the other is a study of […]
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By Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times The tech broke the bud of marijuana into small flakes, measuring 200 milligrams into a vial. He had picked up the strain, Ghost, earlier that day from a dispensary in the Valley and guessed by its pungency and visible resin glands that it was potent. He could have determined […]
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee TRUCKEE — Two Truckee men charged with cocaine sales entered not guilty pleas Feb. 14 during arraignment at Nevada County Superior Court in Truckee. Salvador Ruvalcaba-Munoz, 36, and Conrado Rodriguez-Quintero, 45, remain in custody at the Wayne Brown Correctional Facility in Nevada City in lieu of $35,000 bail, pending […]
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The Tahoe Truckee Unified School District board on Feb. 16 agreed to lay off up to 18.4 certificated positions at the end of this school year in order to decrease the $5 million budget deficit for 2012-13. The district will use $3.2 million from the reserve fund to completely close the gap. According to Steve […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the second of two stories about heroin use on the South Shore. Click here to read the first article. By Jessie Marchesseau Josh does not look like your stereotypical Hollywood heroin addict. In fact, he sat two tables away from me at a local café for nearly 20 minutes while I […]
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By Rocky Barker and Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s call to sell or transfer federally owned public lands Tuesday night in Boise earned him several rounds of applause. But Idaho Gov. Butch Otter found in 2005 that while Idahoans don’t like how federal lands are managed, they don’t want to lose […]
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A three-car accident that included one vehicle landing on its roof and another 10-feet down the embankment headed toward the American River resulted in at least one ambulance taking injured people to Barton Memorial Hospital. The Friday collision that closed Highway 50 for about 30 minutes in both directions still had California Highway Patrol officers […]
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By Steve Timko, Reno Gazette-Journal One in four recent Nevada marriages is interracial or interethnic, the third-highest rate in the nation, according to a Pew Center report released this week. Using U.S. Census Bureau data, the research group concluded that out of the 57,065 marriages by Nevada residents between 2008 and 2010, 25.6 percent were […]
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By Ed Vogel, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Nevada legislators unanimously approved a regulation Wednesday that makes it felony to sell or possess methamphetamine-like synthetic drugs sold in some head shops and convenience stores as “bath salts.” Without any debate, members of the Legislative Commission made permanent a regulation adopted by the Board of […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the first of two stories about heroin use on the South Shore. By Jessie Marchesseau South Lake Tahoe has seen its first heroin-related death for 2012, and if 2011 is any indication, it will not be the last. The victim, a 31-year-old female, was found in a South Lake Tahoe hotel […]
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