The pedestrian killed in Stateline in the early morning of New Year’s Day has been identified as Alex M. Moore, 21, of Walnut Creek. He was pronounced dead at the scene. According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, the victim was walking in the left eastbound lane of Highway 50 near Lake Village when the accident […]
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A 24-year-old Truckee man is presumed dead after the canoe he was in with a friend capsized on a windy Donner Lake Monday. His name is being withheld pending notification of family. A 19-year-old Truckee woman called police about 6:30pm Jan. 2 to report she had been with a friend in a canoe on Donner […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – More than 2,300 Nevada nonprofit groups have had their tax exempt status revoked by the Internal Revenue Service. The revocations run the gamut from the Edgewood Tahoe Men’s Club to the Lovelock Alfalfa Seed Growers. Most of the revocations occurred in 2010 but were just posted […]
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By Peter Whoriskey, Washington Post BUTLER, Pa. — One day after his shift at the steel mill, Gary Myers drove home in his 10-year-old Pontiac and told his wife he was going to run for Congress. The odds were long. At 34, Myers was the shift foreman at the “hot mill” of the Armco plant […]
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Rob Leri has been selected as the next superintendent of Tahoe Truckee Unified School District, with the board of trustees expected to vote on the contract Jan. 4. Leri is currently deputy superintendent of educational services at Arcadia Unified School District. Prior to that he was director of assessment, technology and information services there, and […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — The crackdown starts today on motorists who use their cellphones while on the road, and the state starts planning to inspect boats for a fee to keep Nevada waters clear of such invasive species such as quagga mussels and algae known as rock snot. Law enforcement […]
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By John Ellis, Fresno Bee A Fresno federal judge on Thursday dealt a setback to California’s landmark global warming law, which went into effect last year with the goal of reducing the state’s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill ruled that California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard violated […]
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Updated: Jan. 1 2pm. By Kathryn Reed A 21-year-old Walnut Creek man died early New Year’s morning when he was struck by two vehicles on Highway 50 in Stateline. The name of the victim is not being released pending notification of next of kin. A California Highway Patrol vehicle first struck the man. The force […]
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By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO — A federal judge has approved a plan to liquidate the estate of Stateline resident Alfred J.R. Villalobos, former board member of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the state’s biggest public pension fund. The action by a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in Reno ended an 18-month bankruptcy […]
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Two Incline Village residents were killed in a crosswalk by a driver who officers say was under the influence of drugs. After the 8pm Dec. 30 accident, Christopher Torii Smith, 25, of Grass Valley was booked into the Washoe County Jail on two counts of driving under the influence causing death and failure to yield […]
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