By Bay City News Three people were injured when a small plane crashed into the back of their car near Napa County Airport Sunday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol. The Beechcraft A36 Bonanza lost engine power and crash landed on state Highway 29 near Airport Boulevard where it rear-ended a 2007 Infiniti around […]
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By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee The name of a San Jose man who died from injuries suffered when he fell off a boat and was struck by the watercraft’s propeller at Lake Tahoe has been released. He was identified as 46-year-old Stephen Joseph Keller. Placer County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Dena Erwin said five Bay Area […]
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Updated Aug. 30 at 1:55pm: Brian Ray Hearold was located hiding at a friend’s house in Douglas County. —————————— Investigators of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office are seeking the public’s help in locating a missing/runaway juvenile. On Aug. 17, 16-year-old Brian Ray Hearold was reported as a missing/runaway juvenile by his mother. Hearold was last […]
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By Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO — For 17 years, giant Dow Chemical Co. leased state property near the Bay Area community of Pittsburg without paying any rent. A boating marina in nearby Crockett has paid nothing for the government parcel it has used since 1989 — while subleasing the land to another firm. […]
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By Charles Piller, Sacramento Bee Adjutant General David S. Baldwin returned in April from a tour of duty in Afghanistan to lead the California National Guard – and inherited a force plagued by mismanagement and freighted with scandal. Neglect had reduced Camp Roberts, a giant training site near San Luis Obispo, to decrepitude. An auditor […]
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By Chloe Stepney, Christian Science Monitor This summer, Texas’ drought of the century is an uncomfortable reminder that often there just isn’t enough water to go around. But the 40 consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures and minuscule rainfall may also be boosting the case for a new freshwater source being developed in Big Spring, Texas, […]
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Another school year means many things. Back-to-school shopping meant $7.4 billion being spent at clothing stores in August. 2010. Only in November and December were sales significantly higher. Similarly, sales at bookstores in August 2010 totaled $2.2 billion, an amount approached in 2010 only by sales in January, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The […]
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By Ben Miller, Reno Gazette-Journal Homeowners in the Reno area have begun to retrofit their houses for energy efficiency through a Nevada State Office of Energy rebate program. The program, which is called the Nevada Home Energy Fitness Campaign, offers rebates of $1,000 for homeowners who have improved their energy efficiency by at least 20 […]
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By Loretta Kalb, Sacramento Bee Hundreds of thousands of Sacramento-area residents have experienced one upside of falling real estate prices: lower property taxes. When the market recovers, however, their tax bills could rise much faster than they fell. That’s because the normal limits on tax increases established by Proposition 13 no longer apply as long […]
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee The U.S. Forest Service’s only Donner Summit-area visitor center, Big Bend, will permanently close its doors Sept. 5, following the Labor Day weekend. Part of the visitor’s center roof collapsed in March under the weight of last winter’s heavy snowfall and because of the extent of the damage, it […]
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