By ABC 4 NEWS CEDAR CITY, Utah — A small plane crashed into a Cedar City resident’s backyard Sunday afternoon. About 3:30pm a 56-year-old man was flying a small plane from Carson City to Georgia when he lost power. Officials say he was trying to glide into the airport in Southern Utah, but he didn’t […]
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By Kathryn Reed Reconfiguring the three sections of the Camp Richardson Campground, making the road leading to the Beacon Restaurant more efficient, reducing congestion in the area, and removing parking from dirt areas along Highway 89 are the major components of a multi-million dollar, multi-year project the U.S. Forest Service wants to undertake. The federal […]
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By Martha Groves, Los Angeles Times As 14-year-old Jaycee Dugard struggled in a crude backyard shed to deliver her baby daughter, the serial predator who had abducted and raped her stepped in to unwrap the umbilical cord that trapped the infant. “She was beautiful,” Dugard said of the child she birthed three years into her […]
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The South Lake Tahoe Police Department will be continuing its Neighborhood Traffic Enforcement Program for the next two weeks in the Tahoe Keys. Last week officers concentrated their enforcement efforts in the Sierra Tract; with 41 traffic related traffic stops were made. Officers wrote three speeding citations, 11 stop sign violation citations, 11 citations for […]
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More than half (51.6 percent) of all businesses that responded to the 2007 Survey of Business Owners were operated primarily from someone’s home in 2007, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau released this month. Only 6.9 percent of these home-based businesses had $250,000 or more in receipts, while 57.1 percent of home-based businesses […]
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A South Lake Tahoe 3-year-old girl who fell out of a second floor window has been released from Renown Medical Center in Reno. Police responded to an apartment at 1801 Lake Tahoe Blvd. at 9:25pm July 9. The toddler was airlifted from the scene by Careflight to Reno. At this time no foul play is […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee For nearly a year, Alfred Villalobos has been able to use the bankruptcy laws to sidestep a state lawsuit accusing him of bribing officials at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System. Now California officials have won the right to pursue the $95 million case against Villalobos. A federal judge in […]
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By Susan Voyles, Reno Gazette-Journal A cocktail of drugs likely will be the answer to cure people with muscular dystrophy, and a researcher at the University of Nevada, Reno believes the university has developed one of the key ingredients. Dean Burkin, an associate professor of pharmacology, has been working for a decade to isolate and […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee Regulatory reform aimed at reducing fire risk at Lake Tahoe, adopted in the wake of the 2007 Angora fire, has been found in violation of state law. The reform measure was adopted amid intense political pressure after the fire. It sought to streamline rules governing logging projects to thin overgrown […]
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By Kathryn Reed Coming just weeks after a scathing grand jury report, El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson outlines egregious behavior by the sheriff’s department in regards to giving incentive pay to employees who had phony degrees. “None of the universities involved in this investigation were appropriately accredited,” the report states. The 22-page report […]
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