By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Phillip and Nancy Garrido will be sentenced June 2 for the kidnapping and rape of Jaycee Lee Dugard, but that won’t be the end of the case that day. El Dorado Superior Court Judge Douglas Phimister has scheduled a hearing after the sentencing to decide whether to unseal the transcripts […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released documents Tuesday acknowledging it was responsible for using a racially inflammatory version of the name Negro Hill when that town’s cemetery was moved to El Dorado Hills to make way for Folsom Lake in 1954. Negro Hill’s old cemetery – on the land […]
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Lukins Brothers Water Company users are about to see higher bills as the company secures a $2 million loan to begin a multi-year improvement plan. Lukins is the water provider for the Mikasa center at the Y in South Lake Tahoe and then for people living on the east side of Emerald Bay Road. The […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe Fire Chief Lorenzo Gigliotti tendered his resignation Thursday. His last day on the job will be Sept. 1. In a sweeping interview in his office May 6, Gigliotti looked like a man ready to take on new challenges – possibly in the Lake Tahoe Basin – but also as […]
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By Jon Ortiz, Sacramento Bee Battle lines sharpened Thursday over California’s public pensions with the release of a new report that concludes pay and benefit packages for public workers are better than those for their counterparts in the private sector. Commissioned by pension overhaul advocates poised to seek changes, the report drew immediate fire from […]
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As members of the South Lake Tahoe Police Department were responding to the usual calls for service on Cinco de Mayo, the Corado family was enjoying a quiet night at home. Their two worlds were about to collide in a chaotic, but positive way. Maria Ortiz-Corado, nine months pregnant, was 10 days from her due […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe has spent more than three quarters of a million dollars on a document that on Tuesday the League to Save Lake Tahoe all but said it would file a lawsuit against if the city approves it. The controversy surrounding the General Plan update has to do with it not […]
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By Kathryn Reed A four-hour meeting Thursday night about potential South Tahoe Public Utility District rate increases ended with metered water customers’ voices being heard and no one opposing the likely 3 percent sewer rate increase. The latter will definitely be on the May 19 agenda (meeting time 2pm) for a board vote. It would […]
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By Amanda Finnegan, Las Vegas Sun After two years of declining revenues, the U.S. casino industry showed more stable results in 2010, according to an annual report released Wednesday by the American Gaming Association. Gross gaming revenue from commercial casinos totaled $34.6 billion in 2010, a nearly 1 percent increase from 2009. The AGA this […]
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By Matt Weiser and Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee Repairs to a Placer County water canal destroyed by a landslide could be at least a month away, water officials said, likely requiring mandatory water rationing for many customers starting next week. A section of the Bear River Canal slid off a mountainside near Colfax on April […]
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