By Reno Gazette-Journal The 82-year-old South Lake Tahoe-area resident injured in a crash Wednesday in Sparks was identified (Thursday) as Odd Bakken by the Sparks Police Department. Bakken is reported to be on a ventilator and may have broken a leg in the 5:17pm crash at Rock Boulevard and Hymer Avenue, police said. Read the […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee A federal grand jury in Sacramento (Thursday) indicted a South Lake Tahoe woman for wire fraud in connection with an investment fraud scheme. According to the indictment, Lori Zoval, 45, was a licensed securities broker with a firm in Folsom and used her position of trust to steal more than […]
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A fire reported early this afternoon in the Upper Kingsbury area of Stateline has been contained. The fire burned about one-tenth of an acre on Genoa Peak Road. This is a dirt road on National Forest land that links Kingsbury Grade and Spooner Summit. Mark Novak, fire marshal with Tahoe-Douglas Fire Protection District, did not […]
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By Robert Perea, Reno Gazette-Journal YERINGTON — A regional law enforcement agency that targets gangs in Lyon and Douglas counties, along with Carson City, will be able to continue its work through a newly awarded $270,281 grant. “Gangs don’t recognize county boundaries, and with this program, our people won’t recognize county boundaries,” Lyon County Sheriff […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee Law enforcement typically advises being wary of purported solicitations on their behalf, but the Placer County Sheriff’s Department wants folks to know that a fundraising drive for its Search and Rescue teams is legitimate. The teams are beginning their annual countywide telemarketing fundraising drive. Search and Rescue volunteers donate thousands […]
Read morePublisher’s note: Click on claim to read the attorney general’s report. By Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times Authorities spoke to a woman who had been kidnapped and held captive for 18 years by a paroled rapist who fathered her two girls, but failed to determine her identity, according to a state report released Wednesday. […]
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By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal Gaming revenues tumbled nearly 8 percent in Washoe County in May from a year earlier, the state reported today, as a key source of state revenue continued a 2 1/2-year slump. Casinos within Reno saw gross revenues fall 6.6 percent from May 2009 while Sparks properties saw a 14.4 percent […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee Defense lawyer Mark D. Millard opened the capital murder defense of David Zanon on Tuesday by telling a jury in Placerville he couldn’t deny his client had run over and killed CHP Officer Scott Russell in 2007. “This case, as (District Attorney Vern) Pierson said, is a terrible tragedy and […]
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By Mike Treleven, Napa Register Robert Mondavi Winery is field testing a new, simple technology that allows young grapevines to thrive by getting needed water from the atmosphere and not from an underground aquifer. The invention, the Groasis Waterboxx, can potentially save grapegrowers 175,000 gallons per year per acre, said inventor Pieter Hoff, 57, who […]
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It was a fairly routine Fourth of July for law enforcement. That’s not to say there weren’t plenty of arrests. That’s what made it normal. South Lake Tahoe officers described it as a young crowd with lots of drinking. “There was nothing out of the ordinary,” South Tahoe police Lt. David Stevenson said. “The boat […]
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