By John Simerman, Contra Costa Times Contra Costa County will slap a $24,000 lien on the property near Antioch where Phillip and Nancy Garrido kept Jaycee Dugard in sexual bondage for years, after a cleanup last year of mounds of trash, hazardous wiring, junk cars, dilapidated structures and an open septic hole in the yard. […]
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Two people and their pets escaped injury Tuesday afternoon when a fire broke out at their South Lake Tahoe residence. When Lake Valley firefighters arrived at 1406 Black Bart Ave. they saw light smoke coming from the roof. Firefighters quickly determined there was a fire in the chimney chase that connected to a large attic, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Community College officials were alerted Tuesday that members of Westboro Baptist Church will picket the college during the March 19 production of the “Laramie Project†at Duke Theatre. Members of this Topeka, Kansas, church run by Fred Phelps travel the country preaching that God does not like homosexuals. In fact, […]
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By Kathryn Reed One hour. That was the amount of time Les Lovell was given by Stan Perez before a press release was sent last week saying Perez was withdrawing as a candidate for El Dorado County sheriff. “It was probably as shocking to me as it was anyone else,” Lovell told Lake Tahoe News. […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee The El Dorado County sheriff is objecting to a request that Phillip and Nancy Garrido be allowed to visit each other in jail, saying it “is breathtaking in its audacity.” Lawyers for the pair say the two accused kidnappers of Jaycee Lee Dugard need to meet to make family decisions […]
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By Kathryn Reed Things are beginning to sizzle at Chase’s Bar and Grill inside Lake Tahoe Airport and it has nothing to do with what’s being prepared in the kitchen. Owner Sam Sonki Ahn believes the city of South Lake Tahoe, as his landlord, is not acting in good faith in negotiating a new lease. […]
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Charges against John Andoh, administrator of the South Shore’s bus system, have been dropped. Andoh was arrested in October on a warrant stemming from allegations he lied to South Lake Tahoe officers about a summer traffic accident. “I just got the minute order in the mail. No apology from anyone. A very costly endeavor for […]
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Reno Gazette-Journal A bear suspected of prior break-ins to homes in the Incline Village area was shot dead today as it rushed a Washoe County sheriff’s deputy, officials said. The black bear, a 10-year-old male weighing about 600 pounds, was discovered hibernating beneath a condo in the Bitterbrush development, said Carl Lackey of the Nevada […]
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By Kathryn Reed Until these Winter Olympics close on Feb. 28, the true greenness of them won’t be known. Green as in environment, not the cash collected. The goal from the outset of the Vancouver Olympic Committee was to make the 2010 Games the greenest to date. (London has already said it will out-do Vancouver […]
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By Jim Sloan, Sacramento Bee Development takes much of the blame for the long decline in Lake Tahoe’s legendary clarity. Now, in a move they admit seems “counterintuitive,” regulators are counting on more housing, ski lodges and hotel rooms to help reverse it.. Although construction of new projects has all but ceased at the sensitive […]
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