By Kathryn Reed When Martin Hewlett walks into the City Council chambers this morning he won’t be relegated to the back of the room. He will be at the big table at the front of the room. Hewlett is acting police chief for South Lake Tahoe for the indefinite future. His first day on the […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that a Las Vegas man does not have a constitutional right to parole. Michael Anselmo, now 57, was sentenced in 1972 to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the death of college student Trudy Hiler, who was […]
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By Kathryn Reed A half dozen protesters came and went from outside Broc’s Puppies on Sunday. The atmosphere between them and workers at the South Lake Tahoe store were friendly, with coffee and cookies brought out to the sign carrying group. The protesters were startled at one point when a firecracker came flying out of […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — “Real estate was never intended to be an ATM machine.†That’s what Jim Hamilton, 2005 president of the California Association of Realtors, told a group of nearly 90 people on Friday night during the annual South Tahoe Association of Realtors installation dinner. Hamilton told those at Edgewood Tahoe, “This country […]
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By Kathryn Reed Gloomy weather in South Lake Tahoe was not enough to keep a group of frustrated residents from protesting today outside of Broc’s Puppies on Highway 50. They plan to be back Sunday. The protest is one of many since the store opened in 2008. Unknowingly being sold a sick dog is the […]
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By Lenita Powers, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada had the largest increase among 30 states in the number of residents who depend on food stamps as their sole income, according to a New York Times analysis of recent welfare data released this week. From June 2007 to June 2009, the number of Nevadans relying only on food […]
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By Kathryn Reed Forty-five of the 58 counties in California are sharing millions of dollars in state grants to combat fraud in In-Home Supportive Services programs. El Dorado County is not one of them. This is because the county did not apply for grant, not because the county doesn’t have fraud. “(Fraud) is definitely out […]
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By Kathryn Reed Police descended upon Broc’s Puppies this morning, arresting four South Lake Tahoe men and taking two dogs. The arrests had nothing to do with the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office’s ongoing investigation into the South Lake Tahoe store on allegations it sells sick puppies from illegal puppy mills. However, the owner […]
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Denver Business Journal Vail Resorts Inc. said Friday its skier visits at its five winter resorts were down 2.7 percent through Wednesday from a year earlier, but the company said it was pleased with its results so far given light early-season snowfall. The Broomfield-based winter-resort and hotel company (NYSE:MTN) operates the Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Gilbert Maines’ on-again, off-again effort to represent Nancy Garrido in her kidnapping trial was off again Thursday after an appellate court in Sacramento upheld his removal from the case. “This came as a complete surprise to me,” the Placerville attorney said shortly after the order was issued by the 3rd […]
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