By Audrey McAvoy, AP HONOLULU — Lauren Bruner was getting ready for church in 1941 on his battleship, the USS Arizona, when the alarm sounded. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor had begun, and Bruner, then 21, scampered up five stories by ladder to the enormous anti-aircraft guns he was responsible for manning. But bullets […]
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By Kathryn Reed The rash of flat tires on the South Shore continued this weekend, with five reports on Saturday and one Sunday. Unsuspecting drivers in the area are driving over caltrops and ninja road stars. They can easily be purchased; with the main purpose being to deflate tires. They are being placed on the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Black smoke billowing from chimneys is exactly what air quality regulators don’t want to see. Woodstoves have become so efficient that little or no smoke should be seen. The problem is there are thousands of open face fireplaces and inefficient woodstoves in the basin. This contributes to poor air quality, and the […]
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The ski day ended before it even started for two people headed to Kirkwood on Sunday. The vehicle they were driving in careened off the side of the road and flipped. The passenger was taken to Barton Memorial Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. “As of right now it appears speed was an issue for roadway […]
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By Jazmine Ulloa, Los Angeles Times California lawmakers next year will make it a top priority to reform the system through which judges award criminal offenders bail, saying courts across the state are punishing “the poor for being poor.” Assemblyman Rob Bonta and state Sen. Bob Hertzberg said they plan to fire the first […]
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Barbara Antonucci, an unlicensed tax preparer from El Dorado County, is going to prison for three years and six months. She also must pay $1,895,833 in restitution for conspiring to file false claims and filing false claims. According to court documents, Antonucci and her co-conspirator, Sherry Taggart, 56, of El Dorado Hills, prepared tax returns for […]
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By Erin Kelly, USA Today WASHINGTON — In a defeat for privacy advocates, Senate leaders rebuffed a last-ditch effort by a bipartisan group of senators to allow a vote to block a new rule that allows federal agents armed with a single search warrant to hack millions of Americans’ computers or smartphones at once. That rule took effect Thursday. […]
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By Michael R. Blood, AP LOS ANGELES — California Treasurer John Chiang on Friday appealed to President-elect Donald Trump for guidance on how the state’s projected $7 billion marijuana industry can participate in the nation’s banking system while pot remains illegal under U.S. law. California voters last month approved Proposition 64, which legalized the recreational […]
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By Jay Lund, KQED California is a big, diverse place. California probably will experience droughts this year of different types in different places, and no drought at all in some places, simultaneously. Even if conditions this year are very wet, with flooding, parts of California will have drought issues. (This is what makes California a great place […]
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By Daniel Fisher, Forbes Like a monk on a mountaintop, Rob Katz is sitting in the Eagle’s Nest, a gourmet restaurant high above the quaint faux-Swiss village of Vail, ready to impart wisdom. “If you’re a casino you have these very committed, addicted gamblers,” the 49-year-old CEO of Vail Resorts says, explaining his business. “Well, […]
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