By Associated Press A state audit says parolees in rural Nevada weren’t required to get as frequent supervision as their urban counterparts. Lawmakers discussed the Division of Parole and Probation during a Tuesday meeting. Auditors found parole officers were required to make home visits to sex offenders in Reno and Las Vegas every 60 to […]
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Dion Jermaine Vaccaro, 26, is sitting in an Oklahoma City jail cell waiting extradition to South Lake Tahoe on a murder warrant. He is one of five people in custody accused of killing an Amador County man during a drug deal gone bad in January. Tevarez Lopez, 33, Domenic Randolph, 22, Tristan Batten, 18, and […]
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By Julie Johnson, Santa Rosa Press Democrat Investigators suspect a 27-year-old Rohnert Park man missing for 10 days was the victim of an unprovoked, deadly attack at a remote Mendocino County marijuana farm where he and his suspected killer were paid laborers. The body of Timothy William Sweeting has not been found, but Mendocino County […]
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By Steve Reilly, USA Today Mossack Fonseca, the focus of the Panama Papers leak, is far from the only company mass-producing shell companies in secrecy-friendly states like Wyoming, Nevada and Delaware. A USA Today examination of the limited records that are available — some states are making corporate records increasingly invisible — shows that Mossack Fonseca registered less than 2 percent of […]
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By Associated Press State auditors say groups paid to educate people about Nevada’s health insurance exchange often didn’t give adequate proof that they did the outreach they billed for. Lawmakers reviewed findings Tuesday on the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange, which pays $4 million each year to groups that do marketing, outreach and enrollment assistance […]
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By Jill Colvin and Ellen Knickmeyer, AP FRESNO — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told California voters Friday that he can solve their water crisis, declaring, “There is no drought.” California is, in fact, in midst of a drought. Last year capped the state’s driest four-year period in its history, with record low rainfall […]
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An electrical short caught a mattress on fire Friday at a South Lake Tahoe hotel. Two people staying in the room at the Sky Lake Lodge were taken to Barton Memorial Hospital with minor injuries. The fire was contained to that one room. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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By Ivana Kottasova, CNN Money The world is flooded with plastic garbage. There will be more plastic than fish in terms of weight in the world’s oceans by 2050, the World Economic Forum warned. Plastic has become one of the world’s most popular materials, combining amazing functionality and very low production costs. Its use […]
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By Christopher Cadelago, Sacramento Bee With recreational marijuana headed for the fall ballot, a new poll finds that 60 percent of likely voters support the concept of legitimizing the drug in California. The Public Policy Institute of California, in a poll out Wednesday, looked at the general popularity of other issues expected on the Nov. […]
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By Seth A. Richardson, Reno Gazette-Journal Several legislative races in Northern Nevada have hauled in more than $500,000 combined in campaign cash as the June 14 primary nears. Competitive races in and near Washoe County drew large sums of contributions, according to campaign finance filings from the secretary of state’s office. Four seats – three […]
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