By Christopher Cadelago, Sacramento Bee Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, the architect of an omnibus gun-control initiative to require background checks for ammunition, said Thursday that the campaign has collected enough signatures to qualify for the fall ballot. Newsom planned to submit roughly 600,000 signatures for his “Safety for All,” initiative on Friday, far more than […]
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An El Dorado County man amy be spending a year in prison for failing to serve a 60-day sentence. A jury on April 26 found Cesar Caballero, 46, of Diamond Springs guilty. According to court documents, on Aug. 30, 2011, Caballero was convicted of obstruction of mail for submitting change of address forms to the U.S. […]
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By Lake Tahoe News Even though the number of permanent residents is declining in North Lake Tahoe, second home ownership and tourism is increasing. Placer County Deputy Chief Executive Officer Jennifer Merchant gave supervisors an update this week on services, programs, and projects delivered to citizens in the eastern part of the county. Part of […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee CalPERS’ former chief executive, sitting in jail for allegedly committing battery against a former girlfriend, is expected to have his sentencing postponed a week for his role in the pension fund’s bribery scandal. Fred Buenrostro was scheduled to be sentenced May 18 in U.S. District Court in San Francisco after […]
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By Kathryn Reed A pretty lake and casinos. That combo is no longer enough. That is why Lake Tahoe needs to up its game if it’s going to keep attracting tourists. That was an overriding message delivered this week by those in the industry. Lynn Carpenter, vice president of marketing for Visit California – the […]
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By Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times On the vacant, sun-blasted streets southwest of the Strip, Joe Cervantes sees an America on the decline. For Cervantes, life in these sand-blown suburbs has come to look like much that has gone wrong with the rest of the country. The way Cervantes sees it, the government is a […]
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By Alexei Koseff, Sacramento Bee With legalization looming on the horizon, California lawmakers are already grappling over how to treat marijuana in a state with some of the strictest tobacco regulations in the country. A bill from Assemblyman Jim Wood, D-Healdsburg, would extend to medical marijuana a 2011 law that permitted landlords to prohibit the […]
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A fourth suspect in the January murder of an Amador County man was arrested this week. Tevarez Lopez, 33, of Georgetown was already in custody in El Dorado County on an unrelated when South Lake Tahoe officials caught up with him April 27. He, along with Domenic Randolph, 22, Tristan Batten, 18, and Harvest Davidson, […]
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A Douglas County man is behind bars accused of kidnapping his wife. Jessica Albericci, 29, of Gardnerville was found unharmed Wednesday afternoon on Blue Lakes Road in Alpine County. Sheriff’s deputies were called out to a residence in the Gardnerville Ranchos on April 27 at 10:45am regarding a domestic dispute between Albericci and her 32-year-old […]
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By Associated Press State officials say Nevada gambling revenue was down 3 percent in March compared with the same month a year ago because of lower winnings in the Las Vegas area. The Nevada Gaming Control Board said Thursday that the state’s casinos won $951 million in March. Revenue fell in the areas with the […]
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