By Kathryn Reed Barton Health officials endorse the guidelines passed this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention related to prescribing opioid painkillers such as OxyContin and Percocet. The recommendations focus on the use of opioids for pain that has lasted longer than three months. It does not address those using these drugs […]
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By Sarah Heise, KCRA-TV A study conducted by researchers at the UCDavis found that smoking marijuana “was not safe for the long-term users.” The study followed children from birth to age 38 and found that those who smoked cannabis four or more days a week ended up in a lower social class than their parents […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe has put El Dorado County and Lake Valley Fire Protection District on notice that it intends to get out of the ambulance service by April 15. The multiyear contract between the three agencies allows for any entity to give a 30-day notice. The city did so on March 15. […]
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By Kathryn Reed A woman who has a blog called “Shred Mom” has made scathing accusations against Northstar ski resort. The resort says its investigation into the allegations found the woman to be the aggressor. Placer County sheriff’s detectives are investigating. Danelle Muresan-Foster – the blogger – told detectives the incident occurred Feb. 25. She […]
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By Associated Press A proposal to raise California’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2021 qualified Tuesday to appear on the statewide November ballot. California’s current minimum wage is among the highest in the nation at $10 an hour. The measure backed by a faction of health care workers belonging to the state largest […]
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Operation Safer Streets culminated with eight people being arrested on charges of violating conditions of their supervision and four non-supervised individuals were arrested for allegedly committing new crimes. Operation Safer Streets was a multi-agency collaborative effort to perform personal contacts on high-risk offenders under the supervision of the Division of Parole and Probation. It took place […]
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By Kathryn Reed Creating a voice for the 80 percent in the middle, not the fringe on either side. That was the impetus to bring together a group of about 50 people on Tuesday. The discussion was all about how to make South Lake Tahoe better. While Jamie and David Orr of Tahoe Mountain Lab […]
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By Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times For more than 25 years, Mary Ann Gutierrez, 77, has spent several weeks a year in South Lake Tahoe, often playing host to her children and grandchildren at one of two timeshare units she owns. When she checked into one of the properties last year, she was stopped at […]
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The FBI is seeking information that may lead to the apprehension of an armed and dangerous bank robber who has robbed seven banks in Northern California and may have cased one bank. Dubbed the “Bad Breath Bandit” for his use of a disposable paper face mask during the commission of most of the robberies, the […]
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A jury this week convicted a Bay Area man in the armed robbery of people outside the CVS drug store in the Bijou Center in South Lake Tahoe. Adam James Sanford, 32, of Hayward was convicted of two counts of robbery, two counts of attempted robbery, four counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, as […]
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