By Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. — Inside an old aircraft factory here, behind the glass windows of a pristine laboratory, the lost crew of the USS Oklahoma rests on special tables covered in black foam. Their bones are brown with age after 50 years in the ground and, before […]
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An ex-felon with a violent criminal past was arrested Dec. 4 in connection with the Oct. 14 drive-by shooting in South Lake Tahoe. South Tahoe police officers and drug task force agents arrested 43-year-old Samuel Tovar, who also goes by David Angels and other names, at 10pm Friday at a residence on San Francisco Avenue. […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County is lacking leadership. There is no permanent chief administrative officer, no permanent assistant chief administrative officer, no IT director, no risk manager, and no chief deputy county counsel. The county for more than a year has had an interim CAO – which is the top position. It won’t be […]
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By G. Scott Thomas, San Francisco Business Times It pays to have a college diploma — and preferably more than one. The linkage of education and income couldn’t be clearer in new data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The typical worker with a master’s degree earns 20 percent more than a colleague […]
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It took Lake Valley fire paramedics 90 minutes to extricate a woman from her SUV on Sunday after it rolled over in Meyers. The 17-year-old driver, whose name has not been released, was on Highway 89 near Portal when she went into a ditch. The cause of the Dec. 6 accident is under investigation. CalStar […]
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By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered Safeway to pay almost $42 million to customers nationwide who bought groceries from the market chain’s website and were unaware that they were being charged 10 percent above store prices. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar granted $30.9 million in damages and […]
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By Jason Hildago, Reno Gazette-Journal Fresh powder apparently isn’t the only thing hitting Lake Tahoe in December. Ridesharing service Uber is planning a simultaneous launch on both sides of Tahoe before the end of the year, filling a key market in its Nevada and California territories. Uber was not able to provide a specific date […]
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By Mariam Baksh, Huffington Post Democrat John Oceguera, a former speaker of the Nevada assembly who’s running for Congress, resigned his lifetime NRA membership because of what he said was the group’s opposition to “any legislation that would help keep guns out of the hands of terrorists.” “I am law-abiding gun owner, and have been a Life […]
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By Ken Ritter, AP Governors from 19 Western states called Friday for expansion of a program that screens international travelers at airports abroad, in a bid to encourage tourism and stop terrorists before they arrive in the U.S. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock told the Western Governors’ Association in Las Vegas that expanding a U.S. government […]
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By David Siders, Sacramento Bee LE BOURGET, France — Gov. Jerry Brown said Saturday that “wide open” gun laws in Nevada and Arizona are a “gigantic back door through which any terrorist can walk,” while he was noncommittal on efforts to strengthen gun control measures in California. Brown, arriving in France for climate talks after the […]
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