By Kathryn Reed Thanksgiving weekend so often is about gatherings of families in a warm home with an abundance of food. That isn’t the case for 300 Lake Tahoe Unified School District students. They are homeless. Another 44 are in foster families. The school board this month voted to expand the duties and hours of […]
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By Tom Miles, Reuters This year will be the hottest on record and 2016 could be even hotter due to the El Niño weather pattern, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday, warning that inaction on climate change could see global average temperatures rise by 6 degrees Celsius or more. WMO director-general Michel Jarraud said […]
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By Christina Jewett, Reveal California prosecutors are brokering plea deals in more than 11 criminal cases as health leaders overhaul the state’s drug rehabilitation care more than two years after a Center for Investigative Reporting and CNN investigation into the system in Southern California. Rehab Racket found that drug rehab counselors fabricated accounts of therapy […]
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A Reno man died Wednesday night in a single-vehicle accident on Kingsbury Grade. The 52-year-old was driving west about four miles from Foothill Road at 5pm Nov. 25 when the accident occurred. “He went into the mountain and crashed the Budget rent-a-truck,” Nevada Highway Patrolman Dan Lopez told Lake Tahoe News. He said a medical […]
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By Laurel Rosenhall, Calmatters The California Teachers Association, one of Sacramento’s most powerful interests, is heading into an extraordinary year with decisions on the ballot, in the Capitol and in the courts holding the potential to impact its clout for many years to come. Billions of dollars for schools will likely be at stake on […]
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Frederick Santos-Coy, 24, of Kings Beach was sentenced to three years and eight months in prison for reckless discharge of a firearm and a special allegation of being a felon in possession of a firearm. On Aug. 26 Truckee police officers found Santos-Coy carrying a gun in The Meadows area of Glenshire. The suspect started running, and […]
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By Vivian Ho, San Francisco Chronicle A man accused of brazenly snatching a toddler from his mother on a San Francisco Muni bus was previously convicted on separate false-imprisonment charges, including one in which he was accused of attempting to kidnap a woman at knifepoint in South Lake Tahoe, authorities said Tuesday. Sudesh Singh, 45, […]
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A South Lake Tahoe teenager was robbed Monday while walking on the path behind Motel 6 in South Lake Tahoe. The 16-year-old told officers an adult male appeared from out of the bushes with his hand in a trench coat pocket, pointing it toward him like a gun. No weapon was actually seen or mentioned. […]
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By Ryan Sabalow, Sacramento Bee HANFORD — Drive the farm roads of sparsely populated Kings County, and it’s hard to miss them: clusters of pipes, cylinders and electrical boxes jutting from the soil every few hundred yards or so, in almost every direction. These are the groundwater pumps that ensure water soaks the vast fields […]
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By Dave Jamieson, Huffington Post In the run-up to Thanksgiving this year, TJX, the parent company to discount chains Marshalls and T.J. Maxx, has been airing an advertisement about its decision to keep its stores closed on the holiday. By bucking the national trend of starting sales on Thanksgiving Day, the spot suggests, TJX is taking […]
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