By Diana Lambert, Sacramento Bee El Dorado County schools chief Jeremy Meyers hasn’t returned to work since he was arrested Thursday for allegedly driving drunk for the second time this year, and the county Office of Education does not have an official explanation for his absence. Meyers, 45, allegedly had a blood alcohol content of […]
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By Sarah Heise, KCRA-TV A man was arrested Wednesday after he shot and killed his mother and brother inside an El Dorado County home, deputies said. At about 5:15pm Nov. 11, officers went to a home in the 5400 block of Rocky Ridge Road in the Oak Hill area. According to the El Dorado County […]
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By The Street Caesars Entertainment’s third quarter earnings results missed analysts’ expectations. The Las Vegas-based holding company, which operates casinos such as Harrah’s Lake Tahoe and Harveys at Stateline, reported a loss of $5.44 per share. Revenue increased to $1.14 billion, up from $1.01 billion in the year-ago period. Read the whole story
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By Amy Miller, KTVU-TV According to a widely held belief, you can’t squeeze water from a rock. But researchers from UC Berkeley who are trying to better understand where water is stored in nature are challenging that old adage. After nearly 10 years of studying a steep, 20-square-mile area near the South Fork Eel River […]
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By Katy Murphy, Bay Area News Group Students applying to the University of California were heartened to hear Tuesday that the university has a new plan to help meet the soaring demand of in-state applicants by increasing in-state undergraduate enrollment by 10,000 — roughly 20 percent — over the next three years. The budget state […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun The American Gaming Association is asking the public for help with one of its top priorities at the moment: fighting against illegal gambling. The Washington, D.C.-based casino industry lobbying group said Tuesday that it’s cooperating with the FBI in asking the public to use the Internet Crime Complaint Center […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy RENO – It may seem nonsensical to be thinking about wildland fire now that snow has fallen and skiers are gearing up for the season. But putting 2015’s fire year to bed and preparing to confront 2016 head-on with a new action plan is what the Nevada Network of Fire […]
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By Peter Fimrite and Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle The poisoning of Dungeness crab off the California coast by a mysterious algae bloom may be bad news for the seafood industry, but to marine biologists and climate scientists, it is a frightening omen of future distress to a vibrant ecosystem. Experts say the toxin in […]
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Students at Zephyr Cove and Whittell High schools will be picked up at only the main bus stops today because of the snow. Washoe County schools are on a two-hour delay. No other schools in the basin are reporting impacts to the school day because of the snow. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Unified School District faces a lawsuit stemming from an incident at Tahoe Valley Elementary School that nearly killed a student. Todd and Marisela Aguilar on behalf of their daughter, Crystal, who is now a sixth-grader at South Tahoe Middle School, are suing the district, TVES and Grace Magnussen. Magnussen was […]
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