By CBS-San Francisco Social media lit up Saturday evening as people reported seeing strange lights in the skies over California and Nevada. It began shortly before 6 p.m. Newsrooms in California report being flooded with calls. Some speculated it was a meteor, others thought it was a UFO sighting. Navy officials told the San Diego […]
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No action was taken Saturday by the El Dorado County board of education during a special meeting. The meeting was called to discuss Superintendent Jeremy Meyers who on Nov. 5 was arrested on four misdemeanor charges related to driving under the influence. His blood alcohol level was 0.19, according to the California Highway Patrol. Shortly […]
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By Cindy Chang, Marisa Gerber and Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times Semisi Sina has kept sheriff’s deputies busy in the last year. The 30-year-old has stolen bicycles from his Hacienda Heights neighborhood. He has skipped out on drug treatment and kept up his meth habit. He has racked up 16 arrests, earning himself a place […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Correct the problems and identify opportunities. Those are the oversimplified tasks the consultants for Lake Tahoe Hard Rock have agreed to tackle. “Right now we are working to stabilize the operation,” Jim Roets told Lake Tahoe News. Roets and Rick Stevens, two veterans in the Northern Nevada casino industry, have […]
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By Lois M. Collins, Deseret News The small clouds are more noticeable than the people enveloped in the white smoke, visible on city streets and college campuses across America. They are caused by “vaping,” the use of liquid nicotine from one of various types of so-called electronic cigarettes. The users — or “vapers” — include […]
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By Kathryn Reed The El Dorado County board of education has called for a special closed session meeting on Saturday to discuss the second driving under the influence arrest of Superintendent Jeremy Meyers. While the agenda for the Nov. 7 10am meeting does not specifically say that, it is what will be discussed. The agenda […]
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By Associated Press CARSON CITY – Nevada’s getting more money than expected from a government program that pays counties based on the amount of federally managed land within their borders. Gov. Brian Sandoval announced this week that Nevada would get $25 million this year from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Payment in Lieu of […]
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The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors this month will consider raising the ambulance billing rates on both sides of the county. Through a joint powers agreement Lake Valley and South Lake Tahoe fire departments operate the ambulance service on the California side of the South Shore. A consultant who looked at what the county […]
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The U.S. Postal Service expects to deliver approximately 15.5 billion cards, letters, flats, and packages this holiday season. In addition, they are projecting approximately 600 million packages will be delivered between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve, which is an increase of 10.5 percent from last year. Following the success of the 2014 holiday season, the […]
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By Justin Gillis and Clifford Krauss, New York Times The New York attorney general has begun an investigation of Exxon Mobil to determine whether the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors about how such risks might hurt the oil business. According to people with knowledge of the […]
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