By Kathryn Reed KINGS BEACH – Land acquisition, bike paths and public access projects dominated the most recent quarterly meeting of the California Tahoe Conservancy. The old blue four-plex on the corner of Sawmill Road and Highway 50 in El Dorado County will be demolished in 2016 so the 1-acre parcel can be restored to […]
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By Greg Botelho and Ralph Ellis, CNN Tens of thousands of them patrol American schools every day. They are law enforcers. They are mediators. They are educators. This week, a school resource officer in Columbia, South Carolina, was captured on a video that’s been replayed across the nation. The video shows him forcefully yanking down […]
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Resolution could not be found Oct. 28 between the owners of Lake Tahoe Hard Rock and SMC Contracting, the firm that did the bulk of the $60 million renovation of the old Horizon hotel-casino. A court hearing in Minden on Wednesday was a continuation of the legal dispute between the two parties. Mediation this summer […]
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By Joy Resmovits, Los Angeles Times For the first time in about a decade, steady academic progress has halted for fourth- and eighth-grade students nationally and locally, according to new standardized test results released Wednesday. After years of small but steady increases in scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress since its first administration […]
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Money In a pharmacy mega-merger, Walgreens is buying Rite Aid. The $17.2 billion deal puts together the nation’s second and third largest pharmacy chains that combined will have nearly 13,000 U.S. stores. That would catapult the merged company above CVS, which has 7,800 stores. Rite Aid (RAD) stores would keep their […]
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By Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee Frank Treanor doesn’t have exit polling to help explain why almost 38 percent of voters in the fire district he leads north of San Francisco voted against a November 2012 ballot measure to increase what property owners pay the district annually. But Treanor, chief of the Rancho Adobe Fire Protection […]
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South Lake Tahoe police officers are now calling an Oct. 10 incident near the state line an attempted kidnapping. A sketch of the suspect was released today. A 36-year-old female tourist told officers a man approached her about 9:40am Oct. 10 near Park and Cedar avenues, telling her to go with him or he would […]
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A Truckee man has been arrested on charges stemming from a fatal motorcycle accident on Oct. 24 on Interstate 80 east of Pyramid Highway in Sparks. According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, Jonathan Navarro, 18, of Reno was riding west on a red Honda street bike at about 11:50pm. Navarro was in the left inside shoulder […]
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El Dorado County Animal Services mailbox in Diamond Springs was broken into last weekend. It is not known how much mail was stolen. Anyone who mailed a check to the Diamond Springs location in the last week is urged to call 530.621.5795. This way staff will be able to verify if the money arrived. Until […]
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A 3.1 earthquake rattled parts of the Carson Valley this morning. The temblor was located 6 miles northeast of Johnson Lane in Gardnerville. It struck at 7:22am Oct. 28. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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