By Dan Lawton, Bay Area News Group HAYWARD — A Harvard-trained lawyer and former Marine, alleged to have been the mastermind behind a cinematic kidnapping in Vallejo last spring, pleaded no contest on Friday to charges stemming from an unrelated Dublin home invasion, after first collapsing in court. Matthew Muller, 38, sat behind a dark-glass […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy TRUCKEE –Truckee Town Manager Tony Lashbrook last week said it is imperative the town starts acting on climate change. This comes two months after he said that because of its location Truckee is not required to do climate action planning, but that big monetary incentives make it desirable to do […]
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By Zachary Roth, MSNBC America’s voting machines are reaching the end of their lifespans, and many states appear unwilling to spend the money to replace them, a detailed new report warns. The impasse raises the threat of a catastrophic meltdown in next year’s presidential election. The report, released Tuesday by the Brennan Center for Justice, […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Water, the lack of it and how the driest state in the nation can best stretch every last drop will be the focus of a three-day drought summit that convenes Monday in Carson City. It’s the penultimate event before a panel convened by Gov. Brian Sandoval meets […]
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Truckee and Caltrans have finished the tunnel phase of the Highway 89 Undercrossing Improvement Project, nicknamed the Mousehole Project. The tunnel structure is now completely through the Union Pacific railroad embankment. The concrete tunnel structure and retaining walls were built on the south side of the Union Pacific railroad using over 1,500 cubic yards of concrete. Then the jacking began to […]
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By Tara Lohan, AlterNet This spring, as California withered in its fourth year of drought and mandatory water restrictions were enacted for the first time in the state’s history, a news story broke revealing that Nestlé Waters North America was tapping springs in the San Bernardino National Forest in Southern California using a permit that […]
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By Vallejo Times-Herald A Benicia family is missing following a fire in El Dorado County, according to a press release Friday. Adam Buchanan, his 7-year-old son Gavin and Gavin’s mother Molly McAfee have been reported missing after a fire gutted Buchanan’s cabin near Georgetown in El Dorado County “last weekend,” according to the release. The actual […]
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By Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee Proponents of a $9 billion school-construction bond have turned in enough valid voter signatures to qualify for the November 2016 ballot, Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced Friday. The school borrowing measure would be the first since 2006. Voters have approved about $45 billion in K-12 and higher education borrowing […]
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By Karen Matthews, AP Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a goal this week to cut the amount of food that Americans waste by 50 percent by 2030. “The United States enjoys the most productive and abundant food supply on Earth, so too much of this food goes to waste,” Vilsack said in New York City, where […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee Dogs rescued from South Korea, where they had been raised for meat, will soon be available for adoption in Placer County. Staff members from the Placer Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will travel to San Francisco International Airport today to receive five or six dogs. The Humane Society […]
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