By Anita Creamer, Sacramento Bee At the barbershop on Florin Road where he works, Chris Matsumoto was trimming a customer’s hair one day in 2006. He’d taken time off work a couple of weeks earlier after having dizzy spells. Suddenly, the severe dizziness returned. “I got dizzy again, so dizzy,” he said. “And then I […]
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By KCRA-TV OAKLAND — Safeway Inc. has agreed to pay nearly $10 million in civil penalties to settle a environmental protection lawsuit filed in Oakland alleging that the grocery store chain failed to properly dispose of hazardous waste at more than 500 California facilities over seven years. The San Francisco and Alameda County district attorney’s […]
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By Associated Press Nevada hunters killed 18 black bears in 2014, the most in the hunt’s four-year history. The Nevada Department of Wildlife says 12 of the bruins were killed in the Pinenut Mountains near Carson City. Others were killed in the Carson Range, Pine Grove Mountains and Washoe Valley, all in Northern Nevada. The […]
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By Richard Chang, Sacramento Bee A longtime animal rescue group has run out of cash, leaving El Dorado County officials scrambling to provide care to an unprecedented 91 horses. The nonprofit Grace Foundation was formally evicted Nov. 20 from a private ranch off Latrobe Road after losing its insurance, said the foundation’s executive director, Beth […]
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By Miguel Llanos, NBC News Drought? What drought? Californians could be forgiven for asking that question after two big storms in December brought record rain to the north and mountain snow to Southern California that dusted palm trees in some lower-elevation towns. The start of a new year, however, has the state back in a […]
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By AJ Vicens, Mother Jones Last year, it was reported that a small city in China had created a texting-only lane for pedestrians. The story went viral before it was somewhat debunked—turns out the lane is in a theme park, and it’s just 100 feet long—but there’s a reason it got eyeballs: everybody’s worried about […]
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By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee A long standoff with sheriff’s deputies at a home in Placerville ended after a fire caused a wanted man to exit his residence. El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies attempted to serve an arrest warrant on a man in the 2200 block of Cold Springs Road about 11:30am Thursday. The man […]
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By Matt Ferner, Huffington Post Former Sen. Mike Gravel,D-Alaska, is the new CEO of a marijuana company that produces cannabis-infused products for both recreational and medical use, the company announced this week. The Alaskan Democrat and 2008 presidential contender will lead KUSH, a subsidiary owned by Cannabis Sativa, Inc. Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson […]
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By Cynthia H. Craft, Sacramento Bee Flu is hitting hard, and even though vaccinations might not target the specific strain of the virus currently going around, experts still urge people to receive the shots. The nation’s top public health agency declared a flu epidemic Tuesday, warning residents to exercise caution in public spaces and use […]
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By Katie Lobosco, CNNMoney Kristi Kelly owns legal marijuana stores in Colorado called Good Meds and has lost 23 bank accounts in five years. Even though medical marijuana is legal in Colorado and 22 other states, it’s still illegal on the federal level. And that means banks generally don’t want anything to do with pot […]
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