By Nicole Perlroth, New York Times Paul Kocher, one of the country’s leading cryptographers, says he thinks the explanation for the world’s dismal state of digital security may lie in two charts. One shows the number of airplane deaths per miles flown, which decreased to one-thousandth of what it was in 1945 with the advent […]
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El Dorado County planning commissioners denied the request by Cingular Wireless/AT&T to erect a cell tower on the south side of Skyline Drive about one mile northeast of the intersection of Highway 50 and Pioneer Trail on the South Shore. Residents in the area had voiced concerns about the tower. Because of all the houses […]
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By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times American women gave birth to 3,932,181 babies in 2013 as the nation’s birthrate fell to another record low, federal researchers reported. The total number of births declined for the sixth straight year, with only 62.5 babies born for every 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44. The […]
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Lingering effects of the storm that roared through Lake Tahoe are subsiding. Heavenly Mountain Resort resumed operations today after being closed for the last three days. Thursday it was wind, Friday and Saturday it was power issues that kept the resort from opening. Power also affected operations at Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows on Dec. 13. […]
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A missing South Lake Tahoe teenager was found dead Dec. 13, having been struck by a 50-foot tree during the storm. Dejon Smith, 14, had been reported missing Dec. 11 from his Wildwood Avenue home. Officers on Dec. 12 spoke to someone who had seen the teen late the night before in the wooded area […]
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By Deborah Sutton, Deseret News Burning the midnight oil implies working overtime, long into the night, to get something done and ultimately to get ahead. But the belief that sacrificing a few hours of sleep for a few more hours of work will lead to higher achievement has been debunked by science. “According to the Division […]
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By Kimberly Pierceall, AP Looking for cash, Caesars Entertainment officials looked no further than the company’s flagship Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino Caesars Palace and saw $2.6 billion that could be raised by mortgaging the 4,250-room resort modeled after Ancient Rome. The proposal was revealed this week after the company’s bank lenders were the latest creditors […]
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By Brent Skorup, Reuters A national spotlight is now focused on aggressive law enforcement tactics and the justice system. Today’s professional police forces — where officers in even one-stoplight towns might have body armor and mine-resistant vehicles — already raise concerns. Yet new data-mining technologies can now provide police with vast amounts of surveillance information […]
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By Kathryn Reed A lot of gunk flows into Lake Tahoe, causing the clarity to decline and algae to grow. Most of it comes in the winter and spring via storm runoff. But the lasting effect is making the water near the beaches less inviting, especially in the summer. None of this is news. What […]
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Updated 7:50pm Heavenly Mountain Resort will be closed Saturday — the third consecutive day. “Due to a variety of complications from the storm, Heavenly will not open on Saturday. We expect to restore power to the mountain for operations on Sunday,” Sally Gunter told Lake Tahoe News. Wind forced the closure on Thursday, power was the problem Friday. […]
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