By Tami Abdollah and Eric Tucker, AP WASHINGTON — After a decade of sending military equipment to civilian police departments across the country, federal officials are reconsidering the idea in light of the violence in Ferguson, Missouri. The public has absorbed images of heavily armed police, snipers trained on protesters and tear gas plumes. Against […]
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One person died and another was seriously injured when the plane they were in was trying to land Saturday night at a Placerville airport. The Starduster biplane was headed for Swansboro Airport just before 7pm Aug. 16. El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies said after circling the airport once the aircraft disappeared out of sight. The […]
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By Michael Doyle, McClatchy News Service WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill and courthouse shadows will cloud the Lake Tahoe Summit that convenes Tuesday. No doubt, the political A-listers gathering for the 18th annual summit have much to celebrate, starting with the spectacular views from the location near South Lake Tahoe. They also have their work cut […]
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By Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid is not running for re-election, but Republicans are turning up the volume on a new campaign slogan to “Fire Harry Reid.” With momentum recently swinging to their side to take back the Senate in November, the Republican National Committee is sending out a memo […]
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North Tahoe Public Utility District’s board of directors this week voted to implement Stage 2 mandatory water conservation measures and established an enforcement plan for customers. The district had been under a Stage 1 voluntary conservation program since February. The prohibitions include: • Washing sidewalks, driveways, and other hard surfaces • Excessive plumbing leaks not […]
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By Sammy Caiola, Sacramento Bee A national lung cancer trial launched earlier this summer with the help of a UC Davis oncologist has the potential to dramatically affect the way cancer drugs will be developed in the future. The trial, called Lung-MAP, puts a cancer-fighting approach into action that uses genomic profiling. This involves testing […]
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By Brian Melley, AP LOS ANGELES — California was ordered to educate all children who don’t speak English after reports revealed a quarter of its school districts fail to meet that requirement, which is mandated by both the federal government and California itself. Judge James Chalfant said it is particularly important that the California Department […]
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By Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times California lawmakers approved a ballot measure for a $7.5 billion water bond Wednesday evening, following an eleventh-hour scramble to secure bipartisan support by increasing funding for new reservoirs. Soon after lawmakers wrapped up, Brown signed AB1471 by Assemblyman Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, one of two identical measures they had approved. […]
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Erwin Bosbeli Cifuentes-Perez, 24, of Truckee was arrested Aug. 12 on charges of having sex with a minor. The victim’s parents contacted Truckee officers to report the relationship between the victim and suspect who lives in Kings Beach. Detectives determined the relationship was consensual, however the suspect is several years older than the victim. This […]
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By Kathryn Reed It doesn’t take science for people to know Lake Tahoe’s shoreline is growing as the drought persists. But it does take science to determine the health of those waters. The annual “Tahoe: State of the Lake Report 2014” was released today by the Tahoe Environmental Research Center at UC Davis. “While this […]
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