By Eli Segall, Las Vegas Sun Bondholders are ratcheting up pressure on Caesars Entertainment Corp., saying the debt-laden casino giant defaulted on the terms of possibly more than $1 billion in debt when it sold four casinos to an affiliate this year. Las Vegas-based Caesars, which received the default notice Thursday, rejected the claim as […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP RENO — Former Nevada developer and political power broker Harvey Whittemore has been ordered to begin serving a two-year prison sentence for making illegal campaign contributions to Sen. Harry Reid after a judge decided the ex-lobbyist’s conviction is unlikely to be overturned on appeal. U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks granted prosecutors’ […]
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By Mark Miller, Reuters Once upon a time, bingo was the biggest game in town at the local senior center. But you’re far more likely to find today’s seniors manning a slot machine at the local casino – and some have become gambling addicts. Problem gambling among older people is on the rise. Seniors have […]
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By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times About 1 in 8 American children will experience some form of maltreatment serious enough to be confirmed by government authorities, new research shows. Slightly more than 2 percent of kids are victimized during their first year of life, 5.8 percent are mistreated before their fifth birthday, and 12.5 percent […]
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By Christopher Cadelago, Sacramento Bee Turnout in Tuesday’s primary election is expected to approach just a quarter of registered voters, comfortably eclipsing a 6-year-old record for voter apathy in California. Election officials are still processing mail-in ballots, but preliminary counts show fewer than 4.5 million voters participated – 25 percent of the 17.7 million who […]
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By Joann Eisenbrandt “There are many people in the community who question the value of the airport and why the city continues to subsidize airport operations. This persistent question must be answered.” — Letter to South Lake Tahoe after the Feb. 13 Airport Master Plan Community Meeting For decades, Lake Tahoe Airport has been a […]
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With the counting of provisional votes in the District 5 seat in El Dorado County, the contest has gotten closer. While the two vote getters are the same as when the original tallies came in with 100 percent of the precinct reporting on June 3, the separation between the second, third, and fourth place finishers […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Ray Nutting was stripped of his seat on the Board of Supervisors in a dramatic sentencing order Friday that will shake up El Dorado County’s political leadership and force an election to fill his job. Three weeks after the embattled supervisor appeared to emerge victorious when he was acquitted of […]
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By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Richard Nixon was in the White House, his “war on drugs” was in full swing, yet Big Tobacco was secretly exploring the possibility of becoming Big Pot. Newly discovered documents from tobacco company archives at UC San Francisco show that major companies in the cigarette industry investigated joining the […]
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By Michele Richinick, MSNBC Most Americans don’t want to dine or shop near armed customers. More than half – 55 percent – of the country supports banning guns in food establishments and retail stores, according to a new Huffington Post/YouGov poll. A mere 32% of the public said they prefer allowing armed individuals into such […]
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