By AP A recovering economy and demand for hotel rooms helped lift Marriott International Inc.’s first-quarter net income 26 percent. More people stayed in the company’s hotels and paid 3.2 percent more per night. The Bethesda, Md.-based company earned $172 million, or 57 cents per share, beating the 51 cents expected by Wall Street analysts […]
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By George Skelton, Los Angeles Times Any struggling family knows that first you put food on the table, make sure there’s a roof overhead and lay in some daily essentials. Only then can you realistically think about paying down the credit card. True, you shouldn’t have run wild with the card in the first place. […]
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Four masked men stole thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from Simpson’s Jewelers in South Lake Tahoe. They used a sledgehammer to gain access to the South Lake Tahoe store in the Raley’s center near Stateline. “We believe the truck was stolen from another location and used to commit the smash and grab,” Police Chief […]
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By Olivia Allen-Price, KQED-TV For the first time in the 15-year history of the National Weather Service Drought Monitor, 100 percent of California is judged to be in moderate to exceptional drought. It’s a dramatic-sounding milestone, although the state has been lingering at the 99.8 percent mark since March 18. Though it’s a first for […]
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By Rina Nakano, Fox-40 ACAMPO — A 27 year-old professional skier died in a skydiving accident at the Parachute Center on Tuesday afternoon. Timy Dutton was a sponsored free skier from Squaw Valley, who also engaged in many types of sky diving activities for the last few years. According to the owner of Parachute Center, […]
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By Kathryn Reed “When you pick up the phone and hear screaming, you know it’s not going to be a good call.” Those are the words of a South Lake Tahoe dispatcher. It’s something they deal with around the clock, seven days a week. But then there are the calls from people wanting to know […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe voters are open to spending money on infrastructure, but they don’t want to foot the entire bill. The city submitted a few questions for a recent survey that Lake Tahoe Community College contracted for in regards to its proposed general obligation bond. The city paid for 25 percent of […]
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Credit Stateline’s casinos for pushing Nevada’s gaming revenues into the win column for March. The South Shore casino take was up nearly 32 percent in March compared to 2013, with profits of $14.93 million. Statewide gaming revenues were up 7.6 percent compared to the prior year at $982 million. A lot of this had to […]
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By John Brennan, New Jersey Record On any given Sunday, Mike Azzaro — or mikeycasino, as he’s known online — will travel from his home in Yonkers, N.Y., to a Ramsey hotel room for the night. The reason is not glamorous, but it is profitable: Azzaro, 27, is a professional poker player. Of the online […]
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Two Truckee teenagers have been arrested in connection with firing a BB gun at a man who had to be hospitalized for his injuries. The incident occurred April 24 in downtown Truckee. The victim transported himself to Tahoe Forest Hospital and was later transferred to Renown Medical Center in Reno because a pellet that entered […]
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