By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News Despite urgent calls for water conservation amid one of California’s worst droughts, more than 255,000 homeowners and businesses across the state can still use all the water they want without paying higher bills. And nobody even knows how much water they are using. From Bakersfield to Sacramento to […]
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Three Tahoe City residents were injured Tuesday in a single-vehicle accident on Highway 28. Morgan Russell, a passenger in the Nissan Murano, was taken to Renown Medical Center in Reno with life-threatening injuries. Wesley Waterman, the driver, and Karly Findorff sustained minor injuries. Nevada Highway Patrol troopers said Waterman might have fallen asleep, causing the […]
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By Jerry Markon and Alice Crites, Washington Post From the beginning, the U.S. government’s decade-long crackdown on prescription drug abuse has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering “pill mills” would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use. State and federal officials have pressed their campaign against prescription drug abuse with urgency, […]
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A chronic DUI offender was sentenced March 10 to 20 years to life in prison for gross negligence vehicle manslaughter while intoxicated, an enhancement of fleeing the scene, and felony hit and run. Larry L. Halverson, 61, had been found guilty on those charges on Oct. 1. Patrick Purnell, 51, was killed Sept. 4, 2011, […]
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The two women who died last week in a Placerville house fire had been shot to death. “The cause of the two victims deaths has been determined as gunshot wounds, however the manner in which they received those gunshot wounds is still under investigation,” El Doardo County sheriff’s deputies said in a press release. The […]
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By Tamar Lewinmarch, New York Times Saying its college admission exams do not focus enough on the important academic skills, the College Board announced on Wednesday a fundamental rethinking of the SAT, ending the longstanding penalty for guessing wrong, cutting obscure vocabulary words and making the essay optional. The president of the College Board, David […]
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By Christopher Cadelago and Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee Dawn and Nick LaPolla of Fair Oaks are solidly middle class, and they aren’t uninsured. Yet their required switch to a new health insurance plan under federal changes puts them at a financial crossroads. If they earn less than $94,200 a year, the family of four’s preferred […]
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Lake Tahoe News staff report One of the obstacles with securing funding for transportation projects in the Lake Tahoe Basin is that the area is considered rural. But congestion defies that rural status when there are more than 5 million visitors vying for a spot on the road. “On an average busy day there are […]
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By James Nash, Bloomberg Gov. Jerry Brown, who decries a widening gulf between rich and poor, is campaigning for a fourth and final term presiding over a state that’s outpacing the U.S. in producing millionaires and food-stamp recipients. The number of households with more than $1 million in assets gained 3.6 percent since the Democrat […]
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By Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal Ultimate Gaming was already attracting poker players from Northern Nevada to play the company’s Internet wagering platform. An agreement announced Thursday with Reno’s Peppermill Casino and four Northern Nevada casinos operated by the same company could grow that customer base. Under the deal, UltimatePoker.com, the online poker room operated […]
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