By Cynthia Hubert and Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee Six months after he was discharged to a Greyhound bus and shipped out of Las Vegas, one former patient of Nevada’s primary hospital for mentally ill people stabbed a man to death in Iowa. Another former patient, responding to voices in his head, set off explosions in […]
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By Leana Wen, NPR Last month, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology issued new guidelines that could double the number of people taking cholesterol-lowering drugs. The organizations receive financial support from drug companies, and many of the experts who worked on the guidelines have industry ties. The groups’ response to ethical […]
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By Gary Klien, Marin Independent Journal A judge ordered serial killer Joseph Naso to reimburse Marin County more than $170,000 for legal services in his case, possibly through liens on his property in Reno. But Naso apparently managed to unload $300,000 or more in liquid assets while he was awaiting trial, and it was unclear […]
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By Indre Viskontas and Chris Mooney, Center for Investigative Reporting It’s flu season. And we’re all about to crisscross the country to exchange hugs, kisses and germs. We’re going to get sick. And when we do, many of us will run to our doctors and, hoping to get better, demand antibiotics. And that’s the problem: […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times A wildfire season that began with dire warnings that dry conditions had set the stage for a year of flames across California and the West turned out to be one of the nation’s quietest in the past decade. Although 2013 was marked by two high-profile blazes, one in California […]
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By Tracy Seipel, San Jose Mercury News If you’re a Medicare-age Democrat lucky enough to live near the coast, life in the Golden State looks pretty good. But if you’re younger, among California’s dwindling number of registered Republicans or hail from an inland county, not so much. Those are the results of a Field Poll […]
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By Kathryn Reed Increasing the allowable coverage by 33 percent for parking at Tahoe Keys Marina will require shifting the entrance of Cove East about 20 feet closer to the Upper Truckee River. The California Tahoe Conservancy board on Dec. 12 agreed to allow the marina to cover up to 60,000-square-feet of the nearly 1.5-acre […]
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By Karen Weise, Bloomberg A century after William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct first began watering the Southland, the water wars in California show no sign of abating. The state reached a milestone on Monday in its effort to balance equal-but-conflicting goals: channeling more water to dry farmland and cities while restoring the natural habitat already […]
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By Claudio Sanchez, NPR Kyrah Whatley, 17, is a bright student with pretty good grades. But the thought of spending two to four more years in a college classroom is depressing, she says. Masonry, on the other hand, intrigues her. “I’m a kinesthetic learner. … I learn with my hands,” she says. That’s why Kyrah […]
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By David Siders, Sacramento Bee Officials in Siskiyou and Modoc counties may want to secede from California, but the rest of the state has no desire to see them go. Just one-quarter of California voters support allowing the state’s northernmost counties to break away from California, according to a new Field Poll. Fifty-nine percent of […]
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