By NPR You’re probably well-acquainted with one of life’s little annoyances: the password. Your voicemail. Your email. Your smartphone. Maybe you’ve got a different one for each — which means you’re bound to slip up. Or maybe you use the same one for everything — a security no-no. The number of sites and services that […]
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By Anahad O’Connor, New York Times Americans spend an estimated $5 billion a year on unproven herbal supplements that promise everything from fighting off colds to curbing hot flashes and boosting memory. But now there is a new reason for supplement buyers to beware: DNA tests show that many pills labeled as healing herbs are […]
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Jorge Miranda-Rivas will be going to prison for at least seven years for the armed robbery at the Chevron in Incline Village. The sentence of seven to 23 years was handed down Nov. 7 in the Second Judicial District Court after Miranda-Rivas was found guilty on one count each of robbery with a deadly weapon, […]
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By Dan Charles, NPR In a barn outside Manhattan, Kansas, researchers from Kansas State University are trying to solve the riddle of bovine respiratory disease. They’re sticking plastic rods down the noses of 6-month-old calves, collecting samples of bacteria. “This bacteria, Mannheimia haemolytica, lives in most cattle,” explains Mike Apley, one of the research leaders. […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe’s unfunded liability for health care was dramatically decreased by having retirees join Medicare. If they all go this route, the figure will drop even more. Before the change was implemented earlier this year, the city was on the hook for $52 million. That amount would have to be paid […]
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While the investigation into two South Lake Tahoe homicides continues, the trail to the killers is getting colder. “It’s very weird and unusual for our area,” Police Chief Brian Uhler told Lake Tahoe News of the unsolved crimes. “We continue to methodically make progress.” Julian Acevedo Salvador, 28, of South Lake Tahoe was stabbed to […]
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By Kathryn Reed Experience, knowledge and the ability to get things done are what Angela Swanson believes she would bring to the job of El Dorado County supervisor. The 53-year-old officially threw her hat in the ring this week when at the Nov. 5 South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting she told her peers she […]
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By Kathryn Reed Do the voters of South Lake Tahoe want paid parking? That is a question a group of residents wants on the June 3 ballot. The goal if voters say remove the parking kiosks, is they would be uprooted 30 days later. The legwork to get the initiative on the ballot started Wednesday. […]
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El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies are looking for a teenager who ran away from her home in Shingle Springs. Juliet Riffey was last seen the night of Nov. 1. Riffey is 15, white, 5-feet-2-inches, weighs 110 pounds, has dark blonde/brown hair, blue eyes, and wears oval wire framed glasses. She has a cleft lip, which […]
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By Carly Schwartz, Huffington Post Legal marijuana is the fastest growing market in the United States, and it’s growing at a rate poised to outpace the expansion of the global smartphone market, according to a new report obtained exclusively by the Huffington Post. Researchers surveyed hundreds of medical cannabis retailers, processors, dispensary owners and industry […]
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