By Matt Weiser State water officials are urging residents and local water agencies to begin preparing for the possibility that 2014 could be a third dry year. The California Department of Water Resources issued the cautionary statement last week partly because the state will head into winter with hardly any surplus water in its reservoirs […]
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By Matt Townsend, Bloomberg Toddler-safe texting has arrived. Spurred by burgeoning demand for kid-styled tablets, LeapFrog Enterprises Inc. and VTech Holdings Ltd. revamped their tyke-targeted devices to add features that let three-year-olds send short messages to grandma and even watch online videos without stumbling across websites kids shouldn’t see. “Exposing our children to the Internet […]
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By Sarah Burge, Press-Enterprise A former South Lake Tahoe resident was arrested on suspicion of murder last month at Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino after police say he fatally beat a fellow inmate. George Aaron Carver, 40, who had been serving a criminal commitment at the mental hospital since 2011, was booked into the […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee With a moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated El Dorado County set to expire at the end of October, the county Planning Commission has called for an ordinance to allow and regulate the facilities. The commission at its Aug. 22 meeting objected to a proposed ordinance amendment, initiated […]
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By Kathryn Reed Not even a grandma’s embrace is strong enough to save a child when the vehicle she is traveling in is involved in an accident. Motor vehicle crashes are the No. 1 cause of death for ages 1-12. Two children in the United States die each day as a passenger in a vehicle, […]
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By Andrea Chang and Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times Like many grocery shoppers, Michele Ricketts dreads long checkout lines. But lately, she’s been breezing by the cash register at her neighborhood Ralphs even with the usual crowds at the store. “In the last month, I have noticed it was faster,” said Ricketts, 27, an actress […]
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By Tracie Cone, AP Scientists are assessing the damage from a massive wildfire burning around Yosemite National Park, laying plans to protect habitat and waterways as the fall rainy season approaches. Members of the federal Burned Area Emergency Response team were hiking the rugged Sierra Nevada terrain Saturday even as thousands of firefighters still were […]
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By Neil Irwin, Washington Post If you only looked at the headlines on Friday’s August jobs numbers, you’d think “Not bad!” You would also be completely wrong. Yes, the unemployment rate fell a notch to 7.3 percent, from 7.4 percent in July. Yes, the nation added 169,000 jobs, broadly consistent with the pattern of recent […]
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By Kathryn Reed A multimillion-dollar waterline project to bring Lukins Brothers Water Company customers fire protection started this week. The 4-inch lines are being replaced with 12-inch lines. Because the bank loan was secured later in the summer than anticipated, the first phase is being broken into two segments to accommodate the limited time contractors […]
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The potential to commercially harvest crayfish from the California side of Lake Tahoe is in the works. Nevada has allowed this for a couple years. But California had a law preventing the sale or purchase of crayfish taken from Lake Tahoe. Gov. Jerry Brown on Sept. 6 repealed that law. Next up is for the […]
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