By Ketaki Gokhale, Bloomberg Devi Shetty is obsessed with making heart surgery affordable for millions of Indians. On his office desk are photographs of two of his heroes: Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi. Shetty is not a public health official motivated by charity. He’s a heart surgeon turned businessman who has started a chain of […]
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By Suzanne Phan, News 10 It was supposed to be the last day of a family vacation at a popular summer camp, but it ended in tragedy for one Sacramento area family when a loved one had a fatal allergic reaction. Relatives says 13-year-old Natalie Giorgi died from a severe allergic reaction to peanut butter […]
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By Kathryn Reed It may not be a paramedic doing chest compressions when the ambulance arrives. Instead, it could be Auto-Pulse. “It has definitely been a game changer in how we run our CPR calls,” South Lake Tahoe firefighter Scott Blasser told Lake Tahoe News. “Auto-Pulse will provide more consistent profusion pressure across the board.” […]
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By Sophie Kissinger, Huffington Post Last week, a woman died and nearly a dozen were injured on a roller coaster at Six Flag Over Texas. With all the amusement parks and roller coasters in California, the tragedy made us ask: Could this happen in California? To great relief, we found that California has more safeguards […]
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Attempts to resuscitate a 13-year-old girl who had stopped breathing at Camp Sacramento were unsuccessful. El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies were called to the area along Highway 50 in the American River canyon about 10:40pm on July 26. The girl was taken by ambulance to Barton Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 12:30 […]
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By Erica Goode, New York Times The prison population in the United States dropped in 2012 for the third consecutive year, according to federal statistics released on Thursday, in what criminal justice experts said was the biggest decline in the nation’s recent history, signaling a shift away from an almost four-decade policy of mass imprisonment. […]
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Southwest Gas wants to raise rates effective Jan. 1. A residential customer in South Lake Tahoe using 73 therms a month now pays $66.20. A rate increase would put that monthly bill at $73.41. The California Public Utilities Commission is having evidentiary hearings from Aug. 12-16 at 10am in San Francisco. Southwest Gas in December […]
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By Phillip Reese and Cynthia Hubert, Sacramento Bee A Nevada state psychiatric hospital under fire for busing hundreds of mentally ill patients to cities across the nation over the past five years will not appeal a decision stripping it of its accreditation. A committee of the Joint Commission, an independent agency that accredits hospitals nationwide, […]
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Updated July 27 6:45am: South Lake Tahoe police are recanting some of the information released about registered sex offender Wesley Goetz. Goetz is on lifetime supervision, but he is not on active parole in Nevada. He is permitted to travel into California. Police say Goetz’s desire to obtain a business license in South Lake Tahoe […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Community College is one of 17 community colleges not offering federal loans. “We try to encourage students to not get involved with student loans while in community college. Our tuition fees are very low cost, and if a student is financially needy, they almost always can get their fees waived […]
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