By Kathryn Reed Changing how a desk faces, putting a defensive item on a teacher’s desk, playing over worst-case scenarios in one’s head to know what to do just in case – those are some of the basic security measures being taken in Lake Tahoe Unified School District. More substantive things are being done as […]
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By Gary Richards, San Jose Mercury News In the first crackdown of its kind, highway patrol officers from the Bay Area to New Jersey will join forces in an effort to prevent any fatalities on the 2,909 miles of Interstate 80 from Wednesday though July 31. “For an entire week, that would be amazing,” said […]
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The man accused of killing 28-year-old South Lake Tahoe resident Julian Acevedo Salvador remains at large. South Tahoe officers now say the fight early July 20 was just between the two men. It started with an argument, escalated to a fistfight and ended with Salvador being killed. Detectives are continuing to collect evidence and information. […]
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By Elizabeth Lopatto, Bloomberg A genetic mutation linked to obesity in mice can cause weight gain without overeating, a discovery researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital say suggests the gene may govern how the body uses energy. Mice altered to silence the gene, called Mrap2, had to be underfed by 10 percent to 15 percent to […]
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By Anjeanette Damon, Las Vegas Sun Election after election, Democrats in Nevada have demonstrated they have the superior party apparatus. Democrats can count the ways they have the upper hand in Nevada’s political landscape: 100,000 more registered voters than Republicans; a well-funded, professionally staffed party organization; and a proven turnout machine. Oh, and Democrats have […]
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Updated 3;30pm: The U.S. Forest Service is reporting five small fires, all located between Echo and Monument. Not one is expected to spread much before crews can get to them to put them out. — It was a restless night Monday for many people in and around the Lake Tahoe Basin with all the booming […]
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By Kathryn Reed Ray Nutting, his attorney and supporters believe the felony and misdemeanor charges brought against the El Dorado County supervisor should be dropped. Nutting didn’t say a word during his arraignment Monday in El Dorado County Superior Court in South Lake Tahoe. Before the hearing he sat with his wife and cadre of […]
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By Rebecca Klein, Huffington Post California’s teen birth rate has dropped nearly 60 percent as a result of expanded sex education programs, according to a report released by the California Department of Public Health last week. The report –- which was based on data collected until 2011 — revealed that the California teen birth rate […]
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A 6-year-old boy drowned at Jenkinson Lake near Sly Park on Sunday. Trip Demetri of Latrobe had gone missing about 4pm July 21. He was visiting the lake with his dad and sister. The siblings had been playing in the water. The boy was found underwater about 10 feet from shore. He was pronounced deceased […]
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“Apparently tempers flared, but it was a personal matter that was quickly resolved.” That is how Phil Weidinger, the public relations honcho for the American Century Championship golf tourney, described the fight between tournament champion Billy Joe Tolliver and another guy. Douglas County sheriff’s Sgt. Pat Brooks told Lake Tahoe News, “I don’t have any […]
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