Updated 4:25pm: By Kathryn Reed The 67-year-old pilot of a single-engine plane crashed moments after taking off Monday from Lake Tahoe Airport. Steven Lefton’s wife, Karen Lefton, was the lone passenger of the 1963 Mooney. She was conscious when Calstar airlifted her from the meadow near Golden Bear to Renown Medical Center in Reno. She […]
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By Megan Kowalski, USA Today Despite higher prices for back-to-school needs, students and parents will spend nearly 8 percent less this season than in 2012, according to a survey out Thursday from the National Retail Federation. Parents will save by shopping earlier for sales, shopping online and by having children re-use items bought in last […]
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By George Warren, News 10 A federal court judge has ordered a Squaw Valley daredevil to pay $4,000 to cover the cost of removing a mile-long steel cable across the north fork of the American River. Mike Wilson, 27, is described by some as an action sports superstar. In one popular YouTube video, he performs […]
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By Khadeeja Safdar, Wall Street Journal Former smokers earn higher wages than smokers and people who have never smoked, according to new research. In a working paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, research economists Julie L. Hotchkiss and M. Melinda Pitts studied the relationship between smoking and wages. Using data from the […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Red Hawk Casino’s debts are so crushing, its tribal owner once warned the venue might close and the Legislature had to provide a bailout plan. Now the Shingle Springs casino could be on the verge of completing a state-assisted financial makeover that would remove many of the doubts about its […]
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A former South Lake Tahoe man who now lives in Colfax was taken to Barton Memorial Hospital on Sunday night after the vehicle he was driving crashed into a utility pole at Al Tahoe Boulevard and Pioneer Trail. “I followed him from Rite-Aid and could not believe this person would drive a vehicle under his […]
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An altercation at Lakeview Commons late Sunday afternoon sent one person to jail and another to the hospital. Zachariah Libby of South Lake Tahoe was arrested July 21 on assault with a deadly weapon charges and child endangerment. Police told Lake Tahoe News the initial investigation shows that Libby punched another man for “entirely unprovoked […]
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By Karoun Demirjian, Las Vegas Sun Just a year ago, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid was busy making it his mission to prove that Nevada Sen. Dean Heller was inept at the delicate art of culling votes for Internet poker legislation. Now that there’s no Shelley Berkley candidacy to defend, though, Reid can’t stop singing praises […]
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El Dorado Savings Bank posted second quarter gains last week. The Placerville-based company’s profits ending June 30 of nearly $2.17 is an increase of about 2 percent from the same period in 2012. An increase in interest rates on new investments and more loans being written what the company attributes the gains to. — Lake […]
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A 28-year-old South Lake Tahoe man was stabbed to death early Saturday morning and the suspect is at-large. The name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of family. The confrontation occurred about 3:30am July 20 near the Americana Village on Pioneer Trail. By the time officers arrived, the victim had been transported to […]
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