More people are coming down with hepatitis A after eating Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend frozen berries purchased from Costco. El Dorado County health officials have identified one confirmed case associated with the hepatitis A outbreak. The individual, who lives on the West Slope, sought medical attention and is improving, according to county health officials. […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee It was an awkward public spectacle Tuesday for El Dorado County Supervisor Ray Nutting. One week after the district attorney had him arrested on four felony charges of violating political disclosure and conflict of interest laws, the veteran supervisor publicly declared his innocence. Then he recused himself from participating in […]
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By Phil Benson, KPHO-TV An arrest has been made in the 2012 murder of Stateline’s Matthew McMaster. Vrouyr Manoukian, 22, was taken into custody without incident and booked into jail May 31 on a charge of second-degree murder. The burned body of the 24-year-old McMaster was found July 28, 2012, along a highway in Phoenix. […]
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By Kathryn Reed The nearly $9.5 million Aspens affordable housing project is likely to be the last such project to be built in South Lake Tahoe for decades. This 48-unit development at the corner of Pioneer Trail and Ski Run Boulevard has been talked about for years. Then the state did away with redevelopment agencies. […]
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El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies are trying to track down the man who broke into a West Slope bike shop and stole equipment worth about $7,000. The suspect on May 20 entered into Town Center Bike and Tri in El Dorado Hills early that morning. Deputies said he looked around the shop before taking off […]
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By Anjeanette Damon, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — A bill to legalize online poker after Congress failed to do it? Check. A bill to protect big casino resorts from slot machine parlors and bars with sports betting kiosks? Check. A $233 million lawsuit settlement that eliminates a disputed tax on comped meals? Check. (Well, […]
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By AP Two men arrested in possession of bear claws and gall bladders will be arraigned in El Dorado County Superior Court on felony charges. Warden Mark Michilizzi said that Peter Vitali and Arthur Blake were arrested April 20 in the Eldorado National Forest. The two possessed 20 large bear claws and three bear gall […]
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By Dan Morain, Sacramento Bee In the past five years, 29 states have imposed new restrictions on abortions. California headed in the opposite direction. Lest Californians think what happens beyond this state’s borders will always stay there, meet Kimberly Yee. Well-schooled in the ways of politics, Yee worked for the Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Ray Nutting, the embattled El Dorado County supervisor who collected state money to clear brush from his family ranch, is going to get a bill for causing a wildfire while performing the work. Nutting, 53, faces four felony charges for failing to properly disclose about $70,000 in income received under […]
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By Kathryn Reed Storm chaser Carl Young of South Lake Tahoe is one of several people who died Friday in an Oklahoma tornado. He was 45. Young worked on Discovery Channel’s defunct “Storm Chasers” series. “We are deeply saddened by the loss of Tim Samaras (55) his son Paul (24) and their colleague Carl Young,” […]
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