By Drew Guarini, Huffington Post America’s disgruntled cable subscribers have found a fighter for them in Washington: former presidential candidate John McCain. McCain, R-Ariz., introduced the Television Consumer Freedom Act last week, a bill that would allow cable subscribers to pick the channels they want and pay for them on an a-la-carte basis. The bill […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe police Officer Johnny Poland is expected to plead guilty next week to federal charges. “They said in court that they needed a week for negotiations,” Lauren Horwood with the U.S. Attorney’s Office told Lake Tahoe News after the May 15 hearing in Sacramento. “Another hearing is set for May […]
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A house in the 900 block of Los Angeles Avenue sustained interior and exterior damage from a fire early Thursday morning. South Lake Tahoe firefighters responded to the blaze about 3:30am May 16. A city official called the fire accidental, but no other details were provided. Fire Chief Bruce Martin did not know about the […]
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By Hudson Sangree, Sacramento Bee The median price of resale homes in El Dorado County jumped by about 33 percent last month compared with April 2012, DataQuick reported Wednesday. Placer and Yolo counties also experienced double-digit percentage gains, the San Diego-based real estate information service said. “These eye-popping increases in medians remain a function of […]
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee TRUCKEE — The California Highway Patrol has identified a man who died following a high-speed chase near Donner Summit on Monday as William Orr, 55, of Penn Valley. After receiving a report of a reckless driver, a CHP officer pursued Orr’s vehicle after he refused to pull over near […]
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By Sari Horwitz, Washington Post In a sweeping and unusual move, the Justice Department secretly obtained two months’ worth of telephone records of journalists working for the Associated Press as part of a year-long investigation into the disclosure of classified information about a failed al-Qaeda plot last year. The AP’s president said Monday that federal […]
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By KTVN-TV The FAA is investigating why a small Cessna crashed south of Reno in King’s Canyon near Carson City this afternoon. Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong says the call came in about 2:45pm Wednesday in upper Kings Canyon, about three miles northeast of Spooner Summit. Three people were aboard the plane when it crashed, […]
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By Anne Knowles Now that the economy is picking up, local jurisdictions and the building industry are counting on the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency to revamp its controversial system for doling out residential building allocations. Architects and builders says business is beginning to rebound, and local officials say demand for the allocations needed to build […]
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By Nannette Miranda, KABC-TV SACRAMENTO — A California Senate investigation found felons like J.M., who did time for sex crimes against 12-year-old and 15-year-old girls, was able to be a drug and alcohol counselor after his release. Senate researcher John Hill spent seven months looking at the loophole that allows criminals like J.M. to treat […]
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Traffic on Highway 50 near Whitehall is reduced to one lane because of big-rig fire. The road is expected to open about 5:30pm. (Whitehall is about seven miles west of Kyburz.) A wrecker was on the scene to remove the truck. Hazmat crews were called to cleanup up the mess, though the substance is not […]
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