By Sammy Caiola, Sacramento Bee Don Hopkins, a former Davis police officer and professional ballroom dancer, is having some trouble staying on his feet. Hopkins, 67, is still physically drained from an early May trip to Mercy Hospital at Folsom, where doctors pumped him with pneumonia antibiotics for more than a week before accurately diagnosing […]
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Local outdoor enthusiast and Opal Ultra Nightclub’s disc jockey David Aaron had a devastating parachute landing accident June 22. Aaron sustained multiple injuries, including injury to his spinal cord and broken back, for which he needed eight vertebrae fused. He is diagnosed as an “incomplete paraplegic” and recovering at Renown Rehabilitation Center in Reno, where […]
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Bona Fide Books awards annually the Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize for an unpublished collection of poems. The winner will receive publication, 10 copies, a $500 cash award, and a reading at Lake Tahoe. Submissions are being taken until Aug. 31. For more info, go online.
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James and Tulip are best friends who need to be adopted together. James is a pug-chihuahua mix. Tulip is a chihuahua-dashchund mix. They play all day long; they like tug of war, chase, and hide and seek. They are both house trained if they get outside often enough. They love to cuddle and […]
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By Kim Wyatt STATELINE – Entering the Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys on Aug. 2, I was greeted by statuesque geishas, wigs in every color of the rainbow, and a phalanx of tutus, tails and spiked brassieres—clearly this wasn’t a Creedence concert. At Lady Gaga’s Tahoe debut, a diverse gender-bending crowd posed and pranced […]
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Publisher’s note: This letter was sent to the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors in July. Dear Chair Santiago and Members of the Board of Supervisors: We are writing to you to express our concerns about the Meyers Area Plan process. We are writing not as land speculators seeking project approvals. We are not writing […]
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Updated Aug. 3 9:45pm A landscaping water line ruptured this weekend in South Lake Tahoe, spewing unknown gallons of water down the drain. Lakeside Park Water Company was going to wait until Monday to fix the leak on Pine Boulevard, but city officials said it was imperative they fix it ASAP. The water had been […]
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Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care will be receiving bear cub No. 10 on Monday. The cub will be arriving by plane at Lake Tahoe Airport. It is coming to the South Shore animal rehab center from Washington. “The situation of this cub is very similar to Li’l Smokey from 2008 in that it was in a […]
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By Katherine Hobson, NPR After winning the Tour de France last month, Vincenzo Nibali was tested for a bunch of performance-enhancing substances. But Nibali and his fellow competitors were welcome to have several cups of coffee (or cans of Red Bull), before their ride into Paris; caffeine is not on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s banned […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun In another sign that the American public is embracing soccer more than ever, the Nevada gaming industry appears to have cashed in on this year’s World Cup at a record level. It’s difficult to say with certainty that betting on soccer hit a record this year, because the Nevada […]
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