By Kathryn Reed All things Lake Tahoe are on the agenda of the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors when the gang meets Nov. 10 on the South Shore. This is the board’s once a year meeting when they leave Placerville and make their way to Lake Tahoe – the other part of the county […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee El Dorado County health officials say local healthcare providers have begun receiving shipments of the H1N1 flu vaccine. “Doctors in the community who ordered the vaccine should have received the vaccine or will be getting it within the next few weeks,” Cathy Dunbar, county immunization coordinator, said in a news […]
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By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times STATELINE – When big investment firms want to tap public pension funds for money, they often put in a call to Alfred J.R. Villalobos. From a modest office near Lake Tahoe’s casinos, Villalobos has spent years helping Wall Street players like Apollo Management gain access to the vast wealth […]
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By Gus Thomson, Auburn Journal After seven months, nightly traffic detours off Interstate 80 east of Colfax are over. The $70 million Caltrans project to rehab 11 miles of the freeway between Colfax and Alta is essentially completed, allowing two-way traffic back on I-80 24 hours a day. The final convoy of trucks, buses and […]
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By Dan Majors, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The woman who has filed a civil lawsuit against Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger claiming he sexually assaulted her last summer has quit working for the Nevada hotel where she said the incident occurred. Calvin R.X. Dunlap, the Reno-based attorney for the woman, tonight confirmed that his client quit late last […]
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El Dorado County officials expect to certify the Nov. 3 election on Nov. 19. As of Wednesday, about 900 absentee ballots and about 100 provisional ballots still needed to be counted. If an outcome does change, it would likely be in the Lake Tahoe Unified school board race where Judy Cefalu is five votes ahead […]
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By Kathryn Reed Kindertown is open. El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Steven Bailey issued a stay on Wednesday morning for the South Lake Tahoe day care-preschool. This means Kindertown can keep operating until a final decision is made. Maria Barrows-Crist is eager to welcome back the parents who have left while uncertainty hung over […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee State parole agents failed completely to properly supervise accused rapist and kidnapper Phillip Garrido for 10 years, and after his alleged victim, Jaycee Lee Dugard, was discovered alive in August top corrections officials praised parole despite the fact that agents missed numerous opportunities to discover her presence, a new state […]
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By Kathryn Reed Do It Center is ready to begin a remodel on the old South Shore Motors building in anticipation of opening the general merchandise store in 2010. The Southern California-based chain had expected to be open in South Lake for a few months by now. Appeals by hardware stores in town delayed the […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County’s next sheriff is still unknown, but the Board of Supervisors did decide Tuesday not to appointment one of the seven people running for the position. Sheriff Jeff Neves late last month tendered his resignation effective Dec. 26 — a year before his term expires. Supervisors said by not picking […]
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