A 2009 South Tahoe High School graduate is in ICU following a horrific car accident that killed his girlfriend on Dec. 28. Chris Cocores, 26, who now lives in La Mesa, was the passenger in the vehicle. His girlfriend, Ceci Casares, 21, of La Mesa was driving on Highway 395 near Kramer Junction about 11:20pm […]
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A Truckee woman was arrested early New Year’s Eve on felony driving under the influence charges. Four people were injured in the head-on collision on Donner Pass Road and Northwoods Boulevard on Dec. 31 at 12:05am. Truckee police officers said witnesses and evidence show Brynn Kennedy, 30, was driving south on Northwoods and turned west […]
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By Seth Borenstein, AP North America couldn’t catch a break in 2017. Parts of the United States were on fire, underwater or lashed by hurricane winds. Mexico shook with back-to-back earthquakes. The Caribbean got hit with a string of hurricanes. The rest of the world, however, was spared more than usual from the drumbeat of […]
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By Associated Press WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices climbed a robust 6.2 percent from a year ago, amid strong demand from would-be buyers and a shrinking supply of properties for sale. Standard & Poor’s said last week that its S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index stood in October a solid 6 percent above its […]
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By Amy Zipkin, New York Times For many air travelers, getting to and from the airport has long been part of the whole miserable experience. Do they drive and park in some distant lot? Take mass transit or a taxi? Deal with a rental car? Ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft are quickly changing those […]
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The Holiday Fire burning in the Pine Nuts has been contained. The wildland fire that stared Dec. 29 holiday fireburned 122 acres. The incident is in the Preacher Mine area south of Gardnerville. Bureau of Land Management officials are investigating the cause. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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By Lake Tahoe News Shorts weather is going to continue for the next couple days in the greater Lake Tahoe area. Record highs were broken several places on Dec. 29 and Dec. 30. The National Weather Service in Reno reports: South Lake Tahoe’s high on Saturday was 58 degrees, breaking the high of 53 set […]
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By Kathryn Reed How Herbert Avenue will tie into the redevelopment project where Whole Foods 365 is being built just became a little murkier. No longer is the commercial property on the corner of Herbert and Highway 50 locally owned. Chutima Vasakarnpanich and Tavewat Youngunpipatkul of Palo Alto closed on the property Nov. 30. Mike […]
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By Julia Angwin, Noam Scheiber and Ariana Tobin, New York Times A few weeks ago, Verizon placed an ad on Facebook to recruit applicants for a unit focused on financial planning and analysis. The ad showed a smiling, millennial-aged woman seated at a computer and promised that new hires could look forward to a rewarding […]
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By Eli Day, Mother Jones For the first time in seven years, the number of people without a safe, regular place to sleep in America has grown. On any given night in 2017, nearly 554,000 people across the country were homeless, just under a 1 percent rise above 2016 levels. The figure comes courtesy of […]
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