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Terry Probyn, the mother of kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard told a Sonoma County victims' rights audience Tuesday that she carries “overwhelming sadness and incredible anger” over “18 hellish years” of separation from her daughter.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports how Probyn, 53, recounted her ordeal during the Sonoma County Crime Victim’s Rights Week event, telling of the separation from Dugard, who at age 11 was kidnapped by Phillip and Nancy Garrido from a South Lake Tahoe street on June 10, 1991.

While a meteor that streaked over California and Nevada this weekend may have sounded like it landed at the South Shore, the fireball likely broke up somewhere south of the Lake Tahoe Basin, acc...

You opt to pop echinacea pills when you have a cold, but will it really help? Many Americans think so. Surveys show that almost 40 percent of adults use some form of complementary and alternative m...

I would like to take a moment, on behalf of myself and a good number of locals and other pass holders, to thank Heavenly Mountain Resort and its management for three unbelievable days of skiing on ...

The deceased driver of the commercial truck that crashed through the runaway ramp at Mount Rose Highway near Incline Village on Monday has been identified as Eric S. Holton, 31 of Gardnerville.
Nevada Highway Patrol troopers were dispatched at 2:48 p.m. to the accident on State Route 431, approximately one-half mile east of State Route 28, near Incline Village. The vehicle involved was a 2006 gray Freightliner truck tractor pulling a 1989 flat bed trailer transporting composite decking materials traveling westbound on the two-lane highway.

A cutoff low will move into the Sierra and Western Nevada on Wednesday bringing increased chances for precipitation and gusty winds, according to the National Weather Service in Reno. Some showers and thunderstorms are expected in the Sierra today.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval announced Monday that the state has reached an agreement with online retailing giant Amazon to begin collecting Nevada sales tax on purchases.The agreement also calls for...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California voters will soon get a chance to decide whether to replace the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole.A measure to abolish capital punis...

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen has certified a measure for the November ballot that would eliminate capital punishment. Instead, prisoners would receive life without the possibility of parole.
Opponents include Republican State Senator Joel Anderson, who has tried unsuccessfully to change the death penalty process — including a bill that would have eliminated expensive, automatic appeals.
"To move forward and say that we're going to move these people into life without parole is to ignore what the public has asked for time and time again," said Anderson.

UPDATE: 10 PM: The runaway truck ramp at the bottom of Mount Rose Highway in Incline Village was the scene of another tragedy today as a truck driver was killed trying to stop his vehicle using the ramp.
The Nevada Highway Patrol reports that the truck was carrying composite decking material on a flatbed trailer. The driver used the ramp to stop the vehicle, but the cargo broke loose and crushed the cab of the truck.

Here is some audio feed found on YouTube of Douglas County Sheriff's Office responding to the loud boom on Sunday heard between the California Central Valley to Lake Tahoe and Northern Nevada. The explosion was reported to be a meteorite that whizzed by the area.

Former South Tahoe basketball standout Jerod Haase has finished filling his staff at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, hiring Bobby Frasor as director of operations and George Drake as associat...