 Red Hawk Casino is pleased to announce its jackpot winners for the month of October, who combined won more than $4,982,774. Highlights for October include a player who won a $500,000 progressive jackpot on Sunday, October 4.
Tami M. of Sacramento, Calif. also won big with back-to-back jackpots on her favorite $10 Triple Double Stars slot machine, including a $6,400 jackpot on Tuesday, October 20, followed by a $27,000 jackpot on Wednesday, October 21.
Red Hawk Casino is pleased to announce that Rewards Club members will have an opportunity to roll four dice for a chance to win $1 million on Saturday, November 21 between 2 p.m. and 2 a.m. Red Hawk Casino previously awarded two winners over $1 million including Paula S. of Sloughhouse, Calif., who won $1 million during the grand opening celebration on January 22 and Sandi M., a Rewards Club member from the San Francisco Bay Area, who won a $1.8 million jackpot on April 20.
 EL DORADO HILLS (CBS13) ― El Dorado County Sheriff's deputies say they found a large indoor marijuana growing operation by following a trail of pot leaves and potting soil.
Deputies say they received a call Saturday about home on the 300 block of Arches Avenue in El Dorado Hills with its front door open and no one home. The callers also said there was a line of pot leaves and potting soil that led from the driveway into the home.
When deputies arrived, they followed the marijuana trail to ...
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Nancy Garrido's court-appointed attorney has been removed from the case, pending a possible appeal later this month, court records indicate. The move took place last Thursday in a secret court hearing during which only Nancy Garrido, defense attorney Gilbert Maines, court staff and security officers were present, according to El Dorado County Superior Court records. A court order issued the day before the hearing indicates that "the court is in receipt of confidential evidence," but ... READ MORE
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 Spent the weekend in "gold country", stayed in a really cool old (and they say haunted) hotel called the
Cary House in Placerville that was the nicest place round during the gold rush.
Mark Twain and a bunch of other famous folks stayed there back when the gold rush was on.
There was a festival where the kids could pan for gold and gems and they had a great time exploring a mine. Really pretty up in the Sierra foothills.
 El Dorado AVA
This is Gold Rush country. The fortunes of this unique AVA are dictated by its elevation, with allowable vineyard land situated between 1,200-3,500 feet. Vineyards above 2,000-feet, resting on high-acid, magma-based soils, enjoy four distinct seasons. Rising above the fog line, El Dorado experiences eastern breezes from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, which force hot daytime air into the valley below. Land remains affordable and provides all of the attributes for successful grape cultivation. By far the most planted grape in this region is Zinfandel, however, the more profitable Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot are both gaining ground, and the wineries that call this appellation home are now experimenting with classic Rhone varietals as well.
 By Cathy Locke
clocke@sacbee.com - Growing old gracefully can be a challenge when the natural course of life seems filled with stumbling blocks.
Betty McCully has spent more than 20 years helping fellow seniors make their way through the rough patches as a founding member of El Dorado County's Senior Peer Counseling Program. At age 90, she is preparing to retire from her volunteer career, though colleagues say they'll continue to call on her for advice.
"I'm a retired nurse, and nurses always want to fix things," said McCully, a Colorado native who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the South Pacific during World War II.
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The El Dorado County Health Services Department, Public Health Division will hold its annual community flu shot clinics from September through December this year. At this time, only vaccine to protect against seasonal flu will be available at the clinics. Health officials expect to receive H1N1 vaccine later this fall, which will initially be offered to high risk individuals.
 SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — The town where Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped 18 years ago celebrated her astounding reappearance with a parade Sunday while she remained secluded with her family in Northern California.
Dugard's former classmates and teachers were among those who took part in the one-mile march along South Lake Tahoe's main drag to celebrate her safe return. She was snatched from a school bus stop in the resort town in 1991 at the age of 11.
"We just want her to know that we love her and support her," said Jillian Broadfoot, 30, who attended Meyers Elementary School with Dugard at the time. "I think Tahoe lost its innocence with the kidnapping, and hopefully her return restores a little faith here."
On the evening of the third Saturday of every month, the Placerville ArtWalk happens on Historic Main Street in downtown Placerville, California. It is an event that I always enjoy and this year, in particular, has been especially fun since the Gallery that I am in ( Gold Country Artists Gallery) has been one of the major sponsors.
Consistent with Section 122(d) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. 9622(d), and 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on September 1, 2009, the United States lodged a Consent Decree with certain third party defendants in United States of America v. El Dorado County, California, et al, Civil No. S-01-1520 MCE GGH (USDC E.D. CA.), with respect to the Meyers Landfill Site, located in Meyers, El Dorado County, California (the "Site").
I asked this question in the middle of the discussion on rescuing the stupid vs the ignorant and because the discussion veered into media talk, it kind of got lost. Either that or it was ignored because it called for a bit of self exam maybe? I am reposting what I said in that thread (with some modification).
According to the Native Daughters of the Golden West’s California Star newsletter(Winter 2006), for over 30 years prior to 2006, the Marguerite Parlor No. 12 of the NDGW posted California Bear Flags along Highway 50 in Placerville, CA on September 9th of each year to celebrate California Admission Day. Highway 50 is one of the two main highways from Sacramento to the Lake Tahoe area of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Hi All You Luna/tics!!
September is here!!! I swear some of the hottest days of summer come this month....the heat and then our cool nights get me so confused (I'm the pretty one.......), but reminds me of BRAISING MEATS and stews, and polenta and Lamb shanks, the list gets longer and longer as I just sit here and think....
By Penne Usher Telegraph Correspondent
Jeff Mitchell’s murderer still at large
El Dorado Hills resident and Sacramento County Sheriff Deputy Jeff Mitchell, who was an avid baseball fan, was killed in 2006 while on duty and this past weekend Jeff Mitchell Field and Public Service Memorial was dedicated in his honor.
By WILLIAM LANEY
The collection of evidence in the Jaycee Lee Dugard case by the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office is following procedure by the book, Auglaize County Sheriff Al Solomon says.
The collection of evidence despite a confession is the best course of action because the criminal case still often ends up in court, Solomon said.
By John Simerman and Robert Salonga - Contra Costa Times
It wasn't just California parole agents who failed during home visits to unearth the 18-year-old mystery of Jaycee Dugard's abduction.
For the first eight years of Dugard's confinement to a hidden backyard lair in Antioch, federal officers were charged with Phillip Garrido's parole supervision, after his federal prison term for the 1976 kidnapping of a casino employee he also raped, federal officials said Tuesday.
By Bill Lindelof blindelof@sacbee.com
A line from a nearby lift tangled with another Lake Tahoe lift occupied by a man and his wife, knocking the man out of the ride and onto the rocks 50 feet below, a fall that killed him Monday.
 International Water Power & Dam Construction
-- The El Dorado Irrigation District
(EID) board of directors has given the greenlight to include two small hydro power projects in EID’s 2009 – 2013 capital improvement program and has authorized funding for the design phase of the projects in northern California’s El Dorado County. The district will seek state certification of the projects as clean renewable energy.
The projects – expected to go online in 2011 - were identified during a year-long study in conjunction with the El Dorado County Water Agency to seek hydroelectric power generation opportunities in the county.
 Sacramento Business Journal
-- Waste Connections Inc. has filed an administrative claim against El Dorado County, alleging its Board of Supervisors failed to honor a rate increase agreement for waste-removal services.
 Sacramento, CA—United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced that JERALD P. D’SOUZA, 50 of Dublin, Calif., pleaded guilty this morning before United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to using means of interstate commerce to attempt to commit criminal sex acts with a minor female.
This case is the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the South Lake Tahoe Police Department, and the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office.
Also see: http://www.defeathumantrafficking.com/
According to Assistant United States Attorney Michelle Rodriguez, who is prosecuting the case, from December 28, 2008 through February 7, 2009, D’SOUZA used the Internet (YAHOO, MySpace, and chat rooms) to entice an individual he believed was a 13-year-old Truckee girl to engage in various sex acts including sexual intercourse.
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