It dominates the hill like some neo-Roman rebuild of an ancient Greek acropolis, covers it, a dozen crossed layers of cream-colored cake and tinted glass. Across a spreading slope below, spangles of sunlight bounce through …
Thursday, May 30
Zerbe picked up a pizza at the Romano Dodge House restaurant in Julian “between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m.,” according to Mrs. Romano, wife of the owner. She told the deputies that Zerbe was “sober and clear-eyed.”
Thursday, May 23
I've never felt there was much I could do about making love happen, that is, getting the goods delivered to my door when I needed it. I knew there was some complex mix between how …
Thursday, May 16
I don't know exactly when I decided to get into law enforcement. It's not like i'm one of those guys who knew ever since he could think that he was "born to be a cop.” …
Thursday, May 9
In 1983 a San Diego County resident named Bill Wheeler began a 15,000-mile driving trip across Africa that eventually took him to the Mountains of the Moon, the mystical peaks just east of the Zairean …
I had popped my knee — it sounded like chicken bones breaking when it went, and a sheet of white pain blanked me out. I fell to my side and gasped. Several of the missionaries …
Thursday, May 2
One hundred thirty-five San Diegans were murdered in 1990. More than 100 of those deaths occurred south of Interstate 8 and were concentrated in the neighborhoods such as Barrio Logan, Southeast San Diego, City Heights, …
When Neil Morgan became editor of the Evening Tribune about a decade ago, he vowed to turn the old blue-collar newspaper into an upscale daily catering to the kind of affluent suburban readers who drove …