Third conspirator pleads guilty in plot to kidnap San Diegans
Dave Rice 7:21 a.m., May 23
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Tijuana busload of student passengers robbed at gunpoint
People trembling with fear
Three armed thieves boarded a Tijuana city bus bound for an outlying campus of the Autonomous University of Baja California on Tuesday, May 21, and robbed about 50 terrified passengers, most of them students. The ...
Food trucks cause concern near San Marcos elementary school
Narrow streets, hungry kids could be problematic
Food trucks have reportedly been causing unsafe traffic conditions while they sell snacks to children as they leave Joli Ann Leichtag Elementary School in the afternoon. According to Hector Romans, the father of two daughters, ...
Help! say Allied Gardens SpringFest organizers
Onstage plea is made at recent event
The Allied Gardens SpringFest board will meet later this month to discuss the future of the two-day celebration, SpringFest president Sherry Kelly said in a May 21 interview. The 14th annual SpringFest, held last weekend, ...
Lake Jennings opens for night-fishing
Recently stocked with catfish
Cars lined up for the first weekend of night-fishing at Lake Jennings on May 17. The lake — actually a water-supply reservoir — is open until midnight every Friday and Saturday night until Labor Day. ...
Bootleggers busted making bucks off Mexican Olympics
Selling items from truck with suspect documentation
Late last month, Tijuana hoteliers and restaurateurs were celebrating a respite from generally bleak economic circumstances when the Mexican National Olympics got under way in Baja California. Authorities estimated that hotel occupancy would reach 90 ...
Hidden gem: Gillespie Field Duck Pond
Once an eyesore, now look at it
The Gillespie Field Duck Pond? What is it? Where is it? Why? These are all good questions. Rumor has it, the pond was part of a golf course long, long ago, but for decades it ...
Logan Heights charity overstocked with home wares
Rugs, sinks, locks, doors, deep-fat fryers...
Rebuilding Together San Diego's Logan Heights warehouse is jammed to the ceiling with rugs, cabinets, light fixtures and wiring, doors and windows, and even deep-fat fryers for turkey and the oil used to cook them. ...
Just another manic Sunday in Balboa Park
Belly dancers and nuke protesters
Strollers in Balboa Park on Sunday, April 19, were treated to a colorful and exotic treat as Sabrina Fox and her belly-dance students put on a show near the large fountain in front of the ...
Torpedo found by dolphin in Coronado
Munition is at least 125 years old
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SPAWAR) reported that one of its Navy dolphins discovered an old torpedo last month just off the shore of the Hotel Del Coronado, during a mine-hunting training exercise. ...
Robbery suspect caught for Tijuana police
Perpetrator becomes victim
Angry business owners came to the rescue of the victims of a robbery in downtown Tijuana on May 15, pummeling an alleged thief on the face and head and holding him down until police arrived. ...
Carlsbad memorial for fallen cyclist Eric Ringdahl
Flowers gather under ghost bike
About 50 cyclists gathered in south Clairemont on May 15 for a ten-mile “ride of silence.” It was the second memorial ride held this month to honor Eric Ringdahl, 45, who was killed April 21 ...
Roadwork resumes (in time for Memorial Day) on Carlsbad Blvd.
Delayed due to permitting and contractor concerns
In April, coastal drivers on Carlsbad Boulevard (Coast Highway) may have wondered why the city sandblasted away all the pedestrian crosswalk markings, especially in light of the reported overkill by the city in pedestrian signage ...
Sweetwater school district board approves Alliant partnership
Trustee Jim Cartmill: "Tonight we are beginning the dance."
The Monday, May 13, meeting of the Sweetwater Union High School District was raucous…again. The potential agreement with Alliant University was one source of contention. Trustee Bertha Lopez said while she supported choices for students, ...
Wounded baby dolphin rescued in Tijuana
Picked up by SeaWorld later
Swimmers and lifeguards at Playas de Tijuana saved a stranded dolphin on the evening of Tuesday, May 14, as it floundered about in the beach shallows. According to 14-year-old beach-goer Azul Garibaldi, the youthful delfin ...
