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Don Bauder 9:47 p.m., May 25
Imperial Valley
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San Jose Murderer Nabbed in Mexicali
The international unit of the Baja state police nabbed another fugitive Wednesday, May 23rd. Ernesto Daniel Chávez, a 23 year old from San Jose, California, was arrested in Mexicali where he was hiding. Chávez is ...
Mexicali on Alert Following San Luis Police Chief Murder
The city of Mexicali has put 100 extra police officers on patrol, following the murder of the police chief of San Luis Rio Colorado. The officers have been spread out on the outskirts of town, ...
Email of Retired Government Security Agent in San Diego Hacked by Anonymous, Letter Says
Email accounts of a retired agent for the California Department of Justice who was a member of a high-powered law enforcement computer security team in San Diego have been compromised by Anonymous, the infamous world-wide ...
Private Military Facility Plan Dies in the Desert
It appears that plans for Wind Zero, a planned military/law enforcement training site and auto-racing facility near the Imperial Valley community of Ocotillo, have died. Wind Zero plans called for shooting ranges, a live-fire training ...
Mexican Army Intercepts Drug Shipment
Mexican Army officers, along with local police, intercepted a vehicle headed for the U.S. border near Mexicali with over 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of marijuana. The drugs and vehicle were put on display for local ...
Imperial County Officials Tour Solar Farm Site
A host of Imperial County officials and neighbors of a planned solar farm got to tour the development site west of the border town of Calexico last week, the Imperial Valley Press reports. “Our 946-acre ...
Wind Farm Developer Pledges $3M To Community Improvement
Pattern Energy, which is seeking to build a 112 turbine wind energy farm near Ocotillo just east of the Laguna Mountains, has pledged $3 million to set up three funds for education and community improvement ...
Raids Net Over a Ton of Drugs, Plane, & Arrests
Mexican authorities scored drugs, arrests, and a small aircraft in the Tijuana and Mexicali municipalities on Monday, April 9. Separate raids were held in coordination with the Mexican army and local authorities. A raid that ...
Mexican Authorities Seek Help Locating Boy's Missing Parents
The California Department of Justice has joined the search for the family of Michael Anthony Perez Hernandez, a 5 year-old boy found wandering the streets of Mexicali ten months ago. According to a release issued ...
Ex-El Centro School Superintendent Admits Fraud
Michael Klentschy, former superintendent of El Centro Elementary School District, today (March 12) pleaded guilty in federal court to mail fraud charges related to school math and science grants. According to court documents, Klentschy admitted ...
State Prisons Will Reap Benefits From Solar
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation today announced that it will begin installing solar panels that will generate 25 megawatts of power at five prisons across the state. Unlike a series of negative benefit ...
SDSU Gets $6M to Study Childhood Obesity
San Diego State University has received a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worth more than $6 million over the next four years to study childhood obesity in Imperial County. SDSU is ...
Green Energy Company at Risk
In the wake of the failure of Solyndra, a manufacturer of solar panels who was the beneficiary of government-backed loans, more bad news arrives on the green energy front. Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. admits that ...
Ducheny Enters Race for Congress, Will Spar With Vargas
As expected, this morning former state Senator Denise Ducheny formally announced her candidacy for the 51st Congressional District seat, which is being vacated by mayoral candidate Bob Filner. The move was foreshadowed two weeks ago ...
Imperial Valley Announces Another Solar Farm
SunPeak Solar, LLC, and Suntech Power Holdings Co., LTD have inked a deal to build a 23 megawatt solar power facility in Niland, CA, east of the Salton Sea and about 30 miles north of ...
Major Solar Project Approved East of San Diego County
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar gave his approval to connect a 250-megawatt solar power project located in Imperial Valley to the energy grid in California. The transmission line, an above-ground 230 kilovolt line, will ...
The Blow That Didn't Make It to San Diego
Last week, tons of cocaine didn't make its way into San Diego. The first seizure occurred Saturday, May 7, at the Calexico downtown international entry port. CPB officers arrested a 42-year old Mexicali woman when ...
Stoking the Campfire of Love
Ours was an on-again, off-again affair that had been discussed for months. It finally took place on Christmas, the only time my sons and I—all three of us—were off on the same two days. We ...
A Better Way?
When my friend Mariko told me that she had never been to the desert, I suggested a camping trip. (Mariko is not her real name; she asked me to make up something until she is ...
