Duke Cunningham Can't Have Gun
Don Bauder 9:47 p.m., May 25
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Man Divorces Wife by Gunshot
2:10 PM in the Gaslamp Quarter -- 83-year-old Joseph Gotell.allegedly shot and killed his 57-year-old wife, Deborah Gottel. Witnesses report that the couple got into a heated, verbal argument on the busy corner of 5th ...
Abandoned by Families: Tijuana Strays Search and Beg for Food
Since last March, the number of stray dogs and cats have increased quite a bit on the streets of Tijuana, mostly in the Zona Norte area and where the arch is located on First and ...
Young Mass Gets Reduced
Word is that San Diego-based rapper Young Mass' Las Vegas kidnapping charge has been reduced to a domestic violence beef. In the April 9, 2008 issue, I did an interview with Young Mass, see here. ...
Bullets in the Gaslamp
Been a while since there's been a shooting in downtown and the Gaslamp, sort of a nod toward the old Stingaree days of brothels and gambling parlors, where men wrangled six-shooters within the means of ...
Street Boxing in Tijuana
Boxing is a very popular sport in the Tijuana culture zone.. Last Saturday night, men and women crowded every TJ restaurant and bar that had a TV to see the big match. A ring was ...
The Tsunami That Never Came
It's been two months since the Japan quakes and the tsunami that "could" have hit Southern California and San Diego. It hit elsewhere north of us, to varying degrees of damage, loss and injury...I went ...
New Novel - Hard Cold Whisper
My new crime novel, HARD COLD WHISPER, comes out next month from Black Mask Books. It is set in Ocean Beach, Chuila Vista and Tijuana.
Craigslist Leads to Murder in Paradise
SDPD Homicide Det. Kevin Rooney tells the press this morning that a murder investigation is happening in a Paradise Hills case -- an 18-year-old man was shot to death by one of three apparent 17-year-old ...
Bad Cops Get Caught -- But Not All of Them Do
Yesterday, San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne was not a happy camper, facing the local and national press about another problem with a SDPD officer allegedly committing a crime. The cop's name is Daniel Edward ...
