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Memorial Day celebration in San Diego County

Timely ceremony at Mount Soledad veterans' memorial

If you have not yet been to the Mt. Soledad veterans’ memorial, this is the perfect weekend to visit. It ...

Judge to release grand jury transcripts in alleged corruption cases

Judge Ana Espana, who is presiding over the corruption investigations begun in December 2010 will release grand jury transcripts May 29/30

In the South County Superior Court on May 25, Judge Ana Espana inclined toward making 99.9 % of the transcripts ...

Great Outdoors: Mural lobbyist joins big billboard graphics fray

Partially completed Blue Moon mural on side of downtown bar building complies with city code and is protected by the First Amendment, proprietor maintains

2013 seems to be shaping up as San Diego's year of the great billboard battle, as noted here earlier this ...

San Diego Superior Court judge presides over difficult case

Jury must decide who is lying

The Honorable Judge Kathleen Lewis now presides over a difficult trial in which an Escondido man has been accused of ...

Construction allowed to begin...again on Centerpoint development near SDSU

The Mayor and developer have stepped down from their 4-week standoff.

It's settled, developer Carmel Partners are permitted to get back to work on a 332-unit building on the corner of ...

Bayfront tourist shuttle begins service

The Port of San Diego has announced that, in partnership with recently embattled Ace Parking Management, it will again operate ...

San Diego tourism lags other California coast metros

Local figures up moderately -- others up stoutly

April occupancy rates in San Diego County hotels dropped slightly from 71.1% in April of last year to 71% the ...

Study finds unfair, unsafe working conditions for San Diego taxi drivers

A group of graduate students at San Diego State University led by Professor Jill Esbenshade teamed with the labor-friendly local ...

Carrier suit against U-T begins tomorrow

Carriers say they were misclassified as independent contractors

Preliminary matters in the case of newspaper carriers suing the Union-Tribune begin tomorrow (May 24) in the Superior Court department ...

Save San Onofre Coalition accuses transportation agency of trying to resurrect a plan to build a toll road to Trestles

Group files two lawsuits in San Diego Superior Court against the Transportation Corridor Agency

The Save San Onofre Coalition, a coalition comprised of basically every environmental advocacy group in California, is accusing the Transportation ...

Brown appoints new Superior Court judges

Amid considerable grousing about budget cuts in the state’s court system, Governor Jerry Brown has announced the appointment of eleven ...

Homeland Security grant to send nearly $17 million for weapons, surveillance to San Diego region

Mayor Filner’s office announced yesterday (May 21) that San Diego has been awarded $16.9 million out of a total of ...

Much-hyped Venter Big Oil algae deal heads back to drawing board

UCSD alumnus and self-styled emperor of the worlds genomes recasts not so miraculous $300 million deal with ExxonMobil for genetically engineering fuel from algae, reports MIT Tech Review

As first reported here in November 2008, La Jolla's Craig Venter, the self-styled human genome king, had grand plans for ...

City Attorney finds gaps in Mayor Filner's effort to remove traffic from Balboa Park's Plaza de Panama

In a May 15 memo, City Attorney finds issue with Filner's so-called temporary plan.

Not so fast, Mayor Filner. That's the gist of a May 15 memo from the City Attorney's Office regarding the ...

Baja authorities searching for missing 11 year old girl

Child disappeared from home on May 18 without a trace

Baja California authorities and family members are asking for help in locating a missing 11 year old girl. Cristina del ...

There was no answer at the front door, so burglars went around to the back

Neighbors in Carlsbad no longer at ease after home invaded

A fifteen-year-old girl was home when two intruders went around to the back of the house in Carlsbad and kicked ...

Third conspirator pleads guilty in plot to kidnap San Diegans

Antonio Zermeno Garcia has joined co-defendants Luis Miguel Salas Rodriguez and Carlos Alberto Andrade-De La Cruz in pleading guilty to ...

Blonde burglar sentenced to 4 years prison

Woman admitted stealing jewelry and wrestling with homeowner

A woman who confronted a burglar leaving her Oceanside home five months ago was in court yesterday afternoon to see ...

Escondido man who ran over women in crosswalk is sentenced

Judge wants felony-bad-driver to pay restitution

Aaron Danny Hernandez, 25, was sentenced to 365 days custody plus 5 years formal probation in San Diego’s North County ...

Inappropriate exposure at California tanning salon gets 2 years prison

Timothy Ty Craine must register as a sex offender

A man who exposed himself to a woman working at a spa in Encinitas was sentenced yesterday to 2 years ...

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