On September 6 an arsonist created an East County inferno. Fighting that blaze was as risky and complicated as wartime combat. This is how it was done.

“Once dinner was over,” the Kansas-bred woman says, “you could at least get out of your Sunday clothes.” Children played quietly in the neighborhood. In less strict families, the children might go to the movies.

It is September on an airless Sunday morning with the mercury registering a dripping ninety-eight degrees at eleven o’clock. Adams Avenue is virtually empty except for the few hundred patrons outside the Ken Cinema. The …

Anyone who's ever thought of running a grocery store ought to know there's a way to do so without investing any money. This is possible at the Ocean Beach People’s Food Store, located just off …

The late Mission Bay hotelier Bill Evans began making plans two years ago to add a second cruise boat to the one already plying the waters of Mission Bay between the two hotels he owns …

On the morning of December 15, 1878 jailer George Nickel at the San Diego County Jail on Third Street inserted a key into the cell door of Jose Laguna, a.k.a. Ramon. Through the barred window …