"I was 25 years and 6 days old when the police threw me into a jail cell.... I was sentenced by a federal judge to 46 months in federal prison." Sean Legacy robbed a bank …
April 17, 1997
News & Stories
Man robs Home Federal in Pacific Beach to see his daughter
San Diego traded a convention center for libraries
Ocean Beach attorney Lewis Wenzell is one of the plaintiff's lawyers in the Supreme Court case seeking to force a public vote on San Diego's $200 million convention center expansion. He sat down last week …
April 17, 1997
Patrick Daugherty gets his dog
After three weeks I have Baja office up and running, return to San Diego to interview several people for a story. Only motel I can find that takes pets is Motel 6 in El Cajon.
April 17, 1997
Smash and grab in Tijuana's Zona Rio
I shouldn't have been shocked to see the smacked-in passenger side window of my car when I emerged on a Sunday evening from a friend's apartment in Tijuana's Zona Rio area. I knew, after all, …
April 17, 1997
While wife gone, I read Kerouac's On the Road
My wife left me while she still could. A ten-day visit with her family in Kansas City, to see her new nephew and to help a friend in need. Soon she will be too pregnant …
April 17, 1997
Harsh words for Mike McDade and other members of San Diego's port commission
City hall's panic over the state Supreme Court's decision to hear the case for San Diego's right to vote up or down on that $300 million convention center addition continues unabated. Sources say officials are …
April 17, 1997