Content for Friday, June 20, 2014
News & Stories
Is there a tax dodger in the house?
Doctor and wife evaded revenuers for ten years
A federal jury has returned guilty verdicts on all counts against Dr. James Francis Murphy and his wife, Denise Christine Murphy, for their decade-long dodging of taxes. They practiced osteopathic medicine in Encinitas and Omaha, ...
No drunks drive through police checkpoint
Still, Oceanside police cite 16 motorists, seize 7 vehicles
Oceanside police officers were surprised on the evening of June 6, after they set up a DUI checkpoint and no derelict drivers showed. Over a four-hour period starting at 9:30 p.m., on Oceanside Boulevard at ...
Ten-story building for La Mesa?
“It's too big not to hurt an already congested area.”
The La Mesa Planning Commission on June 18 tabled a decision on the Park Station specific plan after a co-applicant spoke against the mixed-use proposal. The proposal includes raising the height limit to 110 feet ...
Spamalot is nuts — and wonderful
Moonlight Theatre joins Monty Python's war against pretension
And now for something completely…SPECTACULAR! Moonlight has opened its outdoor summer season with a production so smart, polished, and accurate you’d think they’ve assembled an all-star team. And in a way, they have. Brad Bradley ...
Don’t trample the streetscape, Santa
Chula Vista plans the next Starlight Parade…probably around revamped Third Avenue
The Starlight Parade may be returning to western Chula Vista. For many years, thousands of families lined the sidewalks of Third Avenue waiting for Santa Claus to arrive; however, when economic times got tough, the ...
Eshoo won't be eschewed by Qualcomm
Hidden money to Ripon and No Labels unmasked in latest report
2013 was a bruising political year for Qualcomm, Inc., the cell-phone chip-maker cofounded by La Jolla Democratic billionaire Irwin Jacobs. With his son Paul, then the company's chief executive, they put the firm's big-money chips ...
Special interactive feature: help us choose the drug-related cop joke
Dear Reader readers: We just couldn't decide which was the better aspect of the Officers Charpentier case: the (alleged) fact that married police officers needed to sell hydrocodone to supplement the notoriously low pay offered ...
Cole seeks cash to snuff campaign backfire
Former opponent Crenshaw claims crackhouse-association defamation
City councilmember Myrtle Cole is looking for cash to fight a defamation lawsuit filed by her former opponent, Dwayne Crenshaw. The lawsuit accuses Cole of dirty politics when her campaign sent out mailers placing Crenshaw ...
Top of the food chain
Fine dining at Eddie V's
I wouldn’t have expected top-notch fine dining from a mammoth national organization like Darden (which owns 2100 restaurants, including Olive Garden), but because my fancy foodie friends Bill and Jane approved of and recommended it, ...
More tippling? Bar employment up
County gains 5100 jobs in month
. San Diego County's unemployment rate dropped to 5.8 percent in May, down from a revised 6.1 percent in April, according to the state Employment Development Department. The county gained 5100 jobs in the month, ...
Belgians and barrels
Rip Current Brewing wading deeper into the suds spectrum
Despite tackling a wider range of beer styles than almost any brewery in the county, Rip Current Brewing Company (1325 Grand Avenue, San Marcos) has only dabbled in Belgian-inspired beers. That’s about to change big-time ...
Fit for a job in fitness?
The industry continues to grow
Patty Markham of Huntington Beach lost 100 pounds in a year by working out. She trained at a Crossfit gym, ran on the beach, and practiced yoga three times a week. When she lost her ...
