Cover Stories
I don't know exactly when I decided to get into law enforcement. It's not like i'm one of those guys who knew ever since he could think that he was "born to be a cop.” …
In 1983 a San Diego County resident named Bill Wheeler began a 15,000-mile driving trip across Africa that eventually took him to the Mountains of the Moon, the mystical peaks just east of the Zairean …
One hundred thirty-five San Diegans were murdered in 1990. More than 100 of those deaths occurred south of Interstate 8 and were concentrated in the neighborhoods such as Barrio Logan, Southeast San Diego, City Heights, …
Andy Lakey: I was born in '59. My mother and I moved to the United States in 1963. We're from France. My mother was an artist — and her mother, and her mother's mother. Many …
What we don’t talk about is anything personal. In the seven years of occupancy, not one friendship has formed. But we are a neighborhood just the same. We’re a neighborhood of listeners, with occasional, mostly self-interest, interaction.
This Sickness Is Not Unto Death Above the doorbell on Floyd Fedance's olive-green house in El Cajon is a sign that reads, "It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow." When he opens …
Bulging stained manila file folders spewing yellow legal pads hugged to his chest, pin-striped charcoal suit coat over-large on his narrow shoulders, curly gray-streaked brown hair neatly caught up in a ponytail, Alex Landon slips …
The hot shower splashed my face, and anticipation washed over my body as my boyfriend soaped my back and thighs. I remember how great it felt then to be young, healthy, attractive. Suddenly, without warning, …
Heald’s surrender to Los Angeles police was delayed until he recovered from self-inflicted wrist slashes. Jim Holtzman told staffers if Heald was given probation instead of jail time, he would have the job of executive producer of the Channel 8 news.
“There are four or five dealers in Imperial County who buy scrap off the range, and none of us has been harassed by the law. But the range runners have really been harassed.”
There are times to dance like a duck, there are times to leave your spouse, there are times to quit your job, there are even times, they say, to drop cluster bombs on strangers; but …
They relieve themselves on floors, set fire to drapes, smear walls with excrement, toss drawers and dishes and mirrors out windows, break windows, are blasting the 2 Live Crew or Barbra Streisand or Brahms’s Third …
It's 8:30 Sunday night, January 20, and 41 tow trucks are lined up with their engines revving behind the Dow stereo store on Sports Arena Boulevard. For the tow truck drivers, this will be a …
Jim Elliott almost missed a big telephone call one summer night about a year ago. He had settled into his hot tub with his wife and a few friends and was trying to relax. It …
It was a noble experiment. For ten years, beginning in 1979, the city of Tecate, Baja California, sponsored Pamplonada, a running of the bulls, inspired by Hemingway's much-loved event in Pamplona, Spain. Pamplonadacan be roughly …