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Mom carried him into Escondido's Learning Jungle

The day the baby boy was born in 2016, the hospital made a call to CPS. “They had them involved since the boy was born,” his father Jared testified in ...

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So many grey whales killed off Point Loma

On February 16, 1856, George P. Tebbets, the third mayor of San Diego, killed a right whale off the coast of Oceanside. In the course of his efforts to profit ...

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San Diego in books - the first sheriff, Mayor O'Connor, O'Henry prize story

DESPITE LEGAL RESTRICTIONS or bans in all states but Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Louisiana, cockfighting “has never been bigger,” according to HSUS [Humane Society of the United States] investigator ...

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San Diego in books - border task force, GOP convention, San Ysidro mass murder

I WAS TOLD OF GOD to rent a certain apartment and to have Charles live with me. We rented a place in Chula Vista, a town not far from Tia ...

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Can you eat fish caught in San Diego Bay?

Theresa Talley, a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, looks for ways to reveal to San Diegans our connections to the Pacific Ocean and San Diego Bay. Much of her research ...

May 19, 2021

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San Diego in books - DEA infighting, horseback adventure, William Manchester's WWII

I WAS SITTING RADAR. Actually doing nothing. We had been up to 75,000 to give the afternoon some jazz. I guess we were still in Mexico, coming into Miramar eventually in the F-14. It doesn't ...

May 17, 2021

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February 17, 2021

Nothing friendly about Hillcrest's Friendship Hotel

The untold stories about Hillcrest’s Friendship Hotel would probably read like William Burroughs’ dream journal. Once a nurse’s dorm for the nearby hospital, by the turn of the 21st century the two buildings across the ...

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November 4, 2020

San Diego's real census

It’s been a hell of a year, and it’s not over yet. First, in San Diego County as elsewhere in these Divided States, we’ve been treated to a masquerade ball, courtesy of a generous host. ...

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October 7, 2020

Through the emotional periscope

The viral disaster which has smothered the planet in a shroud of uncertainty since March 2020 has driven a six-foot wedge between us. We millennials, born on the doorstep of the internet, are figuring out ...

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June 17, 2020

California nurses board spends $53,000 to prosecute Kathleen Holt

In early March, as COVID-19 began to spread, Kathleen Holt, 64, thought she might be needed to work again as the traditional hospital nurse she used to be. The California Board of Registered Nurses had ...

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June 2, 2020

Thor slain in Carlsbad

This story appeared first on March 20 in the print edition of the Reader. Author Eva Knott updated the story on May 29. In a ten-minute hearing on May 28, defendant Jay Alexander Terry, 37, ...

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May 13, 2020

Vista has always had my heart

When I decided we needed to move my growing family from La Mesa to the beach, I quickly realized I couldn’t afford coastal property and somehow ended up in Vista. My late husband Ralph commented ...

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Tales Of Tomorrow: The Inside Story of TV's 1st Sci-Fi Anthology

The one about the little kid with supernatural powers. The shopkeeper who can magically materialize exactly what a customer needs. The episode with an invisible creature attacking people in the jungle. The show where an ...

April 25, 2020

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Shootout in Pauma Valley

When the deputies arrived at the 15600 Adams Avenue in Pauma Valley, the sun was hovering just above the surrounding hills. It was only hours before winter solstice, and sunset was officially clocked at 4:47 ...

March 18, 2020

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February 6, 2020

Hey, man, nice ponytail

The last time I had an actual haircut was March 1983, when I was so new to North Park that I accidentally booked myself by phone to get my ponytail whacked at a nearby African-American ...

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December 18, 2019

What would George Mitrovich say?

The weirdest thing the late George Mitrovich ever told me was that he was descended from Oliver Cromwell. He hadn’t nailed down the exact genealogy, apparently, but said it was family lore. What piqued my ...

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Mom carried him into Escondido's Learning Jungle

So many grey whales killed off Point Loma

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