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Tased again and again in Vista parking lot
County pays $3 million for deputy's aggressiveness
The County of San Diego has agreed to pay $3 million in damages to a man who suffered a severe brain injury and multiple amputations after a Sheriff's deputy repeatedly fired his taser at him ...
Surprise! James Y. Lee banned from securities industry
He doesn't show up for hearing; he's in prison.
On May 22, the Securities and Exchange Commission banned James Y. Lee, formerly of La Jolla, from the securities industry. Lee didn't show up for the hearing. One reason: he is in Taft Correctional Institution ...
Opponents to Jessop Property subdivision win
Preserve Point Loma keeps lots on La Crescentia Drive intact
A state appellate court found that San Diego city councilmembers were within their right to rescind approval of a Point Loma development due to environmental concerns. At issue is the development of Point Loma Summit, ...
Project is not dense enough or land is too steep
Project on Indiana St. on edge of Florida Canyon opposed by neighbors
The City of San Diego's preliminary approval of a thirteen-unit condominium on the edge of Florida Canyon in North Park will now head to court. On May 22 attorneys for North Park residents Lark Holden ...
Prebys foundation president Debra Turner sues other board members
She protests money award to Conrad Prebys's disinherited son
In Superior Court May 17, Debra Turner, who lived with billionaire philanthropist Conrad Prebys for more than 16 years, sued the other board members of the Conrad Prebys Foundation. Turner is president of the foundation, ...
Brown Act shadows Faulconer's plan for November election and run for governor
The mayor's inner Soccer City sanctum and Summer Stephan's courtship of county supes
A tsunami of political cash — driven by two measures that appear headed for a special election in November — has grown even bigger, thanks to $250,000 from Fifth Avenue Landing, LLC, the partnership battling ...
Sempra proposes natural gas pipeline from Miramar to Rainbow
Opponents say use the Otay Mesa pipeline instead
Sempra Energy, the parent company of both San Diego Gas & Electric and SoCalGas (serving Riverside County), is in the planning stages for a massive new $600 million natural gas pipeline running roughly from Miramar ...
San Diego unemployment rate of 3.8 percent lowest since December of 2006
18,200 more nonfarm jobs since a year ago
The unemployment rate in San Diego County was 3.8 percent in April, down from a revised 4.2 percent in March. According to Emerson Figueroa of the Employment Development Department, the 3.8 percent is the lowest ...
Lost control of car on Pearl Street and slammed into White Sands
Dead victim helped to create San Diego Aerospace Hall of Fame
The family of a 96-year-old man who was hit and killed by a runaway car that crashed into his room as he slept in his bed at an assisted living facility in October 2016 has ...
DeMaio faces off against Jerry Brown
Says governor sending thugs to supermarkets — Vons and Ralphs forbid signature gathering
Late last week, San Diego’s AM 600 KOGO talk host, Carl DeMaio, along with John & Ken from L.A.’s KFI AM 640, joined forces for a live broadcast from a Fullerton ARCO AM/PM gas station. ...
Let them eat stadium secrets
Anaheim Ducks' Samueli lurks in city hall shadows
Housing prices spiral ever upwards and city streets are overwhelmed by unsheltered vagrants, but big money sports venues craved by the politically-connected super-rich continue to dominate the covert agenda at San Diego's city hall. Of ...
Sunset Cliffs passes Fiesta Island as dirtiest beach
Trash coming to coast from inland
The beaches of Sunset Cliffs have supplanted Fiesta Island in Mission Bay for the dubious distinction of San Diego's dirtiest shoreline, according to new data from San Diego Coastkeeper and the Surfrider Foundation's San Diego ...
Billionaire Conrad Prebys cut his son out of will
Eric Prebys, noted physicist, blames dad's dementia
Billionaire real estate tycoon Conrad Prebys, who died last July at 82, gave hundreds of millions of dollars to nonprofit groups, but he cut his only child, son Eric Prebys, out of the will two ...
Chicano Park victims and surviving family members submit claims
In case of car that crashed down from Coronado bridge
Victims and family members of those who died as a result of being hit by a drunk driver who careened off the Coronado Bridge into a gathering at Chicano Park have filed claims against the ...
Walmart sues Bumble Bee and Chicken of the Sea for price fixing
Smaller cans, secret price lists, limiting discounts
A class-action lawsuit filed by retail giant Walmart accuses canned tuna's three biggest players – including San Diego's Bumble Bee and Chicken of the Sea – of conspiring to fix prices on "shelf stable" seafood ...
