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Chargers', Rams' weak attendance Sunday
Is L.A. not a pro football town?
More publications are wondering if Los Angeles will be a good home for two pro football teams after the Chargers (San Diego transplants this year) and Rams (St. Louis transplants last year) had poor attendance ...
As McSwain attrits, what's next for U-T?
More Chicago layoffs and “cognitive decline” in San Diego gnaw on tronc
Could the latest news of five more Chicago-area newsroom layoffs by tronc, the oddly named newspaper chain that owns the Union-Tribune, spell yet further staff reductions for the once-mighty San Diego daily? The cutbacks in ...
Bridgepoint stock taking hit
Value has dropped nearly 60 percent since July
Stock of controversial for-profit education company Bridgepoint Education has been taking a big hit in the past couple of months. On July 7, it was selling for $14.07; today (September 18) it closed at $8.85, ...
People living in cars and RVs stand up to city
"These individuals barely have enough money to eat and pay for medicine."
Two months ago, a group of homeless people in San Diego filed a class-action lawsuit against the city's practice of ticketing people for pitching tents on public sidewalks. Now comes word of another potential class-action ...
Severance pay for Julio Fonseca called "illegal"
Attorney Briggs says San Ysidro School District needs to recover $400,000
San Diegans for Open Government attorney Cory Briggs has threatened to sue San Ysidro School District if district officials do not recover the $400,000 in severance pay it awarded to former superintendent Julio Fonseca after ...
County unemployment rate flatlines
Unchanged from July, but 3200 non-farm jobs gained
The county unemployment rate was 4.7 percent in August, unchanged from a revised 4.7 percent in August, and down from 4.9 percent from a year ago. The county added 3200 jobs in the month and ...
Cheetahs scandal: the novelization
Ex-city councilman publishes fictionalized take on federal prison time
Ralph Inzunza — the only one of three San Diego city-council defendants in the notorious Cheetahs strip-club influence-peddling case to go to prison — is out with a novel said to be based on his ...
Prebys foundation files to dismiss lawsuit
Conrad's "life partner" Debra Turner sued to oust trustee and board
The battle over Conrad Prebys's estate is getting more bitter this week as the trustee and boardmembers of the Conrad Prebys Foundation asked a Superior Court judge to toss out a suit by Debra Turner, ...
Man breaches San Onofre perimeter
Confesses to carrying "electronic equipment and possibly explosives"
A man driving a stolen delivery van he claimed was loaded with explosives was apprehended in a restricted area at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating station on Tuesday afternoon (September 12). According to sheriff's ...
San Diego still cheaping out on cops
“We lose officers to Murrieta — it’s the closest place they can afford to live."
Since July 2015, at least 32 San Diego police officers have left the department to join other law-enforcement agencies — according to exit interviews the departing officers gave the department. “Those are the people who ...
Disgruntled fan pays for NFL-bashing billboard
Joseph MacRae reportedly heckled Chargers owner Spanos in L.A.
Bitter Chargers fan Joseph MacRae has raised $10,000 to erect anti-NFL digital billboards near the team's new temporary home at StubHub Center in Los Angeles, according to ESPN.com and KSWB-TV. He will post five biting ...
Emotionally distressed biker sues city
Cop saw five rings as brass knuckles
On Monday (September 11), biker Arvaunti Victoria filed suit against the City of San Diego and certain police employees, claiming his civil rights were violated in an incident that happened a year ago. He charges ...
Alvarez sees green in pot lobbyists
Cannabis influence-peddlers show up in force to back supervisorial bid
As a sweeping new marijuana law opposed by departing chief of police Shelly Zimmerman made its way through city hall early this week, one of the biggest winners aside from local pot emporiums was the ...
San Diego pornographers accused of hustling models
Jane Does 15 and 16 were assured they wouldn't end up on the internet
Two more women have filed lawsuits against San Diego-based amateur pornography website, GirlsDoPorn.com. The new complaints make 16 women who allege that the website's owners lied to them about distribution and later posted their names ...
Short-term rentals thrive in East Village
Longtime businesses dying — "It's like a ghost town down there now."
Is the demand for housing suitable to fill the thousands of rental units that have sprung up in downtown's East Village since the mid-2000s, and enough to sustain even more units currently under construction or ...
