Tijuana-Ensenada toll road near Salsipuedes under repair
Father's Day gringos react
Mike Madriaga 3 p.m., June 22
News & Politics
Tijuana-Ensenada toll road near Salsipuedes under repair
Father's Day gringos react
“It was a lot of traffic [and] I got stuck [for] like two hours there,” said Luis A. Corona, a 24-year-old college student from Ensenada. He was referring to the traffic that stopped on the ...
Rick Perry joins environmentalists on San Onofre
Energy department wants to revive stalled Nevada nuclear dump plan
Onetime presidential contender Rick Perry, who famously called for the elimination of the federal Department of Energy before being tapped to lead it, warned on Tuesday (June 20) that conditions at the shuttered San Onofre ...
SD Junior Theatre teacher going to prison
Pleads guilty to unlawful intercourse with minor girl
Eric von Metzke, a long-time teacher at the San Diego Junior Theatre, was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison. On May 12, he pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a ...
I.B. ready to sue
Decision tonight?
The clues are splattered over the documents for the meeting Wednesday night: IB's city council is positioning itself to sue over sewage. The Wednesday meeting agenda shows that, on June 7, in a part of ...
Feeding staffers’ faces
$2,897 of prohibited purchases
Employees of the San Diego Unified School District have been improperly dipping into student funds for personal food money, says a June 1 report to superintendent Cindy Marten from Gamy Rayburn, the district’s interim chief ...
He's an engineer, not a gay porn star
Plaza de Panama project construction manager Gordon Kovtun cyberbullied
Gordon Kovtun is not a “sissy.” And, he is not a “bottom boy.” Despite what it says on the Wordpress.com profile with his name on it, “gay porn” is not his sole interest. Also, those ...
Nonprofits go after Faulconer SoccerCity plan
San Diego City Schools staff dips into student funds for meals and snacks
San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer, whose hopes for statewide office took a big hit from this month’s city-council rejection of his plan for a hurry-up $5 million November special election on SoccerCity and a hotel ...
SDSU’s very own bulldozer city?
State university system’s uncannily-timed call for real estate talent
Just as the San Diego city council was disposing of the controversial SoccerCity development in Mission Valley on Monday, June 20, the California State University system, proprietor of San Diego State, issued a call for ...
Daughter of ex-Lemon Grove mayor in jail
Caught in historic fentanyl seizure
Anna Sessom Baker, daughter of former Lemon Grove mayor and council member Mary Sessom, is in jail today. Yesterday (June 20),she, along with Jonathan Ibarra and Hector Fernando Garcia, were arraigned and charged with possession ...
What lies in Clairemont's future?
Single-family paradise resistant to change
The update of the Clairemont community plan is in full swing. How this plan shapes up will determine the future of Clairemont and Bay Park until at least 2040. Senior city planner Marlon Pangilinan gave ...
Baja governor opens bidding on Ensenada airport
In Ojos Negros — 40 miles east of port town
“[Ensenada] has potential to be well known on a global level, but it’s not easily accessed,” said Roberto De La Peña, “the airport would attract more people and put Ensenada on the map.” On June ...
San Diego police sex suit includes nepotism charge
Would Christopher Hays be cop without his father-in-law?
Today, June 20 San Diego city councilmembers are expected to approve a settlement to a woman sexually assaulted by former San Diego police officer Christopher Hays. Terms of the tentative settlement are not yet public, ...
Somalian, Nigerian immigrants fleeced
Tax preparers sentenced to prison
Two local tax preparers and the recruiter who brought them victims were sentenced to 30 months in prison yesterday (June 19). Rahim Ali Cummings and Rashad Abdul-Rahim were sentenced for conspiring to commit mail fraud, ...
San Diego attorney James Davis couldn't find Bit Torrent movie thieves
Now he's suing gang that got him into the business
Catching thieves who steal and distribute movies using BitTorrent software is a difficult business. San Diego County attorney James Davis last year sued John and Jane Does that had stolen a movie called Cell. Early ...
What are those easterly winds blowing to Clairemont?
What happened to Miramar Landfill to change things?
On May 25, the Air Pollution Control District hearing board ordered the city to return on July 27 with a diagnosis and a concrete plan to deal with the smells that are vexing residents downwind ...
