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New SOHO Lawsuit Challenges Plaza de Panama Plan
Save Our Heritage Organisation, which has long been vocal in its opposition to the plan to transform Balboa Park’s Plaza de Panama, yesterday filed a lawsuit against the City of San Diego over what the group calls a “failure to …
Three Local Lawyers Disbarred
The State Bar of California has disbarred three local attorneys, primarily for misbehavior in loan modification cases. Kent C. Wilson was disbarred for 30 cases of misrepresentation in loan modification actions. He closed his office without notifying clients who had …
Carlsbad Woman Charged with Shooting Husband
Julie Elizabeth Harper, 39, was charged in San Diego’s North County Superior Courthouse today with murdering her husband with a gun, last week. She pleaded not guilty through a private defense attorney. Prosecutor Keith Watanabe said police found her husband …
DA Asks for Witnesses to Step Forward
The DA’s office has asked that anyone who may have witnessed lewd acts or a scuffle at the Del Mar fairgrounds two months ago to please contact investigators. Prosecutor Tracy Prior has charged two persons with lewd acts and battery, …
Fired U-T San Diego Columnist Hired by Influential GOP Lobbyists
Longtime Union-Tribune columnist Tom Blair, who served during the lengthy reign of late publisher Helen Copley, then later for Beverly Hills mega-investor Tom Gores, and briefly under the paper's latest owner, GOP kingpin and real estate mogul Doug Manchester, before …
Drummer Tommy Lee Sticks It To SeaWorld For Mistreating Whales
Drummer Tommy Lee is not feeling so good about SeaWorld these days. The former Motley Crue percussionist is shouting at SeaWorld president John Reilly to stop playing any Crue tracks for the Shamu Rocks show. In his note to Reilly, …
Puerto Rican Human Trafficker Nabbed in TJ
An alleged human trafficker who is originally from Puerto Rico was arrested in Tijuana on Friday, August 10th. Rafael Antonio Vélez Vargas, the alleged 41 year old human trafficker, was initially stopped for suspicious activity. State authorities displayed the suspect …
Disbarred Attorney in Court Again
The unusual, much-arrested, former-attorney Michael Theodore Pines was back in court August 9. Pines was charged last month with eleven new crimes, including five felonies for written threats and attempted extortion. At the time of his most recent arrest, Pines …
Chula Vista Celebrates Coastal Commission Approval of Bayfront Plan
The California Coastal Commission approved Chula Vista's Bayfront Master Plan at a Santa Cruz meeting on August 9. Collaboration between the city of Chula Vista, the Port, and various community stakeholders produced a plan that will include 1,500 condominiums, four …
DNA Evidence in Hearings Against Firefighter
In the second day of testimony, attorneys questioned friends and classmates and relations of a 17-year-old boy who has accused a 38-year-old man of abusing him since the boy was 14-years-old. Raul Licon Jr., a California firefighter, has pleaded not-guilty …
Carlsbad Woman Suspected of Killing Husband
Julie Elizabeth Harper, 39, who was arrested on suspicion of killing her husband this week, was brought into a courtroom yesterday but not yet formally charged. Her defense attorney, Paul Pfingst, said that he was the one who phoned police …
Did This Guy Prepare YOUR Taxes?
Steven Martinez of Ramona, a tax preparer and former agent with the Internal Revenue Service, pleaded guilty today (Aug. 10) in federal court to charges of murder-for-hire, witness tampering that involved attempted murder, mail fraud, filing false tax returns, Social …
Wealthy Romney Financial Backer and La Jolla Beachfront Neighbor Breaks Ground on Huge Remodel
Residents on Dunemere Drive in La Jolla's posh beachside Barber Tract have yet another high-profile residential renovation project to kick around. First it was Mitt Romney's plan to raze the 3,000-square-foot beach cottage that he and his family purchased in …
Blogger Still Unhappy about Voice's Handling of Muni Bond Scam
Joel Thurtell, a Michigan blogger on civic issues (joelontheroad.com), last May broke three excellent stories on a municipal bond outrage in Poway. In clearly-written blogs on May 1, May 10, and May 12, Thurtell described how Poway got seduced into …