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Prison riot
Imperial Valley facility on restricted access after weekend riots send nine to area hospitals
California State Prison officials are investigating a riot that broke out over the weekend at the Calipatria State Prison in the Imperial Valley east of San Diego involving about 115 inmates that sent nine to local hospitals. According to preliminary …
LA Times for sale
Manchester, OC Register owner interested, says Reuters
Reuters is reporting tonight (Dec. 11) that U-T owner "Papa Doug" Manchester and Orange County Register owner Aaron Kushner are interested in buying Tribune Company's papers -- particularly the Los Angeles Times. Long-bankrupt Tribune Co., which owns the Times, Chicago …
UCAN raising funds
Troubled Utility Consumers' Action Network resumes fundraising, discusses lack of funds
Utility Consumers' Action Network, the watchdog that is under investigation of more than one governmental agency, will be sending out a fundraising letter soon. At a monthly meeting last evening, one board member believed the current proposed letter is too …
Mother-in-law testifies
Carlsbad woman is accused of shooting husband while children played downstairs
The mother-in-law of a woman accused of murdering her husband, was in the witness box more than two hours today, in San Diego’s North County Superior Courthouse. Defendant Julie Elizabeth Harper, 39, is accused of shooting her husband Jason Harper, …
Will Filner cotton to Chicago moneyman's cash pitch?
Wall Street lobbyist hits up San Diego city hall for private equity cash just before liberal Democrat takes control
It may not seem exactly a marriage made in heaven for new Democratic Mayor Bob Filner, but a big New York private equity outfit run by a headline-grabbing Chicagoan has signed up to lobby the city of San Diego regarding …
Unwinding
How is the alleged smuggling plot of Saadi Gaddafi linked to the recent airplane crash that killed Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera?
A plane that crashed on its way to Toluca Mexico killing Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera and six other people is alleged to be owned by former Coronado resident Christian Eduardo Esquino-Nunez. Esquino-Nunez has been in the public eye lately because …
Out of reach
Nuclear Regulatory Committee schedules next meeting on San Onofre restart in Maryland venue
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has called another meeting to discuss Southern California Edison’s plans to resume power generating activity at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, idled since January following a failure of one of the twin reactors’ steam generators …
MX stock surge
Mexico seeing record highs in stock market
Mexico’s benchmark IPC index, which contains the nation’s leading 35 stocks, hit a record high by the end of trading on Monday, December 10th. The index broke past the 43,000 barrier, for the first time in history, as Mexico continues …
Ready or not
Police busts Point Loma medical marijuana dispensary before they are officially open for business
Yesterday afternoon, medical marijuana advocates took to Twitter and Instagram alerting people to a raid on the Greenworks San Diego Medical Marijuana Dispensary located at 3990 Hickok Street in Point Loma. "RAID IN PROGRESS AT GREENWORKS SD. 3990 Hickok Street, …
Less-lethal force?
Group questions decision by Sheriff's deputies to kill dog while serving warrant
A local animal rights group is questioning the shooting of a pit bull mix in Ramona earlier this month by San Diego Sheriff’s deputies upon their arrival at a home on the 15700 block of Brandiron Street. According to Detective …
Meet the new bosses...
County Republican Party returns cast of familiar faces for 2014 election effort
The Republican Party of San Diego County has just announced their leadership team for the 2014 election cycle, which remarkably resembles the 2012 team. Derrick Roach of Chula Vista will remain on as Secretary, while Oceanside city councilman Gary Felein …
Foreclosure ends
Rancho Santa Fe spread owned by U-T's John Lynch went into foreclosure and quickly out. He is living there.
On December 4, a home at 6311 Clubhouse Drive, Rancho Santa Fe, went into foreclosure. Owner John Lynch, chief executive of the U-T, his wife Catherine and the family trust were warned in a Notice of Trustee's Sale, "You are …
Circus murder
TJ singer and lion tamer shot to death in trailer
A Tijuana circus entertainer and singer was killed in his trailer Sunday evening, December 9th, after gunmen burst into his home. Jesús Apolo Fuentes Rodríguez, who goes by Apolo Fuentes, was shot three times by a .45 caliber weapon around …
Waiting for an update
City extends timeline for completion of community plan update in Uptown
As Tom Petty once sang; "The waiting is the hardest part." For the residents living in Uptown communities of Hillcrest, North Park, Golden Hill, and South Park waiting for an update to their community plan, they know just how hard …
Drunken decoys
Plainclothes officers simulating intoxication able to purchase booze more than half the time
Alcohol Beverage Control agents and Sheriff’s deputies spent Saturday afternoon conducting a “drunk decoy” operation, in which they sprayed an undercover officer’s clothing and body with alcohol and sent him into a liquor store where he proceeded to act intoxicated …
Report: UCSD's troubled cancer center deal collapses
Operation trumpeted a year ago as "a partnership between California and Nevada in offering lifesaving cancer care" may be near death
A plan to allow the UCSD Health System to partially exit its $18 million investment in the Nevada Cancer Institute of Las Vegas has unraveled, the Las Vegas Review-Journal is reporting. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/09/36693/ As noted here last month, the R-J broke …
Telcel makes way into U.S.
Carlos Slim continues to slide into U.S. mobile market by offering new plan by Telcel
Mexico’s leading wireless provider, Telcel, has began offering a $60 a month unlimited plan in the United States which will include calls to Mexico. Telcel, which does not offer an unlimited plan in Mexico, hopes to prosper on its name …
Norv Turner's $1.2 million beach pad
Reportedly soon to be fired Chargers coach purchased well-appointed South Mission Beach unit in April
Chargers head coach Norv Turner apparently has more confidence in San Diego real estate than the team-owning Spanos family ended up having in him, judging from a $1.2 million South Mission Beach condo purchase the floundering football figure made in …
People vs. Parking Garage
Another lawsuit filed against financing plan for parking garage behind Organ Pavilion.
San Diegans for Open Government, the government watchdog group, is not backing down from a fight over a new four-story parking garage proposed for Balboa Park. The pay-for-parking garage will cost approximately $22.4 million when all is said and done. …
Nursing battle to court
Muscular dystrophy patient files lawsuit seeking continued funding for in-home care
Lawyers for Pablo Carranza, the 21 year-old younger brother of Raul Carranza, who the Reader profiled last March, announced this week that a suit has been filed on his behalf against Toby Douglas of the California Department of Health Care …