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Would you buy an electric car from this ex-legislator?
Termed-out Democratic State Senator Christine Kehoe gets lucrative electric car promotion gig
Ex-GOP Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher - who turned independent after failing to get the county Republican party's endorsement during his failed mayoral primary bid this spring - isn't the only departing local legislator to walk straight into the arms of corporate …
Bad Customs customs
Customs broker pleads guilty to avoiding payments
Gerardo Chavez of International Trade Consultants, president of the San Diego Customs Brokers Association, pleaded guilty today (November 15) in federal court to importing goods into the United States without paying import taxes. According to court documents, Chavez would import …
QCOM casts a vote for Fletcher
Independent pol leaves public life for Director position at tech giant
Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher's been known to make some major announcements. One such announcement came earlier this year during his run for mayor when he made national headlines for quitting the GOP party and becoming an independent. His announcement garnered an …
Willie Gandara, Jr. sentenced to 6 1/2 years
Willie Gandara, Jr is nephew to former Sweetwater superintendent Jesus Gandara scheduled to go to trial in January
Former El Paso County Commissioner, Willie Gandara Jr., was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in a federal prison for drug smuggling. According to the El Paso Times, "In August Gandara pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to distribute marijuana, …
Fewer gurgles
Percent SD homes underwater declines
In this year's third quarter, the percentage of San Diego County homeowners underwater (more debt on the property than it is worth on the market) dropped to 30.6 from 33.9 in the second quarter, according to Zillow.com. San Diego was …
No knives
Knife-wielding man suspected of domestic violence causes 6 hour SWAT standoff in Encanto
A standoff between a suicidal Encanto man and the San Diego Police SWAT team ended peacefully earlier this morning. Police were originally called to an apartment on the 6900 block of Imperial Avenue around 11:30 last night, responding to reports …
Fewer foreclosure filings
Homeowners Bill of Rights showing an effect before its official implementation, downward trends may make new foreclosure fee less than revenue neutral
California is seeing an unprecedented number of scheduled foreclosure sales being canceled, ForeclosureRadar is reporting in its October report, released this week. The proportion of lenders pulling properties from foreclosure auctions rose 62 percent compared to a month ago, and …
San Marcos man pled guilty
Took a baseball bat to his sister and then burned down the family home.
A San Marcos man who attacked his sister with a baseball bat and then set the family home afire, last August, pleaded guilty this week. Edward Louis Nickols, 48, admitted two felonies: assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily …
Jock itch
Pro basketball player says San Diegan put him in Ponzi schemes.
Longtime San Diego money manager William "Billy" Crafton Jr. is among those sued in Philadelphia for putting Boston Celtics guard Jason Terry in dubious investments, some of which were Ponzi schemes. According to Courthouse News Service, Terry says that Crafton …
Good news for California State University system
Incoming chancellor requests pay cut
In October the California State University board of trustees appointed Timothy P. White chancellor to the 23 campus CSU system. White, currently University of Riverside's chancellor, will assume his new position in December. The Sacramento Bee reported today that White …
Theta Chi plans a new frat house
Theta Chi, one of six fraternities busted in Operation Sudden Fall, proposes new frat house near SDSU
For college fraternity Theta Chi, it is a new kind of rush; a rush to bring Theta Chi back to SDSU. On October 15, nearly five years after the university placed the former-Theta Chi chapter on probation for possession of …
Mortgage disinterest
Does U-T San Diego's new $27.5 million mortgage mean publisher "Papa" Doug Manchester is losing interest?
An outfit related to U-T San Diego publisher Doug Manchester has recently mortgaged the newspaper's Mission Valley headquarters to the tune of $27.5 million, raising questions among some over the staying power of the controversial real estate and hotel mogul …
Big seizures
Baja continues huge seizures of narcotics, Mexico questioning U.S. states legalizing marijuana
The Baja California Attorney General’s Office (La Delegación de la Procuraduría General de la República or PGR) released results from police and military seizures that occurred during the month of October on Wednesday, November 14th. The announcement comes on the …
Ballroom backs out
Hotel operator forces NRC to cancel scheduled public meeting on San Onofre
A public meeting scheduled to take place this Friday by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission regarding the proposal by Southern California Edison, operator of the long-idled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, to resume operations has been canceled due to concerns …
Cleaning up the forest
Fallbrook resident, former Marine general tapped to head state parks department
Fallbrook resident and retired Marine Corps general Anthony L. Jackson has been tapped by Governor Jerry Brown to oversee the California Parks and Recreation Department. The head job at the Department has been vacant since a scandal unearthed last July …
Foreclosure fees
City council passes Property Value Protection Ordinance in front of packed house evening session
San Diego’s City Council, after hearing nearly two hours’ worth of comments, voted 5-3 in an evening session last night in favor of implementing the proposed Property Value Protection Ordinance. Under the new law, which was amended to take effect …
Los Angeles man accused of killing mom
"If I go to hell, I'll take you guys with me."
Sherry and Anthony Chang drove to their son’s apartment in Los Angeles for Thanksgiving 2008, but found he was not there when they arrived. They waited, and when he came home, then-27-year-old Bryan Chang told them they should not have …
Still unaffordable
Rising home prices mean fewer households can afford to buy, despite low interest rates
A report out yesterday from the California Association of Realtors trade group announced that the state’s housing affordability index dipped below 50 percent in the third quarter of 2012. Rising home prices across the state contributed to affordability, which the …
Unidentified woman killed
Dead woman found dumped in Tijuana street, male suspect found an hour later
An unidentified woman was found beaten to death in Tijuana Sunday evening, November 11th, in the colony Hacienda Santa Cecilia. The woman, only identified as slim figured, wearing a purple shirt, pink and blue pajama pants, and no socks, was …
Generators revisited
Diesel backup generators, missing reports among latest problem areas at San Onofre
More safety concerns have come to light at the beleaguered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, including a coolant leak into one of the emergency backup generators at the site and a failure to keep proper records of radioactive waste dating …