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Edison says operating San Onofre at full power is safe after all

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Risk of tube risk greatly heightened after 11 months, utility still says it wants to test reactor under 70% load

Amid rumors that Southern California Edison’s plan to restart one of the two troubled reactors at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station under partial power could trigger a license amendment, the utility has released a report to federal regulators stating that …

Scammers target owners of Mexican timeshares

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California DRE says perpetrators have hijacked the names of stateside licensees

In case selling a timeshare itself isn’t a hazardous enough proposition, the California Department of Real Estate has reported that a new scam is emerging surrounding popular resort properties in Baja California and elsewhere in Mexico, according to a recent …

St. Patrick's weekend DUI checkpoints net two drunk drivers

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4,383 cars stopped, 47 non-DUI cites, 23 cars impounded

Area law enforcement coordinated another DUI crackdown over the weekend, posting “DUI/driver license checkpoints” throughout San Diego County in Encinitas, Imperial Beach, Lemon Grove and Poway, with additional Sheriff’s deputies patrolling Encinitas enforcing a zero tolerance policy on public intoxication. …

Immigration reform on the table at A Better San Diego breakfast forum

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A Better San Diego, a collection of community and faith groups largely backed by local labor unions, held the latest in its series of ongoing monthly breakfast forums on Friday (March 15), inviting three pro-immigration reform speakers to comprise a …

Drone Protests hit six month mark, model Reaper drone unveiled

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San Diego Veterans for Peace, a group which has been holding weekly protests outside General Atomics’ drone manufacturing facility at Scripps Poway Parkway and General Atomics Way in eastern Poway for six months, unveiled a new 1/5 scale model of …

UCSD Associated Students votes for divestment in suppliers of Israeli army

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Students for Justice in Palestine successful on fifth attempt to pass measure

Students for Justice in Palestine at the UC San Diego campus were successful in a bid on March 14 to pass a resolution through the Associated Students body calling for the divestment of the university from corporations including “Northrop Grumman, …

Community group crashes Carlsbad banking convention

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Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment says Wells Fargo is failing in offering borrowers loan modifications

The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) caused a chaotic scene this morning when sixty or more protesters stormed the Best Practices in Retail Financial Services Symposium being held from March 13-15 at the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort in …

Dueling opinions over billing utility customers for shuttered San Onfore

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Dueling opinions regarding the necessity and wisdom behind continuing to charge ratepayers for the full operation costs of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station despite its failure to actually generate power for over a year played out on the pages of …

Charity raises nearly $50K for Palestinian children's medical care

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The San Diego chapter of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund set a new donations record at its annual fundraising banquet, “Healing Hearts, Building Hope,” on the evening of Sunday, March 10. Money raised from the event goes toward the Fund’s …

Young authors take to Kickstarter to finance second book

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A family of science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts from Carmel Valley has launched a Kickstarter campaign seeking $4,500 to pay for illustration and publishing of Finstin, the second release from father Henry Herz in collaboration with his sons Josh and …

Planning board "threatened" by Filner staffer over alleged Brown Act violations

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The Rancho Bernardo Planning Board is taking offense to what they see as threatening behavior from one of Mayor Bob Filner’s staffers and are demanding clarification on his statements, the RanchoBernardo-4SRanch Patch is reporting. At issue is the status of …

Carlsbad electronic water meter install ahead of schedule

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The City of Carlsbad is progressing much quicker than expected in moving to replace its traditional water meters with electronic devices that can be read electronically by a laptop computer mounted in a city truck driving by. “We’ll have replaced …

People's Power Assembly decries police violence

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A group organized by the Committee Against Police Brutality filled the World Beat Center in Balboa Park on Saturday, March 9 for a San Diego People’s Power Assembly, modeled after a national format that came to life through the Occupy …

San Onofre just one of many troubled nuclear plants in 2012

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Nearly one in six nuclear reactors faced safety breaches last year, according to a report released by the Union of Concerned Scientists on Thursday, March 7. The organization says lax oversight by federal authorities is at least partly to blame, …

El Cajon Police cracking down on motorcycle safety

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The El Cajon Police Department says it will be cracking down on careless motorcyclists and automobile drivers who engage in behavior that put motorcyclists at risk. Funded by state and federal grant money, the police force will spend March 11 …

Studies on population increase, climate change 'collide' at public talk

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The World Resources Simulation Center on the evening of March 7 played host to a discussion of what Center director Peter Meisen termed “an oncoming collision” of projections – one from the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) on the …

Proposed Barrio Logan entryway sign unveiled

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A preliminary artist rendering for a gateway sign to the Barrio Logan neighborhood proposed last August was recently made public. The sign, set to span Cesar E. Chavez Parkway between Main Street and Newton Avenue, was designed by local architect …

Veterans' care group has volunteers, seeks families in need

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The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency’s Aging & Independence Services is on a push to expand its Legacy Corps program that provides temporary volunteer care for veterans and active duty disabled military members who rely on family …

184 pounds of marijuana carried across border on foot in Imperial Valley

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U.S. Border Patrol agents intercepted another load of marijuana on March 5, shortly after it crossed the border on the backs of four men near the Imperial Valley town of Calexico. Shortly before 8 p.m., agents observed five men, four …

San Diego man gets 12 years on child prostitution charges

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A San Diego man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Monday, March 4 for pimping out underage girls. The 20 year-old Garcia, who pleaded guilty last August, “made thousands of dollars pimping out underage girls using Internet ads,” …

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