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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Public bicycle tools added to Hillcrest bike corral
The bicycle corral installed at the corner of 5th Avenue and University in Hillcrest this week added a perk for users of the dedicated parking area and the community in general, BikeSD.org reports. The Uptown Community Parking District recently completed …
Two Vista vandals cause $275K in damages
Sheriff’s deputies at the Vista station’s Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving Unit (COPPS) have arrested a 15 year-old juvenile and charged him with 268 counts of felony graffiti vandalism. The suspect is currently in Juvenile Hall. Deputies also executed …
Local mortgage banker lands 10 year prison sentence
Con man inflicted losses on AZ bank large enough to close it down
San Diego mortgage originator Thomas Gregory Alexander has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison and ordered to pay over $5.4 million in restitution for running a scam that caused an Arizona bank to lose tens of millions of …
Nuclear Regulatory Commission denies request for hearing on San Onofre
The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday morning shot down a request by environmental group Friends of the Earth to require a public hearing before deciding whether to allow Southern California Edison to resume operations at its troubled San Onofre Nuclear …
Lawsuit claims doctors repeatedly misdiagnosed patient, caused permanent damage
Health care provider Kaiser Permanente’s San Diego operations are the subject of another lawsuit this week, as Courthouse News Service reports that a patient has filed a complaint against the organization’s audiology lab after repeated misdiagnoses caused him to suffer …
Sempra Energy reports 3rd quarter earnings
SDG&E revenues up over 50%
San Diego-based Sempra Energy, parent of local utility San Diego Gas & Electric, announced yesterday that earnings were down slightly for the third quarter of 2012, coming in at $268 million as compared to $289 million for the same period …
Possible money laundering charges for groups hiding source of $11M funneled to California PAC
Contributions went through 4 PACs, were used to fight Prop 30 and promote Prop 32
On the eve of the election, an Arizona group that provided $11 million in funding for an in-state organization backing the Proposition 32 measure to limit unions’ ability to collect political contributions through member payroll deductions and opposing Governor Jerry …
Drive-by purse snatchers drag female victim
A purse-snatching victim in La Mesa is recovering this morning after being dragged by a car for a short distance outside the Fuddrucker’s restaurant in La Mesa. At around 6:30 yesterday evening, a woman walking through the Grossmont Center parking …
Cost reductions continue at courthouses statewide
San Diego leads 7 county meeting with $5.3 million to be slashed from budget
San Diego County accounted for the lion’s share of $7.5 million in California court spending reductions proposed during closed-door meetings of the state’s Judicial Council courthouse cost reduction committee last week, proposing a total $5.3 million in cuts, Courthouse News …
IB Councilman Bilbray endorses medical marijuana measure
Brian Pat Bilbray, an Imperial Beach city councilmember and the son of 52nd Congressional district candidate Brian Bilbray, came out in favor of medical marijuana on Friday, officially endorsing Proposition S, one of four measures aimed at relaxing medical marijuana …