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Grand Theft Goat

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23 year-old Bryce Zubicki of Temecula has been sentenced to three years’ probation and a six month suspended jail term related to the June 2011 attempted theft of two goats from Fallbrook High School’s agricultural department, Valley News is reporting. …

Short joy ride for El Cajon car thief

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El Cajon Police are searching for perhaps the least competent car thief in recent memory after a brief rampage left a local resident’s Chevrolet Suburban wrecked less than a mile from where it was stolen. Around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning …

Framing complete at new SDSU Student Union building

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San Diego State University will hold a “topping off” ceremony this morning to celebrate completion of construction of the steel framing for its new Student Union building, whose final beam will be placed at 11:30. The framing project began on …

Naming rights for San Elijo Lagoon property up for grabs

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Naming rights to the San Elijo Lagoon, which lies between the coastal communities of Solana Beach and Cardiff, have been put out for bid, Coast News reports. “This is a rare opportunity and helps us raise money for the land,” …

Enhanced bike parking coming to Downtown

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Civic San Diego, the offshoot of the former Centre City Development Council, announced plans last week to install between 100 and 200 bike racks and 3-6 bicycle corrals, or repurposed street parking areas, around the Downtown area in coming months, …

Public Utilities Commission set to open San Onofre probe

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The California Public Utilities Commission is moving toward opening a formal investigation into the troubled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, with a vote scheduled for next Thursday, October 25. Such a probe has reportedly been in the works for nearly …

Home prices up again in September, sales volume slows

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New housing numbers out from the California Association of Realtors show housing prices up but sales numbers down in September, as inventory throughout the county and state remains tight, particularly in the sector of bank-owned homes, which have made up …

Caught smuggling cash into Mexico

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U.S Customs and Border Protection officers in Calexico, just southeast of El Centro in Imperial Valley, intercepted just shy of a half million dollars in cash that a 24 year-old San Bernardino resident was attempting to sneak across the border …

New restrictions considered for bayside news racks

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The Port of San Diego has announced a series of meetings, beginning this Thursday at 4:30 at the Port’s administration building on Pacific Highway, to address the issue of news racks that dot the bayfront and implement a new ordinance …

Questions surface regarding San Onofre restart plan

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An environmental watchdog group has penned a letter critical of several key points of the plan issued by Southern California Edison, operators of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, to resume power generation activities at one of the plant’s two …

Foreclosures up but inventory down as investors snap up property

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September’s foreclosure numbers are out, and according to ForeclosureRadar the trend of decreasing foreclosure activity continues, despite speculation that the California Homeowner Bill of Rights, which takes effect January 1, would encourage lenders to push as many delinquent loans through …

Asians underrepresented among San Diego voters

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New analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Asian Pacific American Coalition finds that San Diego’s Asian community “is in last place for voter registration and voter turnout among all ethnic groups.” Asians comprise the fastest-growing ethnic …

Car looters crash in Rancho Santa Fe

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Sheriff’s deputies based out of the Encinitas patrol station were led on a pursuit from Solana Beach to Rancho Santa Fe on Wednesday afternoon after responding to a report of suspicious persons attempting to open various cars on the 700 …

Faith leaders rally in support of ballot measures

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http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/11/33382/ The Interfaith Community for Worker Justice, which describes itself as representing “clergy, synagogues, churches, mosques, faith and justice organizations . . . who feel called by their respective religious traditions to work for justice and stand up for the …

Navy officers, contractors sentenced over bribery scheme

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Four civilian Navy officials and three defense contractors have been sentenced as a result of a bribery scheme in which the contractors provided over $1 million in bribes including “checks, retail gift cards, flat screen television sets, luxury massage chairs, …

San Onofre meeting brings out crowds both for and against local nuke plant

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The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission played to a packed house Tuesday night in Dana Point, as they convened a public meeting to address the myriad concerns of residents and stakeholders concerning the problems experienced at, and the restart plans for …

San Diego inches closer to abolishing bicycle licensing law

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The San Diego City Council’s Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee voted unanimously last week to recommend an end to the city’s bicycle licensing program, BikeSD.org reports. “We were really required to have a license to ride a bike?” asked …

Former Copley Press headquarters sold

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Copley Press Inc., an institution run by the Copley family who for decades controlled the San Diego Union-Tribune and other local newspapers around the country, has finally completed the sale of its former corporate headquarters, a 25,600 square foot office …

Orca experts continue to doubt SeaWorld story regarding injury to Nakai

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Dr. Ingrid N. Visser, an orca expert and founder of the Orca Research Trust, continues to ponder the origin of a wound suffered on the lower mandible of Nakai, one of the “killer whales” that form the backbone of SeaWorld …

Citrus pests threaten local crops

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San Diego’s $76 million citrus industry faces a new threat: the tiny Asian Citrus Psyllid, according to a new KPBS report. The aphid-sized insects, while posing no harm on their own, carry a deadly tree disease that over a four …

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