San Diego Union-Tribune: Local
- Teachers PAC fined for late campaign filings
Wednesday - 09/21/2016 - 07:19 PMThe Chula Vista Educators PAC, formed to support candidates endorsed by the teachers union in the 2014 race, was fined by the Fair Political Practices Commission for failing to properly report some campaign expenditures.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Under fire, county superintendent resigns
Wednesday - 09/14/2016 - 12:29 AMCounty Superintendent Randy Ward, placed on administrative leave in July after a lawsuit alleging he took illegal pay was filed against him, has resigned. The county Board of Education and its chief executive reached a separation agreement during a closed door meeting Monday night at the San Diego County Office of Education.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The most famous tostada in the world?
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 07:00 PMThe legend of Sabina Bandera — La Guerrerense — only grows as she opens her first restaurant across from the Ensenada food cart that made her a star
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Death of Poway High senior probed
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 05:38 PMInvestigators are trying to determine why a Poway High School senior and past member of the wrestling team died suddenly Friday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Navy officer accused in sexual assault
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 04:00 PMA Guam-based U.S. Navy commander in San Diego for a conference was arrested Monday on a charge of assault with intent to commit rape, San Diego police said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Man killed in apartment fire in City Heights
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 04:04 AMA man died after a fire broke out in a small apartment complex in City Heights Monday night, a fire official said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bobcat bites woman after being hit by vehicle
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 01:40 AMA woman whose vehicle struck a small bobcat in Carmel Valley tried to help the animal and was bitten Monday night, police said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police recover vehicle in Pacific Beach hit-and-run
Monday - 09/12/2016 - 10:25 PMSan Diego police have found a vehicle they believe was involved in a hit-and-run crash that left three young men injured in Pacific Beach last month.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mother demands justice for slain Oceanside teen
Monday - 09/12/2016 - 07:42 PMThe mother of a teenage girl who was shot to death at a park in Oceanside is calling for her killer to come forward.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - SANDAG sales tax measure subject of lawsuit
Monday - 09/12/2016 - 06:38 PMPlaintiffs say that official arguments in support of tax hike are incorrect, mislead voters
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- Fight breaks out at San Ysidro border
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 11:05 PMAs cross-border commuters prepared to cross on Monday, one driver apparently forced his way into another driver’s lane, a Tijuana police spokesman said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Couple identified in Imperial Beach murder-suicide
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 09:02 PMAuthorities said Tuesday a woman was shot to death by her husband before he turned the gun on himself in their Imperial Beach home Sunday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - School mural project takes shape
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 07:59 PMA $12,000 grant awarded to Lincoln Acres Elementary will be used to create a community mural at the school. Work on the project is slated to being later this fall.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Issa challenger faced restraining orders related to ex-wife
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 03:45 PMDemocrat Douglas Applegate, a retired U.S. Marine colonel challenging Rep. Darrell Issa’s reelection bid, was accused of harassing and threatening his ex-wife during their divorce proceedings and child custody battle, according to a report by Politico.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 3rd arrest in Pala fatal shooting
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 11:22 AMshooting, fatal shooting, murder, homicide, pala indian reservation, robles way shooting, bradley Trujillo, christopher cloninger, anthony boles, tyann allen
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Surviving girl, mom recovering after fatal DUI crash
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 03:23 AMA 5-year-old girl who survived a weekend freeway crash that killed her 2-year-old sister and grandmother in Mira Mesa is recovering, a family spokesman said Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - SUV plunges into river off Interstate 5, driver dies
Monday - 09/12/2016 - 11:35 PMA 74-year-old driver was found dead inside a car that veered off Interstate 5 and plunged into the Santa Margarita River near Camp Pendleton Monday, authorities said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Motor vehicle fatalities up in first half of 2016
Monday - 09/12/2016 - 09:00 PMMotor vehicle fatalities increased 31 percent since 2014
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Muslim leader says post-9/11 fallout has grown worse
Monday - 09/12/2016 - 06:30 PMThe American Muslim community has felt the effects of the 9/11 attacks for the past 15 years, according to Hanif Mohebi, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations chapter in San Diego.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Holistic charter school eyes Encinitas
Saturday - 09/10/2016 - 05:58 PMA holistic-based charter school is seeking the San Dieguito Union High School District’s blessing to put down roots in Encinitas.
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- Ex-ambassador: U.S.-Mexico ties are strong
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 10:49 PMA former U.S. ambassador to Mexico has been in San Diego this week delivering this message: The U.S.-Mexico relationship is stronger than ever, even as anti-Mexico rhetoric has risen during the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- College opens food pantry for students
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 08:41 PMSan Diego Food Bank partners with Southwestern College, where 80 percent of students sometimes go hungry, to create the school’s first pantry.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Townhomes losing free trash pick-ups
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 07:13 PMThree dozen homeowners near San Diego State will soon lose their free weekly trash pick-ups because city officials recently discovered some of the roads in their townhome community are private instead of public.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trampled man gets $1M from San Diego
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 04:00 PMA man who was run over by a Balboa Park ranger last year and suffered life-threatening injuries got a $1 million settlement on Tuesday from the city of San Diego.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Pickup driver sought in Vista hit-run
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 12:34 PMA hit-and-run driver mowed down a pedestrian in Vista Monday night, leaving him with serious injuries, a sheriff’s official said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Immigration appointments renewed for Haitians at San Ysidro
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 01:13 AMAfter days of waiting in limbo, hundreds of Haitians stranded in Tijuana on Monday lined up at a trailer near the border for appointments to be processed for entry into the United States by U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 1 killed, 3 injured in Ramona fiery crash
Tuesday - 09/13/2016 - 12:58 AMA fiery collision killed one person and injured three others, including a child, in Ramona on Monday, authorities said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Two plead not guilty in shooting
Monday - 09/12/2016 - 09:01 PMA Carlsbad woman and her firearms instructor pleaded not guilty Monday to conspiring to kill the woman’s estranged husband in an ambush shooting that left the man injured and a Carlsbad neighborhood on edge.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - City may tighten rules for Civic San Diego
Monday - 09/12/2016 - 07:18 PMSan Diego may soon place several new restrictions on a controversial nonprofit that oversees development in downtown and some nearby neighborhoods. The new rules aim to increase oversight and transparency of the nonprofit, which is known as Civic San Diego, while also requiring it to include more low-cost units in residential projects it subsidizes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Homeless man sues SDPD, alleges harassment
Monday - 09/12/2016 - 06:00 PMA homeless man in Pacific Beach has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of San Diego and one of its police officers, accusing officials of targeting him for arrest because he is black and has no fixed address.
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