11/25 — Harbor Police responded to disturbance call in a north SD Bay anchorage. The disturbance was caused by a domestic violence incident. — Harbor Police responded to a sailboat near Shelter Island that was …
December 7, 2015
News & Stories
Bomb threat aboard Navy ship
KPBS and U-T plug Jacobs airport-moving scheme
With the fate of the Union-Tribune still very much in limbo, Malin Burnham, who once aspired to take over the newspaper, and Irwin Jacobs, his longtime political comrade in-arms, have hatched yet another scheme. The …
December 7, 2015
Wagon Man hit the final trail
Imperial Beach lost one of its celebrated locals last month — Kermit Brown, known as the "Wagon Man" for the advertising-covered Conestoga wagons he used to pull around the beach town with his motorized wheelchair. …
December 7, 2015
Jimmy Hat? No, Jiminy Hat!
Earlier this month, San Diego County Department of Health and Human Services reported that, for the third straight year, sexually transmitted disease rates had seen double-digit increases. "Gonorrhea is up 16%,” says Department spokesperson Peter …
December 7, 2015
San Diego deputies "obviously intoxicated"
Undercover sheriff deputies in Vista found plenty of liquor-store clerks willing to sell booze to "obviously intoxicated" patrons, according to the results of a sting on Saturday afternoon (December 5). "An undercover deputy entered a …
December 7, 2015
Gobble, the app for lazy home chefs
The Internet wants to feed you. A bunch of tech companies are advertising convenience in an effort to make their way into the food chain, most of them by marketing restaurant-delivery services to lazy home …
December 7, 2015
Mention of "shooting up the office" at SDSU?
In September at San Diego State University, campus police responded to a report of an alleged threat of physical violence made by students toward a university employee. Captain Joshua Mays of the (SDSU) department of …
December 7, 2015
It's all about the femme
A gentle snow falls at dusk in a pristine Finnish forest. The long arctic night is descending near the winter solstice and a solitary figure wanders the wood, lost in the trees. And so the …
December 7, 2015
Free English for Californians
San Dieguito Union High School District will no longer charge registration fees to adults looking to learn English as a second language, says associate superintendent Eric Dill. The district's decision to stop charging the $40 …
December 7, 2015