Last week, La Jolla Doctor Mark Chavez was charged in the death of former Friends star Matthew Perry, who died last October following a ketamine overdose. Chavez has admitted to diverting ketamine from his former ketamine …
August 23, 2024
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Citing actor’s costly overdose, Harris campaign pledges to reduce costs for prescription drugs
Local Marines assist in liberating millions of dollars earmarked for soldier health.
In 2014, a Tennessee medical clinic initiated a medical fraud conspiracy that recruited hundreds of Camp Pendleton Marines to act as sham patients for stupidly expensive and totally unnecessary compound pharmacy prescriptions in exchange for …
August 23, 2024
Diocese of San Diego says too many San Diego schools fail the Molest Test
On Monday, Robert Cardinal McElroy, Bishop of the Diocese of San Diego, kicked of the diocese’s “Catholic Schools Week” with a press conference that announced some surprising news: “It is now statistically more likely for …
August 23, 2024
Local trans community hails arrival of sex-switching plankton
Last week, San Diegans started reporting a massive influx of salp plankton in the oceans around La Jolla, a development that has been welcomed by the local trans activist community as a sign that even …
August 9, 2024
New SANDAG CEO removes longtime chief economist, citing vibes
New San Diego Association of Governments CEO Mario Orso has just fired the agency’s chief economist, Ray Major. His statement to the board, obtained by the San Diego Union Tribune through a public records request, was …
August 9, 2024
City celebrates 50 years of Pride, finalizes plan to transform gay district into extension of Downtown
“Gays, not growth!” “Dykes, not developers!” “Bis, not bike lanes!” “Trans, not transit!” The cries rang out during the city council’s final public meeting before voting on its plan to erase decades of queer history …
August 9, 2024
Marvel fans at Comic-Con unenthusiastic about villain at center of new storyline
Marvel Grand Pooh-Bah Kevin Feige’s opening statement at Comic-Con 2024: “As film critic Sonny Bunch has noted, environmentalists make good movie villains. He pointed to Thanos, the great, great villain of our salad days, who …
July 26, 2024
Mayor Gloria shifts emphasis to transients threatening to leave town
Today, Mayor Todd Gloria announced that he was repurposing his proposed 1000-bed facility at Kettner and Vine. What had been intended as a permanent homeless shelter is now being pitched as a low-cost hotel for …
July 26, 2024
Winston finally breaks out of San Diego Zoo
A specialized spiritograph captures the moment that the 52-year-old gorilla’s soul shuffled off this mortal coil and slipped the surly bonds of earth. Born in the wild in 1972, Winston euphemistically came under the care …
July 26, 2024
Swimmer who braved French river bails during Imperial Beach stunt
In 1976, American Joel Stratte-McClure swam across Paris’ Seine river for a cover story in his magazine The Paris Metro. Two weeks ago, he returned to that precise spot and repeated the feat in an effort …
July 12, 2024
The Wilma to Power
“The time has come,” says retiring San Diego County Public Health Officer and the Union-Tribune’s 2020 San Diegan of the Year Wilma Wooten. “I did what I think history will regard great as work guiding …
July 12, 2024