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Dumanis Skips School
In California, truancy is defined and enforced per Education Code Section 48260. In compliance, the San Diego Unified School District operates a School Attendance Review Board with a staff of ten employees responsible for calculating attendance and publishing monthly reports. …
Miramar National Cemetery
According to Miramar National Cemetery Director, Al Ragoschke, the first casket burial at its new 313-acre site is expected to occur on or about April 15. This is in advance of the projected time during Summer 2011. Rosecrans National Cemetery, …
Cleaning up the back yard
Heavy equipment contractors have been steadily at work repairing a hillside on two sides of a canyon home in the 4900 block of Triana St. in Clairemont. Operating a grader at the property, Jim said the land belongs to SDGE, …
BORDER NEWS TRANSLATIONS 6: Way Up In Smoke
El Linea Tijuana, one of the city’s daily news periodicals reported the Mexico Attorney General's Office (PGR) incinerated seven tons of drugs and 126,000 pirated products on Friday in accordance with Mexican law. The PGR said the destruction program complies …
BORDER NEWS TRANSLATIONS 5: Wild Wild West Mexican Style
According to El Linea Tijuana, one of the city’s daily papers, members of the Mexican Federal Police and the Tijuana Municipal Police reportedly became involved in a contentious brawl with each other on a busy Tijuana city street this Friday …
BORDER NEWS TRANSLATIONS 4: 13 Miracles
13 “Miracle” Products Become Prohibited In a report published this week by the El Mexicano, a Tijuana paper, the Federal Commission for the protection against sanitary risk (Cofepris) announced 13 "miracle" products advertised as promising to cure diseases are not …
Quietly and Without Notice
Quietly and without notice, a sad chapter for a University City neighborhood has in a way, ended. Two homes destroyed by the crash of a Marine Corps fighter jet in December 2008 have been rebuilt and occupied. The catastrophe became …
Rachel Please Come Home
Lorrie and her boyfriend Justin are heartbroken over the recent loss of Rachel their reddish, 4 year-old Chow. Lorrie says, “She means everything to us.” Enough to launch an exhaustive search and offer a $1000 reward for the much-loved pup. …
Embedded 1: In Clairemont U.S.A.
Daywatch in the SDPD Northern Division starts before dawn. I requested this ride-along. It’s a once a year opportunity to become more acquainted with our police force and to observe what they do for us first hand. I’ve been assigned …
BORDER NEWS TRANSLATIONS 3: Quarter of a Million $$$
Jonathan Romero Barreras, 25, and Alejandro Camacho Arteaga, 23, were detained at a Colinas de Agua Caliente home by the Mexican Army. In addition to more than $247,000 in counterfeit dollars cash, they also possessed 26-kilo packages of cocaine. The …
BORDER NEWS TRANSLATIONS 2: The Revolving Door
Sol de Tijuana reported Federal Deputy Francisco Vega de Lamadrid stated if the Mexican Government does not provide additional funding and proactive resources to a program for social reintegration, about 19,000 ex-convicts repatriated from the U.S. are likely to join …
BORDER NEWS TRANSLATIONS 1: Child Trafficking
A daily Baja paper, Sol de Tijuana reported that some 5,000 children might be suffering sexual abuse or slave labor in Baja. Also, a consideration is that all of the victims are not only Mexican nationality, because in 2010 there …
Todd Gloria VS Wal-Mart, next round...
In the wake of Councilmember Todd Gloria’s recent appearance before the San Diego planning commission on October 7, 2010 where he testified in support of an ordinance that seeks to ban mega-retail stores over 90,000 square feet, Wal-Mart published a …
Ensign Albert Joseph Hickman
On December 4, 1959 at about 12 noon, a US Navy F3H Demon piloted by Ensign Albert Joseph Hickman, 21 crashed into a Clairemont canyon. The pilot deliberately stayed with the aircraft to avoid crashing into Hawthorne Elementary School saving …