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Proposed ordinance would outlaw the sale of pets raised at commercial breeding facilities
The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee to discuss ban on sale of puppy mill puppies at upcoming committee meeting.
A city council committee is taking the lead in an effort to outlaw pet shops from selling companion animals that were bred in high volume breeding facilities, also known as puppy mills, catteries, and rabbit mills. On Wednesday, the Public …
UCSD exec, ex-politician each receiving annual $5,000 from La Jolla non-profit
Associate vice chancellor for extended studies and public programs joins ex-state senator on two boards of non-profits promoting charter schools and online news
Two La Jolla-based nonprofit corporations at the heart of San Diego’s great debate over public versus charter schools have been paying a pair of prominent academic and political players for their board service. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/26/44450/ The Girard Foundation, a non-profit corporation …
Former Wells Fargo banker charged with embezzlement
He stole and laundered $750,000, says U.S. Attorney's office
Former Chula Vista Wells Fargo banker Ricardo Adolfo Benavente III has been charged with defrauding the bank and its customers by stealing and laundering $750,000 from customer accounts. An indictment was unsealed today (April 25). According to that indictment, Benavente …
Fourteen Barrio Logan property owners represented 70 percent of vote needed to establish new Barrio Logan Maintenance Assessment District
Majority of residents, 54% voted against the MAD
The Barrio Logan Association, the non-profit that will control the newly formed "Community Benefit Maintenance Assessment District," is eager to get the district up and running. On March 22, the interim Board of Directors for the Barrio Logan Association, headed …
Housing values in Western metro areas soaring
Fed's low rate policies the catalyst; but is this too far, too fast?
Housing values in Western markets continue to soar, according to data released this morning (April 25) by Zillow.com. Year-over-year prices for the period ended in this year's first quarter zoomed in Phoenix (up 24%), Las Vegas (22.3%), San Jose (22.1%), …
Guilty: Valley Center man failed to control dogs that attacked joggers
Victims testified they were pulled to the ground by pack of pit-bull-mixes
After a two day trial, a Valley Center man was declared guilty of failing to control dogs that attacked and seriously injured two joggers, more than a year ago. The attack was reported about nightfall on November 27, 2011, and …
Man charged with smuggling bladders of endangered fish
U.S. Attorney has made seven similar arrests since February
Song Shen Zhen of Calexico has been charged with smuggling swim bladders of the endangered Totoaba across the border. Zhen became the seventh person charged by the U.S. Attorney's office for such an offense since February. Swim bladders of Totoaba …
Drone maker's PAC kicks in $2,000 to Vargas debt fund, filing shows
Honeywell International PAC only donor to committee owing $120,000 to Democratic congressman
As previously reported, La Jolla congressman Scott Peters recently filed a statement with federal campaign regulators saying that he had forgiven $2.25 million in personal loans he made to his campaign committee last year: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/24/44344/ “Personal loans were made by …
City council to pay $175,000 check to a man who fell on a shoddy sidewalk in San Ysidro
The segment of sidewalk near Smythe Elementary has long been an issue in the community.
This fall marks two years since Ubaldo Gutierrez fell off his bicycle while riding on a shoddy sidewalk near Smythe Avenue in San Ysidro. Since that time, Gutierrez has been forced to trudge through the courts to recoup wages and …
Calls for public hearings on San Onofre grow, fears about summer power supply may be exaggerated
The Los Angeles City Council yesterday joined a host of Southern California cities in passing a resolution calling for public safety hearings before a restart is allowed at the troubled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in northern San Diego County. …
Judge noticed man wore same shirt seen in surveillance photos
Abrahim Ah Saed accused of multiple ID frauds
A judge noticed that the defendant seated before him was wearing the “same exact” plaid shirt seen in surveillance photos, during a San Diego Superior Court hearing yesterday. Honorable Sim von Kalinowski first reviewed evidence photos and then noted for …
Border Patrol rescues three lost immigrants in Imperial County
Men rescued west of Calexico after placing call for help
A United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) air unit worked with El Centro Border Patrol agents on the ground to rescue three lost immigrants on Sunday, April 21st. According to CBP authorities, a distress telephone call was made from …
Rising prices drive distress sales from housing market
As housing prices continue to rebound, distressed sales including foreclosures and underwater “short sales” account for a shrinking share of the total real estate market, the industry trade group California Association of Realtors reported yesterday (April 22), when it released …
GOP's Lincoln Club weighs in big for Democrat Crenshaw
As cash rolls in from Manchester executive, lobbyists, and Walmart, costs include pro-Crenshaw and anti-Cole material, disclosures show
The Lincoln Club of San Diego County, home to some of downtown's most influential Republican lobbyists, has entered the battle between Democrats Dwayne Crenshaw and Myrtle Cole for the 4th district city council seat left behind by Tony Young when …
Carlsbad to begin enforcing overnight RV parking ban
The City of Vista has become the latest in the region to take on the issue of recreational vehicles parked on city streets, announcing that it will begin to enforce an ordinance approved March 14 banning vehicles longer than 22 …
Ex-San Diego Mayor Maureen O'Connor due back in court on Thursday
O'Connor will appear in court for a case filed by her sister's former husband over the sale of a Mendocino luxury hotel
Former San Diego mayor Maureen O'Connor is due back in court on Thursday, or, at least her lawyers will be there. On April 25, Judge John Meyer will call into session another hearing in the case filed by O'Connor's twin-sister, …