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City Attorney accuses lawyers for Medical Marijuana patients of playing hardball with City
Jan Goldsmith says City should not pay legal fees for medical marijuana cases.
City Attorney Jan Goldsmith is digging his heels in, refusing to give ground to medical marijuana patients and dispensary owners who have filed lawsuits against the City of San Diego. Days after Mayor Bob Filner announced Neighborhood Code Compliance would …
Border Patrol seizes cocaine, heroin, meth in North County
U.S. Border Patrol agents in North County seized nearly a million dollars’ worth of drugs in two stops earlier this week. In one, a Mexican national was stopped in a parking lot near Interstate 5 in Oceanside. A drug-sniffing dog …
Economy 2013 "maddeningly slow"
Cunningham sees San Diego lagging state, nation
Economist Kelly Cunningham of the National University System Institute for Policy Research sees San Diego County growing only 1.5% this year, adjusted for inflation, versus 1.6% for California and 2% for the nation. He assumes Congress will come to some …
Wall Street lawyer to head SEC?
Bloomberg says Mary Jo White in line to head securities agency
"Obama is not going to clean up financial corruption by pinning a sheriff's badge on Wall Street's protector-in-chief." Thus speaks San Diego attorney Gary Aguirre about today's report from Bloomberg News that Mary Jo White is under consideration to head …
Stolen iPhone leads to arrest of a man accused of multiple burglaries
Pinging iPhone was ditched in a vacant lot near the home of a thief on probation
A man whose iPhone was stolen from his home while he slept, used the tracking device in his smartphone to assist Oceanside Police to find and arrest a suspect they already named for a string of prior burglaries. The alleged …
Hearing delayed for woman accused of embezzling more than $5 million
Defense attorney hopes a psychological exam could prove she is "not a danger" to the public
A 45-year-old woman accused of embezzling more than $5 million dollars from a San Marcos company for which she was the financial controller, delayed her preliminary hearing from this week until the end of next month. Elizabeth Ann Masters was …
New Nuclear Regulatory Commission chair visits San Onofre
Allison Macfarlane also meets with local environmental group about safety concerns
Allison Macfarlane, the new head of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, made her first visit to the idle San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station earlier this week, meeting with officials while on site. Macfarlane replaced outgoing chairman Gregory Jaczko, who resigned …
Two San Diego pols reported among top richest in Congress
Democrat Peters and Republican Issa make San Diego county one of America's top concentrations of congressional wealth, according to new ranking
The website OpenSecrets.org, run by Washington's non-profit Center for Responsive Politics, is out with its Congressional wealth rankings, and San Diego county can boast two members in the top twenty: Republican Darrell Issa and Democrat Scott Peters. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jan/16/38521/ Congressional disclosure …
Vista liquor license suspended for designer drug sales
Local retailer caught distributing bath salts and spice
Tommy’s Liquor in Vista is set to be hit with a 20-day suspension of its liquor license tomorrow by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Effective at 2:30 p.m. on the 17th, Tommy’s will not be able to sell …
Arizona sheriff must return Encinitas woman's medical marijuana
Appeals court upholds ruling after Border Patrol seizure
The sheriff’s department in Yuma, Arizona, must return a stash of marijuana seized from an Encinitas woman at a Border Patrol checkpoint two years ago, an Arizona appeals court has ruled. Valerie Okun was stopped at the checkpoint just northeast …
Imperial Beach family barely escapes death
A silent, deadly killer. Carbon monoxide.
An Imperial Beach family is thankful today to be alive after a carbon monoxide leak sent them to the hospital. It happened Monday morning January 14, in the 900 block of Cypress Avenue with the Clement family complaining of flu-like …
Guns: Meese warns Obama could be impeached
Former San Diegan says president can't tread on Second Amendment
Edwin Meese, former close aide to Ronald Reagan both as California governor and president, told Newsmax that President Obama could risk impeachment if he takes executive action on reducing gun violence, according to Talking Points memo. Meese practiced law in …
City Attorney: OK to release private business e-mail addresses to improvement districts
Business Improvement District chiefs in San Diego can obtain email addresses of business owners from city records, Goldsmith holds
Those who have business licenses from the city of San Diego may be seeing some new unsolicited email in their inboxes, thanks to a Memorandum of Law issued Friday by the office of City Attorney Jan Goldsmith. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/jan/15/38463/ "Business Improvement …
City adding four new librarians to account for additional hours
Four new librarian positions are now listed on City's website.
Over the past five years, San Diego's public library system has taken a beating. In an effort to balance the City's structural deficit, public officials have reduced hours at libraries citywide. But things seem to be looking up for San …
Burglar-slash-car thief caught in Ramona
During pursuit, suspect throws items including flaming towel from car, douses self in gasoline
San Diego Sheriff’s deputies responding to a call regarding a suspicious person on the 17000 block of Ridgeview Lane in Ramona yesterday afternoon observed a series of rather unique behaviors from 32 year-old Chula Vista resident Oscar Torres, who was …
New foreclosure filings number less than 1,000
Foreclosure rate falls to lowest in recent years
As the real estate market continues to climb, San Diego County posted its lowest number of new foreclosure filings and foreclosure sales in at least a year last month, new data from ForeclosureRadar shows. Far fewer properties that begin the …
Valley Center woman to face civil trial for hit-and-run
Mother of girl killed on Escondido street seeking $15 million in damages
Tiffany St. Ives was 52 years old when she drove into a girl walking across a street in Escondido, in 2007. Seventeen-year-old high school student Marlene Resendiz was crossing East Grand Avenue at the corner of Rose Street, just before …
Valley Center man accused in mother's death due in court
David Leroy Lucero Jr. was sent away to a mental hospital in 2010
Margo Jean Lucero, 53, had been locking her bedroom door at night because she was afraid of her 25-year-old son David, according to investigators who found the woman deceased in her own bed, almost two years ago. The young man’s …
Trial date set for two Border Patrol agents in California
Accused of lewd acts in public, and then attacking and threatening a witness
Two persons who are said to be five-year-veterans with the Border Patrol have a trial date at the end of this month, for a case in which they are accused of attacking a woman after a circus performance at the …