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La Mesa California

Judge: Stay home

Margaret Hunter tearfully told a judge Monday she took responsibility for her role in Duncan Hunter’s Congressional campaign fraud. She was then sentenced to eight months home confinement. Her statements came before U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Whelan after both the prosecutor and her attorney spoke in favor of the…

Forum stirs memories of bygone days of social, political upheaval

As the nation passes 90 days of Black civil rights protests, adults who lived through the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and ‘60s comment on the current, sometimes destructive and violent protest movement happening locally. “I remember very well growing up and being in college in the Vietnam War,…

Procedure to terminate officers a lengthy one

When video emerged this summer of La Mesa police officer Matthew Dages manhandling and eventually arresting a 23-year-old man sitting near the Grossmont Center trolley stop, residents and civil rights activists called for an internal investigation and the officer’s termination. Dages is white and the man, Amaurie Johnson, is Black.…

Alleged roommate slayer held; sorry robber sentenced

A judge declined to set any bail Aug. 18 for a Spring Valley woman who is charged with killing her roommate who was stabbed to death. Anielka de los Angeles, 37, pleaded not guilty to killing Manuel Castro, 41, who was found dead in their apartment in the 3500 block…

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