Keeping communities safe The Board of Supervisors recently gave the green-light to prepare for the next wave of rural fire prevention and protection improvements. Supervisor Jim Desmond and I got board approval to ask county staff to flesh out several proposals, including the development of a grant program to encourage…
La Mesa California
The Alliance of American Football has reached the halfway point of its inaugural season. The fledgling league continues to generate positive press while continuing to experience growing pains. The league is not in direct competition with the long-established National Football League but sees itself more as a development league for…
EL CAJON, Calif. — A man who stabbed and seriously wounded two women in El Cajon and unincorporated La Mesa, then led police on a high-speed pursuit, was convicted Wednesday of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and evading arrest. A sentencing date is expected to be set Thursday…
Rain slapped the parking lot as I hurried toward Hooleys Public House in Grossmont Center. I have been hearing about Hooleys for as long as I have worked at The Californian, but San Diego sports quite a few Irish pubs – several of them in East County – and it…
At least 40 people, including two Hollywood actresses, have been indicted by the FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston in a nationwide college entrance exam cheating scandal, NBC News reported, citing court documents. The documents, which were unsealed Tuesday morning, allege that the accused aimed to facilitate students…
