Stocks closed sharply higher on Monday, bouncing back from strong losses in the previous session as trade tensions between the U.S. and China appeared to ease, CNBC reported.The Dow Jones industrial average surged 669.40 points to 24,202.60, with Microsoft as the best-performing stock in the index. Man Suspected in Spring…
La Mesa California
A pair of whales were spotted in a Seal Beach channel Monday, attracting a crowd of onlookers and raising concerns they might get stuck in the shallow water.The whales were spotted around mid-morning in the channel, floating along the surface of the water, giving an impressive show to a crowd…
Event date: April 5, 2018 Event Time: 01:00 PM – 11:59 PMLocation: La Mesa City Council Chambers8130 Allison AvenueLa Mesa, CA 91942 Source: Calendar
Players from the Sacramento Kings and the Boston Celtics created a PSA Sunday to raise awareness about the killing of Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old unarmed African-American shot and killed by Sacramento police on March 18. Both teams also wore warm-up shirts that read “Accountability. We are one.” and had “#Stephonclark”…
A mountain lion used the roof of a shed as a springboard to leap from yard to yard Monday as it roamed a neighborhood in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.The agile big cat was eventually tranquilized and returned to the wild by wardens with the California Department of…
Just how popular is Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt? So popular that a bobblehead of the 98-year-old Loyola University men’s basketball team chaplain just became National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum’s best-selling item ever.In just 48 hours after its release, 5,000 people pre-ordered the Sister Jean bobblehead, setting a record…
Sprouts Farmers Market will hold a hiring fair to staff a new store opening soon on Mira Mesa Boulevard.The company is looking to hire 150 people from cashiers and deli clerks to those people who can staff the meat counter and vitamin sections of their store. Neighbor on a Mission…
A crash along Interstate 8 is delaying traffic traveling westbound through La Mesa, according to the California Highway Patrol.A dark-colored SUV slammed into the center divide just after 5:30 a.m. near Fletcher Parkway. Neighbor on a Mission to Help Family in Need One witness reported the vehicle was half over the…
Sharp Chula Vista is using new tracking devices to shorten wait times at their hospital. NBC 7’s Liberty Zabala reports on the new program. Source: NBC San Diego
A car lost control on Interstate 15 near Aero Drive and landed upside down on Murphy Canyon Road. NBC 7’s Nicole Gomez reports. Source: NBC San Diego
Two people were killed and two others were seriously injured in a crash that left a Dodge Charger and a Ford Mustang mangled in Escondido. The crash occurred late Sunday near the intersection of El Norte Parkway and Ash Street, west of Interstate 15. Neighbor on a Mission to Help Family…
If you travel through the Golden Triangle, your morning and evening commute might get disrupted this week. Interstate 5 in La Jolla will be closed intermittently because of an ongoing construction project.From 9 p.m. Monday to 5 a.m. Tuesday, the southbound lanes of I-5 will be closed from I-805 and…
A giant bronze statue of the animal that inspired the San Diego Zoo was unveiled Sunday at the zoo’s entrance.A large crowd gathered outside the zoo when the giant statue of Rex, the very first lion at the zoo and whose roar inspired the zoo’s founding back in 1916, was…
A transgender retired Marine Corps officer said President Donald Trump’s transgender ban is nothing but prejudice.Trump on Friday issued a memo banning most transgender troops from serving in the military with some exceptions under “limited circumstances.” Neighbor on a Mission to Help Family in Need Marine Corps officer Paige Biron said the…
Federal authorities deported a military veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan but was later convicted of drug crimes, an agency spokeswoman said Sunday.In a statement, the spokeswoman, Nicole Alberico of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, said immigration agents returned Miguel Perez Jr., 39, to Mexican authorities on Friday.In…
A local artist is taking the ubiquitous ‘selfie’ and turning it into art.“Tourists Taking Selfies,” a new downtown exhibit, takes existing landscapes and adds paintings of people taking selfies. Neighbor on a Mission to Help Family in Need Local artist Jessica Ling Findley says she came up with the idea…
A Vista pizza shop owner is showing what it means to give back to your community. Ben Phillips, of Pizzamaniac, donated $700 to the Vista American Little League after he heard that the league’s snack bar had been broken into. Hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise were stolen in the break-in,…
Kristin Gaspar, Chair of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, representing District 3, is running in a crowded field for Rep. Darrell Issa’s seat.Issa plans to retire when his term expires in November and Gaspar joins a group of at least a dozen people (four Democrats and eight Republicans)…
A suspect who was jumping fences and hiding inside homes in Mira Mesa was arrested by San Diego police following as 15-minute standoff Sunday morning around 10:30 a.m.The suspect hid in a backyard shed and in the attic of a house on Summerdale Road. Neighbor on a Mission to Help…
Students should “take CPR classes” instead of demonstrating, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said one day after throngs of young people swarmed Washington and other cities across the country in the name of gun law reform.Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning, the former Pennsylvania lawmaker pushed back against…