The Sweetwater Union High School District Board of Trustees approved the cash-strapped district’s plan to offer early retirement incentives to hundreds of teachers despite the County Office of Education pressing for more information gathering. The SUHSD recently made cuts to fill a $30 million budget gap. Along with adding two work furlough…
La Mesa California
A judge called a former caregiver a “bully” when sentencing him to 15 years in prison on Monday for pushing a 94-year-old woman through a screen door, resulting in her death months later. William Sutton, 68, received the maximum sentence for charges of second-degree murder and elderly abuse resulting in…
Seventeen years after the deadly school shooting at Santana High School, the convicted gunman is asking the governor for a sentence commutation. On March 5, 2001, Peter Ruiz Jr. was 23 years old and three weeks into his job as a security guard at the Santee school. That morning, then…
The agricultural scene in East County is changing. Options to reduce the regulatory burden for those who provide goods or services at community events on commercial agricultural properties were considered by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors at the supervisors’ Nov. 14 meeting. The county supervisors adopted two of…
Three counts of second-degree murder were filed Dec. 4 against the driver of a truck that overturned during a chase by U.S. Border Patrol agents and killed three undocumented immigrants in Boulevard. The chase occurred Nov. 29 after Luis Alberto Virgen, 21, refused to pull over after Border Patrol agents…
