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…
La Mesa California
HomeFed Corporation, a Carlsbad-based company that has been trying unsuccessfully for the past decade to develop an urban community on almost 3,000 acres on the northwestern side of Santee, is now back with a new proposal. The previous project had been approved by Santee City Council in 2007, but the…
The new owner of the Cottonwood Golf Club located on Willow Glen Drive in El Cajon wants to turn it into a sand mine and the community is not happy about it. The golf club, rated with three stars on Yelp, went bankrupt in 2011 and was purchased by Michael…
The Padre Dam Municipal Water District has adopted their Final Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) and approved the East County Advanced Wastewater Purification Project. The Board of Directors voted unanimously to pass the plan at its monthly meeting on Dec. 5, 2018. The project is a partnership between Padre Dam and…
A funeral procession fit for an American hero traveled through the streets of San Diego Thursday in honor of the late Ray Chavez, who was the oldest veteran survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Chavez died peacefully in his sleep on Nov. 21. He was 106. Lead in Your Water Lines?…
