The Supreme Court of California upheld a death penalty sentence for David Westerfield on Monday for the 2002 murder and kidnapping of 7-year-old Sabre Springs resident Danielle van Dam. Van Dam’s disappearance in February 2002 prompted a massive county-wide search conducted by volunteers. Nearly a month later, her badly decomposed…
La Mesa California
Daily closures of the La Jolla Village Drive and Genessee Avenue intersection will begin this week as construction continues for a Metropolitan Tansit System (MTS) route to connect Old Town to University City. From Friday, Feb. 8 to Friday, Feb. 15, there will be partial closures on the trolley bridge as crews…
A Carmel Mountain Ranch man was asking for help after thieves stole nearly $15,000 worth of jewelry. A shattered window and broken screen door were discovered by Jeremy Pritchett at his home Friday. “So, I walked inside that room and I looked at the window and was like OMG that’s…
After a weekend of destructive rain, San Diego County was bracing for its third storm in less than a week on Monday. The third storm system was expected to bring the region days of showers with the possibility of thunderstorms and several inches mountain snow. Spotty showers began overnight Monday…
President Donald Trump has spent about 60 percent of his officially scheduled time over the last three months in unstructured “Executive Time,” Axios reported Sunday, citing schedules leaked by a White House source. An early riser, Trump typically spends the first five hours of his day in executive time, according…




