A Massachusetts native who was injured when a man armed with a pistol opened fire on students at a North Carolina university is reportedly out of surgery and in stable condition. WCNC reports 20-year-old Drew Pescaro, a University of North Carolina at Charlotte student who is originally from Rutland, is recovering…
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YouTube videos and a Kanye West song held messages from God for the woman who walked into an Easter service with a gun and threatened the congregation, a San Diego police document suggests. Anna Conkey, 31, was interviewed by investigators with the San Diego Police Department in the hours after…
A man was spotted running from a residence near the Ocean Beach Pier where a woman was found dead in the garage, prompting SWAT officers to descend on two different homes Wednesday morning. The SWAT team was first called to the multi-unit property near the intersection of Niagara Avenue and…
I was already 24 years old the first time I put on a real jersey. Sports was an option for me, but not an interest in high school. For many of my cross county teammates at Southwestern Community College, however, running was a huge part of their past, and they…
A jury convicted a surfer April 18 of felony assault of a longtime El Cajon swim coach who was struck in the head with a paddle board, causing brain injuries. The jury deliberated 11 hours before convicting Paul Taylor Konen, 34, of assault with a deadly weapon upon Kevin Eslinger,…
Democrats claim to respect our right to privacy, but with his bill to mandate “electronic purchase receipts,” the Assemblymember from San Francisco is trying to force every Californians to give up yet another very large chunk of our digital privacy. Assembly Bill 161 was introduced at a press conference with…
More Best of La Mesa ballot raffle winners! Balloting for the 2019 Best of La Mesa is finished! Winners will be announced in our special Best of La Mesa issue on May 24. Until then, we are drawing the names of readers who voted for their favorite businesses and by…
By Genevieve A. Suzuki Spring cleaning is no joke. Every year, many of us shake off the winter blues, don rubber cleaning gloves and start scrubbing and purging. When it’s all finished, there’s almost no better feeling than sitting on the couch and taking in our newly cleaned home. It’s…
By Alex Owens The story of “Peter Pan” has hooked audiences for generations, but now the Helix High School Drama Department is giving La Mesa’s theater-lovers a peak at how the boy who never grew up came to be that way. “Peter and the Starcatcher,” which runs April 24-27 at…
An armed robbery suspect led law enforcement on a high-speed pursuit from Orange County to Solana Beach Thursday before ramming two officers with his car, authorities said. The high-speed pursuit down southbound Interstate 5 came to a close when the driver exited the freeway onto Loma Santa Fe Drive and…
Drones are in the skies of Chula Vista and helping police investigate complaints, according to video released Wednesday by the Chula Vista Police Department. Two drivers were arrested in February after a drone was launched to Park Way following the report of a driver trying to run down a motorcyclist. …
More than three dozen people, including firefighters and police officers, were taken to area hospitals following a dangerous chemical spill in Beach Park, Illinois, that prompted a shelter-in-place warning and closed schools in numerous Chicago suburbs Thursday. Thirty-seven people, seven of which were in critical but stable condition, were taken…
Santee’s Costco is continuing construction on their gas station upgrade. The gas station will move from the northwestern parking lot area to the southwestern area of their parking lot near the tire center. The old location is still operating. The upgrade will increase the pumps available to 32. The upgrade…
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…
Grossmont College’s music department scholarship fundraiser, “Salsa Under the Stars,” on April 29 is a great way to practice your best Latin dance moves while reveling in the knowledge of doing a good deed. Complete with free dance lessons from 6:30-7:30 p.m., the music department’s outdoor concert on the Main…
Voters in Solana Beach will soon be asked to weigh in on a measure that could pave the way for a new state-licensed, residential senior care facility. Measure B would amend the city code to allow a facility with as many as 99 beds to be built at the corner…
A stream of water was sent dozens of feet into the air early Monday after a car rolled over and crashed into a hydrant in the College Area. Video shared to social media by the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department showed the geyser on Montezuma Road near Collwood Boulevard at about…
People who use e-cigarettes are often inhaling high levels of nicotine, but many teenagers who vape don’t realize it, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics. NBC News reported that 40 percent of teens who thought their e-cigarettes were free of nicotine tested positive for it. DC Heads…
If anyone in the world understands the pain Paris is feeling this week, it is the population of Southern California – we are no strangers to the devastation of fire. Even in the last year, East County has felt the effects of unchecked flames. The sense of loss, of helplessness,…
Helix High junior Eric Parker is having an impressive track season and the best could still be yet to come. Parker and the Highlanders’ 4×400 relay team won first-place medals at the Arcadia Invitational on April 6. The Scotties’ Ty Sheridan, Denzel Mulligan, Nick White, and Parker clocked a section-best…