PG&E says it shook up management in light of what it calls “unacceptable” conduct by unspecified managers who regulators say exerted pressure on crews to falsify “tens of thousands” of gas safety inspections as being on time when they were late. In its statement last week when the falsification allegations…
La Mesa California
Four people suffered smoke inhalation injuries Monday after a Christmas tree caught fire and filled a Chollas Creek apartment complex with smoke. A girl and a woman in her 50s were trapped in their unit at the Regency complex on Home Avenue near Euclid Street when their tree went up…
A child out looking at holiday lights with his family in Ocean Beach was struck by a vehicle when he stepped off the curb, San Diego police said. The family was walking on the north side of Newport Avenue after 6 p.m. Monday when the 7-year-old boy was struck by…
Despite thousands of petition signatures and outcry from the North Park community, a beloved dinosaur mural on the corner of University Avenue and Ray Street has been painted over. Crews could be seen Monday spraying over the towering “Weenasaurus Rex” mural that was painted on an outer wall of what…
A woman’s body was found Tuesday in the bathroom at a rest area near Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. California Highway Patrol and the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department were called to the Aliso Creek Rest Area off Interstate 5 just after 5:30 a.m. ‘They Failed Him’: Local Veteran Suicide…
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…
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…
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?…
Donald Trump was the third person in the room in August 2015 when his lawyer Michael Cohen and National Enquirer publisher David Pecker discussed ways Pecker could help counter negative stories about Trump’s relationships with women, NBC News has confirmed. As part of a non-prosecution agreement disclosed Wednesday by federal…
Law enforcement authorities around the United States on Thursday were responding to a wave of bomb threats that demanded bitcoin and targeted schools, hospitals and businesses. In a statement released just after 3 p.m. ET, the FBI said it was “aware of the recent bomb threats made in cities around…
An armored truck rained money onto a New Jersey highway Thursday morning, causing two crashes as drivers attempted to collect the cash scattered across several lanes. Videos posted on social media show a Brink’s truck parked on the side of Route 3 in East Rutherford. East Rutherford Police said one…
A Chester County courtroom was moved to tears on Thursday as the parents of a teenage girl who was murdered in a road rage shooting last year demanded maximum prison time for the man who ended her life. David Desper will serve at least 20 years in a Pennsylvania prison…
Kimberly-Clark has issued a recall for U by Kotex Sleek Tampons, regular absorbency, for a quality-related defect, the company said Tuesday. Consumers have reported tampons unraveling and/or coming apart upon removal, leading some users to seek medical attention to remove tampon pieces left in the body. Additionally, some consumers have…
Police looking for a 29-year-old Colorado mom who’s been missing since Thanksgiving are hoping that newly released surveillance video showing her last sighting at a grocery store will help in finding her. Kelsey Berreth, who was reported missing by her mother on Dec. 2, was last seen in public with her…
