LA MESA, Calif. – A battle is raging over the survival of the La Mesa Farmers Market, pitting some store owners against big fans of the market. “It’s been a contentious issue, no doubt about it,” said Craig Maxwell, who owns a bookstore on La Mesa Boulevard. His shop sits…
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Nearly a month ago, there was something miraculous in the air. Seemingly millions of butterflies were in migration, literally dancing before people’s faces. But in that migration, not that many monarchs were in flight. The dazzlingly beautiful monarchs are on the decline—and severely so. Like so many other creatures on…
LA MESA, Calif. — A police officer shot and wounded a man who was allegedly trespassing at a home in La Mesa Thursday morning. Police later confirmed the man was 36-year-old Daniel Chase McKibben — a “person of interest” in a murder that prompted two separate SWAT responses in Ocean…
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…
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…


