The top-seeded Santana Sultans (11-1) will try for their first-ever San Diego Section CIF football championship when they meet the second-seeded Serra Conquistadors (10-2) in the section’s Division IV final at Southwestern College’s DeVore Stadium on Friday at 1 p.m. The Sultans gave up the game’s first touchdown last Friday…
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San Diego County may now begin taking advantage of a program that has been available to cities in the state of California for more than a decade. The California Statewide Communities Development Authority has a Statewide Community Infrastructure Program (SCIP), and the County of San Diego will become a member.…
A man suspected of killing a La Mesa man with a sword in his own home in 2006 pleaded guilty Nov. 13 to voluntary manslaughter. Deputy District Attorney Brian Erickson said Zachary Aaron Bunney, 39, will be sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing Scott Martinez on June 17,…
By DAVE THOMAS | La Mesa Courier To say 2019 was a banner season for Helix High golfer Jamie Lau would likely be an understatement. Lau turned in a great performance and then some for the girls golf team. The senior defeated the No. 1 seed from Steele Canyon High to…
By DAVE THOMAS | La Mesa Courier For a pair of Grossmont High girls tennis players, 2019 has been a year to remember. The doubles duo of junior Helaena Calimlim and freshman Ashley Smith recorded a fantastic season for head coach Hillary Park. In post-season action this month, the duo lost…
By JENNIFER OSBORN While the San Diego weather belies the fact that it is autumn, we can measure the seasons in Southern California using high school sports! As we approach the end of the fall sports season, Helix is celebrating the success of many of our student athletes – many…
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested more than a dozen people in an alleged smuggling operation Wednesday afternoon after a large hole was found in the fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. At around 3:45 p.m., agents were alerted of a white Dodge 4500 utility truck that crossed into the Campo area…
A “dumb move” turned a sightseeing trip to the U.S.-Mexico border into a rescue from a truck submerged in the Tijuana River on Thursday, two tourists told NBC 7. A 75-year-old father, a retired Camp Pendleton-based U.S. Marine of Idaho, and his 49-year-old son of North Dakota wanted to check…
The namesakes of Rady Children’s Hospital donated a historic $200 million to the facility for a “top-to-bottom transformation,” hospital officials confirmed Thursday morning. Ernest and Evelyn Rady gifted the large sum for campus planning, technology upgrades, and to better innovate care for children in the region, the hospital said. City…
Carlton Oaks Golf Course was the site of the first Veterans Appreciation Golf Tournament on Friday, Nov. 8. Lead sponsors were the Santee Chamber of Commerce and Santee’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9327 and American Legion Post 364. One hundred forty-eight golfers participated in the sold-out event. “The planning…
The top-ranked Helix Highlanders scored all of their points in a span of twenty-two seconds late, late in the fourth quarter of their San Diego CIF Open Division semifinal against visiting St. Augustine on Friday night, advancing to the section title game with a 12-7 victory over the fourth-seeded Saints…
The medical term for the disorder is congenitalus amusia, and if anybody has it, Eurydice does. She keeps musical time about as well as a cuckoo clock with a couple broken springs, opting instead for the beauty of the printed word amid the need for art in her life —…
San Diego police have confiscated fewer guns so far this year compared to last year, according to police department data obtained by NBC 7 Investigates. Police officers in San Diego seized 1,147 guns from January 1, 2019, through October 17, 2019, an average of 27 guns confiscated per week, shows…
San Diego City Council unanimously approved the next step of San Diego State University’s purchase of the Mission Valley stadium site, the city released Monday. City Council voted to direct the City Attorney Mara Elliot to begin writing up a Purchase and Sale Agreement for SDSU’s purchase of the 135-acre…
Family members gathered outside Rady Children’s Hospital Sunday as 9-year-old Ezekiel Valdivia remained in critical condition following a shooting that took the lives of his siblings, his mother and his father. Ezekiel Valdivia is the only family member who survived an apparent case of murder-suicide on Saturday, investigators said. Renderings of…
I wound my way up the roads that web themselves around Mount Helix, resisting the urge to push down on the gas. I know these bends well enough to know you can never know what will come whipping around them, and all the more so on a foggy evening in…
Very few people snack right and this results in frustrating weight gain. An important part of eating for fitness and/or fat loss is to keep your metabolism strong all day long with small, sensible meals and snacks. While it sounds simple to eat a little something every 2-3 hours throughout…
Marijuana is easier than ever to access — 11 states (including California) and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational use for adults older than age 21, and 22 more states have legalized medicinal marijuana. Although the drug has been approved for medicinal use in many places, research is still…
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Days after a tragic shooting took the life of their friend and shift leader and wounded two of their coworkers, employees of Church’s Chicken in Otay Mesa began cleaning up the mess left inside the restaurant while loved ones prepared for an evening vigil just outside its doors. Maribel Ibañez,…