Mark your calendar: Balboa Park’s beloved holiday tradition, December Nights, returns this Friday and Saturday. December Nights has it all – from holiday lights and seasonal music to dancers and tasty winter treats. Things to Do This Weekend: Dec. 6 – Dec. 9 The free weekend festival returns for its…
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A college with three campuses in San Diego shut down nationwide just one day into a new semester. Brightwood College closed its doors to students forever Wednesday. Some of the students were weeks away from finishing their programs. $3K Reward for Info on Anti-Semitic Poway Vandalism “The dean of nursing…
A body was found inside a minivan near Lake Hodges that has a license plate matching one given for an Escondido woman who has been missing for a week. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said deputies were called at about 12:30 a.m. to assist in a missing person case near Lake…
Though no East County high school football team won a San Diego Section championship this year, several East County players were a part of Cathedral Catholic’s Open Division championship celebration Nov. 17 at Southwestern College’s DeVore Stadium. Playing in front of more than 8,000 fans, the second-seeded Dons overcame an…
A judge declined to set any bail Nov. 26 for a former Jamul man who is accused of killing his wife nearly two years ago. Winnie Perry Whitby III, 49, pleaded not guilty to the murder of Melissa Estrada Whitby, 49, whose body was discovered along a hiking path in…
Does Downtown El Cajon need a new craft beer brewery? The answer is a big yes from patrons who crowded the initial soft-opening date for Creative Creature Brewing Company, during late afternoon and evening hours on Friday, Oct. 5, near the iconic Downtown El Cajon sign at the intersection of…
The day before Thanksgiving, Crest resident Dawn Flores received a phone call no horse owner would expect in the quiet countryside of East County. Her horse, Gretchen, was found tied up with rope inside the stall at the boarding place in Blossom Valley, El Cajon, where Flores has kept her…
Two years ago, the El Cajon Valley Braves’ boys soccer team made school history by winning the San Diego Section Division V CIF championship and then going on to claim the state title. For a team made up largely of underclassman, many of whom were immigrants and refugees, attending a…
SAN DIEGO – A delivery truck knocked over a hydrant and caused water to flood a Target store in La Mesa Wednesday, authorities said. The crash happened at the loading dock of the Target store in Grossmont Center at 1:10 a.m. Water flowed into the storage area and damaged some…
San Diego police rushed to a Shelltown market around lunchtime Tuesday after multiple gunshots were fired outside of the business. Police patrol cars responded to Lew’s Market on Imperial at 33rd Street just before 11:30 a.m. SDPD Officer Pulls Man From Burning Car in East Village Three men were inside…
A lost teddy bear caused the National Weather Service to launch an investigation of sorts to reunite a SoCal kid with his stuffed animal. NWS Los Angeles tweeted at 12:49 p.m. and said a user has asked for help in “tracking down an important missing teddy bear.” The stuffed animal is…
A man who was attacked near the pedestrian bridge next to Petco Park has died from his injuries, San Diego police said Tuesday. Four teenagers were arrested in connection with the brutal beating, police said. SDPD Officer Pulls Man From Burning Car in East Village Paramedics found Edward Leon Starland,…
Three people are accused of using an Arizona trucking company to defraud the state of California’s recycling program of $16.9 million over several years. Investigators discovered 27,860 pounds of empty aluminum and plastic beverage containers on the property of Bustillos’ Trucking in Phoenix. A five-month investigation led officials to believe…
An empty toy donation bin and a trip to a department store in 1990 led a former Coronado police officer to bring law enforcement together – year after year – to deliver soft, cuddly companions to the little patients at Rady Children’s Hospital. Twenty-eight years ago, just days before Christmas,…
Jenna Bush Hager paid tribute to her late Grandfather the former POTUS George H.W. Bush. The touching letter senth the traditional method, handwritten and in an envelope. It was her grandfather’s favorite form of communication. In a pre-recorded segment, Hager Bush read her “love letter” to her grandfather on the…
A video found and released showing students sitting on the floor of an overcrowded Grossmont Union High School District school bus spawn outrage from parents and prompted the district to changes their procedures. The video surfaced as a share with NBC 7, it showed students packed in a school bus…
Indicted U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter is expected to appear in a San Diego courtroom Monday for the first time since his re-election last month. Hunter and his wife, Margaret Hunter who served as his campaign chair, are accused of misusing more than $250,000 in campaign funds and trying to disguise…
A man was struck in the face with a stun gun and stabbed three times in the back during a fight in Rolando Park early Sunday morning, according to the San Diego Police Department. Two brothers went to visit their girlfriends and ended up in an altercation with another group…
Uncertainty over closures at the U.S.-Mexico Border south of San Diego has taken its toll on tourism to the southern side according to one business owner as Customs and Border Protection reinforces security procedures due to a group of migrants in Tijuana. Last Sunday, CBP shut down the border for…
George Herbert Walker Bush, who as the 41st president guided the United States out of the Cold War and led an international coalition into the Gulf War, has died. He was 94. Bush passed at 10:10 p.m. Friday, according to a statement from family spokesman Jim McGrath. Former First Lady…