RIVERSIDE — A San Diego man has been charged with operating illegal marijuana farms at 13 homes across three Southern California counties. Authorities say they raided leased homes Wednesday in Temecula, Murrieta, Riverside, Chino, Chino Hills, Rancho Cucamonga, Rowland Heights, and Hacienda Heights. Chiaming Tim Hsu was arrested at the...
Column: 3 Seasons in, Chargers Are a Flop in LA
The (sort of) Los Angeles Chargers are on the road again this week, which isn't such a bad thing for fans of the former San Diego franchise. Seems like the Chargers are always on the road. Even when they're home. That was evident this month when Pittsburgh Steelers fans filled...
Walters: Banning Not Just a City’s Name
Banning is the name of a small city in Southern California, but also applies to a pervasive theme of the Legislature this year. The 1,042 bills that passed the Legislature and the 870 signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom included an extraordinary number that used the state’s police powers to prohibit activities...
Bring Back Topgun!
By that, I do not mean Top Gun, the cliché-ridden, late-Cold War, Tom Cruise film about Naval aviators in San Diego. That Top Gun is already on its way back with a sequel next year. No, what California really needs back is Topgun, the U.S. Navy’s graduate school for elite...
Mother Allegedly Tried to Smuggle Meth With Son, 6, in Car
SAN DIEGO — Border patrol agents have arrested a woman they say tried to smuggle nearly 70 pounds of methamphetamine through a Southern California checkpoint with her 6-year-old son in the car. Authorities say the woman, a 25-year-old Mexican citizen, was stopped at the Pine Valley checkpoint in San Diego...
The Deciders: Meet the Lawmaker Behind New Gig Economy Law
By Byrhonda Lyons and Laurel Rosenhall, CalMatters Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, a Democrat from San Diego, is among California’s more powerful state lawmakers and an ally of labor unions. This year, she led the fight to win new protections for gig workers, and won passage of a landmark workplace bill, AB 5....
Walters: Hot Politics in the Cul-De-Sac of California
Spanish explorer Juan Cabrillo claimed California 477 years ago this month when his three-ship armada sailed into a bay he named “San Miguel,” which we know today as San Diego. Nearly a half-millennium later, San Diego is California’s second-largest city, but in a sense remains an isolated, almost self-contained, outpost....
4 Firefighters Hurt in Crash on Tulare County Road
PORTERVILLE — Authorities say four Cal Fire firefighters from San Diego were injured when a fire engine crashed and overturned on a rural road in central California. ABC30 reported Wednesday that the engine was heading back to Southern California after helping with a wildfire in Tulare County when the single-vehicle crash...
Convicted Burglar Set Free Under Challenge of 'Three Strikes'
SAN DIEGO — A man facing life in prison for a "three strikes" conviction is likely the first released under a new California law allowing a second look at such sentences, which came to be because of the slaying of a Fresno teenager 27 years ago. "You're looking at a...
Navy SEAL Acquitted of Murder in Killing of Captive in Iraq
A military jury acquitted a decorated Navy SEAL of premeditated murder Tuesday in the killing of a wounded Islamic State captive under his care in Iraq in 2017. Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher was cleared of all charges except for posing for photos with the dead body of the captive...