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CEO Lover's Death Ruled Suicide: Sis

Family strongly objects to finding in Rebecca Nalepa case

(Newser) - Investigators have concluded that Rebecca Nalepa, who was found hanged naked with her hands and feet bound in a historic California mansion earlier this summer, took her own life, says her sister. Nalepa—the girlfriend of pharmaceutical tycoon Jonah Shacknai—died just two days after Shacknai's young son suffered...

Great White Closes San Diego Beach

Rare shark sighting keeping swimmers away from Mission Beach

(Newser) - It's sizzling hot in San Diego, but the ocean's largest predator is keeping people away from the city's most popular beach. A 2-mile stretch of Mission Beach was closed after a lifeguard on a rescue board spotted a great white shark a few dozen yards away, the...

Top-Selling Girl Scout Drops Dead at Dance

Autopsy inconclusive in sudden death of 14-year-old Sabrina Keller

(Newser) - A 14-year-old girl who was the top seller of Girl Scout cookies in San Diego died suddenly at a school dance, reports ABC News . Sabrina Keller, who sold 3,463 boxes of cookies this year, collapsed at the event held to celebrate the end of eighth grade on Thursday. She...

Law School Graduate Can't Find a Job, Sues College for $50 Million
Law School Grad Can't Find Job, Sues College for $50M
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Jun 5, 2011 1:36 PM CDT

Law School Grad Can't Find Job, Sues College for $50M

Former student claims alma mater misled with employment stats

(Newser) - At least she's found some use for her education. A 2008 graduate of San Diego's Thomas Jefferson School of Law is suing her alma mater for $50 million because she hasn't secured a full-time job as an attorney. She alleges the college falsified its post-graduate employment statistics,...

Surfing Madonna Makes Waves in California

Is it inspirational or sacrilegious?

(Newser) - A mystery mosaic of a surfing Madonna is roiling the waters in suburban San Diego. Most love the sporty beach gal while city officials worry about those who find the vivid "vandalism" offensive. The 10-foot-square stained-glass mosaic with the message "Save the Ocean" appeared overnight on a wall...

Man Holds Up Jack in the Box, Comes Back for Lunch

Would-be robber foiled by appetite

(Newser) - Here's some criminal idiocy for you: A man was arrested in San Diego yesterday after returning to a Jack in the Box he'd allegedly tried to rob the day before. The man, 30-year-old Shawn Dustin Page, allegedly pulled a gun in the restaurant on Wednesday, but fled when the cashier...

25 Injured When Taxi Plows Into Pedestrians

One woman in San Diego has to have leg amputated

(Newser) - A taxi plowed into a group of people leaving a San Diego nightclub about 2am, leaving six people critically injured, including a woman who had to have her leg amputated below the knee, reports SignOnSanDiego.com . Another 19 people had lesser injuries. Authorities don't know what caused the driver to...

Loughner's Trial Likely to Be Switched to California

Authorities seek calmer venue for flash-point case

(Newser) - Federal authorities are planning to move the trial of shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner from Tucson to San Diego to dodge the jury-tainting effects of extensive pre-trial publicity in Arizona. The case is a particular flash point in Arizona, where the state's chief federal judge, John M. Roll, was gunned...

California Will Seize, Destroy Bomb Factory in House

Schwarzenegger calls state of emergency

(Newser) - Here's a sign of just how many explosives and chemicals authorities found in the home bomb factory in San Diego County: They figure the best way to deal with the house is to destroy it. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency to give authorities the leeway to seize it...

Home Bomb Factory Uncovered in Calif.

Record cache of explosives found in robbery suspect's house

(Newser) - Authorities searching a San Diego County home have discovered the largest cache of two kinds of homemade explosives ever found in the US—and they have plenty of searching left to do, reports CNN . The resident, unemployed software engineer George Jakubec, has been charged with two bank robberies and bomb...

10 Sexiest, Ugliest American Cities

Not surprisingly, you'll find pretty people in beachy cities

(Newser) - Travel + Leisure put together its annual America’s Favorite Cities survey, of which arguably the most interesting category is the American cities that boast the most attractive—and least attractive—residents. Click through the top five in each category in the gallery, or click here for more.

Drug Bust Uncovers 1,800-Foot Tunnel

25-ton seizure is one of the largest in San Diego history

(Newser) - US officials seized more than 25 tons of marijuana from drug warehouses in San Diego and Tijuana after finding a 1,800-foot tunnel linking the two. The lighted, ventilated tunnel—which is about six football fields long—was discovered after officials found 10 tons of marijuana in a suspicious tractor-trailer,...

Files Reveal How Church Shielded Sex Abusers

Records reveal how abusive priests were rotated to other parishes

(Newser) - The church helped a California priest flee the country after his arrest in a child sexual abuse case, according to a cache of shocking documents kept secret for decades. Church treatment of Rev. Luis Eugene de Francisco was part of a pattern of behavior by some officials who knew of...

Party's Over for San Diego's Floating Drinkers

Boozing on rafts now banned

(Newser) - San Diego's city council has closed a loophole that allowed partygoers to dodge a ban on drinking on the beach by boozing just offshore instead. Wording in the original ban defined beach as land only, leading to "Floatopia" parties which saw thousands of people drinking on rafts and inner...

Man Stabs Fellow Comic-Con Attendee With Pen: Cops

Alleged assailant in Harry Potter T-shirt may face serious charges

(Newser) - A dispute before a Comic-Con panel discussion ended with one attendee in police custody and another in the hospital being treated for a stab wound near the eye, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The alleged assailant was armed with a pen and wearing—look away, kids—a Harry Potter T-shirt....

5.7 Quake Rattles California
 5.7 Quake Rattles California 
Jun 15, 2010 5:20 AM CDT

5.7 Quake Rattles California

Earth moves during Padres game

(Newser) - A 5.7 magnitude earthquake rattled nerves in southern California yesterday but didn't cause any injuries or serious damage. The quake—part of a swarm of dozens of aftershocks from April's Baja California quake—could be felt throughout Los Angeles County and caused a brief interruption in a San Diego...

Back Off, Stewart: Arizona Needs That Law
 Back Off, Stewart: 
 Arizona Needs That  Law 
David Frum
Apr 30, 2010 11:12 AM CDT

Back Off, Stewart: Arizona Needs That Law

Abandoned by feds, state did what it had to do

(Newser) - Stop abusing Arizona, David Frum writes—the state Jon Stewart called the "meth lab" of democracy has a real problem that the federal government isn't doing a damn thing about. With the Mexican border at San Diego effectively fenced, illegal immigration and drug trafficking have shifted into Arizona, he...

2 Killed as Earthquake Rattles Baja, SoCal

Quake centered near Mexicali, Baja

(Newser) - Two people were killed and at least 100 injured when a 7.2 earthquake struck Mexico and rocked southern California. The quake occurred before dawn and toppled buildings in the border town of Mexicali, in Baja some, 220 miles southeast of Los Angeles. It was the largest temblor on the...

Feds Question 'Runaway Prius' Driver's Story

Investigators can't replicate incident; brake-wear patterns inconsistent

(Newser) - Investigators have not been able to replicate the incident of uncontrolled acceleration a Prius driver says he experienced last week, and the condition of the car's brakes is raising suspicions with federal investigators and Toyota engineers, the Wall Street Journal reports. James Sikes said he lost control of his car...

Police Help Stop 90mph Runaway Prius

Toyota is sending an investigator

(Newser) - In yet another runaway Toyota incident, a man called 911 yesterday when his 2008 Prius went out of control on Interstate 8 near San Diego, hitting 90mph and refusing to decelerate. When driver James Sikes tried to pass another car, he says the gas pedal “jumped and it just...

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