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San Diego County residents report mysterious orange light in the sky
SAN DIEGO — People across San Diego County are reporting an unidentified bright orange light shooting across the sky Thursday night. Some residents believe it's an asteroid or shooting star — but some guess it's space debris or a satellite burning up on reentry from a SpaceX launch.
March 31, 1985: The Day That Tore San Diego Apart
In 1917, the seventy thousand residents of San Diego had a decision to make: “Smokestacks versus Geraniums.” Few cities have the chance to define their future, but the candidates in the 1917 election for mayor made the two possibilities clear. Gilded Age bankertype Louis J. Wilde—for whom no industrial project was too big to finance—marketed himself as “The Smokestack Candidate,” promising good jobs and good wages through the development of the city’s deepwater harbor into a center for shipping and manufacturing. Department store owner “Geranium George” Marston—champion of Balboa Park and organizer of the wildly successful 1915 Panama-California Exposition—saw the city’s welcoming climate and natural beauty as its greatest assets, promising a prosperous future in real estate and tourism through beautification and carefully managed growth.
State land became a refuge for unhoused San Diegans amid camping ban. Not anymore
A 35-year-old San Diegan has been living with her boyfriend in a tent for “a long time,” she said, moving to different areas of downtown whenever police come by to enforce the city’s camping ban. About a week ago, the couple perched themselves on top of an...
Massive Wildfire in Northern California Forces Thousands to Evacuate
A rapidly expanding wildfire, named the Park Fire, has consumed over 45,000 acres in Northern California, prompting widespread evacuations. The blaze, which ignited near Chico on Wednesday afternoon, escalated from 6,400 acres on Wednesday night to 45,550 acres by Thursday morning. Firefighters are prioritizing evacuations and structure defense, using bulldozers...
Rapper ‘Boosie’ facing new charges in connection to San Diego arrest
Rapper Torrence "Boosie" Hatch Jr. is facing new charges in connection to his arrest in San Diego last year, less than two weeks after a federal judge threw out the previous case against him, court filings show.
Chicano-Con returns to San Diego
SAN DIEGO — Border X Brewing is right along Logan Avenue in San Diego, a short walk south of the convention center hosting Comic-Con. It's a local business with food and drinks but once a year it turns into a world of comics for just a few days. “We’re...
Forensic artist brings talent to Comic-Con to solve 1978 San Diego cold case
SAN DIEGO — While Comic-Con is full of fun and make-believe, one man is at the convention trying to solve a San Diego cold case using 3D art. Located in Hall F between comic books and the Nickelodeon booth, you’ll find forensic artist Joe Mullins. Throughout the four-day...
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