A former band director at Bonita Vista High School pleaded guilty Dec. 29 to committing oral copulation and penetration with a foreign object upon a 16-year-old boy in 2010. Jason Jerome Mangan-Magabilin, 38, entered his guilty pleas just days before the victim would have testified against him in Chula Vista Superior Court. The Jan. 4…
SAN DIEGO — A Public Candle and Flower Vigil in Memory of Will Walters will be held today at 2 p.m at the Pride flag located at the corner of University Avenue and Normal Street in the heart of San Diego’s historic LGBTQ Hillcrest neighborhood. There will be remarks and remembrances from community members, colleagues…
SAN DIEGO — Will Walters, who sued the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) for discrimination when he was arrested for wearing a short kilt-like costume at the LGBT Pride festival in 2011, was found dead Wednesday at his apartment in Hillcrest in an apparent suicide. Dec. 13, an eight-member jury in the U.S. District Court…
SAN DIEGO — A judge in El Cajon Superior Court has issued a no bail warrant for the arrest of Eric Earl Patton, 24, who failed to show up for sentencing after he pleaded guilty to discharging a green laser beam at a sheriff’s department helicopter cockpit. Patton, of El Cajon, had been expected to…
Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. Restaurants fail every day. Each time one closes, there’s a good chance a restaurateur’s dream dies with it. But occasionally, a restaurant’s closure also means employees don’t get their final paychecks. That’s exactly what…
The San Diego City Council unanimously approved Monday all the nominees for committee heads by newly elected Council President Myrtle Cole, but five people from her Fourth District complained that no one from their area will sit on the Public Safety & Livable Neighborhoods Committee. Cole used to be a member of that committee, but…
Following a week of testimony in the civil suit of Will Walters v. City of San Diego et al, the jury rejected the claim that five San Diego police officers discriminated against Walters for wearing a short kilt-like costume at the LGBT Pride festival in 2011. The eight-member jury in the U.S. District Court for…
SAN DIEGO—Closing arguments will be heard today in the civil suit of Will Walters v. City of San Diego et al, following a week of testimony that included more than a dozen witnesses and the presentation of evidence including photos of women wearing more revealing swimsuits than the kilt for which the plaintiff, Will Walters,…
Fourth District Councilmember Myrtle Cole made history Monday as she became the first African American woman to become city council president. Cole was elected in a 6-3 vote edging out Eighth District Councilmember David Alvarez. The vote came after numerous speakers sought to persuade councilmembers to vote for Cole or Alvarez, who are both Democrats….
The holiday spirit will be in the air as the Hillcrest Wind Ensemble (HWE) presents Holiday Rhapsody Saturday, Dec. 17 at the San Diego Woman’s Club, 2557 Third Ave. in Bankers Hill. Concert time is 7 p.m. and will include music of Christmas, Hanukah and New Year’s Eve. Guest harpist Tasha Smith Godinez and a…
