San Diego LGBT Pride’s rain-soaked 2015 music festival fell short of generating enough revenue to cover expenses, to the approximate tune of $200,000 – that’s why this year’s event will be covered by rain insurance, says the organization’s top administrator. “We will have rain insurance this year,” said executive director, Stephen Whitburn in response to…
SAN DIEGO – An attorney and powerful woman in her own right, Lee Burdick thought she had seen, heard and litigated everything; but nothing could have prepared her for the political firestorm that exploded during her nine-month tenure as a key member of San Diego Mayor Bob Filner’s team. Her meteoric rise in the mayor’s…
In response to low national vaccination rates for the human papillomavirus (HPV), Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health has joined 68 National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers in issuing a statement urging for increased HPV vaccination. With approximately 40 percent of girls and 21 percent of boys receiving the recommended three doses, these…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – State Assembly Speaker Toni G. Atkins, Assembly member Shirley Weber and nearly 100 community representatives from diverse sectors joined the CalEITC4Me Campaign in celebration of California’s EITC Day Friday at the Jacobs Center in San Diego to mark the availability of the new state Earned Income Tax Credit. Speaker Atkins played…
A March 7 preliminary hearing is set for the Bridal Bandit, a 50-year-old woman who allegedly stole credit cards from brides during marriage ceremonies. Denise Louise Gunderson, who is also known under the name of Denise Burns, was extradited from Las Vegas and was arraigned recently in San Diego Superior Court on 25 counts of…
The City of San Diego declared the vacant Haggen grocery store building at 2235 University Ave. in North Park “a public nuisance” and ordered the company to clean up the site within 10 days, according to the notice posted Jan. 11 at the closed store. Haggen declared bankruptcy in 2015 and closed all of its…
An April 18 trial has been set for the alleged drunk driver who killed Oscar Melero, a longtime well known hair stylist in Hillcrest. The driver is charged with second-degree murder and vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. Melero, 52, was on his way to the California 10/20 run at the Del Mar Fairgrounds on Interstate 5…
In an effort to reduce the impact of homelessness on local businesses, Hillcrest Business Association (HBA) now uses temporary restraining orders to ferret out people who are simply homeless from those who are homeless and pose a threat to their own safety and that of others because of severe mental illness or criminality. (hillcrestbia.org/clean-safe/homeless-outreach-program/) According…
A federal judge on Monday denied setting any bail for a South Bay man accused of killing his wealthy boyfriend in Mexico, saying he was a flight risk and noted the defendant filed a handwritten will naming him as the slain man’s beneficiary. Attorney Deke Falls, who represents David Enrique Meza, 25, argued that Meza’s…
San Diego Police identified Joshua Adam Sisson, 30, as the man whom an officer shot to death Jan. 1 after he held a large kitchen knife to the throat of his boyfriend in Hillcrest. Someone called 911 after they heard arguing between Sisson and another man in an apartment in the 500 block of Lewis…
