A new drop-in center for LGBT youth has opened in Chula Vista. Called Our Safe Place the center is for LGBTQ youth up to age 21 at South Bay Community Services, Trolley Trestle Teen Center. “Our Safe Place” will provide participant-driven supportive services and on-site clinical services to meet LGBTQ youths’ social, emotional, health and…
CHULA VISTA, Calif. – A drunk driver who caused the death of her passenger after they left a Dixie Chicks concert in Chula Vista surrendered Tuesday to start her 1-year jail term. Gabrielle Powers Jones, 34, had been free on $50,000 bond and was sentenced June 2 for the death of her friend, Kendra June…
Seventh grade students got a brief glimpse of gay male pornography Feb. 9 when their Chula Vista middle school teacher accidently showed the images on his iPad when he wanted to use the device for an academic lesson. The teacher was asked to leave the classroom by administrators after some students told them they viewed…
OnStage Playhouse will present Play it Again Sam Jan. 06 – Feb. 04, 2017, at their historic Third Avenue theater in downtown Chula Vista. Originally staged on Broadway in 1969,Woody Allen’s Play it Again, Sam was a smash hit and was nominated for three Tony awards. It was adapted for film in 1972 starring Woody…
Chula Vista Police have released photos of the attacker of a gay man at a trolley stop in hopes someone can identify him. The victim, who is in his 30s, was aboard a bus at the H Street Trolley stop in Chula Vista in March, 2015. He told police the man kept staring at him…
A 19-year-old man who claimed he was provoked when he slashed a gay man to death in his Chula Vista apartment was sentenced Feb. 5 to six years in state prison. A request for probation for Joe Andrew Cortez was turned down by Chula Vista Superior Court Judge Ana Espana who cited the horrific stab…
An 18-year-old man who fatally stabbed a co-worker after a sex act and fled the scene without his pants or shoes pleaded guilty Oct. 29 to voluntary manslaughter. A murder charge was dismissed against Joe Andrew Cortez and Chula Vista Superior Court Judge Ana Espana indicated she would limit the maximum sentence to six years…
An Aug. 26 preliminary hearing has been set for an 18-year-old murder suspect who is accused of fatally stabbing a Chula Vista man following a sexual encounter. The April 23 slaying of Rene Macias Pressa, 44, was initially puzzling because he was found dead outside his home at 45 Third Ave. and there was a…
A few hours away from San Diego in Niland, Calif. 190 miles southeast of Los Angeles, in the lower desert of Southern California in Imperial County just east of the Salton Sea and about an hour and a half from Palm Springs, you will encounter Salvation Mountain. The artist, Leonard Knight, an Army veteran of…
CHULA VISTA – Speaker of the California State Assembly Toni Atkins has endorsed Steve Padilla for Chula Vista City Council, Seat 1. Speaker Atkins said, “Steve Padilla has a proven record of building consensus and getting things done. I am proud to endorse Steve Padilla for Chula Vista City Council because he will create safe…
