SD Union-Tribune News

San Diego State's smallest and most academically accomplished freshman class in memory begins school on Monday.

A mother should never hear the gunfire that steals her son’s life. A father should never hold his son’s limp body and howl his name.

The man in charge of making San Diego’s buses and trolleys run on time tops the list of transportation executives whose salary and benefits were examined as part of The Watchdog’s ongoing public compensation survey.

Layoffs, bankruptcies and other effects of the naggingly ailing economy are leading a record number of county residents to seek out donated food, the county’s leading food-relief organization reported Friday. The San Diego Food Bank said its distributions are at an all-time high.

Two men, one from San Diego and one from Norwalk, were arrested.

The Fallbrook Hospital District stopped running a hospital more than 10 years ago, but goes on receiving the property taxes it collected for that purpose.

One year ago, John Miksa, 55, a Carlsbad resident and cyclist, was lying flat on his back on Pacific Coast Highway in Oceanside, paralyzed from the neck down. A driver making an impulse turn had slammed into him.

Ian Villa-Mootz was homeless for over a year. He decided that was enough.

Donning white-lace dresses, purple sashes and straw hats, about 100 women and their families marched from the Kate Sessions statue to the Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park.

Workers in the area were installing a fence and were cutting metal when sparks ignited the blaze.

A band of young and business-savvy Vietnamese volunteers is trying to turn six gritty blocks of San Diego’s El Cajon Boulevard into a Little Saigon district.

More than 1,000 customers were initially affected by the outage Thursday night..

Cash-starved California loses $6.5 billion annually in uncollected income taxes. Of the amount owed to the state, about 80 percent comes from those who either underreport income or overindulge in questionable deductions, the tax agencies say.

About 30 people gathered Wednesday evening to learn more about a proposal to build a 12-acre 300 megawatt power plant in eastern Chula Vista.

But some complain that mutts are out of control in off-leash areas

Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is suing the county employees retirement association for information on pension pay outs.

Encinitas Mayor Dan Dalager will turn himself in to the Fair Political Practices Commission over discounted appliances he purchased. “When we get back their ruling, we’ll get it out to everybody and let you all know,” he said Wednesday.

A Lakeside bar on Thursday dropped plans to stage what might have been a regional first -- a beer belly pageant.

Frank Gormlie, the activist, lawyer and co-founder of the OB Rag, will not be on the ballot as a candidate for

Second Chance, an Encanto nonprofit that finds jobs and stability for the homeless and unemployed, is starting a new program to help troubled youngsters.