SAN DIEGO — A man facing battery and hate-crime charges for allegedly attacking and hurling racial slurs at a utility worker last year near Ocean Beach is the brother of Ashli Babbitt, the San Diego woman who was shot and killed by a police officer Jan…
Immigrants with severe mental health conditions claim mistreatment by detention center psychologist
SAN DIEGO — Advocacy groups are asking the state of California to take away a psychologist’s license to practice after a dozen people held in immigration custody at Otay Mesa Detention Center complained that she mistreated them in ways that led to the …
Diane Bell: The ups and downs of a domino expert
SAN DIEGO — Domino toppling — it sounds like a kids’ game. To DeMond Nason, 42, and other adult aficionados, it is anything but that. All his life Nason, who was born in National City and graduated from the San Diego School of Creative and Performing A…
Killers of Tijuana journalist thought he was responsible for report on criminal group, AG says
TIJUANA, Mexico — Communications shared between the criminals who are accused of planning the murder of Tijuana photojournalist Margarito Martínez Esquivel shows the group mistakenly believed Martínez was responsible for publishing information that exp…
Children needing serious medical care are denied entry to US, despite doctor recommendations
SAN DIEGO — The line for the free clinic that serves migrant families in Tijuana, Mexico, starts before sunrise. After the clinic opens, its staff, a mix of employees and volunteers, take patients one by one to tables in an outdoor hallway — a mitigati…
The Navy is training for a possible fight with China. Does Russia’s war make that more likely?
SAN DIEGO — For much of the past year, U.S. Navy and Marine Corps in the Pacific have trained for a conflict with the Pentagon’s most powerful potential adversary, China. Now the invasion of Ukraine by Russia — another “near peer” nation and newly alig…
Beer battles: Stone Brewing’s trademark fight with Keystone heads to trial
SAN DIEGO — The four-year legal battle between Stone Brewing and Keystone parent Molson Coors is finally headed to court next week, with hundreds of millions potentially at stake. A jury trial in the trademark infringement case is scheduled to kick off…
Shane Olivea, Chargers blocker on 14-2 team, dies at 40
SAN DIEGO — Shane Olivea, who started every game in the Chargers’ winningest regular season and blocked for Hall of Fame running back LaDainian Tomlinson in the same record-setting year, has died at the age of 40, the football club announced Thursday. …
Will this T-shirt one day power your cellphone? UCSD researchers think so
Call it the electric T-shirt. Or, as the researchers at the University of California San Diego have dubbed it, the “wearable microgrid.” Whatever its nickname, the long-sleeve shirt designed by the brainiacs at the Jacobs School of Engineering can harv…
Sierra Ferrell honed her music busking on street corners and playing for fellow travelers on freight trains
Acclaimed troubadour Sierra Ferrell is not the only young singer-songwriter to react enthusiastically at the mere mention of Bob Dylan and the underappreciated American folk music master Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten. But it is her level of enthusiasm that …