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Dream season ends for San Diego FC

Phillip Brents - 12/05/2025

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Conflict remains a holiday tradition

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North Island Credit Union Foundation awards $5,000

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Carrying the Jaguar spirit into 2026

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Prep baseball stars get Perfect Game All-American treatment

Uncategorized Phillip Brents - 07/08/2016 0

Major League Baseball players and top college prospects hail from all parts of the United States and beyond. We could have a couple of them right here in the making. The Perfect...

No vacation for criminals

Uncategorized Special to The Star-News - 12/18/2010 0

(NAPS) - Four to five minutes - that could be the difference between whether or not your return home from vacation is ruined by a burglar. According to experts, that's the maximum...

Shooting straight with heavy notion

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 04/02/2016 0

The gun, a .22, was loaded. All I had to do was pull the trigger. Simple. It was after one of the mass shootings (I forget which. It might have been the...

Food and brew featured at tasty village walkabout

Chula Vista Robert Moreno - 03/01/2018 0

Get those taste buds ready for the 22nd annual Taste of Third from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on March 8 throughout the Third Avenue Village District. The annual self-guided tour features...

Judge tells woman to pay councilman’s attorney fees

Chula Vista Robert Moreno - 03/19/2016 0

A civil lawsuit challenging a Chula Vista City Council election is costing the woman who filed the claim nearly $100,000. San Diego Superior Court judge Eddie C. Sturgeon stuck to his tentative...

Eastlake, Otay Ranch to meet in Mesa League ‘Super Bowl’

Football Phillip Brents - 11/26/2010 0

It is not an understatement to say that every game from now on is a Super Bowl for both the Eastlake Titans and Otay Ranch Mustangs, Mesa League rivals, who will...

Answering truthfully makes passing judgment difficult

Columnists Nancy Alvarado - 01/30/2016 0

Walking into the courthouse makes my heart pound unreasonably. I check my pockets for change, phone or keys, throwing them into the plastic tub proffered by the deputy waving people through...

Southwestern qualifies pair of runners for state meet

College Phillip Brents - 12/28/2017 0

Southwestern College qualified two runners to compete in this year’s California state championship meet Nov. 18 at Woodward Park in Fresno. Sophomore Augustin Barreto finished 55 of 176 runners in the men’s...

In Murdertown, USA cops are few but politicians plentiful

Behind Police Lines Tom Basinski - 06/19/2015 0

I am in Flint, Mich., my hometown, or as a New York Times reporter who recently rode on patrol with a Flint cop called it: “Murdertown, U.S.A.” To give some perspective, in...

Residents make case to limit who runs for office

Uncategorized admin - 04/29/2016 0

For the first time in the city’s 105-year history, local representative elections will be determined by council districts. But residents in the southwest Chula Vista region say a City Council candidate is...

BVHS alum Bell breaks loose for 160 yards, 2 TDs in 34-10 SDSU win over Hawaii

College Phillip Brents - 11/19/2020 0

Bonita Vista High School alumnus Greg Bell appears to have firmly established himself as San Diego State University’s dominant running back through four games with 532 net rushing yards, an average...

Purse stealer sentenced and fined

Chula Vista Neal Putnam - 05/20/2017 0

An 18-year-old Chula Vista man was sentenced Monday to 29 days he has already spent in jail for stealing a purse from a woman outside a store. Genaro Vasquez was fined $1,153...

It’s a banner year for California District 42 Little League champions

Baseball admin - 07/10/2025 0

On the road again, that’s right … the road to the Little League World Series and points elsewhere, of course. Long and winding, and peppered with alternating episodes of disappointment and reward,...

South Bay’s only acute rehabilitation program part of Top 100 Hospitals

Health Carlos Davalos - 12/13/2014 0

The South Bay Rehabilitation Center (SBRC) is the only acute rehabilitation program in South Bay, which is convenient for those who live in the South County. No matter where a patient...

Teachings from the South Pole

Chula Vista Robert Moreno - 01/11/2018 0

Lesley Anderson, a High Tech High Chula Vista 11th grade biology and environmental science teacher, likes taking real world lessons into her classroom. When the science teacher had the opportunity to go...

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THIS WEEK

Columnists

Dream season ends for San Diego FC

Conflict remains a holiday tradition

North Island Credit Union Foundation awards $5,000

Carrying the Jaguar spirit into 2026

DON'T MISS

Prep baseball stars get Perfect Game All-American treatment

No vacation for criminals

Shooting straight with heavy notion

Food and brew featured at tasty village walkabout

Judge tells woman to pay councilman’s attorney fees

Eastlake, Otay Ranch to meet in Mesa League ‘Super Bowl’

Answering truthfully makes passing judgment difficult

Southwestern qualifies pair of runners for state meet

In Murdertown, USA cops are few but politicians plentiful

Residents make case to limit who runs for office

BVHS alum Bell breaks loose for 160 yards, 2 TDs in 34-10 SDSU win over Hawaii

Purse stealer sentenced and fined

It’s a banner year for California District 42 Little League champions

South Bay’s only acute rehabilitation program part of Top 100 Hospitals

Teachings from the South Pole

WEATHER

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