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San Diego County Cup champions crowned

Phillip Brents - 01/08/2026

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Gulls face off new year with Pacific Division challenges

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Vargas calls bill a ‘betrayal’

Chula Vista Xiomara Gerardo - 07/11/2025 0

A sweeping budget and tax package recently signed into law by President Donald Trump has sparked sharply divided reactions among San Diego’s congressional delegation. Formally titled “The One Big Beautiful Bill,” the...

On the spot justice

Behind Police Lines Tom Basinski - 07/06/2013 0

Why is it at least once a week I turn on the television news and see where some police agency has been in a pursuit? What is wrong with miscreant drivers?...

Love from beginning to end

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 02/07/2013 0

First comes love, then comes marriage, and for some, prenups and divorce. Today, approximately one in two marriages ends in divorce and while the population of the U.S. continues to increase, new...

Contractor didn’t pay taxes

Uncategorized Carlos Davalos - 10/22/2016 0

Contractor Raul Casillas, 55, of Chula Vista, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for evading income taxes for three tax years. Casillas was ordered to pay $187,533.95 to the...

Three decades behind bars

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 12/19/2013 0

A prison term of 34 years and four months was handed down Dec. 16 to an armed robber who held up two stores in Chula Vista and 14 other businesses elsewhere. The...

Punching, fighting is not progressive

Columnists Carlos Davalos - 09/23/2017 0

Unless the act is between consenting adults or performed in self defense, physically attacking someone — punching them in the mouth, tackling them to the ground or silencing them in a...

Rapist behind bars for decades

Chula Vista Carlos Davalos - 12/13/2012 0

A robber who raped a female employee of an auto parts store just east of National City was sentenced Dec. 3 to 35 years to life in prison. His fellow bandit...

Hit and run man now has murder case

Chula Vista Neal Putnam - 05/23/2020 0

A former South Bay man on probation for hit and run in the death of an elderly woman faces a murder trial on Nov. 9 for the shooting death of his...

SWC slams Mt. San Jacinto, 38-14, improves unblemished record to 7-0

Sports admin - 10/28/2016 0

Southwestern College has three games left on its regular season slate but no one in the program dares to use the “u” word quite yet. The “u” word? It stands for undefeated season. The...

Ignorance has no place at the polls

Columnists Carlos Davalos - 11/06/2010 0

Nowhere was the spirit of George Carlin more alive than in San Diego's Golden Hall Tuesday night. Not that I agree 100 percent with his disdain and aversion to voting. But roaming...

Revenue collection could always be worse

Columnists Carlos Davalos - 04/13/2013 0

There are few, if any, Americans who enjoy writing a check during the annual spring slaughter known as Tax Day. I’m not the exception. Fortunately there have been few occasions in which...

Community invited to bay cleanup

Chula Vista Xiomara Gerardo - 08/16/2025 0

The Port of San Diego and San Diego Working Waterfront will host the 35th annual Operation Clean Sweep on Aug. 23 at locations around San Diego Bay. The event focuses on removing...

Making sure seniors don’t go hungry

Uncategorized admin - 10/08/2016 0

Nearly 10 million seniors are “food insecure,” a term used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to describe the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable,...

‘Play It Again, Sam’ is laugh out loud comedy at CV’s OnStage Playhouse

Uncategorized admin - 01/20/2017 0

In “Play It Again, Sam,” OnStage Playhouse's current offering, film-lover Allan Felix has this thing about Humphrey Bogart. If only he had some of Bogart’s technique. After his wife leaves him...

You can’t save people from themselves

Behind Police Lines Tom Basinski - 11/30/2001 0

When I was a cop I tried to do my job in a professional manner, treating people the way I would want an officer to treat my family. I knew I...

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THIS WEEK

Chula Vista

San Diego County Cup champions crowned

Roller hockey faces off 2026 portion of 2025-26 Metro slate

Gulls face off new year with Pacific Division challenges

What’s new, what’s next and how to start the year refreshed

DON'T MISS

Vargas calls bill a ‘betrayal’

On the spot justice

Love from beginning to end

Contractor didn’t pay taxes

Three decades behind bars

Punching, fighting is not progressive

Rapist behind bars for decades

Hit and run man now has murder case

SWC slams Mt. San Jacinto, 38-14, improves unblemished record to 7-0

Ignorance has no place at the polls

Revenue collection could always be worse

Community invited to bay cleanup

Making sure seniors don’t go hungry

‘Play It Again, Sam’ is laugh out loud comedy at CV’s OnStage Playhouse

You can’t save people from themselves

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