The nannies’ most important credentials include speaking no English, only Spanish. The elementary schools are bilingual, or full immersion. Summer vacations unfold in, say, Colombia or Peru. The “¡Vamonos! Let’s Go!” CDs with Dora and Diego have been played so many times that finally they must be summarily disappeared for the sake of everyone’s sanity. Even the family dogs are bilingual, enthusing equally to “afuera” and “outside,” “juguete” and “toy.” Read full article > >

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Parents help their kids speak fluent Spanish and maintain their heritage

By early Friday, San Diego Gas and Electric said that power had been restored to about 700,000 customers.

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Electricity Restored for About 700,000 Following Outage in Area Around San Diego

QUERETARO, Mexico — Of all the strange circumstances surrounding the violent abduction last year of Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, the Mexican power broker and former presidential candidate known here as “Boss Diego,” perhaps nothing was weirder than the mysterious tracking chip the kidnappers allegedly cut from his body. Lurid Mexican media accounts reported that an armed gang invaded Fernandez’s home, then sliced open his arm with a pair of scissors and extracted a satellite-enabled tracking device, leaving the chip and a streak of blood behind. Read full article > >

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Scared Mexicans try under-the-skin tracking devices

San Diego police said a family of four who were found dead in their home Tuesday morning were victims of a murder-suicide. The victims were identified as Alfred Pimienta, 44, his wife Georgina, and their two daughters, Priscilla, 17, and Emily, 9….

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San Diego Family’s Death Ruled Murder-Suicide

A Delta flight from Detroit headed to San Diego was diverted to Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Sunday after the FBI was informed of “a potential security threat” on the plane, the FBI said.

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A Delta flight from Detroit headed to San Diego was diverted to Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Sunday after the FBI was informed of “a potential security threat” on the plane, the FBI said.

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Flights diverted over security threats

The body of a missing San Diego State University student was found today in Madrid, Spain, in a river near a disco where he was last seen, an official says.

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Body of missing U.S. student found

Who would have thought it? Wisconsin is the San Diego of the Midwest.

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Navarrette: Problem of public pensions

The driver of a taxi cab that plowed into nightclub patrons in San Diego’s popular Gaslamp district, injuring two dozen people, was roughed up by the angry crowd, authorities said Saturday.

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Bar crowd attacks driver after wreck

Early Saturday morning in San Diego’s Gaslamp District, an Emerald Cab taxi driver veered off the street and into a large group of people in front of the popular Stingaree nightclub. Twenty-five people were injured in the crash, six of whom remain in…

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Taxi Crashes Into San Diego Nightclub

Atletico Madrid turn down a joint £52m bid from Chelsea for striker Sergio Aguero and defender Diego Godin.

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Atletico reject £52m Chelsea bid

Washington – Duane R. Clarridge parted company with the Central Intelligence Agency more than two decades ago, but from poolside at his home near San Diego, he still runs a network of spies. read more

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Former Spy With Agenda Operates a Private C.I.A.

The wounds from the January 8 shooting in Tucson are apparently too raw to try the main suspect there: Federal authorities are planning to move Jared Loughner’s trial to San Diego, according to The Washington Post. Part of the reason for the move is…

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Loughner Trial Moving to California

This doesn’t make things any less murky. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a 43-foot cross on San Diego’s Mt. Soledad-public property-unconstitutional, but they stopped short of having it removed completely. Instead, they sent it back to…

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Court: CA Cross Unconstitutional

Blake Gopnik visited Diego Velazquez’s painting “Las Meninas” every day for a week and concluded that it “is the absolutely greatest work of art in the Western tradition.” “Las Meninas” seems at first glance to be a masterpiece of realist portraiture,…

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