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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‘Las Meninas’: Greatest Work Ever
A portrait by Spanish painter Diego Velazquez is back on show at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art after being wrongly identified as a copy.
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Velazquez confirmed as authentic
Mexican former presidential candidate Diego Fernandez de Cevallos is freed by his kidnappers after being held hostage for seven months.
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Kidnapped Mexican politician free
San Diego County authorities burned down a house filled with explosives on Thursday after determining that removal of the volatile clutter of chemicals, detonators and grenades would be too dangerous.
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San Diego House Is Burned Down, for Safety’s Sake
You can watch the controlled burn of the bomb house in San Diego here when it starts, which I’m told will happen around 2 pm EST.
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Bomb House Live Feed
The 14-year-old hitman known as “El Ponchis” was arrested with his sister by Mexican authorities around midnight Thursday attempting to board a plane to Tijuana. The siblings said they intended to cross the border into San Diego to visit their mother….
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Mexico Nabs 14-Year-Old Hitman
U.S. authorities say they have discovered another extensive drug tunnel that stretches from a home in Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego, California.
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Border tunnel, 20 tons of pot found
They probably won’t be cashing in that free cruise any time soon. Passengers from the stricken Carnival cruise ship that arrived safely back in San Diego Thursday after an engine fire caused the ship to lose power Monday are now sharing their stories…
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Tales from the Stranded Cruise
Three days after an engine fire shut down electricity and stranded the ship at sea, tugboats pulled it into San Diego harbor.
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Crippled Cruise Ship Reaches Shore
The disabled Carnival Splendor cruise ship arrives in San Diego, California after three days at sea without air conditioning, hot food and hot water.
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Stricken cruise ship enters port
