This large-cast production at New Village Arts Theatre is part of its Ensemble Project, an experiment for the company’s 11th season, including the same corps of actors and artists in every show, to enhance dramatic consistency and cohesion. tAnd thematically speaking, aren’t we all looking for a place to call home?“Of Mice and Men” continues [...]
… WHOOO’S The Wickedest Ghost? A Spooky Trial” will be at 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 28, 29, 30, and 31. There will be scary, funny and tragic stories of people who once lived in early San Diego during the 1800s. Spirits will answer to the comical judge Oliver Weatherby and the audience [...]
Breaking! Reader Editor Holman Opens Up and Swallows Pride By Walter Mencken | Posted October 27, 2011, 1:01 p.m.Notorious Owner-Editor-Publisher Goes the Other Way on Long-Standing Gay Ad Ban.“Maybe now I’ll get some love.”CELEBRATING LIKE IT’S THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL, LITTLE ITALY – “It was the San Diego Press Club Awards [...]
Ex-Marine Accused in Serial Killings to Face Death Penalty
Andrew Uridales will stand trial for the murder of five Southern California womenOrange County prosecutors say they’ll seek the death penalty against a former Marine and convicted triple murderer charged with five additional Southern California killings including one in San Diego.Prosecutors believe Andrew Urdiales shot [...]
Calif. serial killer goes on trial in more deaths
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Updated:By GREG RISLINGAssociated PressLOS ANGELES (AP) – A prosecutor has told a jury that a convicted killer should be found guilty of 3 cold-case murders in Southern California because his DNA was found on the victims’ bodies.Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Beth [...]
On Tuesday, elected officials in Chula Vista will consider changing a requirement that calls for annual health inspections at hotels and motels citywide. Instead, the proposed amendment requires property owners and hotel management to have their properties certified by a state-certified health inspector every other year.The requirement was part of a 2007 law that was [...]
ESCONDIDO: City cracking down on prostitution at massage businesses…City and Police Department officials said they also want to make consumers more confident they’re getting massages at legitimate businesses that are free of prostitution and other crime.…There have been only a handful of recent arrests in Escondido for prostitution, making it unclear whether [...]
Man convicted in 1975 massage parlor killingSAN DIEGO A man already serving a life sentence in Mississippi was convicted Monday in the strangling death of a woman in downtown San Diego nearly 36 years ago.It took a jury about a day to find Leon Johnson, 58, guilty of first-degree murder in the November 1975 [...]
SAN DIEGO — A former Camp Pendleton Marine was convicted Monday of first-degree murder for raping and strangling a masseuse in a downtown San Diego massage parlor nearly 36 years ago.Jurors deliberated only a few hours before finding Leon Johnson, 58, guilty of killing 27-year Luz Borrayo on Nov. 22, 1975.Johnson, who is serving a [...]
When Leon and the other Marine left, the co-worker found Borrayo’s partially nude body and called police. Part of the victim’s dress was wrapped tightly around her neck and she had scrapes on her neck from trying to ward off the attack, the prosecutor said.The case went cold until 2003, when investigators took another look [...]
