SAN DIEGO (CNS) – A Tijuana-based drug trafficker who used teenagers as drug couriers was sentenced Monday by a San Diego judge to more than seven years in prison. Osvaldo Mendivil-Tamayo, 22, admitted in a plea agreement that he and co-conspirators “specifically recruited high school students who crossed through the San Diego Ports of Entry […]
A former postdoctoral neuroscience researcher at UC San Diego pleaded guilty Monday to carrying out a series of credit union heists throughout the county. Karl Doron, 45, pleaded guilty to nearly a dozen robbery and attempted robbery counts stemming from a string of bank robberies he committed between Dec. 28, 2018, and March 5, 2019, […]
Photo via Pixabay Urban Corps of San Diego County was awarded two grants totaling more than $673,000 from the California State Coastal Conservancy for fire fuel reduction activities in Chula Vista and seven San Diego County preserves, it was announced Monday. Additionally, Urban Corps was awarded $83,055 from the California Fire Safe Council to continue […]
Local life science company, BioSurplus, joined Massachusetts-based Biodirect and Boston Microscopes in a three-way merger to form Copia Scientific. Following the Aug. 19 close of the deal, the new combined company is the nation’s largest non-OEM (original equipment manufacturer) lab equipment reseller, refurbisher and service provider. BioSurplus is based in San Diego and its CEO, Bill […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida knocked out power to all of New Orleans and inundated coastal Louisiana communities on a deadly path through the Gulf Coast that was still unfolding Monday, promising more destruction. The heavy rain and storm surge has already had a catastrophic impact along the southeast coast of Louisiana, and life-threatening […]