La-Jolla News

Authorities believe the Old Man Bank Bandit struck again Monday night. Police are investigating a robbery on Girard Avenue in La Jolla.

Authorities asked the public Tuesday for help in identifying a retirement-age man responsible for a spree of local bank robberies in recent weeks.

Prince Albert II of Monaco will be awarded the Roger Revelle Prize from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla Friday for his efforts to promote scientific research and protect the environment.

Featured Article Main Category: Genetics Also Included In: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Article Date: 16 Oct 2009 - 2:00 PDT When scientists mapped the DNA sequence of 3 billion bases in the human genome they uncovered the master blueprint of what makes a human being; now a team in the US has produced a high resolution map of the first complete ...

American Geotechnical and Environmental Services conduct forensic geology in the land slide zone on Soledad Mountain Rd.

Tony Award nominees Kathryn Meisle and Omar Metwally, and Drama Desk Award nominee T. Ryder Smith, star in the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright's Creditors , adapted from the 1888 play by August Strindberg, beginning Sept.

A spokesman for the San Diego Holistic Healing medical marijuana cooperative claims it's legitimate, but Bird Rock residents have concerns.

A 40-year old man was shot the evening of Sept. 7 afterA breaking into his parents' RSF home and choking his mother, reportedA Lt.

A pole vaulter at UC San Diego has died from an apparent headinjury sustainedduring a training accident.

Investigators Monday identified two arson suspects sought for allegedly setting a June 10 fire in a garage at a University City condominium complex, destroying two vehicles and causing $125,000 in property damage.

The discovery of immune system particles that attack the AIDS virus may finally open a way to make a vaccine that could protect people against the deadly and incurable infection, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

La Jolla Playhouse presents the world premiere of Creditors, adapted and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Wright from the play by August Strindberg .

What's dumber than intentionally setting fire to someone's car? How about setting your own car on fire in the process? That's what arson investigators say Derek Jones, 29, and Diana Dypvik, 21, did on the morning of June 10, 2009.

Plastics patch found across 1,700 miles of Pacific A ghost net floats in the Pacific Ocean, August 11, 2009.

Here's the Los Angees Times review of The 39 Steps, the Broadway show that is touring with Eric Hissom in one of the four roles: Theater review: 'The 39 Steps' at La Jolla Playhouse August 17, 2009 5:00 pm "The 39 Steps," Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 rush of cinematic adrenaline, is an alternating sequence of daring seductions and hair-breadth escapes.

A former San Diego resident accused in a series of break-ins and rapes in Mission Beach, Ocean Beach and the College area in late 2000 and early 2001 pleaded not guilty today to 23 felony charges, including forcible rape.

A landslide that damaged dozens of La Jolla homes was caused by water leaking into the soil, a homeowners' attorney said Monday, but a lawyer representing the city of San Diego said shifting earth was to blame.

1971 - Rod Stewart's "Maggie May" was released. 1976 - The Steve Miller Band released "Rock 'N Me." 1985 - Michael Jackson paid $47.5 million for the Beatles publishing catalog.

UC San Diego will use a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund the San Diego Science Festival, it was announced Thursday.