Otay Mesa News

A fast-moving brush fire blackened dozens of open acres Wednesday in the remote reaches of southern San Diego County, just north of the Mexican border.

Former California lieutenant governor Abel Maldonado is leading the charge to repeal the realignment program and talks to San Diegans why.

A 57-year-old man suspected of robbing a bank Saturday who was seen leaving in a cab, and was later arrested.

Passage through the San Diego border, without a barrier to rough hewn citizens, will decide whether the compromise made by the Preisident and the Congress on comprehensive immigration reform gives Mexican immigrants to teh U.S. a citizenship deal wioth no shame that comes frm disrimination.

Jerry Brown's desk. The measure - growing in part out of litigation involving a San Diego area company and military troops using pay phones at an airport in Germany - unanimously passed the Senate last week.

The FAA has delayed the closure of 149 federal contract air traffic control towers nationwide, which includes the local Ramona air traffic control tower.

Supervisors took a step this week towards getting SR 11 built when they agreed wth Caltrans on taking up property needed to piece together space to draw in SR 11 traffic onto county roads, and line up frontages.

Three cruise ships called on San Diego Tuesday, between them bringing nearly 5,000 passengers to town for a day of sight-seeing, shopping and eating at local restaurants.

Members of the California Innocence Project are continuing their march from San Diego to Sacramento.

The Border Patrol called San Diego firefighters shortly before 4 p.m. asking for help to get the man down.

Autopsy results were released Saturday, revealing that Ricardo Castulo Beltran, 29, of Caminito Quixote, died of a single gunshot wound to his head.

Agents saw Felix Olazo Barrios and two other men cross into the country near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry on April 18 and tracked their footprints to heavy brush, where the trio was found hiding, the Border Patrol said.