Vista News Archives

With, perhaps, two exceptions - James Stacy and Joseph Nunes. Stacy and Nunes are former providers of medical marijuana now facing federal charges for illegally selling the drug from storefront businesses they owned in Vista and San Diego.

NORTH COUNTY a ' A former teacher from Pacific Rim Elementary School in Carlsbad will stand trial in January on charges he molested three students during the 2006-07 and 2007-08 school years.

Three girls forced into prostitution were rescued over the weekend in San Diego as part of a nationwide law enforcement operation, authorities announced today.

Recently, a gentleman called KTTI and chastised them for helping a group raise money for books and supplies for Vista High School because all the kids who go to Vista are gang members, thugs and such.

A 61-year-old man is expected in a downtown San Diego courtroom Monday to stand trial for murder for a bloody slaying that happened nearly 38 years ago.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled Thursday for a La Costa man accused of beating and slitting the throat of his on-again, off-again girlfriend, a popular court reporter at the Vista courthouse.

A former Chula Vista fire captain who pulled bodies from the World Trade Center after Sept.

Eric Fagan, 74, was arrested at his home in Chula Vista and was being held without bail on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said.

CHULA VISTA, Calif. a " Authorities have arrested a Southern California attorney for allegedly killing his girlfriend's daughter 20 years ago so his girlfriend could gain custody of her granddaughter.The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department says 74-year old Eric Fagan was arrested Wednesday at his home in Chula Vista and is being held without ...

A man accused of fatally stabbing a Vista mother four years ago was seen in her backyard, and authorities later recovered DNA from both her and the defendant on a knife, a prosecutor said today, but a defense lawyer said his client "is not the killer.'' Derlyn Ray Threats, 28, is charged with murder and special circumstance allegations in the Sept.

Police have tracked down and arrested a Vista man suspected of breaking into lockers at a local gym.

That, along with a proposed reduction of three support staff members, would decrease the Fire Department budget by $934,000, on top of $530,000 in fire service cuts approved in May.

Council members have approved a plan to cover most of the cost of a $165,000 "state-of-the-art" sign along the Foothill Freeway that will advertise one of the city's most popular shopping centers.

The leader of a group dubbed the "Fat Boy Bandit" responsible for robbing seven North County Banks and a video store was sentenced today in Vista to 12 years in prison.

One person was seriously injured Thursday in a two-vehicle crash in unincorporated Vista.

Authorities asked the public today for help in finding a man wanted in connection with a six-month series of armed commercial robberies.

The incident began at 4 a.m. with a minor crash on northbound I-15 near Gopher Canyon Road north of Escondido.

Childhood obesity is rising at an alarming rate in many towns near the border. Vista is fighting back.

Police reported a 42-year-old New England man on a cross-country motorcycle trip was killed Saturday when he stopped at a red light and was hit from behind by a suspected drunken driver.

Five teachers, including one whose classroom is inside Juvenile Hall and another who works at a school on a university campus, were selected Saturday night as the county's teachers of the year.

Drunk driving leads to four vehicle collision that kills two; residents of Fallbrook, Menifee, Twenty Nine Palms, Quail Valley, Chula Vista involved Saturday, October 10th, 2009.

An SUV that ran up on a sidewalk on the Las Vegas Strip hit a 9-year-old California boy, causing life-threatening injuries.

A 24-year-old Vista woman is in federal custody, accused of helping to lead an international crime ring that tricked people into sharing personal information then used to drain their bank accounts.

Robert E. Thomas, 83, breezed into the National Archives on Tuesday with a smile on his face, a white hankie peeking out of his suit coat pocket and an old briefcase containing the two rare books he filched in Germany 64 years ago.

He was a World War II GI then, fresh from the horrors of combat. He had blundered into one of the notorious salt mines where the Germans stashed their national treasures. And this one contained books. Millions and millions of books from institutions across Germany.

A former U.S. soldier is returning two 400-year-old law books he took as souvenirs from a German salt mine vault in the closing months of World War II.

Gloria Lopez believes the man shot and killed Saturday by police on a San Diego freeway after a wild chase, was her brother.

Tim Wright is coming home. Slightly more three years after resigning as Rio Vista High School principal to become superintendent at Class A Collinsville, Wright on Monday night was a unanimous choice of Rio Vista trustees as new superintendent.

Dog Attacks I am a new-comer to the Village and am looking forward to all the activities and the fellowship of my peers.

The tentacles of the federal crackdown on over-the-counter nutritional supplements laced with anabolic steroids reached into San Diego County last week, when a Vista company was raided amid suspicions it is manufacturing and selling illegal substances.

A 46-year-old woman was in custody Thursday on suspicion of setting fire to a two-story house that had been converted into three apartments in Escondido, police said.