Category: San Diego

3 California Families Get out of Afghanistan to Safety

EL CAJON, Calif.—Three families from a San Diego suburb have made it out of Afghanistan after they went to the country earlier this summer to visit relatives and got stuck there amid the chaos following the Taliban’s takeover, officials said Thursday. Five other families from El Cajon were still trying to get out, and U.S….


You’re Taking Away My Right to ‘Live My Life’: San Diego Residents Says of County’s COVID-19 Restrictions

Many San Diego residents attended a county board of supervisors meeting on Tuesday to express their fury and disappointment over the county’s COVID-19 restrictions, such as lockdowns, universal masking requirements, and vaccination mandates. Mariam, a former healthcare worker and first-generation Afghan American, told the board that she has been left “completely disappointed” by the county’s…


You’re Taking Away My Right to ‘Live My Life’: San Diego Resident Says of County’s COVID-19 Restrictions

Many San Diego residents attended a county board of supervisors meeting on Tuesday to express their fury and disappointment over the county’s COVID-19 restrictions, such as lockdowns, universal masking requirements, and vaccination mandates. Mariam, a former health care worker and first-generation Afghan American, told the board that she has been left “completely disappointed” by the…


Navy Charges Sailor With Setting Fire That Destroyed Warship

SAN DIEGO—The U.S. Navy charged a sailor on Thursday with starting a fire last year that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard docked off San Diego, marking the maritime branch’s worst warship blaze outside of combat in recent memory. The amphibious assault ship burned for more than four days. Left with extensive structural, electrical and mechanical…


California is Experiencing a Crime ‘Tsunami,’ DA Says

California is experiencing a wave of crime despite Gov. Gavin Newsom’s claims of a decrease during the past three decades, officials say. “You’ve got violent crime off the charts,” Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert told The Epoch Times. “You’ve got this tsunami of things that are happening. Violent crime, illegal guns, [and] rampant…


California is Experiencing a Crime ‘Tsunami’: Sacramento DA

California is experiencing a wave of crime despite Gov. Gavin Newsom’s claims of a decrease during the past three decades, officials say. “You’ve got violent crime off the charts,” Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert told The Epoch Times. “You’ve got this tsunami of things that are happening. Violent crime, illegal guns, [and] rampant…


Mainly Mozart Keeps Classical Music Alive in San Diego

For more than three decades, Mainly Mozart and its annual festivals of all-star musicians and soloists remained San Diego’s best-kept secret. It took a disaster to change that. Throughout the darkest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, while other performing arts organizations were in duck-and-cover mode, Mainly Mozart made the heroic commitment to keeping live classical…


Southern California House Prices Continue to Defy Gravity

Commentary Home price values accelerated across nation in April, according to the most recent data from the S&P CoreLogic Case-Schiller home price indices. The rise was especially sharp in the western U.S. Using January 2020 as the starting point, home prices increased by more than 25 percent in both San Diego and Seattle through the…


Shelter for Migrant Children In Long Beach Set To Close By August

LONG BEACH, Calif.—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) plans to shut down an emergency shelter set up at the Long Beach Convention Center to house migrant children by August. Temporary shelters were set up at various locations in California and beyond for children who arrived unaccompanied at the U.S.-Mexico border. The children…


Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Long Beach Set to Close in August

LONG BEACH, Calif.—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to shut down in August an emergency shelter set up at the Long Beach Convention Center to house children who crossed into the country illegally. Temporary shelters were set up at various locations in California and other states for children who came across…