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Articles from the May 20, 2015 edition


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  • Do college programs provide enough support?

    Updated May 20, 2015

    “Academically, the step up from high school to college isn’t as steep as previous transitions may have been. Unless a student takes on an unusually heavy course load, the demands aren’t markedly different from before” (The Transition from High School to College Par. 1). After leaving high school, many students are told to go to the next level of education to achieve their degrees. While various high school graduates do attend the first semester, first time freshman students start at a high peak number but slowly go down ov...

  • Travel over Memorial Day weekend expected to increase 4.6 percent over last year; a positive economic indicator

    Updated May 20, 2015

    SAN DIEGO COUNTY - More than 2.7 million Southern Californians and around 4.4 million residents from throughout the state will take a long getaway this Memorial Day weekend -- a 4.6 percent increase over last year and the largest overall number of Memorial Day holiday travelers from the Golden State since 2005, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California. The Auto Club defines a holiday trip as one at least 50 miles away from home. The Memorial Day holiday travel p...

  • ALERT: Amber Alert activation - San Joaquin County

    Updated May 20, 2015

    AN AMBER ALERT HAS BEEN ACTIVATED IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: SAN JOAQUIN. ON MAY 20, 2015, AT 01:30 AM, AVA BAR-ILLAN WAS ABDUCTED FROM SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA. AVA BAR-ILLAN IS A 6-YEAR-OLD, HISPANIC, FEMALE, 3 FEET TALL, 60 POUNDS, JUVENILE WITH BROWN HAIR, AND BROWN EYES, LAST SEEN WEARING A BLUE MINNIE MOUSE SHIRT. SUSPECT IS MAURICE CHEADLE, A 39-YEAR-OLD, BLACK, MALE, 6 FEET 1 INCHES TALL, WEIGHING 195 POUNDS, WITH BLK HAIR, HAZEL EYES, LAST SEEN WEARING A PINK SHIRT, BLACK PANTS. THE SUSPECT WAS LAST SEEN DRIVING A DARK... Full story

  • EPA to recognize Marine Corps Air Station Miramar with 2015 EPA Federal Green Challenge award for Energy

    Updated May 20, 2015

    SAN DIEGO - Marine Corps Air Station Miramar will be recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today, Wed., May 20, for reducing its use of fuel oil by 98 percent last year. U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy is scheduled to present base officials with the 2015 EPA Federal Green Challenge award for Energy this morning. The award honors federal agencies that have reduced environmental impacts in energy, water, waste, electronics, purchasing and transportation. The majority of the fuel oil reduction on the... Full story

  • Team of nurses from Scripps Health due to return from Nepal this weekend after treating 2,230 earthquake victims

    Updated May 20, 2015

    SAN DIEGO - The San Diego-based nurses who have been treating earthquake survivors in remote villages in Nepal are nearing the end of their stay in the Himalayan country, Scripps Health reported today, Wed., May 20. The four nurses and one team leader are set to return Wednesday to the capital of Kathmandu, where they will rest and prepare to come home this weekend, according to the healthcare organization. They left San Diego May 1, almost one week after the country was ravaged by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake. While they were...

  • UPDATE: Second fatality in USMC crash in Hawaii identified as Lance Cpl. Matthew J. Determan of Maricopa, Arizona

    Updated May 20, 2015

    SAN DIEGO - The second Marine who died following the crash of a Camp Pendleton-based aircraft during a training mission in Hawaii has now been identified as a 21-year-old resident of Maricopa, Arizona. Lance Cpl. Matthew J. Determan was fatally injured when the MV-22 Osprey assigned to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit based at Camp Pendleton crashed during a routine training mission at Marine Corps Training Area-Bellows, according to USMC public-affairs Capt. Brian Block....