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A beloved teacher arrested for soliciting a minor. A coach convicted of sexual abuse. A school district hit with a multi-million-dollar jury verdict for failing to protect students.
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Arguments were made Friday afternoon regarding former La Mesa police officer Matthew Dages' petition challenging the appeals board's decision to uphold his firing in connection with his high-profile 2020 arrest of a young Black man near the Grossmont Transit Center. -
Community pushback against the new street design prompted Mayor Todd Gloria to order the street returned to how it was before the controversy. -
The former officer was later charged with a felony count of filing a false police report, though an El Cajon jury acquitted him last year. He faced three years in prison had he been convicted. -
A legislative hearing in California has been disrupted by an animal rights organizer who glued her hand to a table. -
A man who piloted a boat that crashed near Point Loma during an apparent human-smuggling operation, leading to the deaths of three people and injuries to more than two dozen others, pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges. -
A retired Los Angeles police officer and U.S. Army veteran who alleges she was sexually assaulted and unlawfully arrested by border agents at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry has filed a lawsuit against the federal government and the unidentified officer who allegedly assaulted her. -
California may try an innovative new way to deter illegal weapons, spurred most recently by a mass shooting near the state Capitol. -
A former Camp Pendleton Marine who sexually assaulted a 3-year-old was sentenced Monday to more than 28 years in prison. -
A downtown-area homeless shelter is getting a new operating contract, and by the summer a similar shelter will be open in the Midway area. -
A jury found Matthew Fluckiger guilty this week of sexually assaulting one woman but deadlocked on charges involving two other women at local nursing homes.
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