ESCONDIDO -- Escondido Police Chief Jim Maher said Monday he wants at least half of the department's force to speak and understand Spanish as a way to improve communications with the city's growing Latino population.
“They can vote themselves in a pay raise, but they can’t do nothing about all this illegal immigration,” says Jackson talk show host “JT,” of the JT and Dave show, after the House approved a raise for government officials, including a $10,000 raise for in-session work for legislators.
ABOARD THE QUEEN VICTORIAThe anecdote has been rattling around Cunard Line for decades, with plenty of debate as to its veracity. It concerns how the original Queen Mary got its name.
VISTA -- A San Diego attorney continues to challenge Wal-Mart as the company tries to expand its retail store in east Vista into one of the region's first Supercenters.
Bruce Poon Tip has only ever worked for two employers: Denny's and McDonald's. Both jobs were when he was 16, growing up in Calgary. At Denny's, he lasted two weeks before he was fired. He didn't even make it out of McDonald's training program.
By Darsha Philips Posted: Saturday, February 09, 2008 at 2:05 p.m. TOLEDO, OH -- Mayor Carty Finkbeiner on Friday ordered some 200 members of Company A, 1 st Battalion, 24 th Marines from Grand Rapids, Michigan, out of Toledo just before the unit was supposed to start a weekend of urban warfare training downtown.
Clusters of up to 100 mysterious objects, bright white lights and strange, triangular shaped objects are just some of a huge surge in UFO sightings reported to the Ministry of Defence last year.