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After 74 years, Escondido Korean War ace Royce Williams gets Medal of Honor
3+ hour, 48+ min ago (283+ words) Korean War fighter pilot and Escondido resident Royce Williams will be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, it was announced Wednesday. Williams, now 100 years old, will be recognized for facing off against seven Soviet MiG fighter jets on Nov. 18, 1952, shooting…...
Lost submariners honored at 52 Boats Memorial for Pearl Harbor Day
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (330+ words) LIBERTY STATION " On the 84th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Point Loma Association and its green-vested Mean Green Team honored lost World War II American submariners. The event culminated with a wreath-laying at the 52 Boats Memorial at Liberty Station....
Former aerospace engineer ‘Stutz’ still having a blast at 100
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (735+ words) As newspapers continue to shutter throughout the country, we're working harder to keep showing up for you. Will you help us meet our $14,000 fundraising goal and keep San Diego informed? NORTH PACIFIC BEACH " Hubert "Stutz" Sturtevant, a resident of Ivy…...
San Diego author highlights Nazi propaganda ‘show camp’ in latest novel
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (750+ words) SAN DIEGO " Jennifer Coburn will discuss her historical fiction novel, "The Girls of the Glimmer Factory," set in the Nazi's Theresienstadt "show camp" during WWII, at La Jolla Riford Library on Aug. 12. Based on the real story of the Theresienstadt…...
Art Madrid, longtime La Mesa mayor and public servant, dead at 90
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (212+ words) Art Madrid, who served as mayor of La Mesa for 24 years and spent more than four decades in public service, has died at age 90, city officials announced Tuesday. Madrid was born in New Mexico and moved to La Mesa in…...
Reports: Disgraced former San Diego mayor Bob Filner dead at 82
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (275+ words) The former mayor of San Diego was taken down by multiple sexual harassment claims after less than a year on the job. Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, whose tenure as the first Democratic mayor in two decades ended in…...
Cruiser USS Cape St. George arrives in San Diego after extensive modernization
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (238+ words) One of three Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers being upgraded by the Navy has arrived in its new homeport of San Diego. The USS Cape St. George docked at Naval Base San Diego last Tuesday after a modernization program that began in…...
USS Scranton, Pacific Fleet's oldest fast-attack sub, gifted with storied game of Navy legend
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (352+ words) A San Diego-based submarine has received a unique Navy honor, with a history dating to World War II. The crew of the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Scranton (SSN 756) received the storied O'Kane cribbage board from USS Key West (SSN 722) as…...