An eye-opening week
 HOWARD LIPIN / Union-Tribune
Morse High School seniors Jefferson Santos (left) and Andrew Doolittle hung up a poster Monday calling attention to deaths caused by malaria in Africa as a part of the Week of Consciousness. Senior Jon Yturralde organized the effort. |
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Marine convicted of recruit abuse
Eight charges could add up to 9½ years
By Rick Rogers
STAFF WRITER
SAN DIEGO – A former drill instructor in San Diego was found guilty of assault and mistreatment yesterday in one of the nation's worst cases of recruit abuse to ever come to light.
Overcrowded pay-to-park meeting has early ending
Advisory board had been set to vote on contentious issue
By Chet Barfield
STAFF WRITER
LA JOLLA – San Diego firefighters put a premature end yesterday to a raucous advisory board meeting on paid street parking in La Jolla.
Sanders vetoes water-recycling project
Pilot program seen as too expensive
By Matthew T. Hall
STAFF WRITER
SAN DIEGO – Mayor Jerry Sanders angered environmentalists yesterday when he used his veto to try to derail a City Council vote to start a pilot program in San Diego that would turn wastewater into drinking water by purifying it.
Aguirre seeks more records from KPBS
Online: To read the letters City Attorney Michael Aguirre wrote to KPBS, go to uniontrib.com/more/aguirre-kpbs
By Alex Roth
STAFF WRITER
SAN DIEGO – San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre has expanded his investigation into the city's public-television station three months after the station canceled a public-affairs program that sometimes featured him as a guest.
Juror misconduct alleged in murder case
New trial is sought for wife convicted of killing Marine
By Dana Littlefield
STAFF WRITER
SAN DIEGO COURTS – A woman who served as a juror in the trial of Cynthia Sommer – convicted in the 2002 fatal poisoning of her Marine husband – testified yesterday that a panel member may have committed misconduct.
