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Associated Press journalists who witnessed Sept. 11 remember what they saw, 25 years later
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (982+ words) By JOSEPH FREDERICK, DAVID R. MARTIN and LEAH WILLINGHAM Holding her child, she went outside. Around her, people stared up at a gash in the north tower of the World Trade Center, smoke billowing from the building just blocks from her…...
This Pacific Beach woman and her nursery helped make San Diego green in the 1920s
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (485+ words) Kate Sessions was already a nationally recognized horticulturist by the time she established the Pacific Beach nursery that became closely associated with her later years. Sessions came to San Diego to teach at the Russ School. In 1885, she joined Solon…...
Fifty years after the city saved them, La Jolla’s Red Rest and Red Roost cottages face more challenges
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (130+ words) Times of San Diego Two of La Jolla’s oldest surviving buildings are once again fighting to survive, more than half a century after the City of San Diego first stepped in to preserve them. City of San Diego spokesman Peter…...
Climb 2,071 steps on Sept. 13 to honor 9/11 victims
1+ week, 4+ day ago (152+ words) SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) will be holding a 9/11 stair climb in conjunction with the Wounded Warriors Project. The 25 year remembrance of the terrorist attack that claimed nearly 3,000 lives will be held on the San…...
In one Nepal district, flood catastrophe is measured in bodies and burial trenches
1+ week, 6+ day ago (553+ words) In south-central Nepal’s Chitwan district, the scale of the catastrophe was evident in some 250 bodies awaiting identification and the hastily dug trenches for their temporary burial following Wednesday’s catastrophic floods and mudslides, which killed at least 800 people and left more…...
When is Labor Day? This year, as late as possible
2+ week, 5+ day ago (373+ words) (NEXSTAR) — Days are getting “shorter,” mornings are getting cooler, and kids are getting ready to go back to school, if they haven’t already. That can only mean that summer is coming to an end. It may, however, feel a little…...
Secret codes, KGB interrogations and sheet music: This CSU San Marcos professor’s new book is a true Cold War thriller
3+ week, 17+ hour ago (1004+ words) Back in 1985 in the Soviet Union, Merryl Goldberg was interrogated by the KGB three times, briefly kidnapped by the state security agency twice and put under house arrest once. She’ll tell you it was worth it. Today, Goldberg lives in…...
Families heartbroken after Tennessee cemetery bulldozed
3+ week, 3+ day ago (491+ words) HICKMAN COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – Multiple families in Hickman County, Tennessee, are devastated after learning someone bulldozed a 19th-century cemetery containing the remains of their loved ones and then discarded the headstones in the woods. The Old Primitive Baptist Cemetery, also…...
A ‘place for remembrance, reflection, and community gathering.’ Lakeside advances plans for Veterans Wall of Honor.
3+ week, 6+ day ago (494+ words) In the quiet East County community of Lakeside, a Wall of Honor is taking shape to recognize and honor residents who served in the military. The proposal was brought forward by Richard Abraham, a U.S. Navy veteran and longtime Lakeside resident…...
320 designated historic homes in Mission Hills
4+ week, 1+ day ago (1777+ words) But these are the observations of a passerby. I drive through Mission Hills often enough to feel like it holds no surprises, yet rarely have I slowed down to take a look at what makes the neighborhood one of the…...