1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (102+ words) Life often calls on us to be heroes, sometimes in small ways, sometimes in grand ways. A hero is a person admired for courage, nobility, exploits, qualities, or achievements and regarded as an ideal or model. America seems to be…...

10+ min ago  (152+ words) A man was arrested Saturday night on suspicion of murder after police responded to a report of an altercation and found a dead man outside of a home in Oceanside, police said. Police responded to a radio call about an…...

22+ min ago  (668+ words) The Rosin Box Project, a collective of ballet rebels who dance en pointe to the beat of different choreographers, is inviting audiences to experience a before-and-after production this week. "Incubator Lab" begins with open rehearsals on Tuesday and Wednesday so…...

23+ min ago  (827+ words) Miles Custer and Kevin O'Brien earned All-America honors this year for the Francis Parker boys volleyball team. Custer has received offers to play at the next level next year, and O'Brien arrived home this week after playing with the USA…...

4+ hour, 32+ min ago  (205+ words) San Diego Union-Tribune Re "The making of the city's budget crisis" (May 17): Another day, another article about the mismanagement of our city finances and our officials' feckless inability to solve the issue. When I was young, I was taught: Take…...

5+ hour, 27+ min ago  (320+ words) Designated hitter Nick Solak and first baseman Will Wagner both homered in Triple-A El Paso's7-5 loss to visiting Round Rock on Saturday. Solak's blast was his fourth. He went 2-for-3 with three RBIs in lifting his batting line to. 324/. 427/. 460. Wagner…...

5+ hour, 50+ min ago  (1515+ words) For four decades, the La Jolla Music Society's Summer Fest has brought a month of chamber music to local residents. But the path to making the festival what it is today wasn't straight and narrow. Summer Fest will celebrate its…...

7+ hour, 4+ min ago  (63+ words) San Diego Union-Tribune It might have been the most paradoxical game of baseball ever played. Probably not. Baseball has been around a long time, and such a thing is in the eye of the beholder. But what happened at Petco…...

7+ hour, 16+ min ago  (985+ words) A trio of sea lions frolicked in front of us as we snorkeled on the coast of the Galapagos Islands. A sea turtle glided by a few meters from us, unfazed by our presence. A school of orange and silver…...

7+ hour, 33+ min ago  (1404+ words) Plastic pellets are small in size, but a much bigger headache for the environment San Diego Union-Tribune In 10 minutes, volunteers collected nearly 700 nurdles at Rotary Park in Carlsbad earlier this month. Nurdles are tiny, pre-production plastic pellets about the size…...