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City Worker Labor Talks Move Toward 5-Year Deal

After months of closed-door bargaining sessions, this week has brought significant progress toward hammering out a new, five-year labor agreement for San Diego city ...
Military families invited to holiday event

Active-duty military families are invited to celebrate Memorial Day weekend at Vail Lake in Temecula Saturday with water activities, food, camping, fireworks, and a performance by country music group Montgomery ...
Cemeteries plan Memorial Day services

At Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, 1800 Cabrillo Memorial Drive, a service will be held at 10 a.m. Monday. It will feature Navy Rear Adm. Dixon Smith, commander, Navy Region Southwest, as guest speaker. The program also includes music, recitation of the Gettysburg Address, and a 21-gun ...
Positive press picks up for San Diego with Mexico business ties

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner visited the economically-minded organization DEITAC's bi-monthly gathering in his first official visit to Tijuana as mayor in January. He was greeted by Tijuana's mayor Bustamante, and they both took questions on plans to better incorporate the shared border ...
Final ruling pending on corruption case transcripts

CHULA VISTA -; The judge handling the case of more than a dozen South County officials and contractors accused of corruption said on Friday that she will issue a final ruling Tuesday as to what redactions will be made before thousands of pages of grand jury transcripts are ...

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Gulliver's Travels

As a 3-D holiday star vehicle for Jack Black, Jonathan Swifts 18th-century satirical travelogue Gullivers Travels seems a supremely unlikely choice, but that was probably what drew Black to it in the first place. While the screenplay is credited to Joe Stillman (Shre ... ...

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Local NROTC students earn commissions

US Navy Ensign Matthew Early is sworn in during a commissioning ceremony for San Diego Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps on Friday at the Jenny Craig Pavilion at USD in San Diego, California. Forty seven NROTC midshipmen from 5 San Diego area colleges were commissioned in the ...
Todays MLB starting lineups May 24

Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...
Mexican Mafia Member Sentenced in Racketeering Conspiracy

United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that Mexican Mafia member Salvador Nicola Colabella was sentenced today by United States District Judge Anthony J. Battaglia to serve 262 months in federal prison based on his August 9, 2012 plea to RICO conspiracy charges, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1962(d). Colabella has been in custody since his arrest on January 25, ...
Non-native turtles cause problems for native San Diego turtles

San Diego County is home to only one native pond turtle species. This may be of no surprise due to the overall dry, desert climate of the area and the lack of permanent natural water sources. Most of the freshwater lakes in the area are man-made reservoirs around or near rivers that are dry much of the year. ...
Suspect Fatally Shot in SWAT Search

Officials said a search for a robbery suspect began around noon at multiple places throughout the neighborhood, including 7415 Gatewood Ln., 495 Meadowbrook, Woodbridge Way and Hightree Street. Officers looked for a car robbery suspect who they said was armed and ...

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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.

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The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.

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Venetian Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas

In the middle of the Strip, and opposite the Mirage and Treasure Island is the Venetian, adjacent to its sister ...

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Edible malarial vaccine can help protect against cholera

Biologists at UC San Diego demonstrated last May that algae can be engineered to produce a vaccine that blocks malaria transmission.

The same method may work as a vaccine against a wide variety of viral and bacterial infections.

In their most recent study, researchers fused a protein that elicits an antibody response in mice against the organism that causes malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, which afflicts 225 million people worldwide, with a protein produced by the bacterium responsible for cholera, Vibrio cholera, that binds to intestinal epithelial cells.

They then genetically engineered algae to produce this two-protein combination, or "fusion protein," freeze dried the algae and later fed the resulting green powder to mice.

The researchers hypothesized that together these proteins might be an effective oral vaccine candidate when delivered using algae.

The result - the mice developed Immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibodies to both the malarial parasite protein and to a toxin produced by the cholera bacteria.

Because IgA antibodies are produced in the gut and mucosal linings, they don't protect against the malarial parasites, which are injected directly into the bloodstream by mosquitoes. ...