Encinitas News Archives

It's the largest European tortoise, reaching a weight of up to 11 pounds. Zoo keeper Erika Diventi tells us all about the marginated tortoise.

Mysore has for long been the destination for students of Yoga. From many years, Mysore has produced and nurtured yoga gurus.

Where Cottonwood Creek flows into the ocean at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas, environmental specialists Mayela Padilla and Ewan Moffat take water samples from the ocean 25 yards south of where the creek flows.

Firehouse.com Editor Peter Matthews sat down with several truck company veterans to talk about their operations on the West Coast.

Two of the bachelors this season could be guys you'd bump into at the grocery store around San Diego.

Investigators are looking for one of two men who robbed an all-night Encinitas pharmacy, tied up the employee and then led deputies on a high-speed chase before crashing into a tree and running into the dark early Saturday.

They promised me perfect weather. Three years ago, I was in New York City, getting ready to move across the country, and everyone told me the weather out here was perfect, all the time: 72 degrees and sunny, day after perfect day.

The FBI, San Diego Sheriff's Department and the San Diego Police are asking for the public's help to find a serial bank robber dubbed the "Skater Bandit." The suspect is believed to have robbed the following banks, many of them in the North County, since April 18: - US Bank, 190 S. Rancho Santa Fe Rd., San Marcos, CA - Wells Fargo, 3820 Valley ...

Personal: Married three times, to Owen Moore ; Douglas Fairbanks ; and Charles Rogers Silent films include: "Tess of the Storm Country" , "Poor Little Rich Girl" , "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" , "Stella Maris" , "The Hoodlum" , "Rosita" , "Sparrows" , "My Best Girl" Talkie credits include: "Coquette" , "Taming of the Shrew" Film industry: ...

Mothers across San Diego County are being encouraged to take a night off and join others moms across the country for the National Moms' Nite Out on Thursday.

Ojai Unified School District Superintendent Tim Baird announced to staff members on Friday that he is resigning as of July 1. Baird, who has been superintendent in Ojai for eight years, said he accepted the superintendent position with Encinitas Union School District in San Diego County.

Oceanside-based community television station KOCT will present a monthlong series of programs honoring the late Robert Nanninga starting tomorrow.

You know what they say about a woman who shows up in a garden bearing fruit? But there are no serpents or burning bushes around, and a shoebox full of organic avocadoes straight out of Becky Cohen's garden seems a harmless - actually, a very sweet - gesture.