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1 week ago | 
inewsource.org | Jake Kincaid |Greg Moran |Cody Dulaney |Steve Breen
Skip to content Posted inSan Diego County Each of San Diego Countyβs 10 largest school districts face financial trouble as declining student enrollment continues to impact budgets.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
inewsource.org | Jake Kincaid
Why this matters California will begin enforcing its daylighting law, affecting more than 16,000 intersections in the city of San Diego. Watch where you park on New Year’s Day. Starting Jan. 1, drivers across California can be ticketed for parking within 20 feet of any crosswalk — even if there is nothing to mark the no-parking zone or the crosswalk.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
timesofsandiego.com | Jake Kincaid
The day the 2024 election was called for Donald Trump, there was a palpable atmosphere of celebration at Awaken Church’s Kearny Mesa campus. Pastors at Awaken had been telling their congregations to pray — and vote — for Trump.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
inewsource.org | Jake Kincaid |Jennifer Bowman
Why this matters Protected by the First Amendment, independent expenditures allow organizations and individuals to bypass maximum contribution limits to support or oppose political candidates. Those making contributions are prohibited from coordinating with campaigns, but their money can significantly alter a candidate’s financial support and help shape races by bankrolling mailers, commercials and other ads.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
inewsource.org | Jake Kincaid |Jennifer Bowman
Why this matters The decades-long binational sewage crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border continues to threaten the health of millions of people. Raymond Johnson recalls the stench near his home was especially bad early this summer.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jake Kincaid
On 25 January at 10am, Jhoann Reyes carried his family’s belongings – several suitcases, a jumbo plastic checkered bag, three backpacks, and two baby strollers – from their room at the Stewart Hotel to the sidewalk. The New York City hotel-turned-emergency-migrant-shelter had been their home for a year. Originally from Venezuela, Reyes first moved to Ecuador fleeing political persecution. There he met his wife Katherine.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
wvxu.org | Matthew Richmond |Jake Kincaid |Cameron Oakes
Michael Buehner served 12 years of an 18-to-life prison sentence for murder before finding evidence that would support his innocence claim — evidence that Cuyahoga County prosecutors in Ohio withheld from him and his attorneys. He lost two appeals and was starting tolose hope when, one day, a friend visited him in prison, armed with a stack of police reports. “‘You still have hope,’” he remembers his friend telling him.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
npr.org | Gabriela Alcalde |Jake Kincaid |Patricia Martínez Sastre |Cameron Oakes |Nick Swartsell |Cheryl W. Thompson
Ernie Haynes stands next to a memorial for his daughter, Jennifer, at his home in Risingsun, Ohio. Following her drug overdose death in 2017, he was charged with abduction after trying to gain custody of his grandchildren. The action sparked a five-year legal battle to clear his name. Dustin Franz for NPR hide caption toggle caption Dustin Franz for NPR Ernie Haynes stands next to a memorial for his daughter, Jennifer, at his home in Risingsun, Ohio.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
wpr.org | Gabriela Alcalde |Jake Kincaid |Patricia Martínez Sastre |Cameron Oakes
Ernie Haynes never imagined that taking care of his three grandsons after his daughter's drug overdose death would turn him into a felon at the hands of a longtime Ohio prosecutor known to sidestep the rules intended to protect a defendant's rights in criminal trials. A week after his daughter died in December 2017, the court granted temporary custody of the children to their biological father, a man Haynes said also struggled with drug addiction.
