Vista
VISTA: Parents rally to fight Olive-Washington merger
Trustees in Vista decided Thursday night to quash a proposal to combine Olive Elementary School and Washington Middle School after parents pleaded with them to leave Olive alone.
Nov 19, 2009 | 11:40 pm | Loading…
VISTA: Rave organizer pleads guilty to burglary
A 21-year-old man accused of throwing raves at upscale vacant homes around North County pleaded Thursday to burglary and will spend a year in county jail.
Nov 19, 2009 | 8:15 pm | Loading…
VISTA: Sonic still attracting a crowd
Nearly three weeks after the Sonic Drive-In opened in downtown Vista, customers who want to buy a Cherry Limeaid without at least a 30-minute wait should plan to visit before 11 a.m.
Nov 18, 2009 | 7:45 pm | Loading…
VISTA: Three boys arrested on arson, vandalism charges
VISTA ---- Three teenage boys were behind bars Wednesday for allegedly torching two city vehicles and part of an outbuilding and for scrawling racist graffiti at a municipal maintenance yard in Vista last summer, a sheriff's detective said.
Nov 18, 2009 | 7:05 pm | Loading…
VISTA: Widower of slain woman recounts struggle to cope
Stephen Neville wasn't home when a would-be burglar killed his 24-year-old wife. But he has imagined the brutal scene over and over in his head for four years.
Nov 17, 2009 | 9:20 pm | Loading…
VISTA: Parents upset about plan to merge two schools
More than 200 parents crowded into the cafeteria at Olive Elementary School on Monday evening to let Vista Unified School District officials know what they thought of plans to merge the school with Washington Middle School.
Nov 16, 2009 | 9:40 pm | Loading…
VISTA: Rancho Buena Vista grad, coach left his mark on team
Members of the boys water polo team at Rancho Buena Vista High School on Monday were mourning the death of a former player and volunteer coach.
Nov 16, 2009 | 7:10 pm | Loading…
VISTA: Crews working on buildings, bleachers at sports park
Construction on a new sports park in Vista is about halfway done, city officials said Monday.
Nov 16, 2009 | 7:20 pm | Loading…
VISTA: Friends recount life of slaying victim before killer sentenced
In the days before she was brutally slain after interrupting a robbery in her Vista home, Carolyn Neville was on a good path, her friends testified Monday.
Nov 16, 2009 | 8:35 pm | Loading…
VISTA: Maintenance workers file complaint against city
The Vista City Maintenance Association has filed a complaint against the city with the state's Public Employees Relations Board after a dispute over whether city maintenance workers can have a four day work week written into their contract.
Nov 15, 2009 | 6:00 pm | Loading…
VISTA: Skateboarder hit, killed by car
VISTA ---- A 24-year-old skateboarder died after he rode in front of an oncoming car early Sunday morning, authorities said.
Nov 15, 2009 | 7:20 pm | Loading…
VISTA: Woman loses license over unpaid ticket ---- issued in Illinois in 1982
Yasmen Abdallah-Fliers said she doesn't remember getting a speeding ticket in Illinois in 1982 for going 43 mph in a 35 mph zone. Nor does she remember failing to pay the $59 fine.
Nov 14, 2009 | 4:45 pm | Loading…
VISTA: A touch of art
Potter Renee Grady shows Pini Byma a piece of her work Saturday during the Arts & Crafts Expo at Gallery 204 in Vista. The Interfaith Community Services and Vista Art Foundation sponsored event benefited the Interfaith Community Services' senior outreach programs. Services program man…
Nov 14, 2009 | 8:00 pm | Loading…
VISTA: Jury convicts former Marine of murder, torture in 2005 slaying
A North County jury on Friday convicted a former Camp Pendleton Marine sergeant of murder and all other charges he faced in the gruesome 2005 stabbing death of a young mother who interrupted a burglary in her Vista home after dropping her son off at kindergarten.
Nov 13, 2009 | 9:00 pm | Loading…
VISTA: Officials say marijuana dispensaries were never allowed in city
Medical marijuana dispensaries that have located in Vista have done so despite an existing policy that prohibits them, city officials said.
Nov 12, 2009 | 10:00 pm | Loading…
