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Watchdog Week: Windows have 'crazing defect' at $550 million San Diego courthouse

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September 17, 2018

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Windows have 'crazing defect' at $550 million San Diego courthouse, will have to be replaced

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It cost more than $550 million and opened more than a year late. Now the new downtown San Diego courthouse is undergoing a window-replacement job less than nine months after its belated christening.

Five years after arrest, Navy bribery mastermind Leonard Francis testifies at deposition

Leonard Glenn Francis, who pleaded guilty in January 2015 and agreed to cooperate with investigators probing his bribery network, testified for the first time — in a deposition taken for a court martial case for Cmdr. David Morales, an active duty fighter pilot charged with conspiracy and bribery.

SDSU choral director drops defamation lawsuit against former graduate student alleging affair

Patrick Walders, the director of choral studies at San Diego State University, has dropped without prejudice a lawsuit against a former music student he claimed defamed him in connection with an alleged affair with a student.

Riverside County's top child protection official departs amid claims of botched abuse investigations

Susan von Zabern, director of the Department of Public Social Services, left county employment after two lawsuits alleged botched child abuse investigations.

Audit report: San Diego city faces growing backlog of broken water-meter cases

A growing backlog of broken water meter boxes and lids has plagued the San Diego Public Utilities Department — an agency still reeling from months of public outrage following spiking water bill throughout the city.

VA overpaid third-party providers by $100 million, Inspector General says

A report released by the Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General says the agency overpaid for medical care under third-party administrative programs, such as Veterans Choice, which allows veterans to seek care at medical facilities outside the VA.

Activists protest food quality, social-justice issues outside Kearny Mesa juvenile hall

The National Action Network picketed outside the juvenile hall in Kearny Mesa on Friday to protest the quality of food served to detained youth, and used the issue to condemn years of what they see as penny-pinching and malfeasance on the part of the San Diego Board of Supervisors.

U.S. House Ethics Committee creates investigative subcommittee to probe allegations against Rep. Duncan Hunter

Two weeks after he was indicted by federal prosecutors for allegedly misusing campaign funds, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, will face a new investigation — this one conducted by his colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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