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Saturday, Jan 6 San Diego shelled out $278,000 in overtime pay, supplies and services for city police tasked with patrolling the area where workers from six companies labored to build the prototypes for President Donald Trump's hoped-for border wall last fall. |
| The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate committee that oversees the Customs and Border Protection is raising concerns over a nearly $300 million contract the agency recently inked with a private company to help it hire thousands of new agents and officers. |
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| List of banned items includes guns, knives, ice picks, baseball bats, slingshots, bear spray, chains and hose lengths. |
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| Early results from a survey of Democrats show that support for labor leader Mickey Kasparian is mixed as he fights against allegations of sexual misconduct. |
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| Complaints of sexual harassment by San Diego city workers rose noticeably in 2017 from previous years, nearly quadrupling from the year before. |
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| The San Diego Chinese Historical Museum website has been taken over by a Chinese search engines that also provides a host of other web services such as transactions, research, video and artificial intelligence. |
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| The cross-complaint Ben Kalasho filed in August against two participants in his for-profit beauty pageant and a business owner who refused to allow a Kalasho campaign sign in his restaurant was dismissed. |
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| The unnamed vendor's contract did not require it to pay for the water, and it had been taking it from hydrants without using a meter for about 10 years at the direction of city staff, auditors found. |
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