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<p>Chula Vista politician John McCann used a legal defense fund to recoup legal fees he owed from a 2014 defamation lawsuit he filed – and he appears to have violated state and local election laws by using a legal defense fund to file a lawsuit, not defend one. </p>
<p>State and local elections laws restrict the use of legal defense funds to only pay fees and costs associated with prosecutions or lawsuits filed against candidates or elected officials. </p>
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<p>One of San Diego’s largest health care providers was brought to its knees by computer hackers that have disrupted emergency rooms, patient care, and even employee work schedules.</p>
<p>Scripps Health system was hit on May 1st by malware presumably unknowingly downloaded by someone within their computer network, most likely through an infected email, and shut down the hospital systems computer networks.</p>
<p style="font-size:10px">Pictured: Conrad Prebys<br>Credit: Conrad Prebys Foundation</p>
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<p>A New York-based private equity fund has agreed to buy 66 apartment complexes in San Diego for more than $1 billion, making the group one of the top three landlords in the region.</p>
<p>Blackstone Partners, which already owns the Hotel del Coronado and Legoland, also owns more than 900 other apartment units in the county, and employs more than 5,500 people in the region.</p>
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<p>29 people emerged from a small boat that crashed onto the coast near the Cabrillo National Monument in Point Loma on Sunday, killing four of the occupants in what is believed to be a smuggling operation.</p>
<p>The 40-foot cabin cruiser was first spotted at around 10:30am on Sunday, May 2, as it crashed on the coastline and began to break apart. Although there is no official count of how many people were on board, a total of 29 were recovered, including four dead.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The ownership makeup of the 101 Ash Street building before and after the City of San Diego entered into a 20-year lease-to-own agreement is now under renewed scrutiny.</span></p>
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<p>An employee of the local utility company was fired last year after a picture posted on social media showed him making a common hand sign that has more recently become associated with white supremacists, but there is no evidence he had any racist intentions or even knew what the hand sign meant at the time.</p>
<h6>Pictured: City Attorney Mara Elliott<br>
Photo credit: Adriana Heldiz / Voice of San Diego</h6>
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<p>A local taxpayer advocacy group won its case and nearly $90,000 in legal fees against the City of San Diego related to the City Attorney’s failed attempt to amend state laws to make it more difficult for the public and media to access public records.</p>