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Print Twenty years ago the San Diego Spirit played its inaugural before 6,155 at sold-out Torero Stadium at the University of San Diego, a 2-0 loss to the Philadelphia Charge. The Women’s United Soccer Association, the women’s pro soccer league that included the San Diego Spirit, drew heavily on the allure of the members of the U.S. national team, including Shannon MacMillan, Julie Foudy and Joy Fawcett who played for the San Diego Spirit. The WUSA folded in 2003 after just three seasons, but its memories remain. From The San Diego Union-Tribune, Monday, April 23, 2001: INAUGURAL GAME - A...

Column: Timing will help San Diego move on from pension nightmare San Diego Union-Tribune (CA) San Diego finally may get a bit of a break in a decade-old pension scandal that continues to put pressure on city finances. The rare good news may be more the product of timing than anything anyone did. A settlement is in the offing that will put to rest the ill-fated 2012 Proposition B pension overhaul, and it might not take much of a financial bite out of the city coffers, if any. Not long ago, cost estimates of making whole thousands of workers who were denied pensions ranged from

BARNSTABLE — A 40-year-old Hyannis man charged with possession of explosives was found to be competent to stand trial during a dangerousness hearing Wednesday in Barnstable District Court. Dorian Firth pleaded not guilty during his arraignment Tuesday to one charge of secreting/throwing/launching/placing explosives and one charge of possession of explosives. Firth's lawyer said his client was using the explosives to make homemade fireworks, not a bomb. At about 6 a.m. Tuesday, Barnstable police officers responded to a residence at 119 Baxter Road for a report of a resident who had an exp...

  The parade was canceled for the first time since 1977 last year, a victim of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Parade officials said at the time that it was possible for the thousands paradegoers to keep the required 6 feet apart for social distancing during the more than two-hour march.    This year, with vaccinations against the novel coronavirus well underway, there is potential for the parade go forward, "despite nagging issues." However, any decision will depend on state and federal guidelines at the time.   "We have an energetic and upbeat committee, despite the many unknowns ...

Toni Atkins knows what it’s like to be cold, hungry and without running water. She knows what it’s like to have to finish homework before dark because there’s no electricity at home and what it’s like to go without health insurance and have to rely on free clinics. Most simply, Toni Atkins knows what it’s like to be poor, to be part of a family that worked incredibly hard yet was still held down by circumstances. She has never forgotten it, and whether it was working at a women’s health center or as a San Diego City Council member, or in the Assembly or state Senate, she has be...