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The City of San Diego removed a plaque honoring Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, from Horton Plaza Park in downtown San Diego on Wednesday, Aug. 16, joining other cities around the country removing statutes and monuments to prominent historic figures of the Civil War era. A petition, posted on Change.org, asked that the plaque be removed and was directed at San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, Councilman Chris Ward, and President of the California Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Scarlett Stahl. “San Diegans, especially our African American and other people of ...

CinemaBlend High School Musical? Kenny Ortega's TV movie was once simply a Romeo & Juliet retelling where two separate high schoolers with two different personalities fell in love through their mutual appreciation and talents for theater. It had a quiet release amid the channel's other programming in early 2006. But soon enough, it became the most commercially successful Disney Channel Original Movie ever, generating a whopping 7.7 million viewers and a very devoted fanbase. It wasn't long before a sequel was made, then one for theaters, and it elevated the careers of all its principal perfo...

Famous American architect O’Neil Ford, who grew up in Denton, admired Denton’s Courthouse on the Square. He once said: “I was in Denton the other day, and I went over to look at the courthouse again, and I still don’t know how they got that blessed thing up.” Little has been said about Tom Lovell, who built the courthouse. He was born in West Kilbride, Scotland, in 1852. Scottish census records show 18-year-old Tom working as a servant on a farm in 1900. Tom married Theresa Begley in County Armaugh, Ireland, in 1877. They had two sons, Ed and Tom Jr., while they lived...

  A man was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $200,000 in restitution last month for leaving a traffic crash while fleeing police that injured a St. Clair Shores woman. Mack Cox, 27, of St. Clair Shores, previously pleaded no contest in Macomb County Circuit Court to failing to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in serious impairment, a five-year felony; second-degree fleeing police, a 10-year felony; and resisting arrest, a two-year felony, according to court records. - Advertisement - A charge of theft of a financial transaction device in connecti...