Archive for "Dec 2009"

Courses Help Seniors Protect Selves, Wallets

Crimes against older adults are a sad reality. Just this month, three men in their 20s were arrested in Oceanside for apparently beating and kicking a 63-year-old woman outside her home after she asked them to quiet down. The horrific apparent kidnapping and beating of 76-year-old Natalie “Sandy” Herbst-Vinge from Mount Helix has been in the news again after she recently testified against her attackers.

County Debuts New Medical Examiner and Forensic Center

Not enough room for grieving families.  A cramped examination room. Temporary trailers to make up for the lack of space.  Staff at the County Medical Examiner’s office has labored in challenging quarters for decades.  Not anymore. Chairwoman Dianne Jacob and the Board of Supervisors today unveiled the new County Medical Examiner & Forensic Center in [...]

Mystery thriller “Postmortem” at Sunshine Brooks Theatre – Jan 29 to Feb 14 (Oside)

Downtown Oceanside’s New Vision Theatre Company presents a family-friendly mystery thriller “Postmortem”, a Sherlock Holmes type whodunit, from January 29 to February 14, 2010, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. (except Feb 7 on Super Bowl Sunday at 12:30 pm) at Sunshine Brooks Theatre, 217 N Coast Highway, Oceanside. Synopsis: [...]