Eater San Diego shares the top stories of the week from our local food and drink scene, including a look at Pappalecco's new café and pizzeria in Kensington, plus Buona Forchetta's North County expansion and the scoop on a Travel Channel show’s trip to San Diego.

Pappalecco Adds Pizzeria to Kensington Location
The popular Italian café opened its fourth branch in Kensington this week. In addition to its house-made gelato, pastries and espresso drinks, Pappalecco has added a pizza oven to this outpost and is now baking 12-inch, "Tuscan-style" pies. The coffee house will next launch a Cardiff location.

Buona Forchetta Plans North County Expansion
The South Park community's beloved Italian eatery will be launching a second location in Liberty Station later this spring, but the restaurant has also announced that it intends to head to Encinitas, where it will open on North Coast Highway 101 in June.

'Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations' Films in San Diego
The Andrew Zimmern-hosted show from the Travel Channel, which seeks out "not-to-be-missed legendary foods" in different cities, recently filmed an episode in San Diego. Eater has the scoop on which local spots will be featured, including a favorite fish taco shop and a neighborhood farmer's market.

Preview Flour & Barley's New Space in The Headquarters
Gearing up for a mid-March opening is Flour & Barley, a Las Vegas concept that replaces Pizzeria Mozza in The Headquarters at Seaport complex. Get a sneak peek of the redesigned casual eatery and a preview of its menu, which features wood-fired New York-style pizzas and lots of craft beer.

French-Inspired Restaurant To Grand Open in Hillcrest
Park Boulevard's Heat Bar & Kitchen has new proprietors, who are adding classic and traditional French dishes to the restaurant's menu and renaming it Pardon My French Bar and Kitchen. When it reopens on March 12, the eatery will also have an upgraded, refreshing wine program featuring mostly French labels.

Editor's Note: The details in this story are graphic and may be disturbing to some readers.

A month after hazing allegations came to light at a Chester County, Pennsylvania, high school, the district attorney announced charges against three football players accused of sodomizing a younger teammate with a broomstick.

"This is a simple case about ignorance, violence and a shocking lack of supervision," said Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan.

Hogan announced the charges at a news conference Friday while discussing hazing allegations against football players at Conestoga High School in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. The boys were not identified since they are minors. Hogan said the investigation goes back three or four years.

"If you call this hazing or you call this assault, what we are really talking about here is bigger, stronger kids picking on smaller, weaker kids — this is just bullying and in Chester County. We won't stand for bullying," said Hogan.

Older boys are accused of putting their genitals on younger boys' heads, and on Oct. 15, three 17-year-olds allegedly forced a broomstick into the anus of a younger, smaller boy.

It happened after the younger player opted out of cleaning the locker room in his underwear, authorities said. When the boy tried to leave, an upperclassman told teammates, "stick a broom up his a--," according to Hogan.

Two boys — one weighing around 280 pounds — held the younger player down while a senior began poking him between his legs, said Hogan. Some of the players said the victim was a outcast who was unpopular among the players.

The incident occurred on what's known among students as "No Gay Thursday," when older players allegedly commit "gay" acts upon younger ones as part of a hazing tradition, according to Hogan. Although the case centers around the football team, Hogan said other student-athletes were either exposed to or involved in hazing incidents.

Students said coaches were unaware of the alleged sodomy, which came to light after the boy's father learned what had happened and contacted police last month. Coaches told investigators they had no knowledge of "No Gay Thursday."

Hogan held the coaches responsible for leaving the teens alone in the locker room.

"All this happened under the noses of the coaches because they were not there to supervise these students and let this happen by not paying attention," Hogan said.

The school, which has been cooperating with investigators, addressed the allegations in a news release Friday, promising to make its internal investigation a top priority.

"We feel strongly that all athletes must be able to participate in team activities in an environment free from hazing," said Tredyffrin/Easttown School District Superintendent Dr. Richard Gusick. "District policies and school rules have been in place to reinforce tolerance and respect. Each season, our Athletic Director emphasizes the expectations for conduct, including no tolerance for hazing, by meeting with all coaches and all teams. Traditionally our athletes have demonstrated high standards of sportsmanship and conduct on and off the field.

"In light of the information shared by the police about the football program, we will conduct a thorough school-based investigation. The process will be designed to determine whether or not code of conduct violations occurred, the awareness and level of supervision provided by the coaching staff, and what further measures can promote inclusive and respectful behavior," Gusick continued.

The latest allegations come only a few months after a middle school sexting scandal rocked the district. At least one student was charged with sending sexually explicit images earlier in the school year.

Pakistan’s top diplomat admitted the country supports some members of the Afghan Taliban and that it gives them shelter, NBC News reported.

Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan’s Advisor to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affaris, said Tuesday that Pakistan had “some influence” in convincing the militant group to the negotiating table “because their leadership is in Pakistan.”

He said: "I think people who have dealt with this issue recognize that Taliban in the best of times … did not listen to Pakistan always…and now we have some influence on them because their leadership is in Pakistan and they get some medical facilities, their families are here. So we can use those levers to pressurize them to say 'come to the table.'"

A spokesman for Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday he would not comment on Aziz’s statement.  

During Thursday's Republican debate, both Donald Trump's rivals and the debate moderators for Fox News clearly laid out a case based on facts that the billionaire's policies were unworkable; that he regularly shifted his positions; and that he had engaged in business practices he routinely denounces on the campaign trail.

Trump, in turn, bragged about the size of his penis and promised to force Americans to commit war crimes. Yet, he remains the favorite to win the Republican nomination.

There's not much more anyone can do, but wait for the voters to weigh in on Trump, who has so far thrived while being caught telling blatant lies and making bigoted and misogynist statements that would instantly destroy a different candidate.

It is possible the attacks will reach critical mass before March 15, when wins in Ohio and Florida would likely secure him the nomination, or maybe his fans will see his bullying and obscene retorts as an appealing sign of strength like they have to this point.

A three-day Spring Home and Garden Show will roll into Del Mar this weekend, full of inspiration for homeowners looking to spruce up their pads.

In its 31st year, the big show begins Friday at 11 a.m. and continues through Sunday in O'Brien Hall at the Del Mar Fairgrounds located at 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd.

One highlight of the show will be the garden master’s expo, in which 16 garden designs will compete for a prize.

Beyond the competition, over 320 home and garden improvement exhibits, products and ideas will be featured on the showroom floor, including seminars on planting, drought-tolerant gardens and affordable rain barrels, according to show director Mike Evans.

A growing trend in home and garden improvement is outdoor living spaces, including everything from outdoor fire places to outdoor kitchens, Evans explained.

Some homeowners are using materials in non-traditional ways as well. Evans has seen people use quartz and granite, traditionally indoor materials, for outdoor kitchens while introducing cement counter tops into their homes.

Reclaimed wood will likely be prominent at the show as well, according to Evans. As movements toward green, organic living continue to spread, more individuals are introducing reclaimed wood to their homes to add a practical and stylish charm.

For those looking to consult with professionals, personal appointments with an architect, interior designer or landscape designer are available. Appointments can be scheduled here.

Tickets are sold online for $7 and $9 cash at the door. However, there is a half-day door price for those that arrive after 3 p.m. Parking for the fairgrounds will be an additional $10 cash.

Daily show hours are as follows:

March 4 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
March 5 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
March 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

A 42-year-old man charged with kidnapping and raping his ex-girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter, with whom he had a child, was found guilty of lewd acts by an Orange County jury.

A mistrial was declared on a rape charge against Isidro Garcia, of Bell Gardens, who faced one felony count of forcible rape, three felony counts of lewd acts on a minor and one felony count of kidnapping to commit a sexual offense, according to the Orange County District Attorney's office. He was found not guilty on the kidnapping charge.

Jurors reached verdicts on some counts Thursday, but could not decide on other counts. The panel of three men and nine women was asked to return Friday, when the verdict was announced.

Sentencing is scheduled for April.

The woman who was allegedly abducted by Garcia and forced to marry and have a child with him testified during the trial that the abuse started within months of arriving from Mexico with her sisters. Now 26, she testified Garcia began sexually abusing her when she was just 15. She said he told her they would both be in trouble if she told her mother, who also testified against Garcia, and that he would call immigration authorities.

Prosecutors said Garcia kidnapped the teenager and changed both of their names using fake documents. They said he told the girl she could not leave him because she would be deported.

They lived in a Bell Gardens apartment, where they married and had a daughter who is now 3. A missing-person report was filed in 2004 — the year of the alleged kidnapping, according to prosecutors. Garcia allegedly forced the woman into marriage in 2007 and had a child with her in 2012.

He sexually assaulted the girl three different times and raped her once, prosecutors allege.

Neighbors said they never suspected there was anything wrong.

The woman was reunited with her mother in 2014. The alleged victim contacted her sister through Facebook on her birthday in April of that year, marking the first time her family had heard from her in years. A domestic dispute involving her and Garcia in Bell Gardens led to the suspect's arrest, police said.

Defense attorneys claimed the woman went willingly with Garcia, married him and had a child with him. They portrayed the woman as a rebellious teen who later plotted with her mother after their reunion to find a way to stay in the U.S. by claiming they had been abused by Garcia.

They contended the woman had multiple opportunities to escape over the course of a decade. Prosecutors said the woman was a mental captive, even if she wasn't physically held against her will.

The economy added 242,000 jobs in the month of February, higher than the 190,000 expected by economists. But the gains aren’t enough to propel wage growth forward, according to NBC News.

Hourly wages fell by three cents and dragged the annualized growth number from 2.5 to 2.2 percent. Productivity gains should lead to pay gains for workers, but labor economist Gary Burtless said that hasn’t happened so far.

"We certainly don't seem to have workers in strong enough bargaining positions so they can get bigger pay packages each year," said Gary Burtless, a labor economist at the Brookings Institution. "The big problem is that workers have seen their share of the output of American corporations decline."

Many of the jobs created in February were in the high- and middle-wage jobs like healthcare and construction, according to the Labor Department.
 

Maine State Police have made an arrest in the 1980 homicide of Joyce McLain in East Millinocket.

Philip Scott Fournier, 55, is charged with murder. He is on the registered sex offenders list for possession of child pornography.

McLain was 16 when she died. She disappeared while jogging on a summer night not far from Schneck High School. Her body was found a few days later. McLain had injuries to her neck and head.

Community members pooled their money in 2008 to have McLain's body exhumed in hopes of finding any shred of DNA evidence that could be linked to her killer.

Police conducted a new search in Nov. 2015.

Fournier will be arraigned Monday in Penobscot Superior Court.

In their affidavit, police say Fournier confessed to McLain's murder or made statements indicating he had knowledge about her death to several people.

Authorities are asking anyone with knowledge about this 36-year-old crime to contact them at 1-800-432-7381.

Hopefuls who dream of joining the Chargers Cheerleaders squad now have a chance to fine-tune their skills ahead of auditions at a couple of special workshops.

The pre-audition workshops will be held on Sunday, March 6 and again on March 13 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Jenny Craig Pavilion at the University of San Diego (USD). The sessions are meant to prepare dancers for the audition process as they vie for a spot on the Charger Girls team.

The workshops will include tips on how to apply for the squad, a style guide and training for the interview process of becoming a Chargers girl. Dancers will also learn unique choreography at the workshops, similar to the moves performed by the official dance team.

Women who attend the workshop will get a chance to speak with current Charger Girls team members, program partners and take part in a Q&A session with the team director Lisa Simmons.
Judges ask dancers to wear a two-piece outfit with flesh colored nylons, and jazz, dance or athletic shoes. Registration for the workshops fills up on a first come, first serve basis. The workshops cost $45 per person, per session.

Open auditions for the Charger Girls begin April 2, also at USD's Jenny Craig Pavilion. Registration and check-in starts promptly at 9 a.m., followed by a preliminary dance audition at 10 a.m.

Over 400 hopefuls from across the country and overseas are expected to show up and enthusiastically dance their hearts out at the open auditions.

There are 28 coveted spots on the squad.

An additional round of interviews for the finalists is set for April 6, and then the final round of auditions on April 7.

Dancers are required to fill out an application online and provide their head shot or a full body shot, and $20 for the registration fee. Candidates must be 18 and older to be considered.

Judges are seeking the brightest, most talented dance stars with crowd appeal and showmanship to fill the team. Those who make the cut must be available for twice-weekly rehearsals, games and public appearances prior to and during the NFL season.

With an eye on the general election — and suddenly "flexible" on immigration — Donald Trump has backed off from some of the hardline rhetoric that has fueled his presidential campaign, at least for the moment.

"Believe it or not, I'm a unifier," Trump offered during a raucous rally Friday in suburban Detroit. "We are going to unify our country."

Republican adversary Ted Cruz wasn't having it. "Donald is telling us he will betray us on everything he's campaigned on," he said as he campaigned in Maine, one of five states voting in weekend primaries and caucuses.

Trump's apparent outbreak of moderation on several fronts, including the most inflammatory one, immigration, comes largely after a dominant Super Tuesday performance that extended his reach for the Republican nomination and as GOP establishment figures stepped up to assail him.

In the rollicking Republican debate Thursday night, Trump retreated from a position paper on his website, saying he had swung in favor of more temporary H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers. His stance against that had been one of the few specific policies he had laid out.

"I'm changing, I'm changing," he said. "We need highly skilled people in this country." Hours later, his campaign released a statement backing away from the new position, deepening the sense that Trump's agenda may be less strategic than improvisational.

More broadly, he spoke of the virtues of compromise.

"In terms of immigration — and almost anything else — there always has to be some, you know, tug and pull and deal," Trump added. "You have to be able to have some flexibility, some negotiation."

Cruz and others lashed out at Trump's sudden embrace of flexibility on the central issue of his campaign.

"Flexible is Washington code word that he's going to stick it to the people," Cruz said Friday.

Mitt Romney, the GOP's 2012 presidential nominee, followed up a lacerating speech against Trump by declaring Friday he would not vote for the billionaire if he became the standard-bearer in the fall. Even Trump's 2016 rivals, some of them mercilessly denigrated by him, said they'd support the GOP nominee even if it's him.

Romney told NBC's "Today" show he would "do everything within the normal political bounds to make sure we don't nominate Donald Trump."

Also this week, Republican foreign-policy luminaries from diverse flanks of the party wrote an open letter opposing Trump's candidacy, for his "hateful, anti-Muslim rhetoric," his "embrace of the expansive use of torture" and more.

Trump is showing new sensitivity on these matters.

He said Friday he understands the U.S. is "bound by laws and treaties" and he will not order U.S. military officials to violate or disobey those laws if elected president. His statement attenuated earlier comments that he would revive waterboarding in interrogations — which is now illegal — and "a lot worse," and that he would target the wives and children of suspected extremists.

This was a switch of sorts from the debate the night before.

"These animals over in the Middle East, that chop off heads, sitting around talking and seeing that we're having a hard problem with waterboarding?" he offered in the debate. "We should go for waterboarding and we should go tougher than waterboarding."

Despite the softened tone on some issues, though, Trump is still Trump.

He canceled an appearance at the American Conservative Union's Conservative Political Action Conference, often a can't-miss event for candidates catering to the right. His decision to skip it "sends a clear message to conservatives," the unhappy group tweeted.

And Trump showed no mercy for his critics when he spoke at the Detroit-area rally.

He repeatedly called Marco Rubio, "Little Marco," Cruz, "Lying Ted," and introduced a new pet name for Romney: "Stupid Mitt."

"He is a stupid person," the 2016 Republican front-runner said of the party's 2012 nominee. 

The U.S. Supreme Court Friday put a hold on Louisiana’s abortion clinic law, NBC News reported.

Doctors and clinics said the 2014 law, which required doctors to be affiliated with nearby hospitals, would force clinics to stop the procedures.

Justice Clarence Thomas would have allowed the Louisiana law to continue in effect while a legal challenge moves through the courts, the brief order said.

The court’s action could suggest a similar provision in Texas is also in trouble. A statement by the court Friday said the order should not be read to suggest how the Texas case will be decided.  

Developer and owner T2 Hospitality plans a summer opening for a new dual-branded Hilton hotel campus near Little Italy, nearing completion on the site that formerly housed Tops Nightclub and later the popular Fat City restaurant.

A statement from Newport Beach-based T2 said the campus at 2137 Pacific Highway includes a 204-room Hilton Garden Inn and 160-room Homewood Suites. The attached hotels will be serviced by a shared front desk, two open-air courtyards and other common areas.

There will also be a 24-hour Pantry Market, a business center, fitness center, rooftop pool, and 2,300 square feet of flexible meeting space to accommodate up to 300 people. The property’s general manager is Mark Ziomek.

Hotel operators also plan to partner with the Little Italy Association to create a Tom Fat Memorial Plaza, honoring the businessman and second-generation restaurateur who operated local venues including the Fat City steakhouse for several years.

The site in more recent years housed the China Camp restaurant and a Denny’s. The new hotel’s design retains some art-deco elements, harking back to the days when Tops Nightclub operated at that location starting in the 1940s.

T2 Hospitality, which owns and operates several hotels in the local market, is not disclosing the exact development cost for the new Hilton campus.

A Utah senator said Friday that federal money in Flint, Michigan, is not needed, after putting a bill on hold to provide federal aid to the city, NBC News reported.

"The state of Michigan has an enormous budget surplus this year and a large rainy-day fund, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars," Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican, said in a statement Friday. He accused lawmakers of “political grandstanding.”

The $220 million bill would provide funds to help Flint and other cities fix and replace lead pipes, and prevent and address lead poisoning. Lee’s “hold” only stops the speedy consideration of the bill, and can be bypassed procedurally.

Nearly 1000,000 residents of the city were exposed to lead poisoning when the city switched water sources in a bid to save money.
 

None of the students involved in a big fight at Lincoln High School last week will be expelled, school officials decided on Friday.

Meanwhile, the San Diego Unified School District has requested an independent investigation into the actions of school police officer injured in the fight.

The decision about the students came as school officials met with church leaders and community members to address how to move forward after the school melee last Friday.

A fight broke out between two male students at the school on Imperial Avenue during a lunch break and ended up in a parking garage. No weapons were involved.

A student’s cellphone video shows a 16-year-old student on the ground in the parking garage after being stunned with a Taser by a school police officer. The officer was taken to the hospital with serious injuries as well as five students who were pepper sprayed.

School officials said Friday they were still sorting out what exactly happened during the fight. But, they said, the students involved will be able to continue attending school, will undergo counseling and have one-on-one assistance to ensure they’re on track for college.

“Restorative justice has to do with repairing the harm,” said School Superintendent Cindy Marten. “Who did you hurt? Why did you hurt them? You hurt your community. You hurt yourself. We have to determine in an individual circle what harm has been caused.”

Reverend Shane Harris of the National Action Network echoed that sentiment.

“Whether the kids were right or wrong, the fact is they deserve a second chance,” he said. “They deserve a second opportunity.”

As the board moves forward from the fight, board member Sharon Whitehurst said every part of the incident is being looked at by officials.

The Zika virus may be linked to a wider variety of "grave outcomes" for developing babies than previously reported — threats that can come at any stage of pregnancy, researchers reported Friday.

The findings are preliminary results from the first study tracking pregnant women in Brazil from the time they were infected, and do not prove that Zika is to blame. But they come as separate laboratory research released Friday strengthens the case that Zika causes a serious birth defect called microcephaly — babies born with abnormally small heads — by targeting embryonic brain cells.

"It's much more than microcephaly," said Dr. Karin Nielsen of the University of California, Los Angeles, who led the pregnancy study with colleagues at the Fiocruz Institute in Brazil. "It seems like it can act on multiple fronts."

The mosquito-borne virus, which is spreading in Latin America and the Caribbean, normally causes only mild symptoms, if any, in adults. But it raised alarm when Brazilian health officials reported an apparent surge in babies born with microcephaly, which can signal their brains didn't develop properly. Reports have documented traces of the virus in the brains of affected babies who died soon after birth, and in fetal brain tissue after abortion.

The study from Brazil, reported Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine, took a closer look during pregnancy.

The study so far is tracking 88 otherwise healthy pregnant women who sought care for Zika-like symptoms at a clinic run by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janiero between September and last month. Tests showed 72 were actively infected with the virus. Forty-two of the infected women, and all of the presumably non-infected ones, agreed to fetal ultrasound exams. Those ultrasounds found abnormalities in 12 of the infected women, or 29 percent. The non-infected women all had normal ultrasounds.

The exams did uncover some abnormal brain development. But they also detected two fetuses that died in utero during the last trimester; poor growth even without microcephaly; problems with the placenta; and one case that prompted an emergency C-section because of low amniotic fluid, Nielsen said.

Six live births have occurred so far. One baby has severe microcephaly. Two were born too small for gestational age, one of whom had lesions in the eyes that signal vision problems if not blindness. Two other babies had normal ultrasounds and indeed, appear healthy. The baby delivered by emergency C-section struggled initially but now also appears healthy, Nielsen said.

Importantly, the researchers linked problems to infections during each trimester of pregnancy, not just the first trimester that doctors have speculated would be the riskiest.

"Unfortunately, we still have many unanswered questions," said Dr. Christopher M. Zahn of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. But the new findings provide "additional evidence suggesting an association between Zika virus and negative obstetrical outcomes, including birth defects and fetal demise."

"We're starting to build the case epidemiologically that maternal infection with this virus is linked to poor fetal outcomes," added Dr. Sallie Permar, a specialist in maternal-fetal infections at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute.

In an unrelated study Friday, researchers found that Zika can infect embryonic cells that help form the brain, and harm them in two ways: killing some outright and damaging the ability of others to divide and grow in number.

Those cells, when healthy, help build the part of the brain that is affected in microcephaly, said Hengli Tang of Florida State University, a lead author of the work published by the journal Cell Stem Cell. But he stressed that his study does not prove that Zika causes microcephaly, nor that it works by that route. A number of other viruses are known to trigger the condition.

Researchers did not take the brain cells from embryos; they created them from stem cells obtained from other sources.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who did not participate in the research, agreed that the study doesn't prove a link. But "it certainly adds weight to the argument," he said.

Researchers also found that infected cells pump out more virus.

Dr. Guo-li Ming of Johns Hopkins University, another lead study author, said researchers can now explore questions like how Zika infects the cells.

Tang said he is collaborating with other labs to look for substances that will block Zika infection of cells, in hopes of eventually creating a treatment for pregnant women that reduces the risk of passing the infection to their babies.
 

A walking and hiking trail in San Diego’s East County has earned an award for its unique features and development.

The City of Santee announced Friday that the community will receive a Merit Award from the California Trails & Greenway Conference next month for the city’s 2015 development of the Walker Preserve Trail, located at 9500 Magnolia Ave. The award will be presented on April 7 during a ceremony at the Riverside Convention Center sponsored by the California Trails Conference Foundation and the State Department of Parks and Recreation.

The Merit Award recognizes a unique trail or greenway development or reconstruction project that has reached a significant milestone.

The 107-acre Walker Preserve property includes land on both sides of the San Diego River. It was purchased in 2012 for $2.14 million. Construction of the trail at the site required $2 million of local park funds. The project – from conception to completion – took about seven years and opened to the public last April.

The 14-foot-wide, 1.3-mile-long trail is open to bicyclists, walkers, hikers and joggers and features many amenities, including a bike repair station and drinking fountains for both pets and people. There are rest spots and overlooks along the trail as well, which include picnic tables and benches, as well as historical artifacts. Informative kiosks and signs line the path, too, so visitors can learn about the habitat. Drought-tolerant landscaping rounds out the trail.

“Anyone who has been to the Walker Preserve can see what a tremendous asset the trail is
to our city and the region,” said Paul Malone, Interim City Manager, in a press release Friday. “The trail serves to bring the community together to enjoy the outdoors and enhances the quality of life for all.”

In 2012, the City of Santee received another Merit Award, that time for the development of the Mast Park West Trail.
 

The Hubble Space Telescope just calculated the distance to the most far-out galaxy ever measured, providing scientists with a look deep into the history of the universe.

The far-away galaxy, named GN-z11, existed a mere 400 million years after the Big Bang, or about 13.3 billion years ago.

Because the light from such a distant galaxy must travel huge distances to reach Earth, scientists are seeing the galaxy as it looked over 13 billion years ago.

"We've taken a major step back in time, beyond what we'd ever expected to be able to do with Hubble," Pascal Oesch, an astronomer at Yale University and lead author of the research paper announcing the new measurement, said in a statement from the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre in Germany. 

Waterfront Park on Pacific Coast Highway will shut down this weekend for a two-day marathon music festival known as CRSSD.

The festival will play host to mostly underground electronic music artists, including Odesza, Chet Faker, Gordon City, Tycho, Loco Dice, Tale of Us, Hot Since 82, Jamie Jones, Claude VonStroke, Hi-Lo, Green Velvet and others.

This is the third time the concert has been on the bay. It will run from Noon to 11 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday.

Other EDM, dance, chillwave and house artists will be playing the festival. CRSSD focused on indie-rock artists last time.

Preparations for the show began Wednesday, with limited access to the park. Starting Saturday, the entire park, including the playground, will be closed to the public.

Tickets start under $10 and are available at Ticketfly for those 21 and over.

The festival is a collaboration between FNGRS CRSSD and Goldenvoice, two California concert promoters.
 

A San Diego woman was reunited with several precious pieces of jewelry this week, weeks after a young boy found the items in a South Park canyon in mid-February.

“I really felt sick to my stomach,” she told NBC 7 San Diego.

That feeling is long gone now that she knows her possessions have been found.

Andrew, a nurse at UC San Diego Medical Center, first saw the jewelry in a story NBC 7 San Diego posted on their website, showing a young boy had found the pieces and was searching for the owner. 

It was Thomas Hoffman, 13, who serendipitously found Andrew’s valuables: her grandmother’s antique white-and-gold diamond engagement ring, and a gift given to her by one of her patients. Many of the pieces stolen are valuable to her, she said.

“This is the heart that goes on the necklace Thomas found the day he was doing the story,” Andrew said, showing a missing piece of a necklace left behind.

When Hoffman found the jewelry, he turned it in to police.

“Number one I don't use jewelry...if someone stole something from me, I would want it back, too,” he said.

Andrews got the chance to meet Thomas and say thank you. The detective working on the case reunited the two.

Andrews said she’s overwhelmed with joy of finding the missing jewelry.

“I can't describe how much that meant to me,” she said.