The state Department of Public Health on Wednesday warned consumers with soy allergies not to eat several of Glendora Quiche Company’s quiches.

They include: The five-inch “America’s Finest Gourmet Quiche" Lorraine, Broccoli, Spinach and Green Spinach with a date code before Sept. 2.
 
The parent company, AYOA, Inc. of Los Angeles initiated a voluntary recall of the various types of quiche which are sold primarily at Gelson’s Markets across the state, but which are mostly located in Southern California. The recall was initiated after CDPH identified the labeling omission of the soy allergen during a routine inspection. No illnesses have been reported at this time.
 
The products are packaged in individual clear cellophane wrap. They are five inches in diameter, with a circular label, green and gold print.
 
People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to soy run the risk of a life-threatening allergic reaction that requires immediate medical attention should they consume these products.
 
Consumers who have experienced an allergic reaction after eating any of these products should contact their health care provider. Anyone observing the products being offered for sale is encouraged to call CDPH’s toll free complaint line at (800) 495-3232.
 

The White House says President Barack Obama will attend a memorial service on Sunday for the victims of the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard.

White House spokesman Jay Carney says Obama wants to mourn the loss of the victims in Monday's massacre and share in the nation's pain in the aftermath of another mass shooting.

Details about where and when the memorial will take place have not been announced.

A dozen people were killed in the shooting. The shooter, Aaron Alexis, was also killed.

An exasperated Judge Robert Gettleman ordered veteran pitchman Kevin Trudeau jailed Wednesday after a court-appointed receiver said the infomercial king was being elusive in disclosing his assets.

"I regret now not granting the order to incarcerate him earlier," Judge Robert Gettleman told the assembled lawyers, making clear that his patience had run out.

Attorneys for the Federal Trade Commission noted the report of a court-appointed receiver, who said Trudeau had failed to disclose thousands of dollars in an Australian bank account which he continued to draw down for lavish purchases of food, alcohol, cigars, even haircuts. The judge made clear that he was not amused.

"Mr. Trudeau, this is not an infomercial," Gettleman said. "You can’t talk your way out of this one."

Not that he didn’t try. Dressed in an electric blue sportcoat and pink shirt with an open collar, Trudeau strode from the counsel table to the lectern and personally pleaded for his freedom.

"I thought I was following this order," the accused flimflam man insisted. "I had no cash. I needed money for food."

"I want to comply one hundred percent," Trudeau told the judge. "There are not millions hidden in bank accounts, and I really want to help."

But the government lawyers countered that spending more than $500 for cigars and $900 on liquor, when Trudeau had been ordered not to make such purchases, hardly qualified as reasonable household expenses. The judge agreed.

"After my order prohibiting those types of expenses!" he thundered. "He continued to violate those orders!"

The judge ordered Trudeau to meet in the federal lockup with receiver Kenton Johnson in an effort to untangle his complicated global finances. He scheduled another hearing for Thursday.

For decades the celebrated pitchman offered fans everything from memory courses to get-rich-quick schemes to calcium tablets. His products offered for cures for maladies that ranged from cancer to multiple sclerosis.

Filings from the receiver on Tuesday indicated the veteran pitchman had hidden thousands in the Australian bank account and had actually spent much more than lawyers alluded to in court. The filing said Trudeau had shelled out nearly $900 on one trip to a Westmont liquor store, more than $920 at a west suburban cigar store, $1057 in meats from an online butcher, and $359 on haircuts at a Vidal Sassoon salon.

Cited with contempt, Trudeau faces a judgment of over $37 million.

In the race for San Diego mayor, 39 potential candidates have filed paperwork with the City Clerk’s office signaling a desire to campaign for the office.

Former Assemblymember Lori Saldaña will not be among those running.

On Wednesday, Saldaña announced she is throwing her support behind mayoral candidate City Councilmember David Alvarez.

“David Alvarez is running for mayor. I am not,” Saldaña said. “And I support him wholeheartedly in his efforts to efforts to become the next mayor of San Diego.”

Saldaña said she and Alvarez share a similar history.

They grew up in San Diego County, attended public school, graduated from San Diego State University and in their first campaigns faced opposition that later turned into support.

“She in her first campaign, just like me, worked really hard to ensure people knew who the real candidate was that supported communities,” Alvarez said.

“I’m proud to have her support,” he said.

The number of candidates has surpassed the record set in 1983.

Voters will go to the polls November 19 to select a replacement for former mayor Bob Filner who resigned amidst sexual harassment allegations.

The deadline to file for the race is Friday.

The Washington Navy Yard will reopen and resume normal operations at 6 a.m. Thursday, commanding officer Capt. Monte Ulmer said Wednesday.

The Sixth Street gate will be closed, but employees should expect to be able to enter through the Ninth Street and O Street gates, Ulmer said. Security forces continue to operate as normal. The Ninth Street gate will be open 24 hours, and O Street will be open from 5:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Riverwalk turnstiles will remain closed, and all other gates are secured for law enforcement activities.

Garage 28 may be partially restricted but all other parking garages and lots will be open

Building 197 remains a crime scene and will be closed. The temporary fitness center in Building 73 will continue to serve as an operations center.

As for services at Navy Yard, all food service, Navy Exchance and Navy Federal Credit Union have authorization to reopen, but employees may want to bring their own meals.

Only mission essential personnel have been required to show up for work at Navy Yard Tuesday and Wednesday following Monday morning’s mass shooting that killed 12 and wounded eight.

Employees were allowed to retrieve their vehicles and belongings left behind.

Contractor Steve Leo told News4 Washington’s Tony Tull he’s concerned about what the future will be like at Navy Yard.

“I just want to see what’s going to be the process in the future to get on base … so that I can get my other guys on base to work, too,” he said.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered two reviews of military security and employee screening programs, the Associated Press reported.

Naval District Washington set up an Emergency Family Assistance Center at Navy Yard to assist families and individuals with disaster relief assistance and support, the latest information from leadership, and contingency services. It’s located at the Navy Installations Command headquarters on the fifth floor of Building 111.

It’s the second EFAC established since Monday’s tragedy. The other is in Building 72 at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling.

Navy counselors, federal social workers, Navy chaplains and Navy Medical Special Psychiatric Rapid Intervention Team members can provide short-term mental health and emotional support.

The Navy created a family support center to assist personnel or family members affected by the shootings. Call 1-855-677-1755. Family members also can log into NAVY Accountability and Assessment System to muster and fill out a needs assessment and a fleet and family support center emergency case manager will call and offer assistance.

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In a resignation letter to former mayor Bob Filner, Donna Frye raised questions about Filner’s conduct with women other than his fiancée.

Frye, who was one of a trio of longtime Filner supporters who first demanded he resign, sent the letter to the mayor's top aide Vince Hall.

The text of the letter was published Wednesday in San Diego City Beat.

In it, Frye says she can't work in an open government position under constraints put on her by the administration.

But the bigger revelation now is a second reason for leaving, and again this is April before any of his problems had been reported.

Frye said she raised concerns to Hall about rumors the mayor may be involved with women other than his fiancée, Bronwyn Ingram.

She says in the letter that she was troubled by Hall's response to the allegations, "to immediately fire any staff if they are raising such concerns.”

In July, the former City Councilmember appeared with attorneys Marco Gonzalez and Cory Briggs outlined the evidence they point to for calling for Filner's resignation.

On Monday, she was recognized as a "Woman of Courage" for her role in exposing the allegations that eventually led to Filner's resignation from office Aug. 30.

Prosecutors on Wednesday charged a gang member with the murder of 6-year-old Tiana Ricks, who was gunned down at a relative's home in Moreno Valley this month, authorities said.

Keandre Narkie Johnson, 21, was charged with murder, attempted murder and participation in a criminal street gang, according to a Riverside County District Attorney's office statement. The charges also carry special-circumstance allegations, which would lengthen his sentence if he is found guilty.

Riverside County sheriff's deputies arrested Johnson in Hemet about 4 p.m. Monday. Numerous tips came in after the shooting, leading detectives to Johnson, according to the statement.

On Sept. 7, Tiana Ricks was with her father, Tyrell Ricks, at a family celebration for a cousin who was going away to college. They went into their relative's open garage, where people were gathered, when two men stormed up the driveway and opened fire into the crowd.

Tyrell Ricks, 26, took a bullet to the pelvis. Tiana was fatally wounded.

The shooting was especially mysterious for the 26-year-old father who recently moved to California from the Midwest. Tyrell Ricks said he had no gang ties, and didn't know anyone outside of his family in Moreno Valley.

The young girl's fatal shooting shocked the region and prompted people on social giving websites, and rappers Snoop Lion and The Game, to donate money to her family to cover funeral costs.

The Game, whose name is Jayceon Terrell Taylor, said he read about the girl's death while in Australia and immediately felt moved to help.

"This very sad story hit me in a place nothing ever has," he wrote on Instagram.

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The mother of the gunman who killed 12 people and injured eight others at the Washington Navy Yard said at her Brooklyn home Wednesday that she was heartbroken and doesn't know why he did what he did.

Cathleen Alexis read a short statement saying her son's actions "have had a profound and everlasting affect on the families of the victims."

"I don't know why he did what he did and I'll never be able to ask him why," she said. "Aaron is now in a place where he can no longer do harm to anyone, and for that I am glad."

Alexis said she was "so, so very sorry that this has happened."

"My heart is broken," she added.

Her 34-year-old son, who was shot dead by law enforcement after he burst into the Navy Yard complex and began picking off victims, was born in Queens and enlisted in the Navy in New York City in 2007, according to records.

His mother, his 32-year-old sister and his brother-in-law now live in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the brother-in-law said. Another sister, in her late 20s, lives elsewhere.

Alexis was working in IT for a defense-related computer company, and had access to the building through that arrangement.

Two days after the shooting, Alexis' motive remains a mystery. U.S. law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that investigators had found no manifesto or other writings suggesting a political or religious motivation.

There were indications that he may have had emotional or mental issues. A Rhode Island police report from last month said he told police he could hear people talking to him through the walls, floor and ceiling of his motel rooms, and believed people were keeping him awake by sending vibrations into his body.

After the shooting Monday, information emerged that he had previously told family and friends about being traumatized by 9/11. On Tuesday, a spokesman for the Borough of Manhattan Community College, six blocks from ground zero, confirmed that he had worked there as a clerical assistant from February 2001 to February 2003.

It was not clear if he was at work on 9/11, but the spokesman said it was possible.

Alexis' father had told police in Seattle after an arrest there in 2004 that his son was traumatized by 9/11, and claimed he had helped in rescue attempts.

"Those events had disturbed him," the father told Seattle police.

Investigators said there's no evidence Alexis participated in 9/11 rescue operations, law enforcement officials told NBC 4 New York on Tuesday.

A woman who knew him in Fort Worth, Texas, told NBC News Tuesday that he had mentioned seeing the buildings collapse that day and was upset about it.

Alexis lived in Flushing, Queens from at least 2000 to 2002, where he was last registered to vote, according to public records. In October 2000, Alexis applied for a shotgun permit, listing his address as 77th Road in Flushing.

The permit was canceled in 2003 because he failed to renew the permit. It's not clear whether Alexis actually bought a weapon.     

Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner gave staff members big raises the month he resigned from office, according to an email from Interim Mayor Todd Gloria.

The biggest salary increase was for the Council Liaison. That staffer's salary rose from $82,500 in July 2013 to $115,000 in August 2013, according to Gloria’s office. That’s a nearly 40-percent raise in just one month.

Salaries for two other positions increased $15,000 between July and August. The Director of Binational Affairs’ salary went from $70,000 to $85,000, and the Director of Appointments and Protocol’s pay went from $50,000 to $65,000.

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Community Outreach Representatives’ salaries increased from $30,000 to $35,000, according to the release.

As of Tuesday, the Director of Binational Affairs' salary returned to its July level. The Council Liaison was reduced to $95,000, and the Director of Appointments and Protocol was decreased to $60,000. Community Outreach Representatives maintained their raises, according to Gloria's email.

“I respect the right of each administration to determine the value of its staff members,” Gloria said via email. “In the past few weeks, I have restructured the staff of the Office of the Mayor to better accomplish the work of the City and to fit within the office budget. The team currently in place joins me in working tirelessly on behalf of San Diegans, and I appreciate their service.”

Filner resigned August 23 amidst a workplace harassment lawsuit and sexual harassment allegations.

Thousands of unemployed Californians are facing another problem: Late unemployment checks from the State of California.

The Employment Development Department rolled out a new payment system over Labor Day, which came with a glitch that is holding up the processing of claims. Officials said of 800,000 claims, 50,000 are delayed.

The claims have to be processed by hand to resolve the issue. The agency reports 15,000 claims have been handled and staff is working overtime to complete the rest.

Authorities have not said when the issue will be resolved completely but is asking for patience.

"We apologize for the inconvenience and hardship payment delays have caused for some of our customers," the Employment Development Department said in a statement. "Unfortunately, there is a transition period that always comes with any automation upgrade of this magnitude."

For more information, visit www.edd.ca.gov.

A U.S. Navy commander, an NCIS Special agent and a Singapore businessman have been charged in what prosecutors call a worldwide bribery scheme involving hundreds of millions of dollars in defense contracts.

The case involves a multinational company that supplies Navy ships with food, water and waste services when they dock at countries in Asia.

Leonard Francis, CEO of the Singapore-based Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd., was arrested in San Diego Monday and appeared in San Diego Federal Court Tuesday on charges in two separate bribery investigations.

Francis, 58, allegedly bribed U.S. Navy Commander Mike Misiewicz, 46, to redirect U.S. Navy vessels to ports his company would benefit from, according to court documents obtained by NBC 7 News. He then allegedly bribed NCIS Special Agent John Beliveau, 36, to gain confidential information in a fraud investigation, the documents say. All three have been charged with conspiring to commit bribery, which carries a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison.

Misiewicz was commander of USS Mustin from June 2010 to January 2011 when he was transferred to serve on USS Blue Ridge as Deputy Operations Officer. In the latter position, Misiewicz had influence over operations for ships in the Seventh Fleet or any ship traveling through the area.

Prosecutors allege that Misiewicz diverted U.S. Navy ships to ports in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia instead of docking at ports in Singapore and the Philippines, which would make less money for Francis and his company, which provides tugboats, security, provisions, trash removal, refueling and other services for vessels.

Federal court documents state that between 2011 to 2012, Francis offered prostitutes and luxury travel for Misiewicz who he called “Little Brother” and his family members in exchange for diverting the ships, including the nuclear aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis.

Court documents show the travel included several trips to Cambodia in 2011 and 2012, luxury hotel accommodations and airline tickets for family members to attend a wedding in Cambodia in December 2011.

In early 2012, Misiewicz is accused of sending a confidential list of schedules for various Navy vessels to Francis on three separate occasions using a private Gmail account.

After several months of negotiating, the USS John C. Stennis visited one of the ports Francis requested in September 2012 costing the U.S. Navy $2.7 million - a figure that's well above the $1.36 million average offered by two other aircraft carrier ports, prosecutors said.

Francis is also accused of providing travel, hotel and plane tickets as well as prostitutes to Beliveau who appeared in Virginia court to face charges Tuesday.

Prosecutors say the gifts were in exchange for documents from 2011 to 2013, regarding a fraud investigation into Glenn Defense Marine Asia.

One of the trips allegedly included a three-week tour through five countries in Asia in December 2012.

Emails between the escort and Francis show he paid for three days’ time and airfare according to court documents.

The complaint alleges that in return, Beliveau helped Francis craft a response to an NCIS inquiry and even searched an internal computer database several times for details on the investigation.

Once he was transferred to Quantico, Beliveau emailed Francis, “I will always be your friend but you will get nothing else until I get what you promised,” documents show.

The complaint shows Beliveau went on to write, “I can be your best friend or your worst enemy… I am not an amateur.”

A man who escaped from a South Bay jail more than 24 years ago is being sought by San Diego homicide detectives in connection with a 1989 murder.

According to the San Diego Police Department Homicide Unit, suspect Antonio Morgan Orosco was allegedly involved in the shooting death of a man in San Ysidro on July 3, 1989.

Detectives say Orosco and an associate known only as “Tavo” shot the victim to death in the 200 block of Front Street.

Orosco was later arrested for his involvement in the homicide and booked into the South Bay Detention Facility.

While awaiting trial, detectives say Orosco managed to somehow escape from jail. He quickly fled the area and has been on the lam ever since, sought by officials for his involvement in the murder.

Detectives are asking anyone with information on Orosco’s whereabouts to call the SDPD Homicide Unit at (619) 531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477. Tipsters can remain anonymous and a $1,000 reward is being offered for information leading to Orosco’s arrest.

Detectives say Orosco is also known by the nickname “Lefty,” as well as the following aliases: Antonio Orosco Morgan; Sergio Martinez; Jesus Martinez; Sergio Juarez Rios; Gerardo Casillas Torres; Gerardo Torres Casillas; Jose Quintero; Jose Luis Quintro.

Investigators say he has used several different dates of birth ranging from June 1965 to April 1968. Orosco is described as 5-foot-8, 150 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He has two tattoos -- one that reads “Mexicano” on the back of his right arm and another on the back of his left arm that reads “Orgullo.”
 

After running unopposed for her second and third terms as District Attorney, Bonnie Dumanis now has a serious challenger for a fourth term.

On Wednesday that challenger – Bob Brewer – garnered endorsements from 10 major law enforcement unions representing thousands of Southern California peace officers..

"These endorsements today, ladies and gentlemen, significantly change the dynamics in this district attorney race,” Brewer told reporters at a late-morning news conference at San Diego police headquarters downtown. “Today is a game-changer."

Brewer has been in private law practice for three decades, after several years as a federal and state prosecutor.

He's targeting a return to the public sector at a time when Dumanis has lost the support of rank-and-file cops and sheriff’s deputies, who Brewer says view her as “too political".

Said Brian Marvel, president of the San Diego Police Officers Association: "We've been disappointed with Bonnie's communication with our communities. It seems we only hear form her when election day approaches. She has consistently placed politics above her responsibilities as D.A."

They cite her unsuccessful run for mayor in last year's city primary – a move they thought was ill-advised after they had told her in 2010 that she wouldn’t get their endorsement because of her political machinations.

They also fault her for endorsing Carl DeMaio and other politicians looking to get elected.

Brewer vows he'll never seek another office.

"I will never endorse any political candidate,” he said. “And I will not allow the office or myself to be involved in partisan politics."

Retorted Dumanis: “Our office has never been political. Our office does the right thing for the right reasons. That's our mantra."

In an interview Wednesday, Dumanis insisted she's fully engaged with the local law enforcement community, and enjoys the support of other public safety groups.

She said she ran for mayor because she thought in that office, her expertise would greatly enhance public safety: "I have always been passionate about public safety. And the mayor's office deals in public safety more than anything else, because that's the very foundation of government.”

Dumanis questions Brewer's prosecutorial expertise: "He doesn't know what this job is all about. I've been doing this for 11 years, and I know what the real issues are."

Said Brewer: “I will be surrounded by very professional people. I’m going to hire all the internal leadership from within the office. And leadership is something that doesn’t change. Leadership is very easily translated from the private sector to the public sector.”

San Diegans haven't seen a campaign debate among district attorney candidates since 2002 when Dumanis, then a judge in her eighth year on the bench, unseated two-term incumbent Paul Pfingst.

On Wednesday, both Dumanis and Brewer – a Silver Star and Bronze Star recipient for airborne combat service in Vietnam -- welcomed the idea of "rising to the dialectic" in this race.

The head of the union representing civilian police who help protect the Navy Yard says security there has gotten lax and cost people their lives Monday.

Two members of Navy Yard Civilian Police were present when 34-year-old Aaron Alexis shot a security officer, according to Anthony Meely, of FOP Navy Yard Civilian Police. He said members of his unit were the first to engage Alexis, but they could have done much more.

Meely said there should have been 11 officers on duty Monday morning, but there were only six. He believes the lives of that security officer and others would have been saved if they were properly staffed.

A Navy spokesman said the Navy family is focusing on healing and transition and will address security questions at another time.

Twelve people were killed in the shootings and eight others wounded. Police shot and killed Alexis.

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A property manager was shot when he and sheriff's deputies attempted to deliver a foreclosure notice at a home in unincorporated San Ramon, Calif., Wednesday afternoon, prompting an armed standoff between the shooter and law enforcement officers.

Deputies were assisting with a foreclosure eviction when the property manager was shot through the front door by someone inside the home in the 3400 block of Ashbourne Circle, sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee said.

The standoff with the suspect surrendering to police just before 6 p.m. SWAT members sent gas inside the home to force the suspect out.

The suspect was treated for gas exposure at the scene and then transported to a local hospital. He will then be booked in jail, police said.

Residents in the vicinity of the shooting at the house inside Norris Canyon Estates, a gated community, were told to shelter-in-place by the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office.

The shooting was reported just before 2 p.m., Lee said.

According to police, upon arriving at the home, deputies knocked on the door, but no one answered. A property manager that was with the deputies was then asked to remove the door handle. While he was doing that, according to Lee, someone shot him in the leg.

Deputies did not return fire, Lee said.

About an hour after the shooting started, an automated phone message was sent out from the county's community warning system advising residents on parts of Ashbourne Circle to lock all doors and windows and to stay off of the phone unless they need to call law enforcement agencies.

The shelter-in-place order was due to the police activity in the area, according to the automated message.

"They came and they evacuated us from the house, because we were right across from the house where it was happening," Norris Canyon Estates resident Monica Corbett said. "It's crazy, especially behind a gated-in area."

Houses in the Norris Canyon Estates typically range in value between $1.5 and $1.8 million, according to public records. The five-bedroom, 5,034-square-foot house involved in the standoff was sold in 2004 for $1.3 million, records show. It foreclosed to the lender in September 2010.

The sheriff's office initially reported that the incident was an officer-involved shooting with a locksmith getting shot, but later clarified that only the property manager was hit by gunfire.

 The Bay City News contributed to this report.

San Diego Bay is one of San Diego’s most popular places and may also be one of the dirtiest – but not for long.

On Wednesday, the Port of San Diego announced that it has reached a tentative agreement with General Dynamics NASSCO to mobilize the largest-ever cleanup of San Diego Bay.

It’s set to be the most extensive cleanup job in the history of the bay, and experts say the effort is much-needed.

Although the bay is known as one of San Diego’s signature views, just below the surface lurks a problem that has been building up for decades.

“We’re talking about years of accumulated debris,” Tanya Castaneda with the Port of San Diego told NBC 7.

Castaneda says that debris includes sediment filled with chemicals such as copper and mercury.

Those chemicals have been deposited by boat paint, cleaning solvents, run off and by San Diego shipyards for years upon years.

“So, over 100 years of industrial activity on the bay, you can imagine just the mix of toxins in there,” said Castaneda. “There are sediments that have an impact on marine life, and also on our ability to use the bay for recreation.”

“This is part of cleaning up our backyard,” she added.

The massive cleanup project that’s about to begin will involve a barge with a giant, clamshell-like took scooping 140,000-cubic yards of sediment from the bottom of the bay.

In other words, picture the average shovel. Now, multiply the shovel by about 21 million, at a cost of more than $2,000 per shovel-full.

“We’re hearing a $50 million, and different parties are each going to pay a share of it,” said Castaneda.

Those parties include the Port of San Diego and the NASSCO shipyard, among others.

But the Port says the bottom line here is not cost, rather the bottom of one of San Diego’s most important resources.

“The important thing is to get going on it. And even though it is a very complicated, expensive and environmentally-sensitive project, it needs to get done,” added Castaneda.

There is not set date yet on when the cleanup project will begin.

NASSCO is still finishing up agreements with some of the other parties that will help fund the project.

However, NBC 7 is told that equipment is already being moved and the cleanup should begin sometime soon.

The project is expected to take about three years to complete.
 

The Department of Justice has just awarded grants that will help create six new law enforcement positions in two cities within the Southern District of California.

According to the office of U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy, the U.S. Department of Justice has awarded grants totaling $925,235 to hire new law enforcement positions in San Diego’s Chula Vista area and in the city of Brawley, Calif., located in Imperial County.

Through the Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring Program, Chula Vista will be granted $500,000, while Brawley is set to receive $425,235.

The program offers grants to state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies to hire community policing officers, providing salaries and benefits for officer and deputy hires for three years. Since 1995, the program has awarded more than $14 billion across more than 13,000 agencies.

The 2013 Southern District grantees were selected based on fiscal needs, local crime rates and community policing plans.

Duffy said the grants will also provide resources to address public safety in Chula Vista and Brawley.
 

Common Core – it’s no longer good enough to know the answer. Students in California must know why the answer is right.

Parents have been told about the changes happening in the classrooms across the state.

In fact, many school districts have even held workshops to get parents ready for the changes to school curriculum.

However, now that Common Core curriculum is in the classrooms, it’s also part of the homework students are completing at the kitchen table.

Dan Winters, Principal of Camarena Elementary School in Chula Vista, Calif. said while the style of teaching may be upping the standards, it can also be foreign to parents.

For example, instead of memorizing the multiplication tables as so many students once did, students are asked to use an array or other tool to display the values as a way to solve the problem.

“Our teachers used to be really fine with us doing the algorithms now you have to explain it a lot more, different ways,” one student explains.

Math in particular can confuse adults because the students are learning the same answers but in different ways.

“Yeah, some parents are a little frustrated with that but we tell them just to relax and let your kid teach you,” Winters said.

The principal talked about the differences in homework with one of his students.

“So can your parents help you with those things that are not algorithms?” Winters asked.

“Sometimes,” the girl answered. “Sometimes they get it sometimes they don't.”

Winters said students know about Common Core, and why it's different. They not only need to show they know the correct answer, but they also need to show they understand why the answer is the correct one.

“That’s causing people to really work hard and think,” the principal said. “Which we think is a good thing.”

Winters suggested parents make sure their children are reading and talk with them about the books they are reading. Asking a child about character development can help the child show that they understand the material.

Different standardized testing will measure student progress. No longer will students be just filling in a bubble with a No. 2 pencil.

Chula Vista Elementary School District will have a Common Core math workshop for parents of students in grades K-2 Wednesday night.