Kelly Hessedal
@KellyNews8
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@cbs8 Emmy-award winning reporter, Mrs. 👰🏻@omariNBCSD, #boymom, @medillschool Alum
San Diego, CA
Joined September 2011
Thank you @KellyNews8 for doing a story about our “puppy explosion” at San Diego Humane Society on @CBS8. To learn more about our pets available for adoption, visit https://t.co/elaDGj1K1d. 🐾🐶💕
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Scoop: A prominent @SanDiegoCounty official alleges that County @SupNoraVargas & @SupLawsonRemer illegally obstructed his bid to become the county’s top bureaucrat.
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County executive Michael Vu, who was passed over for the county’s top unelected role, claims that County Supervisors Nora Vargas and Terra Lawson-Remer unlawfully stymied his pursuit of a promotion.
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Gov. Newsom passed a new executive order on homeless encampments. Here's what it means
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued an executive order directing state agencies “to move urgently to address dangerous” homeless encampments and clear them from state land while giving local...
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Facing mounting questions and persistent opposition, Gloria delays homeless shelter plan https://t.co/0PMrYsHuLp
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I hadn't heard of #Kratom before finding this lawsuit. Surprised this isn't already regulated in California. And for the few cities (San Diego) that do have ordinances, they are toothless. https://t.co/DRTO0B0U0t cc:@jayneCBS8 @KellyNews8
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California has no laws in place and has been slow to address a product that medical experts fear contains harmful, synthetic chemicals with little to no regulation.
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Excellent profile of the man who wants the city to lease his building for a homeless shelter that includes an analysis of why people think the city would be paying too much. By @LisaHalverstadt
voiceofsandiego.org
It all started with an email. Real estate investor and developer Douglas Hamm had been in escrow for about a year to buy a 65,000-square foot warehouse near the airport […]
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In both incidents, a shut-down Ruby’s restaurant was destroyed.
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A civil engineer who worked on reconstruction of Seal Beach pier offers insight.
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We knew it was bad. Here’s some of what @sdsheriff tried to keep secret about the last hours of Elisa Serna’s life
sandiegouniontribune.com
Thousands of pages of witness interviews, videos and other evidence were publicly released this past week after The San Diego Union-Tribune intervened in the young woman’s family’s laws…
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'I would peg it at 50-50.' City, developer may walk away from plan to convert 101 Ash St. tower into a residential building
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San Diego’s stormwater department lives in a special circle of hell: It can’t keep up on routine maintenance of its storm channels, so protected plants take root in them and can turn channels back into regulated wetlands. https://t.co/I8mA9C8bBd
@voiceofsandiego
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San Diego is caught in a vicious cycle: It is not keeping storm channels clean fast enough to prevent flooding or new wetlands from taking root.
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The City has an agreement with United Taxi Workers to provide transportation for residents under the evacuation warning to our temporary shelter. Residents in those areas can call (619) 280-4444 use the Ride United (Passenger) application.
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Pretty dramatic clean-out of Chollas Creek at Birch and Beta Street by the city of San Diego, where floodwaters overwhelmed a storm channel last week. More rain due Thursday. @voiceofsandiego
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The Union-Tribune is getting evicted from its downtown digs. A new complaint from the landlord says the paper hasn't paid rent since September and owes $220K.
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The owner of the 600 B Street high-rise says the paper has not paid rent since September 2023.
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$1.5M in federal relief grabbed up by Rancho Santa Fe homeowners — some of the wealthiest people on the planet — ordered returned only after a False Claims Act lawsuit
sandiegouniontribune.com
The Rancho Santa Fe Association, the nonprofit homeowners group that runs a historic golf course and other amenities in the exclusive covenant near Del Mar, has acknowledged it applied for and coll…
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Ignorant or complicit? @CMWhitburnD3 says his now-indicted former aide lied to him about having pot clients but they were all listed in public records he says he never reviewed
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With hundreds of thousands in unexplained debt and indictment of major fundraiser, rank-and-file Democrats demand outside investigation into @sandiegodems finances
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The indictments this month of political consultant Jesus Cardenas and his sister, Chula Vista Councilmember Andrea Cardenas, have pushed members of the San Diego County Democratic Party central com…
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Since June 2016, nearly 3,400 terminally ill people in San Diego ended their life through the state's medical aid in dying law. Our story on one family's journey and the moral debate over the law.
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Since 2016, nearly 4,000 terminally ill patients have opted for physician-assisted death.
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At odds over where low-income homes must be built, City Council rejects sweeping package of housing incentives
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The horse X Y Jet won a $1.5 million prize for a race in Dubai, and was given 50 injections of banned drugs, according to a trainer’s statements found in an indictment. The next year, the trainer said, the horse died from a heart attack. https://t.co/9q5jEQsYmi
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