December 1, 2011 (La Mesa)--The Windermere Realty Co in La Mesa is having a Holiday Bazaar on December 3 from 1-4. serving hot cider and cookies. There will also be locals crafts and other local vendors.

November 8, 2011 (La Mesa) – Most late-night visitors to Starbucks are picking up lattes or holiday beerages.  But two men at the Starbucks on Lake Murray Boulevard last night took cash at gunpoint, adding to a brewing string of robberies in La Mesa.

2 bodies found in burned  home of retired teacher/coach and ailing wife; 

Settlement just announced by CA Attorney General targets couple's lender for predatory lending practices--but relief is too late for Santee couple

By Miriam Raftery

January 3, 2011 (Santee) – Michael L. Cour, 60 and his wife, Janice Gervais, 70, faced a bleak future. The couple filed for bankruptcy June 30th. On December 6th, their lender, World Savings Bank, foreclosed on their property. A neighbor, Ruth Talaza, said Gervais had cancer and that the couple had tried multiple times to refinance, without success.

So Cour, who taught for 35 years in the Grossmont Union-High School District, told a neighbor that he was going to kill his wife and burn down their home on Clifford Heights Road, a quiet cul-de-sac in Santee.  Soon after, a man called 911 to say he’d shot his wife and set fire to the home. He also threatened to shoot anyone if they tried to stop the inferno.