San Diego News

Mon, Feb 11, 2013

In the biggest showdown yet between San Diego's City Council and the “strong mayor,” the council Monday failed to overturn Mayor Bob Filner’s veto of two council-picked appointees to the Port of San Diego's board of port commissioners.


The Associated Builders and Contractors San Diego Apprenticeship Training Trust is now accepting applications for its scholarship program for qualifying high school seniors in San Diego County.


San Diego City Council President Todd Gloria isn't ready to give up on plans to renovate Balboa Park's Plaza de Panama just yet.


The most famous kiss in U.S. history is coming to San Diego.


General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) will unveil its latest unmanned aircraft at a major defense conference this month.


Facing stale cereal sales, Kashi Co. will uproot its longtime La Jolla headquarters and lay off dozens of local workers in the process.


Local developer Dean Welsh of Vertical Infill has affiliated with Harcourts USA to form Harcourts Prime Properties Carmel Valley.


San Diego's five American Inns of Court recently honored Judge William Enright with its inaugural lifetime achievement award for his efforts in bringing the American Inns of Court movement to San Diego.


BIOTECH

Carlsbad-based Life Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: LIFE) has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for two more diagnostic testing and analysis products.


The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command awarded Carlsbad’s ViaSat Inc. a $1.65 million follow-on contract to engineer an advanced information security system for smartphones.


BIOTECH | HEALTH | FINANCE

As one of Wall Street’s top biotech conferences gets under way in New York today, two key companies to watch will be San Diego’s Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Orexigen Therapeutics Inc., says biotech reporter Brett Chase, writing in the investment analysis website Minyanville.


Kratos Defense & Security announced its SAT Corporation subsidiary has received a multi-million dollar order from SES SA to upgrade hardware for five satID geolocation systems in use around the world, and Life Technologies Corp. announced it has received FDA clearance for its 3500 Dx Genetic Analyzers and SeCore HLA typing kits, according to company announcements, SEC filings and Bloomberg News.


The following "Local Notes" appeared in The Daily Transcript's Feb. 12, 1996 issue:
Chicago Title Co. has acquired Noble Escrow at 5050 Avenida Encinas in Carlsbad and 740 Lomas Santa Fe Drive in Solana Beach. This marks the eighth formerly independent escrow company Chicago Title as acquired since May 1995.


(AP) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and other government officials are hosting a birthday party for America's newest national park, a 26,000-acre expanse of volcanic rock and chaparral in Central California.



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Construction Works - 2013

This special report takes a closer look at some of the projects and trends in construction here in San Diego.
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SANTARUS INC
Cosmo, Technologies Ltd, B, Sold
No. of Shares: 4,887,500
Date Filed: 05/15/2013

SANTARUS INC
Herman, Michael E, D, Sold
No. of Shares: 25,000
Date Filed: 05/14/2013

KRATOS DEFENSE & SECURITY
Demarco, Eric M, CEO, Purchased
No. of Shares: 28,647
Date Filed: 05/14/2013

DIGIRAD CORP
Eberwein, Jeffrey E, D, Purchased
No. of Shares: 30,000
Date Filed: 05/07/2013

DIGIRAD CORP
Gillman, Charles M, D, Purchased
No. of Shares: 30,000
Date Filed: 05/07/2013






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