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Just wanted to report in after seeing Fleet Week Los Angeles, held dockside in San Pedro. I helped out a tiny bit, handing out maps and schedules to visitors. I just wanted to report that patriotism is alive and well, where you may not expect it. All kinds of Angeleños showed up, wearing tshirts about military service, patriotism, God, faith and family. Many young families, service men and women, police, community volunteers, veterans. I did see one Black Lives Matter ball cap, but also saw a first: “dare to be Lutheran” on a tshirt. Most poignant: a woman came up...

Jasmine Hartin, 32, who is married to the son of British billionaire Lord Michael Ashcroft, was taken into custody last Friday after Superintendent Henry Jemmott, 42, was shot behind the ear with his own revolver. Police believe the pair had been drinking and fooling around with Jemmott's service revolver when it accidentally fired, causing the 6ft officer to topple off a pier in the luxury coastal enclave of Ambergris Caye. Hartin told detectives she was giving the officer a massage moments before the freak accident, according to local news reports. Hartin was found at the scene by a security guard...

In January, hundreds of people gathered on a small bridge spanning the San Pedro River to protest the pending construction of a border barrier across the riverbed. Since then, the project has moved ahead. Cottonwood trees have been cleared and construction crews are setting up... After months with no new details on the project design, last week the agency said the barrier across the San Pedro River will consist of a bridge with gates, and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

San Pedro is not reacting kindly to Donald Trump’s scheduled national security speech at the Battleship Iowa next week. In fact, some serious name-calling has erupted in an online petition, signed by nearly 3,000 people, that encourages cancellation of the celebrity presidential candidate’s visit.

**SNIP** "She's operational, she gets the job done," Pelosi (D-San Francisco) said during a round table meeting at the Feminist Majority Foundation's headquarters in Beverly Hills. "She's going to be focused on what she is doing here, but her election will lift up people across our country." Pelosi appeared with Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), U.S. Rep. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park), U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn (D-San Pedro) and legendary Democratic party activist Roz Wyman, who in 1953 became the youngest person to win a Los Angeles City Council seat. Speaking in front of vintage pictures of suffragettes, the women all returned...

The USS Iowa, one of the last battleships ever built, will open July 7 as a museum in Los Angeles Harbor. Advance tickets are on sale for tours of the ship, which served on and off from World War II to 1990. The 900-foot battleship with 16-inch guns was towed recently from Vallejo, on San Francisco Bay, to Los Angeles. It is the last of the four Iowa-class battleships to find a permanent home after years as part of "the mothball fleet." he Iowa will be operated by the nonprofit Pacific Battleship Center, which will begin offering tours July 7...

The Navy arrives today in the Port of Los Angeles, kicking off a weeklong series of ship tours and other events designed to showcase the nation's sailors. This is the first time Navy Week - a program launched nationwide five years ago - is coming to the area. "Navy Weeks are designed to show Americans the investment they've made in their Navy and to increase awareness of the Navy in cities that don't have active duty naval bases," said Cmdr. Christopher Scholl. The Navy has a presence in San Diego and Ventura, but not in the Los Angeles area, he...

TUCSON — A lawyer for environmental activists wants a federal judge to order two U.S. agencies — The Fish and Wildlife Service and the Army — to renegotiate a biological opinion concerning the San Pedro River and its environs contending the two entities have failed to follow the Endangered Species Act. The plaintiff’s attorney, McCrystie Adams, said the continuing growth in the Sierra Vista area is caused by the existence of Fort Huachuca and as more people come to the area, they “are draining the aquifer year after year.” However, a U.S. Department of Justice attorney contends all the requirements...

A group of 53 illegal immigrants was apprehended Wednesday morning just west of the San Pedro River, near the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. Border Patrol agents monitoring a video surveillance system in the area spotted the group just after midnight, said Colleen Agle, an agency spokeswoman. Agents at the Naco station sent out the horse patrol, which was then assisted by an Office of Air and Marine helicopter, she said. The 36 men, nine women, and eight children were not in distress when they were found, she said.

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PALOMINAS — U.S. Rep. Raul M. Grijalva toured the ongoing border fence construction project at the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area on Monday to raise awareness for his proposed Borderlands Conservation and Security Act. Grijalva, representing Arizona’s 7th Congressional District, and fellow Democrat Gabrielle Giffords of the 8th District are the only two of Arizona’s eight U.S. representatives whose districts abut the U.S.-Mexico border. Giffords’ district includes all of Cochise County. Grijalva observed portions of the border fence and listened to concerns voiced by host Bill Odle, a nearby landowner who is opposed to the construction because it will...

To understand the trade deficit, residents of Sandison Street do not need the help of world-class economists. They can just glance across the street at the mountain of faded brown cargo containers blocking the Wilmington sky. The equation is simple. As the deficit grows, the mountain gets higher. "It's getting taller; it's spreading out," said resident Maria Lopez, eyeing the pile that stretches for two blocks. Tens of thousands of containers sit empty today in Wilmington — stark testimony that America buys more from other countries than it sends overseas to sell. Millions of the 40-foot-long steel containers arrive in...

SAN PEDRO - A shooting in San Pedro left six people wounded Tuesday night, authorities said. Paramedics sent to 967 W. 24th St., near Gaffey Street, at 8:53 p.m. took six gunshot victims to hospitals, said Jim Wells of the Los Angeles Fire Department. "All I heard was the gun shots,' Sharon McLaughlan, a neighbor, told KCAL9. "All of a sudden my mother asked me to come out and take a look at what was going on. So I walked out the front door and the first thing I saw was the first police car driving up the street. After...

SIERRA VISTA - An environmental group has two federal agencies and two state agencies in its sights for allegedly failing to protect the San Pedro River. The Army and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have earned the ire of the Center for Biological Diversity, which contends Fort Huachuca officials have failed to meet their contractual obligations with USFWS. The center also accuses the Arizona Department of Water Resources and state Attorney General's Office of engaging in fraud or not investigating fraudulent actions. Phoenix physician Robin Silver informed the two federal entities in March the center intended to sue if...

Say post's growth threatens San Pedro Environmentalists worried about the fate of the San Pedro River filed papers Thursday in anticipation of another lawsuit against Fort Huachuca. The fort's "incremental, piecemeal expansion" - and Sierra Vista's accompanying growth - are threatening one of the continent's hot spots for species diversity, according to activists' notice of intent to sue the military and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. If the fort doesn't do something about the area's declining water table, the post must downsize so the river and its endangered species can survive, says the 83-page notice filed by the Tucson-based...

7:53 p.m. PDT April 28, 2004 - There was an explosion at the Port of Los Angeles Wednesday. A container that was labeled "freight of all kinds," and supposed to contain housewares blew up. The container exploded as it was being moved from a truck to a dock. The truck driver was not hurt. Longshoreman say containers labeled "freight of all kinds" can mean anything.

FORT HUACHUCA -- This Army post's future will soon be in the hands of a select federal commission, a group that will decide if the fort closes, is reduced in size or expands in its missions. Like all of the nation's military installations, Fort Huachuca will be reviewed by being pulled apart and put back together again to see if it meets Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's requirements, which first and foremost require installations to have military value. Two days before Christmas the draft selection criteria for the upcoming Base Realignment and Closure round was published in the Federal Register,...

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., meets Thursday with the San Pedro Partnership to discuss water issues in the area. The meeting was held in the Mona Bishop Room in the Sierra Vista Public Library. (Ed Honda-Herald/Review) SIERRA VISTA -- U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Thursday that preserving Fort Huachuca and the San Pedro River are the most important things facing officials and residents who live in the Sierra Vista Subwatershed. The senator also said he will not defend the post from possible closure in the upcoming Base Realignment and Closure Round next year solely because it is needed for...

Fort Huachuca Preservation Amendment Included in National Defense Authorization Act (Washington, D.C.) - The House of Representatives Friday passed the National Defense Authorization Act, H.R. 1588, legislation that included the Fort Huachuca Preservation amendment. H.R. 1588 sets policies, programs and funding levels for the nation's military, authorizing $400 billion for the Department of Defense and the national security programs of the Department of Energy. This bill passed the House 362-40 and is expected to also pass the Senate early next week and then be sent to President Bush for his signature and enactment into law. The Fort Huachuca Preservation Amendment...

COCHISE COUNTY -- The number of illegal immigrants encountered in Cochise County is increasing again in what Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever likens to a tidal wave. "Highway 80 is just humming as is Davis Road," Dever said Thursday. "You can see, smell and feel more of them coming. We're being drowned by a tidal wave. We are gasping for air." Dever is not surprised that figures released earlier this week by U.S. Border Patrol officials show that more than half of the illegal immigrants taken into custody in the agency's Tucson Sector were in Cochise County. He is not...