Coronado

A Navy warrant officer and his wife were identified Monday as the victims of a murder-suicide Sunday in Coronado, San Diego County Deputy Coroner Everett Mauger reported. San Diego County Sheriff's Department SWAT officers discovered the bodies of Chief Warrant Officer Carl Glenn Norman, 46, who was stationed at the North Island Naval Air Station, and his wife, Arladyne Norman, 51, in their Orange Avenue apartment at 6:42 a.m. Sunday, Mauger said.

SAN DIEGO - In the ocean off Coronado, a Navy team has discovered a relic worthy of display in a military museum: a torpedo of the kind deployed in the late 19th century, considered a technological marvel in its day. But don't look for the primary discoverers to get a promotion or an invitation to meet the admirals at the Pentagon - although they might get an extra fish for dinner or maybe a pat on the snout. The so-called Howell torpedo was discovered by bottlenose dolphins being trained by the Navy to find undersea objects, including mines, that not even billion-dollar technology can detect.

Gov. George Deukmejian on Thursday appointed attorney Peter E. Riddle of Coronado to a seat on the San Diego County Municipal Court bench. Riddle, 49, will be sworn in today and replaces Judge Herbert J. Exarhos, who was elevated to San Diego County Superior Court. Reached at his San Diego law office Thursday, Riddle said he was "delighted and flattered" to have won the appointment.

The Hotel del Coronado , the grand dame of California resorts, is celebrating its 125th anniversary with the publication of a coffee table book. "Hotel del Coronado History" celebrates the resort's storied past, from its construction and opening in 1888 to its legendary guests such as Charlie Chaplin , Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe . There's even the story of Kate Morgan, a beautiful young woman who checked into the hotel in November 1892 and later was found dead on a staircase leading to the beach.

Olympians Thom Hunt and Julie Brown were among the winners at the Christmas in Coronado 10-kilometer run Saturday. Hunt, who competed in the 10,000-meter run in the 1984 Olympics, finished first overall with a time of 29:13. Brown, who ran in the marathon in the 1984 Games, was the fastest woman at 33:59. Jim O'Neil, national record-holder in his age group, won the men's 60-and-older title in 35:12.

A Navy pilot committed suicide after apparently killing three other people in a Coronado apartment during a night of New Year's Eve celebrating, according to information released Wednesday by San Diego County authorities. John Robert Reeves, 25, an F/A-18 Hornet pilot in training at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, killed himself with a gunshot to the head, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and medical examiner. The other three people killed — Navy pilot David Reis, 25; his sister, Karen, 24; and Matthew Christopher Saturley, 31, of Chula Vista — are listed as homicide victims.

Details have been released about The Park at Coronado, a planned 300-room destination hotel to be built on 16.26 bayfront acres at the east end of 2nd Avenue in Coronado, on San Diego Bay. Construction of the 247,000-square-foot structure will cost about $24.5 million and is scheduled to begin in March, 1986, with the hotel opening in June, 1987.

For Jonah Shacknai, a highly successful pharmaceutical executive who split his time between the historic Spreckels mansion in Coronado and his sprawling home in affluent Paradise Valley, Ariz., the world changed quickly and completely earlier this month. On July 11, his 6-year-old son, Max, was rushed to a hospital in San Diego after he fell down a grand staircase inside the Ocean Boulevard mansion built in 1908. Two days later, the body of Shacknai's 32-year-old girlfriend, Rebecca Zahau, was found naked, her hands and feet bound, hanging by the neck from a balcony in the courtyard of the 27-room estate.

Pat Oates scored with five seconds remaining in overtime Wednesday to cap a wild rally and give Valhalla High a 12-11 win over Coronado in a San Diego Section water polo semifinal game at Mount Carmel. The second-seeded Norsemen (21-1) will face top-seeded Mount Carmel (22-0) for the Section championship Saturday night. Coronado, the tournament's third seed, built an 11-6 lead after three quarters thanks in part to three goals each by Pat McInerny and Dave Hovland.

Convicted kidnaper Robert Gene Edwards was released Wednesday from the state prison at Soledad and paroled to an undisclosed county. State correction officials decided earlier that Edwards, convicted of kidnaping 3-year-old Maria Martin in Coronado in 1981, would not be paroled to San Diego or an adjoining county.

CORONADO - On most days, a three-mile stretch of Silver Strand beach here is used for training Navy SEALs, sailors and Marines. Thursday was not a usual day. Dozens of sailors spent the morning in a slow, head-down walk along the restricted beach, searching for detritus that could harm the Western snowy plover and the California least tern, two imperiled bird populations that use the strand for nesting. "This is our office," said sailor Daniel Torres, 26, from New Mexico, one of the Navy beachmasters - specialists in bringing vehicles and other heavy equipment ashore from amphibious assault ships.

SAN DIEGO — Workers at the Navy's top maintenance facility for F/A-18 warplanes have been exposed to "extremely toxic materials" such as lead, cadmium and beryllium, according to surprise inspections by the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. OSHA has given the Navy until Sept. 26 to fix the problems at the Fleet Readiness Center Southwest at North Island Naval Air Station on Coronado or face an order to shut down the facility. The violations were revealed Thursday.

LONDON - David Rudisha of Kenya broke his own world record in the 800-meter run Thursday night, a feat met with roars from the crowd at the Olympic Stadium. Rudisha was timed in 1 minute 40.91 seconds, trimming his previous record of 1:41.01. Nijel Amos of Botswana was second, in 1:41.73 and Timothy Kitum of Kenya was third in 1:42.53. The two U.S. entrants came close to a bronze medal. Duane Solomon of Rosemead ran a personal-best 1:42.82, followed by Nick Symmonds of Springfield, Ore., at 1:42.95.

A sailboat participating in this year's Newport Beach-to-Ensenada race broke into pieces when it slammed into North Coronado Island in the dark of night, an independent review has concluded. All four crew members were killed in the April 28 accident, which sank the 37-foot sailboat Aegean a few miles off the coast of Mexico. The extent of the destruction - tiny pieces of debris were scattered over a wide area of ocean - led to initial speculation that a much larger ship had crushed the sailboat.

San Diego could be improved. If the county had 75 miles of beaches instead of 70. If the Padres won a World Series or the Chargers won a Super Bowl. Or if the municipal sloganeers dropped "America's finest city" in favor of "You stay classy, San Diego. " But this is nit-picking. Besides its most obvious tourist attractions - the beaches, the zoo and Old Town - San Diego's downtown has interesting edges, several old neighborhoods are showing new vigor, and everybody seems to be brewing artisan beer.

Want to go to the No. 1 beach in America this Memorial Day weekend ? It's closer than you think. Coronado Beach in Coronado, Calif., snagged the top spot in Dr. Beach's Top 10 List 2012 . It's the first time any California beach has taken top honors since the list began in 1991. The beach doc who makes the annual pronouncements is really Stephen Leatherman, director of Florida International University's Laboratory for Coastal Research. "The beach is popular for swimmers, surfers, sunbathers and beachcombers," Leatherman writes about the San Diego-area spot.

A Navy pilot committed suicide after apparently killing three other people in a Coronado apartment during a night of New Year's Eve celebrating, according to information released Wednesday by San Diego County authorities. John Robert Reeves, 25, an F/A-18 Hornet pilot in training at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, killed himself with a gunshot to the head, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and medical examiner. The other three people killed — Navy pilot David Reis, 25; his sister, Karen, 24; and Matthew Christopher Saturley, 31, of Chula Vista — are listed as homicide victims.

Reporting from San Diego -- Homicide investigators Tuesday continued to piece together evidence from interviews and forensic tests in an attempt to determine what led to the shooting deaths of four people in Coronado on New Year's Day. The victims were two Navy pilots, the sister of one of the pilots, and an unidentified man from Chula Vista. The bodies were found early Sunday in an apartment not far from the famed Hotel del Coronado. One body — of one of the men — was found in the doorway, and the three others were discovered inside the apartment, authorities said.