Week in Review

Roger Stockham was arrested and charged with a threat of terrorism by Dearborn Police Jan. 24 near Detroit. He was found in the parking lot of the Islamic Center of America wearing a black ski mask with class C fireworks and M-80s in his car.

His arrest set in motion reporting by Imperial Beach Patch writers over the course of the week. . Since the mid 1970s, Stockham has taken hostages, blew up an oil tank and threatened Presidents Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush. 

A month before his arrest, a member of the local VFW Post filed a restraining order against him. .

Before that, . The Post was moving to cancel Stockham's membership when he was arrested.

Chris Morrow spoke to the Adams family who lived next door to Stockham. after an incident last fall that landed him in the hospital. Shortly after, he left town.

In his first appearance in court Friday, . He is expected back in court Feb. 11.

Beaches were closed after rain Sunday but reopened Wednesday.

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The Border Patrol . 

Sports

In the column, Serge Dedina tells his mother's story, a woman who remembers the German bombing raids as a child in World War II London. She would spend .

The Imperial Beach Stingrays played their third game of their first season in the Southern California Rugby Football Union Saturday at Mar Vista High School. Check out this photo gallery to see them face the Orange County Bucks.

The Neighborhood Files

. The five-day event to honor migrants who died in search of a better life ended Sunday with Mass between groups on both sides of the border at the Calexico-Mexicali border.

The Navy plan to add .

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Rexy is a friendly female "dumbo" rat who wants a kiss and a home. .

Baba Foods makes more than 20 flavors of hummus that they sell together with other Mediterranean and Middle Eastern foods at .

Arts

Nathan French started taking pictures as a hobby but it grew into a career. He has done a wide variety of work from aerial, scenic and water photography to weddings and portraits.

In this week's column, Andrew McKee reviews the work of local band Squirrelly Acts. The "new metal" band will perform at the Sports Parks Feb. 14 

Government

Initial plans were delayed a few months but San Diego Public Utility officials will move forward with plans to add fluoride to the water supply over the course of the next few weeks. Federal regulatory bodies are moving to raise standards and lower the amount of fluoride considered safe.

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Jerry Brown delivered his . .  

A woman working for military contractor NWS Communications was fired after she complained about having to climb microwave towers, work in manholes and enter asbestos-filled buildings while working for the Navy in Coronado and Imperial Beach. .

Police and Fire

Former Border Patrol agent Gamalier Reyes Rivera was found guilty on two attempted murder charges in a Vista court Wednesday. Rivera tried to kill his wife and her new boyfriend .