Union-Tribune Junkyards such as this one are among the businesses the FAA has told the city to evict from the land surrounding Brown Field in Otay Mesa.

OTAY MESA – The stale stench of gas hangs over the junkyards. Crashed cars, rusting wheels and assorted doors and windshields surround the runway at Brown Field, the Otay Mesa airport that is still falling short of its promise.

EL CAJON – Tears came to Wah Shee's eyes as her husband, Shat Htee, talked about the cyclone that hit their native Myanmar. Neither of them have been able to find out much, but they know the full force of the storm hit the village where Shee grew up.

County residents appear to be partly heeding warnings about conservation amid the region's shrinking water supply, but the true test will start now as temperatures soar to summer levels.

Yesterday wasn't Mother's Day but it sure felt like it at Maggie Moo's Ice Cream and Treatery. Employee Erin Jook said the Rancho Bernardo shop typically has its busiest day of the year on the annual holiday, but the throng of customers Saturday and yesterday rivaled those sales.

A series of tall dirt berms along the east side of Sweetwater Road in Spring Valley may help block traffic noise from nearby state Route 125, but they aren't much to look at.