NELVIN CEPEDA / Union-Tribune Traffic leaving Coronado on eastbound Fourth Street has led to proposals such as a mile-long tunnel from the San Diego-Coronado Bridge to the base.

Coronado has spent eight years and $9.4 million studying proposals to alleviate traffic, including a controversial one-mile tunnel from the bridge to the Navy base. A decision is still years away, but the most expensive tunnel option has been estimated at a half-billion dollars.

San Diego Councilman-elect Carl DeMaio says his mission is to help Mayor Jerry Sanders carry out reforms because they are just what the city needs. Yet DeMaio's first news conference after his win last week in the District 5 race wasn't with Sanders – a fellow Republican – but with liberal Democrat Donna Frye.

The decade-long legal battles over the slaying of Stephanie Crowe in her Escondido home reached a federal appeals court in Pasadena yesterday. In a 45-minute hearing, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals weighed numerous issues raised in a lawsuit filed by the Crowe family and that of a second youth who were initially charged with Stephanie's slaying Jan. 21, 1998. The families are asking the appellate justices to overturn a lower court ruling that gutted most of the suit.

Nobody wants to be a party pooper, but hear me out, folks: It's way too early to be dancing on the grave of City Attorney Michael Aguirre. So back to your desks, all of you. There'll be no conga line today. True, Aguirre won just 29 percent of the vote in last week's city attorney primary.

OTAY MESA – San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre wants the federal government out of the city's attempt to review Blackwater Worldwide's application for a military training facility.

Heather Clark created a makeshift roundabout in an oddly shaped intersection that she said is a traffic hazard near her home in Ocean Beach.