EDUARDO CONTRERAS / Union-Tribune At Pillsbury Ranch in Lakeside, Joan Embery spent some time with a wild burro she adopted.

LAKESIDE – After 37 years managing wild horses and burros, the Bureau of Land Management is considering euthanasia to control the growing population – something that could change the mood for this weekend's adoption event in Lakeside.

SAN DIEGO – Now that Southeastern Economic Development Corp. President Carolyn Smith has been fired, the agency's board remains in place and has troubles of its own. Chairman Artie “Chip” Owen's real estate dealings are the subject of multiple inquiries.

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LA JOLLA – The full-moon beach party was supposed to cap the trip of a lifetime for the eight Irish friends. On Friday night, with a case of Coronas in hand, the young tourists descended onto Black's Beach and joined the spectacle of a thousand people swarming around fire pits and dancing around drum circles.

An attorney hired by the parents of the male dancer who was shot to death by San Diego Harbor Police last weekend said yesterday the version of events police are telling is a “complete fabrication.”

Weeds along the north side of Newton Avenue near 16th Street not far from Petco Park grew so tall they provided a great place for a homeless man to lie down and rest.