PEGGY PEATTIE / Union-Tribune Tijuana Mayor Jorge Ramos and Ann Alicia Meneses, president of the visitors committee, waved to shopkeepers from a Tijuana City Tour bus. The tour has been launched to try to boost the city's flagging tourism industry.

TIJUANA – The sight of bright-red roofless buses crossing Tijuana this past week has been drawing smiles, waves and thumbs-up signs – and more than a few surprised expressions. Amid plummeting tourism revenues, Tijuana has found cause for celebration with the launching of a new bus tour aimed at showing visitors different aspects of the city.

SAN DIEGO – The Southeastern Economic Development Corp., mired in financial scandal, is one of four nonprofit organizations the city of San Diego relies on to deliver special services. Despite budget and compensation irregularities at the agency that reached a crisis last week, Mayor Jerry Sanders' office says the governance structure is sound.

SAN DIEGO – A man who went overboard from a harbor cruise yacht late Saturday night was fatally shot as he fought with San Diego Harbor Police who pulled him from San Diego Bay. Paramedics pronounced Steven Paul Hirschfield, 37, of the Los Angeles area, dead at a dock, the Medical Examiner's Office said. A Harbor Police officer had shot him in the chest.

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