DAN TREVAN / Union-Tribune
A view of the Pacific whizzed by during a recent northbound Coaster train trip. The Coaster has been in operation for 10 years. It runs 22 trains most weekdays – 26 on Fridays – with five cars. Ridership has increased from 736,776 in 1995-96 to more than 1.4 million in 2004.
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Coaster marks its 10th anniversary
Commuters, others took 1.4 million train trips in '04
By Lola Sherman
STAFF WRITER
Cyndi Gerhold wasn't on the inaugural run of the Coaster Feb. 27, 1995, because she didn't work that day.
Rain? Well, that's a surprise
Area steals page from usually soggy Seattle
By Michael Stetz
STAFF WRITER
If this story seems redundant, it's not your imagination.
Officials say HIV strain not from S.D.
UNION-TRIBUNE
Laboratory samples indicating a San Diego resident might have a particularly aggressive strain of HIV have turned out not to be from San Diego after all, health officials said yesterday.
Painkiller linked to 3 local deaths
Young overdose victims had much in common
By Lisa Petrillo, STAFF WRITER
and Joe Cantlupe, COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
In the past eight months, two local university students and a recent graduate have died of overdoses linked to the use of the same powerful prescription painkiller.
Sex acts on student TV investigated by UCSD
By Eleanor Yang
STAFF WRITER
The University of California San Diego is investigating whether a campus television station's broadcast of a student performing sexual acts violated federal and university regulations.
