GIFT-GIVING GOES DIGITAL C1 • Electronic cards, e-books are good options for the tech-savvy on your list. FRIDAY • NOVEMBER 18, 2011 • MORE THAN 1,000,000 READERS WEEKLY • SIGNONSANDIEGO.COM PLATINUM TO SELL U-T TO DOUG MANCHESTER Local developer’s purchase of newspaper from Manchester said. “Taking own- involvement in high-profile issues pany through a transformation ership of a 143-year-old Pulitzer in the region. Lynch is a founder that has included the redesign of Platinum Equity is expected to close by Dec. 15 Prize-winning news organization of the Broadcast Company of the Union-Tribune and SignOn- comes with great responsibility. America and has a long history of SanDiego.com, integration of on- ELIZABETH AGUILERA • U-T Lynch, who serves as president We believe San Diego is the fi n- owning radio stations. line and print operations, and the and CEO of MLIM. est city in America and pledge to Platinum Equity, which an- launch of the top daily deal in the The owner of The San Diego The terms of the agreement are be strong advocates for the city’s nounced the agreement, pur- industry. Union-Tribune announced Thurs- confidential. The deal is expected interests and conscientious care- chased the company in May 2009 The company has led all major day it has signed an agreement of to close by Dec. 15. takers of the Union-Tribune and from Copley Press Inc. for an un- metropolitan newspapers in inter- sale for the newspaper to MLIM, “We are excited about working its legacy.” disclosed amount. active revenue growth in each of LLC, owned by local entrepreneur toward our goal in the next few Manchester is well-known for The fi rm went on to hire Pub- the past two years, and has been Doug Manchester. He is joined by weeks and building on the suc- his hotel and commercial property lisher Ed Moss and a new execu- among the industry leaders in longtime media executive John cess the great team built there,” development in the county and his tive team, which has led the com- SEE SALE • A4 THE DAILY DEAL EX-OFFICER Border Angels, CONVICTED OF EIGHT Today’s deal is brought to activist evoke FELONIES you by our paid advertis- ing partner The Cardiff IN SEX CASE Medical Spa. Prep your skin for the holidays strong reactions Arevalos faces with 68 percent off three up to 10 years, four microdermabrasions or chemical peels today at months in prison signondailydeal.com DANA LITTLEFIELD THE WORLD & GREG MORAN • U-T Anthony Arevalos, a for- OBAMA TRIP: Deep- mer San Diego police officer ening ties with Asia, accused of trying to seek President Barack sexual favors from women Obama will appeal he stopped in the Gaslamp today to nations large Quarter, was convicted and small for help with Thursday of eight felony America’s security charges, including sexual agenda, anxious to build battery by restraint and some regional political asking for a bribe. balance to the rising In all, Arevalos, was found might of China. guilty of 12 counts, includ- ing four misdemeanors. The SYRIAN MELTDOWN: jurors acquitted him of sev- Deserters from the eral felony counts and lesser Syrian army carried charges. out attacks against the Arevalos, 41, who ap- offices of the Syrian rul- peared solemn as the ver- ing Baath Party as the dicts were read, was im- country lurched toward mediately handcuffed and civil war. taken into custody. He will be held without bail until THE NATION his sentencing, which was scheduled for Dec. 19. SIX DIE IN SOUTHEAST He faces a possible maxi- TORNADOES: Authori- mum term of 10 years and ties said at least six peo- Enrique Morones leads a walk to a Mass for unnamed migrants buried in Holtville. At top, the four months in prison, and ple, including a 3-year- remnants of a cross placed on a migrant’s grave say “never forgotten.” PEGGY PEATTIE • U-T PHOTOS he will have to serve at least old girl, were killed 50 percent of that time. and dozens injured the Outreach efforts began with delivery of food and clothes to Carlsbad migrants Arevalos’ arrest was previous day as sev- among nine high-profile eral tornadoes moved ELIZABETH AGUILERA • U-T times not getting paid. Before the trip, tries, Morones and his nonprofit officer misconduct cases across Louisiana, Mis- which he made with a church group, group Border Angels are praised and in the San Diego Police De- sissippi, Alabama and quarter-century ago, an en- Morones never knew there were mi- reviled for their advocacy on behalf of partment this year. South Carolina. counter with dozens of un- grants struggling to survive in the immigrants. They will commemorate The allegations range Adocumented immigrants liv- canyons of Carlsbad. 25 years of activism with a fundraising from rape under color of A15 • A WIN FOR ing in caves and cardboard shelters “I couldn’t believe that people lived dinner Saturday in Balboa Park. authority to drunken driv- PROP. 8 BACKERS: The transformed a marketing specialist in this type of situation, not just men The outreach started with Morones ing to domestic violence. California Supreme for a hotel chain. but women and children living in these delivering food and clothes to the Arevalos was fi red in Court handed support- Enrique Morones saw them make conditions in the most powerful nation Carlsbad migrants. In the years since, SEE AREVALOS • A12 ers of Proposition 8 the tents out of tarps and tree branches. in the world,” he said. “It was amazing. he and the roughly 50 longtime mem- legal right to defend the He heard them talk about long days It was eye-opening and heart-opening bers of Border Angels — plus thou- A13 • Convicting law state’s ban on same-sex of work as gardeners, fruit pickers, for me to see that.” sands of volunteers — have brought enforcement officers can marriage. construction workers — and some- Today, in the U.S. and other coun- SEE BORDER • A8 sometimes be a tall order. U-T INDEX Bridge C6 ELEPHANT DIES AT SAFARI PARK, Classifieds C5 Comics C8 POSSIBLY AFTER AN ALTERCATION Crossword C7 Dear Abby C7 Umoya was found with injuries indicative may have been some sort of aggressive interaction Editorials B6 of an interaction with another elephant with another elephant,” Horoscope C7 Galindo said. Lottery A2 J. HARRY JONES rived, they found Umoya Umoya was born in Movies ND4 & JEANETTE STEELE • U-T had been injured and Kruger National Park in Obituaries B5 subsequently died short- South Africa around 1990. Umoya, one of the domi- ly thereafter,” said Yadira In 2003, she was one of Television ND5 nant female elephants at Galindo, a zoo spokes- seven African elephants Weather B8 the San Diego Zoo Safari woman. that the zoo imported from Park, died early Thurs- The elephant was lying Swaziland, where officials day apparently after an on the ground when zoo- said they were going to be altercation with another keepers found her. killed because of elephant Umoya, with her calf Phakamile in this undated elephant. “There were a few inju- overpopulation. photo, came to San Diego from Swaziland in 2003. “When trainers ar- ries that indicated there SEE ELEPHANT • A14 She was found injured on Thursday. KEN BOHN ORDER BY DECEMBER 1ST A4 THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE | FRIDAY • NOVEMBER 18, 2011 FROM PAGE ONE SALE • Platinum Equity purchased the newspaper in May 2009 History of the U-T FROM A1 paper industry and helped Diego State University and Oct. 10, 1868: William overall advertising revenue the Union-Tribune success- Wake Forest University. Jefferson Gatewood growth during the past 18 fully transform its opera- Manchester is credited and Edward Bushyhead months. tions and re-invent itself by for the transformation of publish the first issue of Innovation in its print attracting terrific people the waterfront around the the San Diego Union. products has extended its and investing in their ideas convention center complex. Dec. 2, 1895: T.D. Beasley print reach to 98 percent of and their passion.” In 1994, he supported a bal- and F.E.A. Kimball launch households in the county. In Gabriel Kahn, co-direc- lot initiative to move the air- the Evening Tribune. October, the newspaper’s tor of the Media, Econom- port from Lindbergh Field paid circulation was up 3 ics and Entrepreneurship to Miramar, which failed. Jan. 21, 1928: Ira Clifton percent daily and 4 percent program at the Annenberg He was a principal backer Copley, an Illinois pub- on Sunday over the previ- School for Communication of the successful statewide lisher, buys the Union and ous year. and Journalism at the Uni- Proposition 8 campaign in the Evening Tribune. “We assembled a talented versity of Southern Cali- 2008. June 4, 1950: James management team, unified fornia, said what Platinum Lynch, who has partnered Strohn Copley becomes and expanded the U-T’s was able to do is rare dur- Under the ownership of Platinum Equity, The San with Manchester on other Diego Union-Tribune launched a redesign of the publisher of the two print and online offerings, ing a time when private eq- projects, said “we love this newspapers, 2½ years af- modernized its production uity buyers of newspapers newspaper and SignOnSanDiego.com. K.C. ALFRED • U-T place and it’s one of the rea- ter the death of his father, technology and cemented have been plagued by poor sons we put together this its position as the leading timing and a bleak media ably did it for some of the transaction to support the Ira Copley.