Home and business owners in Tierrasanta voiced their frustrations at the rising number of commercial vacancies Friday.

The small suburban San Diego community has three main shopping centers with at least 15 vacancies, said Tierrasanta Community Council President Scott Hasson.

Tierrasa nta -- A wild mouse trapped at a Tierrasanta park has tested positive for Hantavirus, county health officials announced Wednesday.

The mouse, found during routine monitoring at the west side of Mission Trails Regional Park, is the fourth confirmed to have Hantavirus locally this year, according to the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health.

Typically, there are between two and eight cases of the disease detected in wild mice in the county annually.

As a public information officer for San Diego County, Bill Polick was there when the county called a news conference in 2001 to discuss the emerging threat of West Nile virus.

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In San Diego’s hemorrhaging real estate industry, it’s better to be upside-down and rich than upside-down and poor. That may sound axiomatic — it’s always nicer to be rich than poor — but carriage-trade folks whose homes are underwater can work the system more easily than poor folks in the same sorry situation.