Shandel Menezes is a reporter at NBC 7. She covers a range of topics including education, climate change, and legal affairs, with a particular focus on private and public education systems, campus life, and the housing market. Shandel has been featured in Telemundo Fresno, Telemundo San Antonio, NBC 7 San Diego, NBC Bay Area, NBC News, and MSN.
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Shandel Menezes primarily focuses on local news related to crime, missing persons, and police activities in San Diego. He frequently covers breaking news and evolving stories with a significant emphasis on family & relationships issues.
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By: Shandel Menezes
Starting next school year, Coronado middle schoolers will need to store their phones in locked pouches throughout the school day.
By: Shandel Menezes
San Diego schools were already moving in a cell phone free direction. This school year, all students at districts like Santee and San Diego Unified
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A 21-year-old man from Arizona was in court in San Diego on Wednesday, accused of shooting his pregnant 17-year-old girlfriend in the head in Bay Park, killing her. Prosecutors said Trevon Williams and Jariah E. — prosecutors decided to only use her last name since she was a minor — started dating in September 2025; they had an on-and-off relationship…
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Albert Einstein Elementary's former principal Greta Bouterse was suddenly fired last November. Play Mute Share
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported cyclospora cases in California as part of a multistate outbreak, prompting doctors to warn people not to underestimate the gastrointestinal illness.
St. Paul’s Lutheran School families are fighting to save the Pacific Beach K-8 campus after its sudden closure announcement.
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A coalition of San Diego high school students is calling for changes to solitary confinement policies in San Diego County jails, arguing the practice harms inmates and increases the likelihood they will reoffend.
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The Department of Justice alleges the university used the term "hardship" as a proxy for race in medical school admissions, while UC San Diego says it applies uniform academic standards to all applicants.
