Esteban Armando Nuņez, the 19-year-old son of the former Assembly Speaker, was arrested Tuesday in connection with the stabbing death of a 22-year-old college student at a party in San Diego in October. Nuņez and three other suspects, all 19, face a murder charge and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Story in the L.A. Times.
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