1,800 Sailors Expected to Return Friday

1. About 1,800 sailors were expected to return home to Coronado Friday from a seven-month deployment to the Western Pacific and the Middle East. The amphibious assault ship USS Boxer and two other ships in its ready group will return to Naval Air Station North Island sometime Friday morning, according to the U.S. Pacific Fleet Public Affairs Office. The Boxer Amphibious Ready Group comprises the Boxer, the amphibious dock landing ship USS Comstock and the amphibious transport dock USS Green Bay. The group left San Diego Feb. 22 to provide humanitarian aid, support overseas operations and combat piracy.

2. The Metropolitan Transit System unveiled a new trolley model Thursday that it hopes will make the system more accessible to passengers. MTS has so far received six of a fleet of 57 ''low floor'' vehicles, which spare passengers from having to climb stairs when hopping on or off. They will cost a total of $233 million.

3. An undisclosed number of alleged members and associates of the Hell's Angels outlaw motorcycle gang were arrested Thursday during raids around San Diego County, authorities reported. About 250 local, state and federal law enforcement personnel, including SWAT teams, took part in the sweep beginning around 6 a.m., according to the FBI, which did not immediately disclose how many people were taken into custody or what type of criminal counts they were likely to face.