Sarah Joy Lomaintewa, 26, was taken into custody. She was expected to be booked on suspicion of making criminal threats.

A train struck and killed a pedestrian near Batiquitos Lagoon.

The wife of Mayor Kevin Faulconer and a longtime gay rights activist announced the formation of a task force to raise money to create an AIDS memorial in San Diego.

SDPD's public affairs Lt. Scott Wahl said the department employs ongoing strategies to tackle actual and perceived bias in its law enforcement practices.

The task force — which will include personnel from the sheriff's department and police officers from San Diego, Chula Vista, El Cajon and La Mesa — will conduct fare inspections.

A resident called to report the Aedes aegypti larvae earlier this week. One of the mosquitos was also found last week in Chula Vista.

Investigators sought Thursday to determine who set a series of small arson fires along in a City Heights neighborhood overnight.

The funds are designed to expand access to the aquarium's current outreach programs and support development of a new education program for students throughout San Diego County.

Six people died of influenza-related causes in the San Diego region last week, bringing the "flu season" total to 68.

Rocky Chavez, a former Oceanside city councilman and Marine colonel, was first elected to the Assembly in 2012 and re-elected in November.