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The San Diego County unemployment rate was 4.9% in June, up from 4% in May, and above last year's 4.4%, according to figures released Friday by the state Employment Development Department.
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A jury on Thursday convicted former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani of collaborating with disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes in a massive fraud involving the blood-testing company that once enthralled Silicon Valley. -
Erica M. Pinto, chairwoman of The Jamul Indian Village of California, was appointed to serve on the Department of Interior's Secretary's Tribal Advisory Committee by Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, it was announced Tuesday. -
State hospital officials have proposed placing a 79- year-old man classified as a sexually violent predator at a supervised home in Borrego Springs, it was announced Wednesday. -
A Chula Vista woman who faked a cancer diagnosis to avoid prison time was sentenced Tuesday to two years behind bars. -
The fossilized skeleton of a T. rex relative that roamed the earth about 76 million years ago will be auctioned in New York this month. -
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new state law ending arrests for loitering for prostitution. -
Scientists at UC San Diego are leading what they call the biggest community science project ever done on animal communication. -
Local conservation organization Urban Corps of San Diego County has been awarded two grants from Cal Fire totaling $1.5 million to fund a program to plant more than 1,500 trees across the county, it was announced Wednesday. -
California lawmakers have finally sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill that would bar police from making arrests on a charge of loitering for prostitution, nine months after it passed the Legislature.
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Updated information on the source of diesel emissions from Port of San Diego operations has launched a debate.
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