Rachael Borrelli, assistant director at the county Department of Animal Services, sent the voice message in a text exchange late last year. The euthanasia rate has spiked at county-run shelters in recent years.
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Baseball owners voted Thursday to install John Seidler, the oldest brother of the late former Padres chairman Peter Seidler, as the team’s control person. -
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Dreyer followed Mexican winger Hirving Lozano and became San Diego FC's second designated player -
Girma, 24, was under contract with the Wave until 2026. She drew interest from French club Lyon and Arsenal in the Women's Super League. -
Rising waters flooded Native Poppy on Mission Gorge Road on Jan. 22, 2024, just weeks before Valentine's Day. We checked to see how the business is doing a year later. -
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The $9.2 million Farmers Insurance Open is scheduled to begin Wednesday at Torrey Pines Golf Course, short of some of its star power by injury and illness. -
Volunteers with the Kensington Fire Safe Council say they fear the use of propane and open fires in illegal homeless encampments in Fairmount Canyon could spark a fire. -
U.S. national team midfielder Luca de la Torre was loaned to Major League Soccer's expansion team in his hometown of San Diego by Spanish club Celta Vigo on Tuesday.
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