A San Diego man pleaded guilty Monday in Los Angeles to twice landing a small airplane without permission on a Navy airstrip on San Clemente Island, then stealing a Navy truck and using it to damage gates on the island, causing thousands of dollars in damage.
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Navy officials said Wednesday they are pulling achievement medals from prosecutors who argued the case against a decorated Navy SEAL who was acquitted in the death of a wounded Islamic State captive after President Donald Trump intervened.
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A proposal to place a $900 million affordable housing bond on the city of San Diego’s 2020 ballot moved closer to reality Wednesday after key committee vote.
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Congressman Scott Peters has proposed a bill to posthumously honor the longest-living Pearl Harbor survivor by naming the Poway Post Office after Ray Chavez.
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Researchers around the country, including UC San Diego, have been looking at DNA from more than 100,000 veterans.
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Three more service members — two Marines and one Navy sailor — were taken into custody in connection with a criminal probe into human smuggling and drug offenses that led to the arrests of 16 Marines at Camp Pendleton, investigators said Friday.
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U.S. Border Patrol officials say smuggling rings have been luring U.S. troops, police officers, Border Patrol agents and others to work for them as drivers — a crucial component of moving migrants further into the United States once smugglers get them over the border from Mexico.
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KPBS Midday EditionA thousand National Guard troops from Texas will try to address one of the unintended results of President Trump’s immigration crackdown — traffic jams that are slowing international commerce.
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A Navy SEAL platoon based in San Diego was ordered home early from a deployment in Iraq over disciplinary issues, according to officials.
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KPBS Midday EditionAn investigation into Marines accused of helping smuggle migrants into the United States led to the arrest Thursday of 16 of their fellow Marines at California's Camp Pendleton, just north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Bradley White of Oakley, 31, is one of eight defendants charged in a fraud scheme that includes a pair of Tennessee doctors, pharmacy owners, and San Diego-area Marines who prosecutors say ordered prescriptions for patients who did not need the medications, then billed TRICARE "at exorbitant prices."
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