California Highway Patrol officers will ramp up patrols across San Diego County, and statewide, starting Thursday night as part of the agency's annual Fourth of July weekend crackdown on drunken and drug-impaired driving.
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A vigil and protest against white supremacy and gun violence were held at Balboa Park.
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A murder charge was dismissed Monday against a woman previously convicted of killing her husband more than two decades ago in Valley Center.
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This averages out to more than 13 such attacks a week.
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Pharmacists are at greater risk than the general population to commit suicide, a fact that may be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a UC San Diego study released Friday which focuses on mental health and burnout within health care professions.
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The emergency bail modification enacted in early 2020 allowed people arrested for certain minor crimes such as drug possession or petty theft to avoid custody, while those already in jail for those offenses and with no other pending cases were released on their own recognizance.
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According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, James Burton McGrew and other rioters advanced to the Upper West Terrace doors to the Capitol building, where he filmed himself shouting "Let's go," and "We took this thing."
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Mexican prosecutors have named associates of the old Arellano-Felix drug cartel in the murders of two Tijuana journalists earlier this year.
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For years, Matthew Fluckiger job-hopped among nursing facilities in eastern San Diego County, assaulting women at each stop, before finally being arrested in 2020.
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In a 2-1 ruling, the court says a San Diego judge should have blocked what it called "an almost total ban on semiautomatic centerfire rifles” for young adults.
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The San Diego City Attorney's Office filed suit Wednesday against more than 20 chemical companies for allegedly manufacturing toxic chemicals that have been detected in San Diego area water sources.
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