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California legislative leaders in the wee hours of Wednesday morning reached an agreement with Gov. Gavin Newsom to extend the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction program, known as cap and trade, through 2045 — a contentious expansion that for weeks stewed in backroom discussions, held up other critical legislation and roiled insiders.
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The teenager, whose name has been withheld because she is a minor, was taken into custody Thursday morning and booked into juvenile hall in San Diego, Escondido police said. -
A judge has ruled that protesters who demonstrated against racial injustice in Beverly Hills, California, last summer must have criminal charges against them dismissed because the city’s emergency ordinance to arrest them was unconstitutional. -
As the nation reels from the shooting spree that killed eight people — six of them Asian women — at Georgia massage parlors, San Diego-area law enforcement officials condemned racism, xenophobia and intolerance — and the crimes that stem from those hateful attitudes. -
The Chula Vista Police Department is the first police agency in the nation to be able to respond to 911 calls and emergencies by launching drones from anywhere in the city. But the move has its critics. -
The renewed focus on San Diego's homelessness crisis after a deadly crash downtown, the enormous toll on local small businesses after one year of pandemic closures, and Governor Gavin Newsom's political strategy as a recall effort gains momentum. -
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake rattled the arid eastern reaches of San Diego County Friday. -
Randy Ferris, 65, and Walter Jones, 61, were among nine transients struck by the out-of-control Volvo station wagon in the 1500 block of B Street shortly after 9 a.m. Monday.
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More than $2.44 billion was spent on public safety in Fiscal Year 2020, according to SANDAG's report, with roughly one out of every three general fund dollars dedicated to law enforcement for all incorporated cities with individual police departments. -
Authorities Wednesday publicly identified one of three homeless men who were killed when a station wagon with a suspected drugged driver behind the wheel jumped a curb in an East Village tunnel.
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California is one of just four states without a way to decertify police officers, alongside Hawaii, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
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