Jules Hotz for CalMatters
In the closing days of the legislative year, California lawmakers sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill that is meant to toughen scrutiny of the state’s embattled fire insurer of last resort by insisting that two of their leaders join its governing committee.
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KPBS Midday EditionA gang shooting in Lincoln Park killed two women on their way home from church. After the shooting, some people said the police department flooded the streets with officers arresting everybody. Others became more willing to work with police. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe town hall meeting will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul's Cathedral on Sixth Avenue. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe crime was so perfectly horrific — two women on their way home from church, two kids in the back seat — that it made people pay more attention to Southeast San Diego, a lower income and predominantly African-American pocket of the city. -
If you walk the streets in the area today, people still talk about the shooting at Dr J's Liquor in Lincoln Park and the lasting impacts it had. -
The San Diego County Sheriff's Department is now publishing records about some of its deputies accused of sexual assault after a new state law went into effect at the beginning of this year. -
KPBS Midday EditionAfter it was first reported by a San Diego Union Tribune journalist, the San Diego County Sheriff confirmed to KPBS he will not charge to produce records newly made available under a controversial state law. -
A judge allowed a coalition of San Diego media organizations, including KPBS, to intervene in a legal case over the release of documents detailing past police misconduct. -
An ex-con who allegedly riddled a Hillcrest restaurant with bullets from an assault rifle — sending terrified diners ducking for cover but somehow injuring no one — was set to appear in a San Diego courtroom Friday.
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KPBS Midday EditionThe town hall meeting will take place Friday at 5:30 p.m. at Canyon Crest Academy’s Proscenium Theater in Carmel Valley. The community discussion is called "Seeking Solutions In A Polarized World." -
A Navy petty officer whose car plunged off a soaring bridge in San Diego and killed four people below was convicted Wednesday of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.
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