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The conservative activist had visited both San Diego State University and UC San Diego in recent years.
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KPBS Midday EditionThe flames that raced across California wine country left little more than smoldering ashes and eye-stinging smoke in their wake. House after house was gone, with only brick chimneys and charred laundry machines to mark sites that were once family homes. -
Wildfires whipped by powerful winds swept through California wine country Monday, killing at least 10 people, destroying 1,500 homes and businesses and sending thousands fleeing as flames raged unchecked through high-end resorts, grocery stores and tree-lined neighborhoods. -
The first Santa Ana winds of the season will arrive Monday, with the potential to blast parts of San Diego County with gusts of up to 50 miles per hour and increase fire risk, the National Weather Service said Sunday. -
The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department is increasing staffing levels in anticipation of increased risk of fire activity. -
San Diego's top law enforcement officials issued a dire warning on Friday about a dramatic surge in deaths and international trafficking activity related to fentanyl and its even more deadly cousin, carfentanil. -
"Several years of drought coupled with heavy rains this past winter created significant fuel in the form of underbrush and grass,'' department spokeswoman Monica Munoz said. "This fuel, combined with hot temperatures and low humidity, create conditions which are conducive to easily ignited and fast burning wildfires.''
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Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock booked rooms over other music festivals in the months before opening fire on a country music festival, authorities said, while thousands came out to mourn a police officer who was one of the 58 people he killed. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is offering training in bystander intervention to community members who want to learn what they can do to deescalate incidents of hate. -
Bob Murray & Associates will assist the city of San Diego in its search to replace Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman. -
Three San Diego-area lawmen who survived Sunday's mass shooting in Las Vegas, providing aid to wounded victims while scrambling to save themselves and their loved ones, made their first public statements about their ordeals Wednesday.
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