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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The county Department of Environmental Health and Quality extended the closure of the Silver Strand shoreline on Sunday, due to sewage flow from the Tijuana River.
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The San Diego County Sheriff's Office is sending out extra patrols Monday near fertility centers following Saturday's deadly bombing of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs.
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In recent years, dozens of officers worked more than 1,000 hours of overtime annually. Experts say these levels of extra work can lead to accidents and poor decision making in use of force situations.
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A prominent attorney says it’s likely to be a “one-side parole hearing in their favor,” because all surviving family members are in favor of them being released.
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Her callout of the county leadership comes a day after sewage flow across the U.S.-Mexico border temporarily increased in the Tijuana River Valley as part of a sewer line-repair project in Mexico.
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It appeared to be part of a deal between the Sinaloa Cartel's Ovidio Guzmán López and the Trump administration. The family flew from Sinaloa to Tijuana and crossed on foot to San Diego.
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Prosecutors say Jacqueline Ma, 36, groomed two boys and entered into a sexual relationship with one of the boys beginning when he was 12 years old.
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California Republicans, moderate Dems push for harsher penalties for soliciting sex from older teensCurrent law makes soliciting a felony if the victims were under age 16. Moderate Democrats and Republicans say it doesn't go far enough to protect children.
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Groups that support California crime victims and attempt to reduce gun violence lost millions of dollars in grants when the Trump administration pulled funding.
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California regulators have released a new proposal to allow the testing of self-driving heavy duty trucks on public roads.
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