In a region where wildfires have ravaged entire neighborhoods, one couple's proactive approach to home hardening is setting an example for others, with defensible space inspections provided by Cal Fire.
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By 2020 there will be more than 40 million licensed drivers over the age of 65.
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California Highway Patrol officers in San Diego County arrested 61 suspected drunken drivers from Friday evening to 6 a.m. today, three more than the tally for the same pre-holiday period a year ago, the CHP announced today.
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A San Diego Unified School District Board of Education member will ask his colleagues after the new year to call for a district-wide review of safety plans in light of the shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.
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Several businesses and a restaurant at the Westfield UTC Mall were evacuated today after a tractor struck a natural gas line nearby, according to fire officials.
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A 51-year-old man trapped about 20 to 30 feet down from the bluff top take-off on the cliffs below Torrey Pines Gliderport at 2800 Torrey Pines Scenic Drive was rescued today.
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A man found guilty of robbery 58 years ago in San Diego County was among 79 people pardoned today by Gov. Jerry Brown.
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Effective Jan. 1, 2013 state law will require carbon monoxide detectors in all California condominiums and apartments with fossil-fuel burning appliances.
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The Monday after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., toys and stuffed animals began arriving by the truckload. Ten days later, the gymnasium at Edmond Town Hall in the center of Newtown is full of them.
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More than 360 weapons—including an Uzi—were collected today in an annual for Guns for Gift Cards exchange held in Southeast San Diego.
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A 61-year-old North County man was arrested today on suspicion of falsely reporting an impending shooting at an elementary school near his home six days after the second-deadliest campus gun rampage in U.S. history.
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