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Temperatures in San Diego County are expected to plummet tonight, and the conditions could be life-threatening for the hundreds of homeless people on the streets. -
There are reports from a variety of states about local lawmakers who want to give teachers the right to bring guns to school. They're making the case that school shootings such as the one Friday in Newtown, Conn., that left 20 small children and six adults dead could be prevented or stopped if some school staffers were armed. -
Some of today's headlines and news about the shootings at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., last Friday. Twenty children and six adults were killed by the gunman who attacked Sandy Hook Elementary: -
The National Rifle Association says it will hold a major news conference Friday -- a week after the school massacre in Connecticut -- and that it is "prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again." -
It's a nervous time for companies that make and sell guns. -
The stage appears to be set for a renewed debate about gun control. The NRA and other proponents of gun owners' rights have been silent in the aftermath of the Newtown shootings, but many will question the benefits of possible restrictions. -
DUI offenders who are at high risk of making the same mistake are being closely monitored by the San Diego County Probation Department. -
Driving a taxi is a notoriously dangerous profession. It’s been a little over a year since two taxi drivers in the San Diego region were killed in robberies. Yet in that time, progress on safety improvements for cabs has stalled. -
One of the 6-year-old students killed in Friday's school shooting in Connecticut was a former San Diego resident, it was learned today. -
San Diego police were maintaining a higher-than-usual presence at schools today in response to the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, where a gunman killed 20 children, including a 6-year-old girl who used to live in Mira Mesa, San Diego Unified School District officials said.
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