Michael Owen Baker
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AP
Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 10,000 employees over five years, echoing a Border Patrol expansion in the 2000s.
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The San Diego City Council Wednesday approved turning a former skydiving facility in East Village into 164 affordable housing units under an agreement with Father Joe's Villages. -
Temperatures will rise this week across the San Diego region, peaking on Wednesday and Thursday with highs between 10 to 15 degrees above normal, the National Weather Service said Tuesday. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Miro Copic was a marketing expert, a San Diego State University lecturer, and a frequent guest on KPBS radio and television. He died this week, less than a year after being diagnosed with cancer. -
More than half of Imperial County residents have health insurance through Medi-Cal, which is California’s state and federally funded Medicaid program. -
San Diego County's unemployment rate decreased to 4% in April, down from a revised 4.2% in March and above the year-ago estimate of 3.8%, according to figures released today by the state Employment Development Department. -
Tee times at Torrey Pines and Balboa Park golf courses have become increasingly hard to get. Some golfers say hackers are likely using bots to hoover up tee times and then selling them on the secondary market. City officials say they have not found evidence of this. -
The investigation will examine conditions at the county's East Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility and Youth Transition Campus, according to a statement issued Tuesday, which said the Attorney General's office will look into.
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