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Lt. DeWayne Smith served as a supervisor on the now-deactivated SCORPION unit — the specialized police unit responsible for conducting the traffic stop that ultimately lead to Nichols' death.

Federal transportation investigators are on the ground Tuesday, trying to piece together what led to the deadly crash in Santee on Monday afternoon. Plus, in-person school just started up again and now parents have a chance to send their children to their preferred school. And, doctors and hospitals are looking at a new way to treat drug addictions, asking patients, “What do you need from us?”

Break Up with Offshore Drilling Now! Please join us at North County Climate Change Alliance for this important call to action and presentation followed by Q&A with Brady Bradshaw! He will show us how we can protect our beautiful California coastline and fight the climate crisis. Date | Thursday, April 14, 2022 at 5:30pm Location | Virtual Zoom Link Register here! Free event We will learn about the status of existing offshore drilling, and the efforts being done by the Center for Biological Diversity on this crucial issue. Other topics covered in this talk, will include, what is being done at the state level, information about SB 953, what needs to be done on the federal level, and who should be responsible for decommissioning cost. Most importantly we will discover what we can do as individuals to amplify this very important work! For further information on this event and zoom link registration please visit: https://ncccalliance.org/event/break-up-with-offshore-drilling-now/

The man's prosecution is the first brought by the Fentanyl Abatement and Suppression Team — or FAST — a multi-agency effort created in September and led by Homeland Security Investigations.

Immigrant advocates are hoping a federal appeals court will uphold the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

The latest milestone is encouraging but there’s a growing concern in California as hospitalizations are rising in regions with low vaccination rates. Plus, the fallout against San Diego Unified’s proposal for a “mental health” day off after Veterans Day has some parents questioning whether the district is telling the truth about school staffing issues. Also, the federal government’s ban on non-essential cross-border travel was the enemy that San Diego’s political establishment needed to find its voice on border advocacy. And, from the archive, an interview with Sara Clarke Kaplan, the author of "The Black Reproductive: Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood," which looks at Black freedom and the dismantling of oppressive systems through the lens of Black reproduction and Black feminist theory. Finally, KPBS film critic Beth Accomando discusses a documentary on controversial author Saul Bellow with filmmaker Asaf Galay. The film screens tonight at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival.

An academic consortium called PRISM wants to remove the data processing bottleneck that stands in the way of artificial intelligence and things like drug discovery.

The settlement stems from a lawsuit brought by the family of 32-year-old Lucky Phounsy, who died following his April 13, 2015, arrest in Santee.

Sure, there are some in Washington hoping to enrich themselves with federal contracts and to corruptly influence policy, but many are drawn, as one resident says, to make the world a better place.

The protests have carried on for weeks since the leak of a draft of the court's eventual decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. State officials had previously called on federal law enforcement for help.