City News Service

The average price has dropped 46.1 cents since rising to a record $6.435 on Oct. 5.

The tropical moisture was predicted to move across Southern California Friday night, followed by weak ridging Saturday afternoon through Sunday for warm, dry weather.

A run of 54 increases in 58 days totaling $1.045 that boosted the average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in San Diego County to its highest amount since Oct. 17 ended Thursday with the decrease of a half-cent to $5.989.

Not much change or slight cooling was predicted for the early and middle part of next week.

Thursday is the final day to file a claim for $543,171 in county unclaimed monies before it is rolled into the county general fund.

There have been no locally contracted human West Nile virus cases reported.

After two months of closure, rail service between Orange County and San Diego County resumed Monday on both Metrolink and Amtrak lines.

The weather forecast has led the Padres to cancel FanFest on Sunday.

There were no reports of any damage or public threats related to the quake.