City News Service

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in San Diego County resumed increasing Tuesday, rising 1.7 cents to $4.57, one day after a six-day streak of increases totaling 3 cents ended when it dropped one-tenth of a cent.

The 16-year-old bucking male horse died shortly after competing in a saddle bronc event on Jan. 11, according to a report from Dr. Tim Eastman, the attending veterinarian at the rodeo.

Dr. Ankita Kadakia, the county's interim public health officer, will speak about the results obtained in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey conducted in October 2024.

The latest forecasts have the rain arriving Wednesday and lingering off and on through Friday, before skies clear up next Saturday.

The doubling, passed in an effort to address a looming $252.2 million deficit, is expected to bring in $800,000 each month for an average of $9.6 million annually.

Firefighters working to snuff out all remaining hot spots at the site of a wildfire that scorched some 10 square miles of remote terrain in the far southern reaches of the San Diego area over the past week had the sprawling burn zone fully contained Thursday.

Earlier this month, supervisors unanimously voted to oppose any further placements of sexually violent predators until local jurisdictions are able to fully participate in the placement process, including having full veto authority.