City News Service

A former La Mesa police officer was acquitted Friday of a felony count of falsifying a police report in connection with his high-profile arrest of a young Black man.

San Diego County identified its first case of the Omicron COVID-19 variant Thursday, the county Health and Human Services Agency announced.

Use of force by San Diego County Sheriff's Department personnel involved Black citizens four times as often as white ones over a five-year period ending last year, even though the latter demographic is nearly 10 times more represented within the local population, according to a study released Thursday.

A man was acquitted Thursday of charges related to a downtown protest in which multiple San Diego police officers were pepper sprayed.

San Diego County identified its first case of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, the county Health and Human Services Agency announced Thursday.

A former La Jolla media executive who paid more than $500,000 to get her children into prestigious universities as part of the wide-ranging college admissions bribery scandal was sentenced Thursday to six weeks in prison, plus one year of home confinement.

California has been battered by 10 previous atmospheric rivers this winter.

The latest in-custody death comes on the heels of news that a sheriff’s deputy was arrested for allegedly having illegal drugs on county jail property.

Officials with the U.S. Department of Transportation issued a statement in response to Southwest's cancellations, noting that the department will be looking into the situation.