City News Service

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.

A total of 528,256 San Diego County residents have received their COVID-19 booster shots and all county vaccination sites have Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccinations available.

Closing arguments were delivered Wednesday in the trial of a former La Mesa police officer charged with lying on a police report.

The plan calls for a permanent center that migrants and asylum seekers can use while they finalize travel arrangements to other parts of the country.

There have been 16 earthquakes reported near El Centro and Imperial since midnight.

Veterans, service members and families marked the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, with a ceremony at the museum Thursday.