City News Service

A woman who alleges she was shot in the face with a police projectile at last year's contentious protest at La Mesa police headquarters filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the city and its police department.

San Diego County health officials issued an advisory Wednesday about ocean water quality in La Jolla, after extending a three-month beach closure Tuesay in Imperial Beach due to sewage contamination in water samples.

Gina Champion-Cain, 57, ran what prosecutors characterized in court documents as "the largest known Ponzi scheme" in the history of the Southern District of California, which encompasses San Diego and Imperial counties.

Craig Martin Voss, who previously was held on $1 million bail, was charged earlier this month with three counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and one count of driving under the influence of drugs causing injury in connection with the March 15 morning crash on B Street near San Diego City College.

Most San Diego city and county offices will be closed Wednesday in observance of the Cesar Chavez Day holiday.

A man who allegedly coordinated a human smuggling operation that led to a deadly Imperial County traffic crash that killed 13 people and injured several others made his initial court appearance Tuesday on federal charges.

It's going to feel a lot like summer across much of San Diego County starting Wednesday.

It is a long-inactive commission focusing on the needs of women and recommending programs intended to fix gender inequality.

Hundreds of people lined the street Monday at an Allied Gardens gas station waiting to get free gas.