City News Service

Gov. Gavin Newsom reversed a parole board's decision to release a 59-year-old man who was a teenage gang member when he killed a San Diego police officer in 1978, the San Diego County District Attorney's Office announced Tuesday.

San Diego County is awaiting reopening data from the state Tuesday to find out if the region will remain in the second — or red — tier of the state's four tier COVID-19 reopening plan.

Pham was attacked Sunday evening after leaving a Midway-area strip club and coming upon an argument involving several people near his parked car, one of whom knifed him when he asked them to move away from the vehicle.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday for the first criminal trial to be held in San Diego Superior Court since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

San Diego County public health officials have reported 408 new COVID-19 infections and one more death from the illness, raising the county's totals to 50,551 cases and 826 fatalities.

A strong high-pressure system over the Pacific Ocean will expand over Southern California this week, weather forecasters said Sunday, bringing heat, low relative humidity and gusty winds to San Diego County, enhancing the wildfire risk.

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

A brush fire blackened scores of open acres in the area of Barnett Ranch County Preserve.

The lawsuit comes days after Fletcher announced he is taking a medical leave due to trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol abuse.