City News Service

San Diego State University's football team will play its 2021 home games at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson while the university works on its new stadium in Mission Valley, school officials announced Tuesday.

Crews strove Tuesday to get full lines of control around the smoldering remnants of the Valley Fire, which blackened thousands of acres in rural eastern San Diego County last week, leveling dozens of homes and forcing widespread evacuations.

The brother of ex-Chabad of Poway Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein pleaded guilty Monday to federal tax evasion charges for his role in a scheme that was committed with his sibling's help and involved concealing more than $700,000 in earnings from the IRS.

The state will release its assessment of San Diego County Tuesday and reveal whether the region's case rate and testing positivity percentage remain in Tier 2.

The limited pilot program will roll out incrementally at UCSD later this month. UC San Francisco will start using the technology a few weeks later for students, faculty and staff participating in onsite activities at select locations.

Scripps Health announced Monday it has established a COVID-19 Vaccine Committee to recommend which coronavirus vaccine or vaccines to consider offering for patients, employees and physicians.

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.