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A burglary suspect that was shot and killed in El Cajon while breaking into a car was identified Tuesday, police confirmed.Joseph Mercurio, 31, was caught burglarizing a vehicle in front of a home on Chase Avenue last Sunday, according to the El Cajon Police Department.  In the midst of a…

President Donald Trump’s new pick to run the CIA, Gina Haspel, is a career officer who ran a secret prison in Thailand, or CIA black site, where suspected terrorists were waterboarded. She would be the first woman to head the agency.Haspel, who was named the CIA’s deputy director in February…

Thousands of children’s shoes were on display outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday as a temporary memorial to children killed by gun violence.The Monument for Our Kids, made up for 7,000 pairs of shoes, represents every a child killed with a gun since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, organizers said.  Teens…

Teachers at a high school in Maryland were required to attend a lockdown training presentation where they were shown a graphic video of what they said appeared to be students being shot in the Columbine High School massacre.The principal of Laurel High School showed raw security video and played frantic…

Classrooms across the country are still trying to return to a sense of normalcy nearly one month since a gunman killed 17 people at South Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.NBC News created a questionnaire to gauge from teachers what’s changed for them since the shooting and how their students…

A hit-and-run driver who stopped to check on his victim before leaving the scene will serve a year in prison and three years of probation. Justin Parker, 39, of Encinitas, was sentenced Monday in a San Diego courtroom for his role in a hit-and-run incident that landed a woman in the…

SDSU West will join Soccer City on the November ballot after a unanimous vote Monday by the San Diego City Council.SDSU West is the proposed redevelopment of the Mission Valley site where SDCCU Stadium currently sits. Their idea is to build a new 35,000-seat stadium for the Aztecs football program…

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr, an outspoken gun control advocate, joined U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna for a town hall with high school students discussing gun violence Monday. The town hall, dubbed a “conversation on gun violence,” took place at Newark Memorial High School. It featured about 2,000 people from…

Police are on the lookout for a hit and run driver who killed a Chula Vista man.Roger Arellano, 62, was hit and killed near the corner of Moss Street and 4th Avenue Sunday night less than a block from his home. Officers on Local Bases Asked to Return Overpaid Funds…

Parents of children attending school in Chula Vista, elected officials, school staff and Chula Vista police lined the auditorium Monday evening at Camarena Elementary and addressed school safety.The effort was in response to the tragic mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people on Valentine’s Day. Chula Vista Hit…

Dozens gathered at in Barrio Logan and Downtown San Diego Monday to protest President Donald Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall and deportation policies. This coming one day before the president is scheduled to come to San Diego Tuesday. On his agenda, talks with local marines as well as examination of the…

Nearly 100 civilian police officers hired to augment military police on Marine and Navy bases in North County are being asked by the federal government to pay back tens of thousands of dollars in wages after it was discovered the federal government had made an error in determining their pay…

All eastbound lanes of Interstate 8 near State Route 163 in Mission Valley have been reopened after a brief closure due to a vehicle crash.Responders at the scene were investigating reports that two passengers were ejected from the vehicle. Chula Vista Hit and Run Victim ‘Always Kept Me Happy’: Wife…

A key member of President Donald Trump’s national security team is already in San Diego.Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen arrived in San Diego Monday on a last-minute scheduled visit, on her way home from South Korea. Chula Vista Hit and Run Victim ‘Always Kept Me Happy’: Wife Secretary Nielsen…

Tieray Jones, the man accused of killing his 2-year-old stepson and disposing of his body, told the jury during trial Monday that he refused a plea deal because he couldn’t admit to a crime he didn’t commit.Jones told the jury that he could have pleaded guilty to the lesser crime of involuntary manslaughter but…

President Donald Trump will travel to California for his first visit since taking office and days after his administration filed a lawsuit against the state.The president to spend part of his time at the U.S.-Mexico border in Otay Mesa inspecting designs for his proposed border wall. Injuries Reported After Bus…

Passengers are using San Diego’s first freeway-level transit stations along State Route 15 at University Avenue and El Cajon Boulevard for the first time this week.It’s “really speed service for us,” Rob Schupp, Director of Marketing for MTS said as he described the new project that built transit-only lanes from…

Cellphone video captured a driver’s intense escape after an alleged hit-and-run crash in Miami Sunday afternoon, where at one point someone bashed in several of the car’s windows with a mallet.In the video, the driver of a badly damaged silver Infiniti SUV reversed the car out of the scene of…