A child out looking at holiday lights with his family in Ocean Beach was struck by a vehicle when he stepped off the curb, San Diego police said. The family was walking on the north side of Newport Avenue after 6 p.m. Monday when the 7-year-old boy was struck by…
La Mesa California
Despite thousands of petition signatures and outcry from the North Park community, a beloved dinosaur mural on the corner of University Avenue and Ray Street has been painted over. Crews could be seen Monday spraying over the towering “Weenasaurus Rex” mural that was painted on an outer wall of what…
A woman’s body was found Tuesday in the bathroom at a rest area near Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. California Highway Patrol and the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department were called to the Aliso Creek Rest Area off Interstate 5 just after 5:30 a.m. ‘They Failed Him’: Local Veteran Suicide…
The Sweetwater Union High School District Board of Trustees approved the cash-strapped district’s plan to offer early retirement incentives to hundreds of teachers despite the County Office of Education pressing for more information gathering. The SUHSD recently made cuts to fill a $30 million budget gap. Along with adding two work furlough…
A judge called a former caregiver a “bully” when sentencing him to 15 years in prison on Monday for pushing a 94-year-old woman through a screen door, resulting in her death months later. William Sutton, 68, received the maximum sentence for charges of second-degree murder and elderly abuse resulting in…




