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…
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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…
Seventeen years after the deadly school shooting at Santana High School, the convicted gunman is asking the governor for a sentence commutation. On March 5, 2001, Peter Ruiz Jr. was 23 years old and three weeks into his job as a security guard at the Santee school. That morning, then…
The agricultural scene in East County is changing. Options to reduce the regulatory burden for those who provide goods or services at community events on commercial agricultural properties were considered by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors at the supervisors’ Nov. 14 meeting. The county supervisors adopted two of…



