As communities in Northern California and Ventura County are ravaged by unrelenting wildfires, San Diego County is also facing elevated fire conditions that could be set off by just one small spark. “It’s indicative of the conditions that we’re facing, not only as a county, but across the state,” Cal…
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President Donald Trump personally asked the publisher of the National Enquirer, his longtime friend David Pecker, to help his presidential campaign by silencing women who might come forward with details of his sexual relationships with them, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. According to the Journal, then-candidate Trump asked Pecker…
A man convicted of shooting and killing a woman in her Santee home two years ago during a home invasion robbery will spend the rest of his life in prison. Jose Nunez-Torres, 23, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole for the slaying of Leticia Arroyo, 34. A…
A new exhibit to explore how USS San Diego sank — the only World War I vessel to sink during the war — has opened at the National Museum of the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C. WWI cruiser USS San Diego took the lives of six Navy sailors when it…
SAN DIEGO — A motorcyclist killed in a collision on Interstate 8 in La Mesa was identified Thursday as a retired deputy federal marshal who was en route to his job as a court security officer at the time of the fatal accident. John Brady, 65, was riding to the…
With Jeff Sessions now out as attorney general, President Donald Trump’s choice to fill his shoes, at least temporarily, is in the position to have a significant impact on the scope of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, NBC News reports. Matthew Whitaker, who…
A popular park in Santee will be closed beginning next month and well into 2019 as the city launches a $10 million renovation of the site. Mast Park – located at 9125 Carlton Hills Blvd., near the San Diego River – will undergo extensive upgrades to many of its amenities,…
Early poll results suggest a change could be coming to the way the city of Del Mar makes land use decisions. Measure P proposes an amendment to the Del Mar City Charter that would allow the city “maximum local control” over land use decisions consistent with the city’s Community Plan.…
Two incumbent San Diego City Council members appear to have been unseated during the 2018 Midterm Elections, early polling numbers suggest. It’s been nearly three decades since a city council incumbent lost an election in the city of San Diego. Council members Lorie Zapf and Myrtle Cole, both Republicans, who…
A gas leak in Vista Wednesday affected two nearby schools, prompting one campus to shelter-in-place and the other to evacuate. San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) public information officer Joe Britton said a 3-inch gas line was struck by construction crews digging at Olive Avenue and Maryland Drive at around…
Santana had never played in a CIF girls’ volleyball finals match, and early against High Tech San Diego it showed. The Sultans were trailing 2-0 and fell behind 8-1 in the third set when something changed. They started having fun. Santana’s nerves disappeared with each point. Mistakes went from being…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be providing the San Diego County Regional Fire Authority with a $113,637 grant to purchase fire apparatus exhaust systems at four fire stations, and on Oct. 30 the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 with Ron Roberts in Asia on business travel…
The libraries have a fan club in San Diego County. County Supervisors have accepted a sizeable donation for the Rancho San Diego branch library. If a donation to a County of San Diego entity exceeds $5,000 the donation must be approved by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, which…
Grossmont College’s men’s and women’s water polo teams represented themselves well at this year’s Pacific Coast Athletic Conference championship tournament held Nov. 2-3 at Southwestern College’s new aquatics complex. Five teams competed in each gender field. Top-seeded Grossmont College defeated second-seeded Palomar College, 21-7, in the men’s final while third-seeded…
It is Sunday here in Utah as it is back home in Alpine, California. It seems like I have been traveling for a long while, first three weeks in Peru’s Andes Mountains and now a week in Utah. I wanted to share some thoughts about my trip, the people here…
San Diego voters are set to cast ballots in a variety of local and statewide contests, including the race for California governor and a few contentious congressional districts, when polls open at 7 a.m. Tuesday. Here is what you need to know: Find your polling place There are hundreds of…
NBC stations around the country asked voters why they are or aren’t inspired to vote in the 2018 midterm elections. We received scores of responses from viewers who said they were of voting age and identified as Democrats, Republicans, Independents, or who preferred not to disclose their party affiliation. Check…
Gracie Lou Phillips, an 82-year-old North Texas woman who voted for the first time in her life last week, died surrounded by family members early Monday morning, her family confirms. Phillips, who was transitioning to hospice care when she joined 4.8 million Texans who chose to vote early in the…
A far-right troll told others that he was immediately banned from Twitter for deliberately sharing the wrong election date, according to NBC News, which had a reporter mistakenly added to trolls’ private chats online. “Were they really banning people for saying [vote on] November 7? Lol, whoops,” wrote the user,…
Foodies and winos rejoice because Southern California’s largest food and wine festival is making its way to San Diego’s Embarcadero this weekend. The 15th annual San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival arrives on Nov. 11 to treat locals and visitors to eight-days of wine tasting seminars, cooking classes, bites…