Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday began "Time To Vaccinate," an education and awareness program offering resources and information employers can use to encourage their workforce to get the COVID-19 vaccine when they are able. "A key part of getting our region open and back in business safely is ensuring our workers get the vaccine when it's their turn," said Jerry Sanders, chamber president and CEO. "By joining the Time To Vaccinate program and pledging to provide time and flexibility...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Restaurants, movie theaters, fitness centers and other businesses resumed indoor activities Wednesday with San Diego County advancing into the less-restrictive red tier of the state's COVID-19 reopening blueprint. The state confirmed the move Tuesday when it reported the county's new daily COVID case rate was 6.8 per 100,000 population, the second consecutive week the county registered a sub-10 per 100,000 number, allowing for the shift to the red tier. The rate last week was 8.8 per 100,000 residents....
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Authorities on Wednesday publicly identified one of three homeless men who were killed when a station wagon with a suspected drugged driver behind the wheel jumped a curb in an East Village tunnel and plowed into a makeshift encampment on the roadside. Rodney Diffendal, 40, was one of nine people struck shortly after 9 a.m. Monday on B Street just west of 16th Street, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office. He was pronounced dead at the scene, along with a 65-year-old man and a...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Another round of showers is expected throughout San Diego County Thursday, and snow will fall in the mountains as a cold, slow-moving storm system makes its way through the region. Steady rain is expected throughout the county Thursday morning, and showers are also likely this afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. There will be a slight chance of thunderstorms throughout the day everywhere except desert areas. The rain could linger into Saturday morning in some areas, but the bulk of the...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A possible change to California's COVID-19 reopening schedule could have San Diego County promoted to the less-restrictive red tier by as early as next Wednesday, county officials announced, while reporting 349 new infections and eight additional deaths. California's Department of Public Health modified the Blueprint for a Safer Economy to lead with opening activities when vaccines have been deployed to the hardest-hit communities. The modification will shift Blueprint tier thresholds to allow slightly...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A cold storm system has arrived in San Diego County and will drop steady rain Wednesday, along with snow in the mountains, according to the National Weather Service. Thunderstorms are also possible through Friday everywhere except desert areas, forecasters said. The storm sweeping in from the northwest is expected to drop up to 1.5 inches of rain in coastal areas, up to 2 inches in the western valleys, 2.5 inches in the mountains and up to two-tenths of an inch in the deserts, according to the NWS. Snow...
CAMP PENDLETON (CNS) - Investigators sought Monday to determine what led to a three-vehicle weekend crash that killed one Marine and injured two others on the grounds of Camp Pendleton. The traffic accident, which involved the personnel's private vehicles, occurred on Las Pulgas Road about 5 p.m. Sunday, according to base officials. The fatally injured Marine died at the scene of the wreck. A second was airlifted to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla with injuries of undisclosed severity, and the other was treated at Naval...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Beginning today, the North County Transit District, in coordination with Scripps Health, will provide free, direct shuttle service between the Solana Beach Station and the Scripps Del Mar Fairgrounds vaccination super station. The shuttle expands on last month's partnership between NCTD and Metropolitan Transit System to provide free rides for people going to and from their COVID-19 vaccination appointments. Free rides will continue for all county residents traveling to other county vaccination stations, hos...
VISTA (CNS) - Authorities today are seeking a man in connection with the attempted kidnapping of a teenage girl in front of an ice cream shop in Vista. The 13-year-old girl was in front of the Water Shack ice cream shop at 807 N. Santa Fe Ave. at around 8:30 p.m. Saturday when the suspect attempted "to coax the victim to come with him," and then "reached out and grabbed her by the sweater," according to Lt. David Buether of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. The girl escaped and ran inside the business, where her...
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Disneyland, Universal Studios and other theme parks across the state, along with outdoor ballparks and stadiums, can reopen as early as April 1 subject to counties' rates of COVID-19 spread and with strict capacity-control mandates and required mask-wearing, state officials announced today. The announcement marks a major policy shift relating to theme parks, which the state had earlier said would not be permitted to reopen until their home counties reached... Full story
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The Scripps Del Mar Vaccination Super Station will be closed on Saturday due to a shortage of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine but will reopen Sunday, officials announced. Patients who had appointments at the super station on Saturday — which were all for second doses of the Pfizer vaccine — are being rescheduled for Sunday automatically through the MyTurn online appointment system. Of the county's population over the age of 16, 22.1% — or more than 594,000 people — have received at least one dose and 10.7% ...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Southern California counties and others across the state could be cleared to open more businesses and lift other restrictions sooner than anticipated under a plan announced today that will prioritize COVID-19 vaccines in communities hardest hit by the pandemic. Fueling the plan is a move announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom to set aside 40% of the state's vaccine doses for hard-hit communities, generally those that are lower income and have had higher infection rates and lower numbers of residents getting...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Acting Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Bob Fenton announced Thursday that President Joe Biden has increased disaster assistance available for two local tribes. Biden authorized an increase in the level of federal funding for public assistance projects undertaken as result of severe weather events in February 2019 for the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians in Pauma Valley in north San Diego County and the Cahuilla Band of Indians in Anza, in south Riverside County. On March 26, 2019, the La...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A settlement reached between the state and youth sports advocates stemming from a lawsuit filed on behalf of two San Diego high school athletes will pave the way for youth sports to resume statewide, it was announced Thursday. The resolution will require testing for indoor sports, though the settlement announcement included agreements with outside groups to provide testing for school districts at no cost, according to Let Them Play California. Attorney Stephen Grebing, who represented two local high school...
SAN MARCOS (CNS) - A 25-year-old woman was behind bars Thursday on suspicion of stabbing another driver following a road-rage incident last week in San Marcos. Jasmine Putnam was arrested Tuesday in connection with a fight and stabbing that happened shortly after 6 p.m. Friday on Nordahl Road just off state Route 78, CHP Officer Juan Escobar said. Prior to the fight, the drivers of a Nissan Pathfinder SUV and a Honda Civic sedan were involved in a road-rage incident on eastbound SR-78 in San Marcos, Escobar said. Both...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A cold and blustery storm doused the San Diego area with widespread precipitation today, bringing anywhere from a few hundredths of an inch to nearly an inch of moisture across the region. The heaviest rains out of the fast-moving unsettled atmospheric system hit in the late morning and afternoon, accompanied at times by lightning and hail, according to the National Weather Service. Pea-sized pellets of ice pelted various communities, with some up to a half-inch in diameter covering the ground in parts of...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials reported 352 new COVID-19 cases and 25 additional deaths Wednesday as health care sites await more vaccines, including the one-dose vaccine from Johnson & Johnson. On Wednesday, Supervisor Nathan Fletcher said the county should be proud of the sacrifice it had made during the pandemic and suggested a change in the formula the state uses to calculate its four-tiered reopening structure could be on the way. He said the...
OCEANSIDE (CNS) - A 23-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of breaking into an Oceanside home and beating up an elderly resident, police said. Dispatchers received a report of a burglary in progress shortly after 5:50 a.m. on Old Ranch Road, in the Guajome neighborhood south of state Route 76, Oceanside Police Department spokesman Tom Bussey said. Officers responded to the scene and learned that the alleged burglar had beaten up a 74-year-old man when the elderly resident discovered him inside his kitchen,...
Six victims remained hospitalized today in San Diego County following an Imperial County traffic accident that killed at least 13 people and injured more than a dozen others. Four patients were flown by air ambulance from El Centro Regional Medical Center to UC San Diego Medical Center on Tuesday, according to the California Highway Patrol. "The patients are being cared for in the (UC San Diego Medical Center) trauma center located in Hillcrest," said Jacqueline Carr, executive director of communications for UC San Diego...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials reported 269 new COVID-19 infections Monday and no deaths, while the vaccine shortage kept Petco Park's COVID-19 superstation closed and a state-led deal to reopen schools could penalize non-compliant school districts. Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders announced a multibillion-dollar deal Monday aimed at enticing schools to resume in-person instruction for young students by April 1, but previously existing San Diego Unified plans for COVID vaccinations of...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Gusty Santa Ana winds through San Diego County passes and along the coastal foothills were expected to continue Sunday through early Monday, the National Weather Service said. East winds are predicted to drop off on Monday, but it will be very dry and a little warmer, forecasters said. Cooler, onshore flow returns Tuesday. A wind advisory for many areas of Southern California will be in effect through 3 a.m. Monday to account for the gusty east winds, and includes portions of San Diego County. High...
PAUMA VALLEY (CNS) - A rider died today when a motorcycle went off state Route 76 near South Grade Road and crashed into a tree. The crash happened at 3:34 p.m. and when a California Highway Patrol officer arrived on scene, the rider was described as suffering from major trauma, according to a CHP incident log. An airship was called to the scene at 3:58 p.m. but about 4:10 p.m., the rider was pronounced dead and someone from the San Diego County Medical Examiner's office was en route to the scene, the CHP log said. No...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - As COVID-19 cases continue to decline across the state, San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond is asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to allow fans to return to Petco Park for the baseball season. Desmond sent a letter to Newsom's office asking for the governor to allow limited attendance in time for the San Diego Padres opening day, April 1. "Many other cities and teams have changed the way they operate to keep their fans safe, by limiting areas where they can congreg...
SAN DIEGO - An appeals court ruling that tossed out California's large capacity-magazine ban was vacated today, with the San Diego-based case set to be reviewed by a larger panel of judges. The decision vacates a three-justice panel's ruling to uphold a San Diego federal judge's findings that the ban on the acquisition and possession of magazines that hold more than 10 rounds was unconstitutional. On appeal, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel split 2-1 to uphold U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez's ruling, which... Full story
SAN DIEGO - A 23-year-old parolee was back behind bars today for allegedly attacking his wife during an argument at Coronado Beach, beating her and attempting to throw her into the ocean and bury her alive in the sand. The woman made a 911 call shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday to report that her husband, Jose Luis Mares III of Moreno Valley, had just tried to kill her, according to the Coronado Police Department. Officers arrived to find Mares gone and his injured wife on a sidewalk in the 900 block of Ocean Boulevard. Medics...
