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
Sorted by date Results 651 - 675 of 2047
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Authorities on Thursday released an artist's rendering in hopes of identifying a man whose body was found in a burning dumpster outside of a Scripps Ranch grocery store nearly four decades ago. About 5 a.m. on Sept. 28, 1981, employees at Big Bear Super Market on Mira Mesa Bouelvard near Scripps Ranch Boulevard called 911 after smelling smoke coming from the back of the business, according to San Diego police. Firefighters arrived to find a trash dumpster...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County's COVID-19 numbers are headed in the right direction, leaders said Wednesday, even as the county reported 539 new infections of the virus and 57 deaths. San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher said a supply chain issue with vaccines last weekend has been resolved but it shows how thin the margins are for delays and mistakes in the system. A delayed shipment of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in San Diego County following a shorta...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials reported 810 new COVID-19 cases and 51 deaths today as the county announced plans for a new vaccination super station at the Del Mar Fairgrounds to open Friday. The percentage of positive tests and hospitalizations continued to decline Wednesday, good indicators the pandemic may finally be on the wane, despite the heavy death toll. Of 19,461 tests reported by the county's Health and Human Services Agency on Wednesday, 4% returned positive, dropping the 14-day rolling...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County congressman Darrell Issa, R-Bonsall, was appointed today to two House Foreign Affairs subcommittees. Issa was named to the Africa, Global Health, and Global Human Rights subcommittee and the International Development, International Organizations and Global Corporate Social Impact subcommittee. According to a statement, the Africa, Global Health, and Global Human Rights subcommittee exercises oversight on human rights practices and activities of the United Nations in sub-Saharan Africa,...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Scripps Health, San Diego County and the Del Mar Fairgrounds are partnering to open a COVID-19 vaccination super station at the fairgrounds on Friday, it was announced. The Scripps Del Mar Fairgrounds Vaccination Super Station, located at 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., will provide drive-through and walk-through services on an appointment-only basis to anyone eligible to receive a shot under county guidelines. "Scripps Health is pleased to collaborate with the county and the Del Mar Fairgrounds on what will be a...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - President Joe Biden announced Wednesday he has nominated El Cajon native Mayra Alvarez to serve on the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. Alvarez is one of a dozen people nominated to serve as non-federal members of the task force, which was created to help ensure an equitable response to the pandemic, according to White House officials. For the past five years, Alvarez has been the president of The Children's Partnership, a nonprofit children's advocacy organization. From 2010 to 2014, the Los...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Gov. Gavin Newsom toured the Vaccination Super Station at Petco Park Monday and congratulated San Diego on its work administering doses at the state's first-of-its-kind mass vaccination site, nearly one month after it opened. The governor held his daily COVID-19 update on the infield of Petco Park, during which he said San Diego ``inspired others all throughout the state of California'' with its vaccination super station, where about one-third of all county residents who have been vaccinated received their d...
DEL MAR (CNS) - Organizers of the Breeders' Cup World Championships are delaying ticket sales for the November horse racing event until there is more clarity from COVID-19 vaccine progress and event restrictions, it was announced Monday. Drew Fleming, president and CEO of Breeders' Cup Limited, said it was still his intention to have fans in person at the two-day event, planned for Nov. 5-6 at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. "As always, the health and safety of our fans, participants, employees, athletes and the public remain...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials reported 698 new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths as UC San Diego Health opened a vaccination super station on its campus Monday. The new infections are the fewest reported in a single day since Nov. 13, when 611 were reported. Monday's data raises the aggregate coronavirus infections in the county to 247,262, while the death toll remains at 2,821. Monday's low numbers do come with some caveats, however. Mondays have tended to be the lowest-reporting day of the week,...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials on Sunday reported 1,230 new COVID-19 infections and nine additional deaths from the virus. After Tuesday's case totals came in at 926, ending a 63-day streak with more than 1,000 cases, it appeared the pandemic in San Diego County was ebbing. On Wednesday, the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency reported 968 new cases, but 1,598 new cases were reported on Thursday. Sunday's' report pushed the aggregate coronavirus numbers in the county to 246,564 cases...
OCEANSIDE (CNS) - Police were continuing a search Sunday for a missing "at risk" 73-year-old man who was last seen in Oceanside at 4 p.m. Saturday. Edgar Cruz, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, was last seen at 3229 Mission Ave., the Oceanside Police Department said. He was described as 5-feet-9-inches tall, weighing 160 pounds and wearing a blue baseball cap, dark jacket and dark jeans. Anyone with information to help locate Cruz was urged to call 911 or the police at 760-435-4911....
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A man who fell from his skateboard and landed in a road at UC San Diego was killed when he was struck by a vehicle, police said today. The incident happened at 11:35 p.m. Friday when the 19-year-old man was skateboarding on Voight Drive, said Officer Tony Martinez of the San Diego Police Department. ``He lost control and fell from his skateboard, landing in the middle of the roadway,'' Martinez said. Some time later, a 20-year-old man was driving westbound in a Nissan Maxima and ran over the skateboarder... Full story
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public-health officials on Friday reported 1,453 new COVID-19 infections and 39 deaths from the virus, including the county's first pediatric fatality. The 10-year-old boy who died from the disease had underlying medical conditions, according to Dr. Wilma Wooten, county public health officer. "This boy's death is a somber reminder that this pandemic impacts everyone in our community, regardless of their age, and we must do everything we can to protect each other and slow the spread of the...
VISTA (CNS) - A suspected drunken motorist accused of driving in the wrong direction on a North County highway and crashing head-on into another vehicle, killing its driver, pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and other charges. Robert Nicholas Spence, 36, is accused in the Jan. 3 death of 24-year-old Danielle Foust on state Route 78 in Vista. Both drivers were taken to hospitals, where Foust died. Spence remains hospitalized due to serious injuries he suffered in the crash, and his plea was entered Friday morning from the...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A 65-year-old man from East County is the first influenza death reported in San Diego County this season, the county Health and Human Services Agency announced Wednesday. The man, who was also diagnosed with the coronavirus, died Jan. 13, had underlying medical conditions and had been vaccinated against influenza. "Influenza deaths are very unfortunate, but they do occur every flu season," said Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county public health officer. "While influenza activity has been very low this season, San...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The National Lacrosse League and its local affiliate the San Diego Seals announced today that the league is canceling plans for an abbreviated season this spring due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and will instead aim for a fall start. "We have gone through many scenarios — but the logistical challenges, including the recently announced tighter travel and quarantine restrictions across the Canadian border have required us to pivot," NLL Commissioner Nick Sakiewicz said. "We have decided to focus on p...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer on Monday officially began his campaign for governor, criticizing Gov. Gavin Newsom for such issues as income inequality and homelessness and pledging to begin the "California comeback." "California has become the land of broken promises," Faulconer said in an approximately 2 1/2-minute video released on YouTube. "We can clean up California and it starts at the top. "Governor Newsom's ruling class has failed us. He promised equality but gave us some of the worst income...
AN DIEGO (CNS) - Criminal charges are unlikely to be filed against a U.S. Capitol Police lieutenant who killed Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol last month, because a preliminary investigation has not found enough evidence to forward such a recommendation to federal prosecutors, it was reported Monday night. Officials warned, however, the investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, was not complete, according to The New York Times. Video footage from the Jan. 6 raid...
SAN MARCOS (CNS) - North County residents are now able to get COVID-19 vaccines closer to home, as San Diego County opened its third Vaccination Super Station Sunday at Cal State San Marcos Sports Center. "The vaccine offers our pathway out of this, the road to recovery, to restoring, to renewing,'' Board of Supervisors Chairman Nathan Fletcher said before the first patients with appointments started getting a dose of the vaccine at 9:30 a.m. Fletcher said the initial goal set in early January was to give 200,000 vaccinations...
SAN DIEGO - After hikers discovered a body in the water today in Mission Trails Regional Park, the site of a search to find a man who went missing Friday, police said they have "reason to believe'' it was the missing man's remains. Official confirmation of his identity would come later from the San Diego County Medical Examiner's office, according to Officer Darius Jamsetjee of the San Diego Police Department. Max Lenail was last seen Friday at Mission Trails, where he went...
SAN DIEGO - Two San Diego-area high school athletes are suing the state and county over coronavirus restrictions on high school sports, as part of a larger call on state leadership to allow youth sports to resume. The lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court alleges millions of student athletes across the state have been barred from participating in athletic activities without adequate medical evidence to support the restrictions. The complaint filed Thursday on behalf of Nicholas Gardinera, a senior at Scripps Ranch High...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials reported 1,670 new COVID-19 infections and 37 deaths Friday, Jan. 29, as hospitalizations related to the virus continue to decline. Friday was the 60th consecutive day with more than 1,000 new cases, bringing the county's cumulative COVID-19 case total to 234,640 and the death toll to 2,571. The number of people in local hospitals with the virus declined to 1,391 Friday, down more than 400 patients from Jan. 12's record 1,804. A record number of patients in intensive...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Two San Diego-area high school athletes are suing the state and county over coronavirus restrictions on high school sports, as part of a larger call today on state leadership to allow youth sports to resume. The lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court alleges millions of student athletes across the state have been barred from participating in athletic activities without adequate medical evidence to support the restrictions. The complaint filed Thursday on behalf of Nicholas Gardinera, a senior at Scripps R...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The third winter storm of the week has arrived in San Diego County, bringing heavy rain to the region Friday along with snow in the mountains, according to the National Weather Service. The "atmospheric river'' is making its way east across the county, with the heaviest rainfall expected early Friday morning, then scattered showers into Friday afternoon, forecasters said. The weather agency issued a flash flood watch that will be in effect through Friday afternoon in coastal areas, western valleys and the...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The California State Senate confirmed Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, as Secretary of State today in a 29-0 floor vote. The post opened when former secretary of state Alex Padilla, a Democrat from Pacoima, was named by Gov. Gavin Newsom to fill Kamala Harris' U.S. Senate seat when she became vice president. James Schwab served as interim secretary of state while Weber's appointment was pending. "Dr. King teaches us that we are at our best when we stand up in service of others and I am humbled to...
