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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday heard a proposal to reduce light pollution in two rural communities. The proposed amendment to the county's Light Pollution Chapter ordinance would cover the Julian and Borrego Springs Community Planning Areas. Both would be considered "Zone C" to receive a Dark Sky Community designation, which is generally more restrictive, according to a presentation at Wednesday's board meeting. Along with unanimously approving the ordinance amendment on first...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The Board of Supervisors on Wednesday unanimously approved a draft version of a North County region conservation plan. The board voted to receive the revised North County Multiple Species Conservation Plan, which according to the Parks and Recreation Department would provide the greatest environmental benefits. Along with preserving open space, the goals of the North County plan are to protect water resources, create recreational opportunities, promote agricultural operations and reduce greenhouse gas...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials reported 330 new COVID-19 cases and four additional coronavirus fatalities today, raising the region's total to 55,540 cases and 881 deaths. These statistics come a day after the county avoided the state's "purple" tier for yet another week, remaining in the less restrictive "red" tier of the state's four-tiered coronavirus monitoring system. The county's adjusted case rate dropped to 6.5 new daily COVID-19 cases per...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County Undersheriff Michael Barnett has decided to retire but will remain second in command on a part-time basis into next year, the department announced Wednesday. Barnett will retire Nov. 20 after 29-plus years spanning four different bureaus in the San Diego County Sheriff's Department — Law Enforcement, Detentions, Human Resources and Office of the Sheriff. He will convert to a "960" schedule — meaning he will work part-time on an hourly basis for up to 960 hours a year, the San Diego Uni...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A Silver Alert was issued for San Diego County and five other counties for a 66-year-old man, who suffers from a medical condition and went missing in Riverside this afternoon. Jimmie Johnson was last seen about 5 p.m. near Arlington Avenue and Tyler Street, according to the California Highway Patrol, which issued the alert on behalf of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. Johnson may be wearing a dark blue shirt with beige and burgundy stripes, red...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego County Registrar of Voters has received more than 560,000 ballots, it was announced today, more than three times the amount received at this point before the 2016 election. With less than two weeks remaining before the Nov. 3 election, the ballots are in the process of being put through a sorting machine that captures images of voters' signatures for comparison to ones the registrar has on file. Mail-in ballots were sent to all 1.9 million registered voters in the county on Oct. 5, even to...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials on Sunday reported 373 new cases of COVID-19 and no new deaths, bringing the county's totals to 52,355 and the death toll remaining at 853. Officials are imploring San Diegans to maintain vigilance as positive case rates for the coronavirus continue to increase in the region. "We are now concerned about the trends and we are concerned about the likelihood we could tip back to purple, Supervisor Nathan Fletcher said on...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials reported 303 new COVID-19 infections and four virus-related deaths today, raising the region's totals to 51,327 cases and 844 deaths. This comes a day after state data confirmed the county will remain in the red, or substantial, tier of the state's four-tier COVID-19 reopening plan for at least another week. County supervisors Greg Cox and Nathan Fletcher said staying in red wasn't good enough. Cox said the red tier's restrictions still made it incredibly difficult...
ESCONDIDO (CNS) - A rollover crash on Interstate 15 in Escondido reportedly led to one death early Wednesday morning. The crash was reported around 4:35 a.m. on southbound Interstate 15 north of Felicita Road, according to the California Highway Patrol. A caller told dispatchers a silver SUV had overturned and come to a rest blocking the two right lanes of southbound I-15, according to the CHP. One person was killed in the crash, NBC7 reported. The circumstances leading up to the crash were under investigation and it was not...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Food baskets heading out to families in the San Diego Unified School District today will be sent without a letter from President Donald Trump. District officials say the letter is misleading about ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The letter has been placed in millions of boxes across the country that are part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's $4 billion Farmers to Families Food Box Program. Since May, the program has distributed more than 100 million boxes, but the letter is a new development....
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County reported 236 new cases of COVID-19 and five additional deaths today, raising the county's totals to 48,436 cases and 803 fatalities. Four of the 236 new cases are connected to San Diego State University and two previously reported confirmed cases are now associated with SDSU, bringing the total number of cases there to 1,127, according to public health officials. Five men died between Sept. 6 and Sept. 21 and their ages ranged from mid-40s to mid-80s, officials said Sunday. All five had...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A low pressure system has started moving into the San Diego region, bringing a cooling trend that is expected to continue through at least the middle of the week, according to the National Weather Service. For much of the past week, a summer-like autumn heat wave kept the San Diego area roasting. The unseasonable, high pressure-driven system led to thermometer readings from the low 80s to the triple digits, the NWS reported. But the high pressure system that brought last week's scorching temperatures has...
More than 3,000 lab kits, ranging from blood typing chemicals to animal organs for at-home lab work, have been distributed to MiraCosta College students forced into long-distance learning by the COVID-19 pandemic, school officials said Friday, Sept. 25. The school's classes were moved online because of pandemic-related campus closures. College officials said moving the entire science lab curriculum online involved determining what the in-home labs would include and assembling some kits either on campus or purchasing them...
A San Diego federal judge has denied the state of California’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its assault weapon ban, which was brought on by a group of San Diego County gun owners and Second Amendment rights proponents. U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez stated in a written ruling Wednesday, Sept. 23, that the potentially serious criminal penalties one faces for violating California’s assault weapon laws provide sufficient standing for the lawsuit to proceed. The suit filed in 2019 in San Diego federal court cha...
A $10 million claim was filed Thursday, Sept. 24, against Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula on behalf of a woman who alleged she was sexually assaulted in March by an employee who took advantage of her because she was intoxicated. A Pechanga representative did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the claim, the precursor to a lawsuit. The woman’s attorney, Gloria Allred, identified her client as “Michele” during a Los Angeles news conference in which both were sharply critical of the Riverside County District At...
OCEANSIDE (CNS) - Authorities on Wednesday publicly identified a 68-year-old woman who was asleep on the sand at Oceanside Harbor Beach when she was run over and killed by a tractor being used on a dredging project. Carol Ann Aguirre was fully clothed and apparently asleep when the construction vehicle hit her at the waterfront off the 1200 block of North Pacific Street at about 10 a.m. Monday, Oceanside Police spokesman Tom Bussey said. The tractor, owned by Manson Dredge Co., was heading northbound on the beach when the...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego Gas & Electric announced the start of a region-wide program today that is intended to build charging infrastructure to support the transition to zero-emission buses, trucks, forklifts and other medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and equipment. The Power Your Drive for Fleets infrastructure program will run parallel to SDG&E's goal to transition its own entire operations fleet — including pickup trucks and bucket trucks — to zero emission vehicles by 2040. According to the utility, the fleets pro...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - High pressure building over the western states will bring hot and dry weather to Southern California this week, with a Santa Ana wind pattern beginning to set up Sunday, elevating the fire weather threat through much of the week, the National Weather Service said. Offshore flow will be strongest late Sunday through Monday morning over the mountains and foothills, forecasters said. Winds will weaken Tuesday through the remainder of the week, but the heat and low humidity will continue. Gradual cooling will oc...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials confirmed 279 new COVID-19 cases and one additional death today, increasing the region's totals to 46,610 cases and 776 fatalities. The one death was a woman in her late 70s who had an underlying medical condition. One new community outbreak in a business was confirmed as of Saturday. From Sept. 20 to Sept. 26, 18 community outbreaks were confirmed. The number of community outbreaks remains above the trigger of seven...
A man was arrested in a Costco parking lot in Vista on suspicion of trying to kidnap a 2-year-old child from a car, authorities said Sept. 20. The attempted kidnapping happened just before 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, when a woman, her fiancé and their two small children were in a car backing out of a parking stall in the Costco parking lot in the 1700 block of Hacienda Drive, according to Sgt. Nanette McMasters of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. A man opened the rear door and tried to remove one of the children,...
SAN DIEGO – An education task force released a report Sept. 21 highlighting the urgency for every San Diego County student to have equitable access to learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. For distance learning to be equitable, teachers must have training, parents and caregivers must have resources and students have supportive learning environments, according to the Equitable Distance Learning Taskforce – a countywide group of school districts, education experts, nonprofit organizations and community leaders. The report say...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County health officials reported 284 new COVID-19 infections and no new deaths today, raising the region's totals to 44,577 cases with the death toll remaining at 760. Of the 9,097 tests reported through Saturday, 3% returned positive, bringing the 14-day rolling average of positive tests to 3.6% -- potentially a good sign as San Diego County appears poised to regress into the state's most restrictive public health tier due to increasing COVID-19...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A 1,115-acre vegetation fire at the Camp Pendleton Marine Base was extinguished today, base officials said. The Camp Pendleton Fire Department put out the fire at about 9:30 a.m. Sunday after battling the blaze overnight. The fire began Saturday and was first reported after 5 p.m. to have charred 220 acres, sending smoke over North County. The fire burned in the X-ray impact area, which is used for artillery and mortar training....
A study released Thursday, Sept. 10, by the San Diego Association of Government found that more than 70% of survey respondents in San Diego County were experiencing issues with food, housing, utilities or employment at some point during the coronavirus pandemic. SANDAG partnered with the newly formed Recovery Coalition and surveyed 3,527 San Diegans living throughout the county in seven “Major Statistical Areas,” including 44% from the South Bay, 26% from an area including San Diego and La Mesa and 14% from an area inc...
A study released Thursday, Sept. 10, by the San Diego Association of Government found that more than 70% of survey respondents in San Diego County were experiencing issues with food, housing, utilities or employment at some point during the coronavirus pandemic. SANDAG partnered with the newly formed Recovery Coalition and surveyed 3,527 San Diegans living throughout the county in seven “Major Statistical Areas,” including 44% from the South Bay, 26% from an area including San Diego and La Mesa and 14% from an area inc...
