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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials reported 278 new COVID-19 infections and two additional deaths related to the illness today, raising the region's totals to 45,425 cases and 767 deaths. The county's total cases crossed the 45,000 mark Tuesday, and on Wednesday another milestone was reached when the total number of tests reported topped one million. Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county's public health officer, thanked agencies and businesses contributing to testing numbers and said the county would maintain...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County will remain in the red tier of the state's COVID-19 reopening plan for at least one more week, according to state officials. The county is reporting 6.9 new daily cases per 100,000 population, just 0.1 away from the dreaded purple tier, the state's most restrictive. San Diego County is also posting a 3.8% positive testing rate for the novel coronavirus — well within the lower orange guideline of the state's four-tier reopening system. This comes as the county reported 222 new COVID-19 i...
More than 2,000 rape kits from a dozen local law enforcement agencies have been sent to an independent lab for testing, with test results received on nearly 90% of the kits, the San Diego County district attorney’s office announced. The district attorney’s office said the 2,030 kits represent all the previously untested kits from 12 agencies dating back to 1990. The figures do not include San Diego Police Department kits, as the department conducts its own testing. Of the 2,030 kits sent to Bode Cellmark Forensics of Lorton,...
San Diego Comic-Con released new details Thursday, Sept. 10, on the Comic-Con Museum, slated for a grand opening summer 2021 in Balboa Park. Though it is on track to open its doors at the 68,000-square foot Federal Building in the park’s Palisades section in mid-2021, the museum will not completed until 2024, with portions of it opening in phases until then. Comic-Con officials said the museum has reached the halfway mark toward its $34 million funding goal, with funds raised so far from larger corporate contributions and spo...
The American Civil Liberties Union and University of California San Diego have reached a settlement in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a satircal student-run newspaper, which alleged that its funding was cut off following the publication of a controversial article in violation of the First Amendment. The case involves The Koala and a November 2015 article it published satirizing “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings,” leading UCSD’s student government to disqualify student newspapers from eligibility for campus activity funds. At...
ALPINE (CNS) - San Diego County will open an erosion control center in Alpine tomorrow to help businesses and homeowners prevent debris flows in the areas burned by the Valley Fire. The center, at 2914 Tavern Road, will offer free sandbags, fiber rolls and other items to help residents stabilize properties before rains arrive and potentially trigger mudslides and debris flows, county officials said. Starting Thursday, the center will be open to business and property owners from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily Monday through Saturday,...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County could regress into the state's most restrictive public health tier due to increasing COVID-19 numbers, with Gov. Gavin Newsom today rejecting a county effort to discount the 722 positive tests recorded by San Diego State University since the semester began. The county could find out next Tuesday if it will slip back to the "purple" tier of the state's coronavirus reopening roadmap. If so, additional restrictions will be slapped onto various...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A man convicted of sex crimes against children in Northern California could be released to a Pauma Valley home, officials said today, and a court hearing is slated next month to debate whether the proposed location is suitable. Joshua Cooley, 40, is classified as a Sexually Violent Predator, a designation for those convicted of sexually violent offenses and diagnosed with a mental disorder that makes them likely to re-offend. According to the San Diego County District Attorney's Office, Cooley was convicted...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County supervisors Tuesday, Sept. 15 unanimously approved millions of dollars in grants for small businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Money from the county's Small Business Stimulus Program will be ``used towards supporting public health and response activities associated with the COVID-19 pandemic,'' according to the county. Four districts will receive these amounts: -- District 1: Roughly $3.9 million, which will be distributed among 506 businesses; -- District 2: $4.1 million, for 254... Full story
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Smoke from the Valley Fire, now 79 percent contained, continued across San Diego County today, resulting in dim, hazy sunshine, the National Weather Service said. High pressure will remain in control of the weather over the Southwest much of this week, but the center will shift farther south by midweek, resulting in warmer weather in the county, and should help reduce the areas of smoke and haze, the NWS said. ``This last full week of summer will be a warm one, even as onshore flow prevails,'' forecasters...
Crews continued working Tuesday, Sept. 8, to quell the Valley Fire, which has scorched 17,345 acres in Japatul Valley near Alpine and was 3% contained. The blaze continued to burn to the east Monday toward communication towers at Mount Pinos and the community of Corte Madera, Cal Fire said. The inferno began around 2:15 p.m. Saturday off Spirit Trail and Japatul Road. It had burned 17,345 acres and was 3% contained as of 6:30 p.m. Monday. A new evacuation order for Corte Madera, south of Pine Valley, went into effect Monday...
The U.S. Forest Service Monday, Sept. 7, announced the temporary closure of numerous national forest lands, including the Cleveland National Forest, due to “unprecedented and dangerous fire conditions.” The closures will go into place at 5 p.m. and will be reevaluated daily as conditions change, officials said. Other national forest lands ordered closed include Angeles National Forest, San Bernardino National Forest, Stanislaus National Forest, Sierra National Forest, Sequoia National Forest, Inyo National Forest and Los Pad...
JAPATUL VALLEY (CNS) - Fire crews will spend a sixth day Thursday, Sept. 10 trying to quell a wildfire that has blackened thousands of acres in rural eastern San Diego County, leveling dozens of homes and outbuildings and forcing widespread evacuations. The blaze, dubbed the Valley Fire, erupted for unknown reasons early Saturday afternoon off Spirit Trail and Carveacre Road in Japatul Valley, southeast of Alpine, according to Cal Fire. As of about 7:45 a.m. today, the...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration's San Diego Field Division made scores of arrests and seized thousands of pounds of methamphetamine during a recently concluded six-month crackdown on Mexican cartels that distribute the drug in the United States, the federal agency reported Thursday, Sept. 10. Personnel with the local DEA unit, whose jurisdiction comprises San Diego and Imperial counties, conducted 29 investigations, captured 81 suspects, and impounded 4,462 pounds of methamphetamine a...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials today reported 247 new COVID-19 infections and 12 additional fatalities, raising the region's totals to 41,324 cases and 721 deaths from the coronavirus. Of the 4,556 tests reported Wednesday, 5% returned positive, increasing the 14-day rolling average of positive tests to 4.5%, still well below the state's 8% guideline. The seven-day average number of tests performed in the county is 6,339. Meanwhile, San Diego State University reported another 44 confirmed or...
JAPATUL VALLEY (CNS) - Firefighters labored for a fifth day today to subdue a wildfire that has blackened thousands of acres in rural eastern San Diego County, leveling several dozen homes and outbuildings and forcing widespread evacuations. The blaze, dubbed the Valley Fire, erupted for unknown reasons early Saturday afternoon off Spirit Trail and Carveacre Road in Japatul Valley, southeast of Alpine, according to Cal Fire. As of 9 this morning, the wind-driven inferno remained at an estimated 17,565 acres and was 11%...
An act of arson may have sparked an explosive fire that tore through the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego in July, extensively damaging the warship and injuring scores of emergency personnel while raging for four days, it was said Wednesday, Aug. 26. Citing anonymous sources, 10News reported that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service has identified a Navy sailor who may have set the blaze intentionally. The sources told the news station that search warrants have executed at the home of the sailor, whose name...
An act of arson may have sparked an explosive fire that tore through the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego in July, extensively damaging the warship and injuring scores of emergency personnel while raging for four days, it was said Wednesday, Aug. 26. Citing anonymous sources, 10News reported that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service has identified a Navy sailor who may have set the blaze intentionally. The sources told the news station that search warrants have executed at the home of the sailor, whose name...
San Diego City Councilmember Chris Cate sent a letter to Mayor Kevin Faulconer Friday, Aug. 28, asking for the city’s libraries to be reopened in light of school years beginning and a decreasing case rate of COVID-19 in the county. “I am requesting that the city evaluate options to safely reopen all city libraries as soon as possible. This can, and must, be done safely by following all social-distancing, health and sanitation guidelines,” he said. In the letter, he acknowledged that the majority of students will be parti...
Sen. Brian Jones, R-Santee, announced Wednesday, Aug. 27, that he tested positive for COVID-19. Jones, who was on the Senate floor in Sacramento, wearing a face mask, Monday, Aug. 24, did not say when he was tested or if he was showing symptoms. According to a statement posted on his Twitter and Facebook accounts, Jones “today, upon his return to Sacramento this week for the end of session, received news that he has tested positive for COVID-19. “He will be taking additional tests to recheck the results and to rule out pos...
A coalition of regional partners joined together to announce the San Diego County child care Provider Grant Program, an initiative that will distribute $25 million in coronavirus relief funding to child care providers impacted by COVID-19. The coalition, which includes San Diego County, The San Diego Foundation, Child Development Associates and YMCA of San Diego County, will opened the application period Monday, Aug. 24. The San Diego County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to distribute $25 million of Coronavirus Aid,...
PALA (CNS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an emergency order after finding the owners of a privately owned mobile home park on the Pala Band of Mission Indians Reservation were in violation of federal laws that safeguard clean drinking water, it was announced Thursday, Aug. 27. EPA officials said problems with a faulty septic system and broken water lines at the Lee Bar Ranch mobile home park were so bad that the park's residents have been told to start boiling water to drink. The EPA called the water...
A 47-year-old Fallbrook woman was arrested on suspicion of DUI after allegedly crashing head-on into a pickup in Fallbrook, killing the truck’s driver, authorities said. The crash happened around 1:15 p.m. Monday, Aug. 24, on East Mission Road west of Red Mountain Dam Drive, Officer Mark Latulippe of the California Highway Patrol said. A 47-year-old woman was driving a Ford Mustang westbound when the vehicle began to veer left into the opposite lane of traffic, where it collided head-on with a Toyota Tacoma driven by a 5...
University of California San Diego scientists have created the first visualizations of a protein that has been linked to genetic neurological disorder Parkinson’s disease, which could pave the way for drug development to treat the disease. Parkinson’s progressively attacks motor functions, leading to lasting damage in movement and coordination. Researchers studying the primary causes of the disease have focused on mutations of the protein known as leucine-rich repeat kinase 2, or LRRK2. Understanding how the protein dis...
University of California San Diego scientists have created the first visualizations of a protein that has been linked to genetic neurological disorder Parkinson’s disease, which could pave the way for drug development to treat the disease. Parkinson’s progressively attacks motor functions, leading to lasting damage in movement and coordination. Researchers studying the primary causes of the disease have focused on mutations of the protein known as leucine-rich repeat kinase 2, or LRRK2. Understanding how the protein dis...
