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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The Fallbrook High School varsity girls' rugby team scored fast and early in running away from host Rancho Bernardo High School Saturday, Jan. 18, to come away with a 77-0 win. Senior Abbey Savin scored four tries and made three conversions, and sophomores Jordan Duncan, Julia Tippin and Tiahna Padilla each scored twice in the Warriors win that opened the league season. Tippin also made two conversions. Duncan was named Rugby Girl for the match. "(She) ran good running lines...
VISTA (CNS) - A 43-year-old man was struck and killed this morning by a hit-and-run motorist in Vista, a sheriff's deputy said. The pedestrian was struck near the intersection of Vista Village and Wave drives, said Deputy Nicholas Jehl of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. Deputies were dispatched to the location a little after 12:20 a.m. and the 43-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene, Jehl said. "The driver of the vehicle fled the scene immediately following the collision and has not been located or...
SAN DIEGO - San Diego County sheriff's deputies are planning to increase impaired driving enforcement over Super Bowl weekend. The sheriff's department will begin targeting drunk and drugged driving with extra patrols beginning at 3 p.m. Sunday and lasting through 5 a.m. Monday. A DUI checkpoint is also planned in Vista from 8 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday, deputies said. The department reminded drivers that impaired driving can refer to driving under the influence of marijuana and prescription drugs, not just alcohol....
OCEANSIDE (CNS) - A 22-year-old man struck and killed by a vehicle while walking near an Oceanside intersection was an active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton, authorities reported today. Juan Muniz III of Kingsville, Texas, was crossing North Coast Highway near Sportfisher Drive around 1:10 a.m. Sunday when he was struck by a car traveling north on the highway, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office. Paramedics responded to the scene and took Muniz to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, where he...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego County District Attorney's Office unveiled a training program today aimed at providing local first responders with tools to recognize and assist human trafficking victims. The training will be provided to around 3,000 firefighters from 40 San Diego County fire departments, as well as employees from emergency medical service agencies like American Medical Response and Mercy Medical Transportation. The program includes a video highlighting warning signs first responders may see while in the field...
ESCONDIDO (CNS) - A man was behind bars today in connection with a fatal stabbing outside an Escondido fast-food restaurant. John Christopher Burns, 47, was arrested by sheriff's deputies on Tuesday at the Pala Casino, according to the Escondido Police Department, and booked on suspicion of murdering Jose De Jesus Martinez, 32. The deputies were responding to an unrelated incident at the casino when they found and detained Burns. The stabbing was reported shortly before 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Burger King on West Valley...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The Board of Supervisors today took steps toward helping homeless people in unincorporated regions of San Diego County. The board unanimously approved proposals for an expanded motel voucher program, more homeless resource deputies and finding a property for temporary or permanent shelter where health services could also be offered. Supervisor Dianne Jacob -- who along with Jim Desmond co-sponsored the measure -- said while homelessness is a complicated... Full story
The allegations from an upcoming book by former national security adviser John Bolton may have altered the trajectory on the question of whether the Senate will call on additional witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Two swing-vote Republicans have now indicated that they and some of their colleagues are considering joining the Democrats in calling on Bolton to testify. As Democrats on Jan. 27 renewed their calls for additional witnesses in the Senate, Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Mitt Romney... Full story
Darrell Issa sat down with Village News publisher Julie Reeder for an interview about his campaign. Issa served coastal San Diego and Orange counties for almost two decades in the U.S. House of Representatives, first in California's 48th Congressional District, then in the 49th after redistricting. Issa, a Republican, did not seek reelection in 2018, and his former district flipped to Democrat Mike Levin that year. But with Rep. Duncan Hunter's conviction of a federal corruption charge and resignation from the House of... Full story
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A minimum of 10% affordable housing will be required at the Mission Valley Stadium site should San Diego State University purchase it, under action taken today by the San Diego City Council. The council unanimously voted to set some requirements on multiple parts of a draft purchase and sale agreement for the stadium, chief among those the affordable housing minimums. The college has offered $86.2 million to buy the property from the city. The two parties intend to exchange a 135-acre parcel of land, which... Full story
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Marc Leishman realized he had at two-shot lead as he stood over a 6-foot birdie putt on the final hole at Torrey Pines. He also knew Jon Rahm was the only one who could catch him. That made his final birdie all the more important. It turned out to be the winner Sunday in the Farmers Insurance Open, much to Rahm's surprise. Leishman shot 31 on the front nine to seize control, came up with three big par saves on the back nine and closed with a birdie for a... Full story
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Rocky Long is returning to New Mexico as defensive coordinator after recently retiring from San Diego State, where he coached the Aztecs to nine straight bowl games. New Mexico head coach Danny Gonzales praised Long on Monday, expressing excitement about the program's winningest coach returning to his alma mater. "Coach Long's teams at both UNM and San Diego State were known for their defense, and I don't think there is a better defensive coach in the country. We are lucky to have him back with our p... Full story
CALABASAS (AP) — NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash on a remote, steep hillside in Southern California on Sunday, his sudden death at age 41 touching off an outpouring of grief for a star whose celebrity transcended basketball. The chopper went down in Calabasas, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Authorities said that nine people died, with no survivors, after earlier putting t... Full story
Last year Fallbrook High School's girls' soccer team won the Valley League championship; Ramona High School finished fourth in the league standings but won the CIF Division IV championship, and Escondido High School was last in the six-team standings despite winning two games. This year Fallbrook began play by losing a 1-0 match against Escondido and playing Ramona to a 1-1 tie. "It seems to be a fairly close league," Fallbrook coach Sergio Garcia said. Five of the six Valley...
Twenty-eight high school wrestling teams competed at the Mission Hills Varsity Tournament, and Fallbrook High School placed ninth as a team while five Warriors were among the top six in their weight class and one other Fallbrook grappler won a consolation championship. This year the Mission Hills Varsity tournament was held Jan. 4. “We’ve kind of avoided it in the past because of where it fell,” Fallbrook head coach Cristian Vera said. The tournament took place three days after New Year’s Day, so the Fallbrook student...
FALLBROOK – Registration for Fallbrook Girls Softball spring 2020 season is open until Feb. 1. Games are Wednesday nights for 8U and older, and all age groups play Saturdays. Opening day is Saturday, Feb. 29. Register online or in person during walk-up registration. The registration link is www.bit.ly/FGSregistration. The league does not accept payment online so payment needs to be made in person during walk-up registration. New Fallbrook Girls Softball players also need to p...
SACRAMENTO – California has a new tool in its efforts to build wildfire resilience and improve long-term forest management in the face of climate change. The California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection has certified a new program that will help minimize wildland fire risk across the state while ensuring the highest level of environmental oversight. The California Vegetation Treatment Program will create efficiencies within the regulatory process to scale up fuel treatment and forest restoration projects toward meeting t...
David Bauder AP Media Writer Americans who want to follow President Donald Trump's impeachment saga and Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's rape trial through the media will sit in obstructed seats. Both events begin in earnest this week – with Senate arguments over Trump's impeachment beginning Tuesday, Jan. 21, and opening statements in the Weinstein case Wednesday, Jan. 22. Both have been the subject of behind-the-scenes wrangling over media access. Far from an esoteric exer...
Planning Commission recommends FCI overlay Joe Naiman Village News Correspondent San Diego County’s Planning Commission has recommended an overlay designator for land which was previously restricted by the Forest Conservation Initiative. Michael Seiler, Michael Edwards, and Doug Barnhart were not at the Jan. 10 Planning Commission meeting, but a 4-0 vote supported by Michael Beck, Bryan Woods, Yolanda Calvo and David Pallinger forwarded the recommendation to the county Board of Supervisors. The county’s Department of Pla...
Bowen Xiao The Epoch Times At least 22,000 Second Amendment advocates hailing from across the country assembled at Virginia's State Capitol building to rally against a slew of gun control proposals that are in the process of passing through the Democrat-controlled state legislature. The mood throughout the Jan. 20 gun rights rally, also known as "Lobby Day" was upbeat, and Capitol police said there were no arrests or injuries reported as of 1 p.m. The rally, organized annually...
The Associated Press Special to Valley News The Supreme Court refused Tuesday, Jan. 21, to get involved in a dispute about judges’ authority to order the disclosure of secret grand jury material in rare circumstances. The court turned away an appeal from an 82-year-old researcher who is seeking grand jury records from the late 1950s. The justices’ order does not affect an ongoing court battle over House Democrats’ quest for access to grand jury materials from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The Mueller...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press Alarmed by a deadly new twist in the nation's drug addiction crisis, the government will allow states to use federal money earmarked for the opioid epidemic to help growing numbers of people struggling with meth and cocaine. The little-noticed change is buried in a massive spending bill passed by Congress late last year. Pressed by constituents and state officials, lawmakers of both parties and the Trump administration agreed to...
Alexandra Jaffe The Associated Press Steve Sovern had low expectations for a recent event he hosted to support Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign. Iowans are legendary for expecting to meet White House hopefuls in person – multiple times – and the candidate wasn't going to be there, represented instead by California Rep. Katie Porter. "Surrogates are usually not much of a draw," Sovern said. But 45 people crammed into Sovern's Cedar Rapids condo, and Porter, an Iowa nat...
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego County Assessor/Recorder/County Clerk’s office will be open on Valentine’s Day, Friday, Feb. 14, to issue marriage licenses and perform ceremonies. San Diego County Assessor/Recorder/County Clerk Ernie Dronenburg would like to remind couples wishing to “tie the knot” or renew their wedding vows that appointments are filling quickly. “We are excited to offer walk-in services at our historic downtown office on the waterfront for Valentine’s Day and don’t want couples to miss their chance at a Valentin... Full story
Multiple crashes within minutes of each other the night of Saturday, Jan. 18, in Bonsall required responses from emergency personnel – with one crash starting a fire and another leaving a driver dead. A report came in of the first crash at 9:01 p.m. along Olive Hill Road east of Via Puerta del Sol, according to information from North County Fire Protection District spokesman John Choi. Dispatchers were told a car had gone off the roadway and erupted into flames, Choi said. The driver of that vehicle was uninjured and was a...
