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  • Police seek tips on 40-year-old unsolved murder in Scripps Ranch area

    City News Service|Updated Feb 18, 2021

    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...

  • SD County to expand COVID-19 vaccine pool in March

    City News Service|Updated Feb 17, 2021

    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...

  • Sen. Melendez proposes legislation to enhance free speech protections

    City News Service|Updated Feb 17, 2021

    RIVERSIDE (CNS) - Sen. Melissa Melendez, R-Lake Elsinore, introduced legislation today proposing a series of protections to ensure California residents are not ostracized or otherwise treated unfairly because of their political beliefs. "It is unfathomable to me that corporations and members of the public would ruin a person's career, business and family because of their political ideology,'' Melendez said. "A free society shouldn't allow thoughts and ideas to be censored....

  • Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh passes at age 70

    MATT SEDENSKY, Associated Press|Updated Feb 17, 2021

    Rush Limbaugh, the radio talk radio host known for giving a voice to middle America, exposing liberal agendas and laying waste to political correctness with a merry brand of malice that made him one of the most powerful voices on the American right and foretold the rise of Donald Trump has died today. He was 70. Limbaugh, an outspoken lover of cigars, had been diagnosed with lung cancer. His death was announced by his wife Kathryn. President Trump, during a State of the Union... Full story

  • Man arrested for alleged DUI hit-and-run in Encinitas

    City News Service|Updated Feb 17, 2021

    ENCINITAS (CNS) - A 30-year-old Solana Beach man was behind bars Wednesday on suspicion of DUI and felony hit-and-run after allegedly leaving a pedestrian severely injured near Moonlight Beach in Encinitas, authorities said. The victim was struck by a black Ford Fusion that veered off the roadway in the area of Vulcan Avenue and West D Street, then plowed into a transit station about 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, according to sheriff's officials. Medics took the pedestrian, a man believed to be in his 40s, to a hospital for treatment...

  • Pedestrian struck, killed by train in Encinitas

    City News Service|Updated Feb 15, 2021

    ENCINITAS (CNS) - A pedestrian was fatally struck by a train at the Chesterfield Drive crossing in Encinitas Monday afternoon, deputies said. It happened about 3 p.m., and North County Transit District train service was suspended, San Diego County Sheriff's Department Lt. Pat McEvoy said. Chesterfield Drive also was closed following the incident. No information on the victim's identity was immediately available....

  • Authorities search for armed robber in Vista

    City News Service|Updated Feb 15, 2021

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Authorities called off a helicopter search Monday for a suspect in an armed robbery in Vista. The robbery was reported at 8:14 a.m. in the 300 block of Vista Village Drive in Vista, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said. There were no injuries reported and the sheriff's department had no information on losses incurred in the incident, Sheriff's Lt. Pat McEvoy said. Authorities had been searching for a man they said was armed and dangerous. He was described as a 6-feet-tall Latino man with a goatee...

  • Murder-suicide suspected after 2 bodies found in Carlsbad home

    City News Service|Updated Feb 14, 2021

    CARLSBAD (CNS) - The bodies of a 33-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman were found Saturday evening by Carlsbad police at a home on Village Drive in what investigators said they believe was a murder-suicide. Officers were called to check the welfare of residents at a home in the 500 block of Village Drive at 6:09 p.m. Saturday, said Lt. Jason Jackowski of the Carlsbad Police Department. Police had been told that the subject inside the home had sent a message to a family member indicating that he had killed his ex-girlfriend...

  • 1 suffers 'significant' injuries in South Mission crash

    Will Fritz, Staff Writer|Updated Feb 13, 2021

    One person was seriously hurt in a crash on South Mission Road in Fallbrook Saturday morning. A full-size van and a minivan struck each other in a partial head-on collision a little before 9:15 a.m. on South Mission Road at Green Canyon Road, according to North County Fire Protection District spokesperson Capt. John Choi. One of the vehicles sustained "major damage," in the crash, and one of the drivers had to be taken to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido with injuries that were described as "not life threatening, but...

  • State to expand COVID vaccines to those With High-Risk Health Conditions

    City News Service|Updated Feb 12, 2021

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - In a move that will vastly expand the number of people eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccinations, state health officials said today that as of March 15, shots can be administered to people 16 and older suffering from medical conditions or developmental disabilities making them susceptible to severe illness or death from the virus. The move comes amid continued shortages in vaccine supply, but follows mounting pressure to make the shots available to people most at risk of dying or falling seriously ill if...

  • New vaccination site at Del Mar Fairgrounds opens today

    City News Service|Updated Feb 12, 2021

    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 Friday. 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 very important commun...

  • County fire employees are taking COVID-19 vaccines to rural areas

    City News Service|Updated Feb 11, 2021

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County Fire Protection District personnel have played a key role in helping to vaccinate more than 10,000 county residents against COVID-19 over the past month as part of "Operation Collaboration,'' it was announced Thursday. Officially launched Dec. 29, Operation Collaboration is a combined effort between dozens of fire, emergency medical service, public health agencies and hundreds of personnel in the San Diego area to meet the COVID vaccination needs of some of the county's most vulnerable...

  • SHERIFF'S LOG

    Updated Feb 11, 2021

    Feb. 1 900 block E. Mission Rd Arrest: Outstanding felony bench warrant 1200 block S. Vine St Arrest: Domestic abuse 1200 block E. Mission Rd Arrest: Commercial burglary 300 block E. Mission Rd Vandalism 5200 block S. Mission RdVandalism Feb. 2 39000 block Harris Trail Domestic abuse 3900 block Reche Rd Arrest: Threats with intent to terrorize 1400 block S. Mission Rd Commercial burglary Feb. 3 300 block E. Fallbrook St Domestic abuse with minor injury 800 block E. Alvarado St Arrest: Battery 4700 block Via Tala Petty theft 8...

  • Seyarto introduces bill to support spouses and children of deceased service members

    Updated Feb 11, 2021

    SACRAMENTO – Assemblymember Kelly Seyarto (R-Murrieta) has introduced AB 291, a bill that will make the payments from Survivor Benefit Plans tax free in California. California is one of the few states that fully taxes SBP which allow retired service members to allocate a portion of their retired pay to a spouse, child, or other eligible beneficiary after their death. Currently there are just over 28,700 military survivors receiving this benefit within California, with over 92% of them being 65 years old and older. “It is inc...

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    NCTD celebrates service roll out for new COASTER locomotive and overhauled passenger cars

    Updated Feb 11, 2021

    OCEANSIDE – The North County Transit District, with the support of regional transportation partners, celebrated the service roll out of five new, state-of-the-art Siemens locomotives and several renovated COASTER passenger cars, Monday Feb. 8. Tony Kranz, NCTD Board Chair and City of Encinitas Deputy Mayor, U.S. Congressman Mike Levin, Catherine Blakespear, San Diego Association of Governments Board Chair and City of Encinitas Mayor, and Nathan Fletcher, Chair of the County o...

  • California joins Biden with special enrollment to help people get insurance

    Updated Feb 11, 2021

    SACRAMENTO – Covered California announced recently that effective Monday, Feb. 1, anyone uninsured and eligible to enroll in health care coverage through Covered California can sign up through May 15. The move follows President Biden’s executive order to declare a special enrollment period from Feb. 15 through May 15 for the 36 states served by the federally facilitated marketplace, reopening the doors to coverage for millions of Americans. An estimated 2.7 million Californians are uninsured, including 1.2 million who are...

  • Site plan permit exemption granted for former McDonald's

    Joe Naiman, Village News Reporter|Updated Feb 11, 2021

    San Diego County granted a site plan permit design review checklist exemption for the Main Avenue building, which had been a McDonald’s restaurant, in Fallbrook. Kathleen Flannery is the acting director of the county’s Department of Planning and Development Services, as previous director Mark Wardlaw recently took position as the director of Walnut Creek’s Community Development Department. Flannery approved the exemption Friday, Jan. 29, although she said that any proposed signage would require subsequent community revie...