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Articles from the March 9, 2010 edition


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  • Weather partly cloudy with chance of showers

    Updated Mar 9, 2010

    It'll be partly cloudy today throughout the county with a slight chance of showers this morning. Also a wind advisory is in effect until 9 pm tomorrow for the mountains and deserts. Tonight expect partly cloudy skies. Highs today will be 56 to 61 degrees along the coast around 58 in the western valleys, 49 to 54 near the foothills and 37 to 47 in the mountains and 57 to 62 in the deserts....

  • Warner Springs woman gets 10 years for poisoning 2-year-old

    Updated Mar 9, 2010

    A Warner Springs woman who poisoned her 2-year-old son by mixing household cleaners with his apple juice to try to get her fiance's attention was sentenced today to 10 years and four months in state prison. Christina Noel Howell, 23, pleaded guilty to one count each of felony child abuse and poisoning. The defendant initially told authorities that she saw her 22-month-old son Christian drink a full bottle of Tilex on May 25, 2008. The toddler was treated and released from Rady Children's Hospital. Three days later, Howell... Full story

  • Gardner pleads guilty to both Dubois and King murders

    Updated Mar 9, 2010

    SAN DIEGO - A convicted sex offender pleaded guilty Friday to killing a 17-year-old Poway High School senior and a 14-year-old Escondido High School freshman, and he was expected to be sentenced to two consecutive life prison terms without the possibility of parole. John Albert Gardner III, 31, also faces an additional 33 years to life in prison for assaulting a woman Dec. 27. Gardner, whose plea spares him from a possible death sentence, is scheduled to be sentenced June 1. His plea also bars him from filing an appeal of...