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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HUNTINGTON BEACH (AP) - The Vans U.S. Open of Surfing, a summer competition that draws thousands each year to Southern California's Huntington Beach, has been canceled because of the coronavirus. Organizers announced the cancellation on Monday, citing "continued health concerns and current guidelines surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic." The event will return in 2021, organizers said. The surfing tournament is also a nine-day festival that packs the sand on the south side of...
R.J. RICO, MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS and LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - As nations grapple with new outbreaks and spiking death tolls from the coronavirus, a commonly available drug appeared Tuesday to offer hope that the most seriously ill could have a better chance of survival. The pandemic has forced countries to impose lockdowns and tough restrictions on daily life and travel, but infections have surged as they eased these rules and reopened their economies. Wi... Full story
MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warned Tuesday that the U.S. economy faces a deep downturn with "significant uncertainty" about the timing and strength of a recovery. He cautioned that the longer the recession lasts, the worse the damage that would be inflicted on the job market and businesses. In testimony to Congress, Powell stressed that the Fed is committed to using all its financial tools to cushion the...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego Public Library began a month-long Pride celebration on Tuesday by debuting a Facebook page which will serve as an online hub for events, discussions and projects through July 17. The ``Virtual Pride'' page, https://www.facebook.com/SDPLpride/, will be the hub for ``Together Tuesdays'' and ``Fabulous Fridays'' featuring LGBTQ-themed storytimes, author discussions, make-at-home crafts and more. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, San Diego Pride has canceled all in-person gatherings. ``The San...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - With more people spending time at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, the city of San Diego launched a website on Tuesday that provides information and assistance on how to become a successful ``urban farmer.'' Urban farming can come in many forms and sizes. It can be vegetables grown in containers on a home patio, a community garden that covers one or more city blocks, or raising certain animals such as chickens or bees. The city's new urban farming website includes: -- Resources for both home and...
JOSH BOAK and ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers BALTIMORE (AP) — American shoppers ramped up their spending on store purchases by a record 17.7% from April to May, delivering a dose of energy for retailers that have been reeling since the coronavirus shut down businesses, flattened the economy and paralyzed consumers during the previous two months. The government's report Tuesday showed that consumers' retail purchases have retraced some of the record-setting month-to-month plunges of March (8.3%) and April (14.7%) as b...
AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian and Chinese troops fought each other with fists and rocks along the high-altitude terrain of a disputed Himalayan border in a clash that left 20 Indian soldiers dead, Indian authorities said Tuesday. China accused Indian forces of carrying out "provocative attacks" on its troops and has not said if any of its soldiers have died. The Indian army said in its statement that the two sides had "disengaged" from the disputed Galwan area where they clashed overnight on M...
OAKLAND (AP) — An Air Force sergeant already jailed in the ambush killing of a California sheriff's deputy was charged Tuesday in the shooting death of a federal security officer outside the U.S. courthouse in Oakland during a night violent protest last month. Staff Sgt. Steven Carrillo was charged with murder and attempted murder in the killing of federal officer Dave Patrick Underwood, 53. He died from gunshot wounds and another federal officer was critically injured in the drive-by shooting outside the Ronald V. Dellums F...
JILL COLVIN, LISA MASCARO and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Following weeks of national protests since the death of George Floyd, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on policing Tuesday that would encourage better police practices and establish a database to keep track of officers with a history of excessive use-of-force complaints. In Rose Garden remarks, Trump stressed the need for higher standards and commiserated with mourning families, even as he hailed the vast majority of officers as s...
LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer For the fourth time in its history, the Oscars are being postponed. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the ABC Television Network said Monday that the 93rd Academy Awards will now be held April 25, 2021, eight weeks later than originally planned because of the pandemic's effects on the movie industry. The Academy's Board of Governors also decided to extend the eligibility window beyond the calendar year to Feb. 28, 2021, for...
RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says there might be no major league games this year after a breakdown in talks between teams and the players' union on how to split up money in a season delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The league also revealed several players on big league rosters have tested positive for COVID-19. Two days after union head Tony Clark declared additional negotiations futile, Manfred reversed his position of...
DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that his former national security adviser, John Bolton, could face a "criminal problem" if he doesn't halt plans to publish a new book that describes scattershot, sometimes dangerous, decision-making by a president focused only on getting re-elected. Trump said it would be up to Attorney General William Barr to issue any charges, but hinted that the matter would end up in court. "We'll see what happens. They're in court — or they'll soon be...
KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO (AP) — Following a weekend that saw California's broadest reopening yet since the coronavirus pandemic shuttered businesses, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday defended the state's pace and said the economic harm from isolation can have negative health outcomes, too. "We have to recognize you can't be in a permanent state where people are locked away for months and months and months and months on end," he said. Newsom's remarks came in his first news conference in 10 days, just days a...
CUNEYT DIL Associated Press SACRAMENTO (AP) — A statue honoring a colonizer who laid claim to the land where the discovery of shiny flakes of gold sparked the California Gold Rush was removed Monday outside a hospital bearing his name in the state capital. Several dozen people cheered as a work crew lifted the statue of John Sutter — a 19th century European colonizer of California who enslaved Native Americans — off its pedestal outside Sutter Medical Center in the latest reckoning of historical figures being removed from...
DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO (AP) — A man accused of being the rapist and killer who terrorized California residents in the 1970s and 1980s has agreed to plead guilty to dozens of crimes in return for being spared the death penalty, a law enforcement source and a victim's relative said Monday. Joseph DeAngelo, a former police officer accused of being the Golden State Killer, is expected to plead guilty on June 29 and be sentenced in August to life without the possibility of parole after the surviving victims a...
RUSS BYNUM and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Pleading through tears Monday, the family of a black man killed by Atlanta police outside a drive-thru demanded changes in the criminal justice system and called on protesters to refrain from violence amid heightened tensions across the U.S. three weeks after George Floyd's death in Minneapolis. An autopsy found that 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was shot twice in the back late Friday by a white officer who was trying to arrest him at a fast food restaurant for b...
MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has set new dates to begin executing federal death-row inmates following a monthslong legal battle over the plan to resume the executions for the first time since 2003. Attorney General William Barr directed the federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule the executions, beginning in mid-July, of four inmates convicted of killing children. Three of the men had been scheduled to be put to death when Barr announced the federal government would resume e...
STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities will review local investigations into the hanging deaths of two black men in Southern California to determine whether federal law was violated, officials said Monday. Local authorities have said there is no evidence of foul play in the deaths of Robert Fuller in Palmdale and Malcolm Harsch in Victorville and early indications point both to suicide, but sheriffs have pledged to continue to investigate the cases. Monday's announcement follows weekend p...
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve said Monday that it will begin purchasing corporate bonds as part of a previously announced plan to ensure companies can borrow through the bond market during the pandemic. The program will purchase existing bonds on the open market, as opposed to newly issued debt. The central bank said will seek to build a "broad and diversified" portfolio that will mimic a bond-market index. The bonds will have to be from highly rated, investment-grade companies,...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector Dan McAllister reopened his downtown office Monday for in-person services. ``The health of our employees and customers is our top priority, so we have made some changes to how we do business face-to-face,'' McAllister said. ``We are pleased to reopen our downtown branch and will be reviewing further possible branch openings under a phased and cautious approach to ensure everyone's safety.'' The downtown office is located at 1600 Pacific Highway, Room 162. To protect...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Some restrictions on outdoor religious services were lifted today by San Diego County officials, who simultaneously reported 170 new COVID-19 cases and a related death. The new data raises the county total to 9,610 confirmed coronavirus cases and 320 deaths, including Monday's addition to that count: a man in his late 70s who died June 7. Despite the new cases, outdoor religious services will be allowed without restrictions on the number of worshippers so... Full story
A small brushfire that ate up about an acre alongside Interstate 15 in Rainbow on Monday was quickly handled by North County Fire and CalFire San Diego. The fire, just south of Rainbow Valley Boulevard, stopped traffic in both directions on Highway 395 between White Lilac Road and Rainbow Vista Drive, and fire officials said commuters should expect delays....
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's bid to throw out a California immigrant-sanctuary law that limits local police cooperation with federal immigration authorities. The justices' order leaves in place lower court rulings that upheld the law. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas voted to hear the administration's appeal. The administration said the 2017 state immigrant-sanctuary measure conflicts with federal immigration law and makes it harder to deport people who are in t...
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court convicted an American corporate security executive Monday of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in prison after a closed trial that the U.S. denounced as a "mockery of justice," and it angrily said his treatment in jail was "appalling." Paul Whelan, a former Marine from Novi, Michigan, has insisted he was innocent, saying he was set up when he was arrested in Moscow in December 2018 while he was visiting Russia to attend a friend's wedding. "We have s...
