Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Protesters tore down more statues across the United States, expanding the razing in a San Francisco park to the writer of America's national anthem and the general who won the country's Civil War that ended widespread slavery. In Seattle, pre-dawn violence erupted Saturday in a protest zone largely abandoned by police, where one person was fatally shot and another critically injured. On the East Coast, more statues honoring Confederates who tried t...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Skateboarders, religious worshippers, children and Juneteenth demonstrators all participated in separate events throughout San Diego County in the ongoing pursuit of racial equality. Skateboarders by the hundreds participated in a ``Rolling for Rights'' protest at 1 p.m., starting at Sixth Avenue and Palm Street and ending at the Embarcadero Marina Park. On Twitter, Andy Trimlett called the protest ``Hands down, the coolest protest I've ever been to.'' Saturday morning, more than 7,000 people took part on...
JAKE SEINER AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Tiz the Law won an unprecedented Belmont Stakes, claiming victory Saturday at the first race of a rejiggered Triple Crown schedule in front of eerily empty grandstands. The 3-year-old colt from upstate New York charged to the lead turning for home and now can set his sights on the Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby and Oct. 3 Preakness. All three legs of this year's Triple Crown schedule were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Belmont,...
BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer Every team in Major League Baseball will shut its spring training camp over concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, a move that came in the wake of the Philadelphia Phillies announcing Friday five players had tested positive for COVID-19. The closures come while MLB owners and players try to negotiate a deal to begin the season, and raise the possibility the virus outbreak could scuttle all attempts at starting up this year. A person familiar...
RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Ohio State calls it the Buckeye Acknowledgment and Pledge, a two-page document the school asked its athletes to sign before they could begin using team facilities during the pandemic. The document SMU is requiring its athletes to sign is much more direct: Acknowledgment of Risk for COVID-19 Summer 2020. Across the country, universities have begun the process of getting ready to play through a public health crisis. As athletes return...
KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressing ahead in a pandemic, President Donald Trump looked to reverse a decline in his political fortunes Saturday by returning to the format that has so often energized him and his loyal supporters: a raucous, no-holds-barred rally before tens of thousands of ardent fans, this time in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The rally was shaping up to be one of the biggest indoor events in the U.S. since large gatherings were shut down in March because of the coronavirus, and it was scheduled o...
MICHAEL BALSAMO and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The powerful U.S. attorney in Manhattan who has been overseeing investigations of President Donald Trump's allies showed up at his office to work Saturday, defying the attorney general who abruptly acted hours earlier to oust the prosecutor. "I'm just here to do my job," Geoffrey S. Berman told reporters. The administration's push to cast aside Berman has set up an extraordinary political and constitutional clash between the Justice Department and one of...
ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Saturday that former national security adviser John Bolton can move forward in publishing his tell-all book despite efforts by the Trump administration to block the release because of concerns that classified information could be exposed. The decision from U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth is a victory for Bolton in a court case that involved core First Amendment and national security concerns. But the judge also made clear his concerns that Bolton had "...
ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Supporters of President Donald Trump were lining up Saturday outside metal barriers surrounding the Tulsa stadium where the president will hold his first rally in months, ready to welcome him back to the campaign trail despite warnings from health officials about the coronavirus. The crowd — including some who have camped near the venue since early in the week — were hoping to be among the first inside the more than 19,000-seat BOK Center for what is expected to be the b...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher joined local Black leaders Friday to announce a three-pronged ``Racial Justice and Law Enforcement Realignment Policy Package'' which the Board of Supervisors will consider Tuesday. The three policies in the package involve strengthening the Citizens' Law Enforcement Review Board's authority and independence, opening an Office of Equity and Racial Justice for San Diego County and launching Mobile Crisis Response Teams that uses clinicians instead of law...
ALI SWENSON, BEATRICE DUPUY, ARIJETA LAJKA and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ____ CLAIM: NASCAR, which recently banned the Confederate flag at its events, is now forcing its drivers to engage in Muslim prayer. THE FACTS: NASCAR is not forcing drivers...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A flurry of businesses reopened Friday throughout San Diego County as health officials reported 258 new COVID-19 cases and one death, raising the region's totals to 10,350 cases and 332 deaths. For the second day in a row, the new cases set a daily high, but accordingly, the number of COVID-19 tests reported Friday also reached a daily high, with 10,544 tests reported. The death was a woman in her early 80s who died on June 17 and had underlying health... Full story
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego Association of Governments Chair Steve Vaus met with the Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association this week to commit $200,000 from SANDAG through a memorandum of understanding for mutual regional planning strategies such as transportation and conservation. Vaus and SANDAG Executive Director Hasan Ikhrata met with SCTCA Chairman Robert Smith and members of the SCTCA Board at Sycuan Resort and Casino to commit funds for planning related to key issues that affect the Native American...
BERKELEY (AP) — The city of Berkeley is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the person or people who fatally shot a University of California, Berkeley student while he took a walk in his neighborhood. Seth Smith, 19, was found on the sidewalk bleeding and unresponsive Monday night near his apartment, the Berkeley Police Department said in a statement Thursday. The department said it's asking for anyone with information to come forward and that "even the smallest detail could be critical in solving this c...
AAMER MADHANI Associated Press President Donald Trump's push to resume big rallies despite concern he's putting the public's health at risk is part of a broader reelection campaign effort to turn the national debate about the coronavirus into a political fight that he frames as "US vs. THEM." "They hate me. They hate you. They hate rallies and it's all because they hate the idea of MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" Trump said in a recent fundraising email. Those who raise concerns...
REBECCA REYNOLDS YONKER and BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville's mayor said Friday that one of three police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor will be fired. Mayor Greg Fischer said interim Louisville police Chief Robert Schroeder has started termination proceedings for Officer Brett Hankison. Two other officers remain on administrative reassignment while the shooting is investigated. Fischer said officials could not answer questions about the firing because of state l...
LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a stunning reversal, the Navy has upheld the firing of the aircraft carrier captain who urged faster action to protect his crew from a coronavirus outbreak, according to a U.S. official familiar with the report. The official said the Navy also extended the blame for the ship's pandemic crisis, delaying the promotion of the one-star admiral who was also onboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt — concluding that both men made serious errors in judgment. The spr...
JONATHAN MATTISE, PHIL MARCELO and MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A traditional day of celebration turned into one of protest Friday, as Americans marked Juneteenth, a holiday that long commemorated the emancipation of enslaved African Americans but that burst into the national conversation this year after widespread demonstrations against police brutality and racism. In addition to the traditional cookouts and readings of the Emancipation Proclamation — the Civil War-era order that declared all sl...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The mayor of Tulsa has declared a civil emergency and set a curfew for the area around the arena where President Donald Trump plans to hold a campaign rally this weekend. In his executive order establishing a curfew around the BOK Center from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. through Saturday and from the end of Saturday night's rally until 6 a.m. Sunday, Mayor G.T. Bynum cited the unrest that followed some of the recent protests around the country over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month. "I have r...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County will receive nearly $3 million in federal tax credits to help finance new construction and the reconstruction of multifamily housing projects destroyed in recent wildfires, state Treasurer Fiona Ma announced today. The plan approved Wednesday by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, which Ma chairs, makes an initial allocation of $2.5 million to each of 13 counties. The rest of the $100 million of credits were awarded to counties based on the percentage of housing units lost in...
ESCONDIDO (CNS) - A 45-year-old man was shot by an Escondido police officer this morning during a traffic stop, police said. It happened shortly after 3:40 a.m. on Broadway near West Washington Avenue, according to the Escondido Police Department. Police pulled over a white sedan on Broadway after receiving reports that a man driving the car violated a restraining order at a nearby home, 10News reported. The man then allegedly got out of the car holding a crowbar and advanced toward an officer's squad car before the officer...
A 3-2 San Diego County Board of Supervisors vote May 19 rejected a temporary modification to the board policy regarding Neighborhood Reinvestment Program grants, although the supervisors still have the option of waiving portions of the policy for specific grants. Kristin Gaspar and Jim Desmond voted in favor of the motion while Greg Cox, Dianne Jacob and Nathan Fletcher provided the majority to defeat the proposal. “I don’t think we need to make any modifications. I like the restrictions we’ve put in place,” Cox said. ...
FALLBROOK – Coldwell Banker Village Properties recently announced its top agents for the month of May. Its top listing agent is Tom Van Wie; the top producing agent is Eddie Harrison; and the top selling team is Heidi Dickens and Kim Selznick. Submitted by Coldwell Banker Village Properties....
ESCONDIDO – Everyone at Broadpoint Properties is outraged about the recent murder of another black person by Minneapolis police officers and the continued violent response by police against protestors. We have to speak out. We have to stand together with the victims of murder, marginalization and repression because of their skin color and with those who seek justice through protests across our country. As recently stated by President Barack Obama, "This country was founded o...
Tom Ozimek The Epoch Times The director of Voice of America and her deputy tendered their resignations Monday, June 15, to the newly appointed head of the government agency that oversees the broadcaster, Michael Pack. VOA director Amanda Bennett and deputy director Sandra Sugawara announced in a news release that "after more than four years leading the nation's largest congressionally funded international broadcaster," they were stepping down. Bennett, in the release, called...
