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  • Wrestler sues over injury suffered during Camp Pendleton training camp

    Updated Jul 30, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A former member of the U.S. national wrestling team, who was severely injured during a training camp exercise held at Camp Pendleton, has filed a lawsuit alleging the Marine Corps and USA Wrestling encouraged him and other civilians to take part in a military-style exercise involving weapons that the participants weren't adequately trained to use. Richard Perry and his wife Gina Cimmino filed the lawsuit Tuesday in San Diego federal court against the United...

  • U.S. Agents in Portland set to pull back, but tensions simmer

    Updated Jul 30, 2020

    Valley News Staff PORTLAND, Oregon - The Trump administration and Oregon leaders declared victory after it was announced that U.S. agents guarding a federal courthouse during violent demonstrations in Portland will pull back, The Associated Press has reported. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Wednesday, July 29 that agents with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement will begin leaving the city's downtown area Thursday. But acting secretary fo...

  • Oceanside Police Chief announces retirement

    Updated Jul 30, 2020

    OCEANSIDE (CNS) - Following a law enforcement career that spanned nearly four decades, Oceanside police Chief Frank McCoy will retire in October, city officials announced Thursday. McCoy has headed the northern San Diego County police agency since January 2006, making him the longest-serving chief in the history of the department. During the tenure of McCoy -- who once before stepped down from the post, only to assume it again six months later -- the seaside municipality enjoyed a 33% drop in overall crime and a 28% dip in...

  • Wall Street slides, but tech strength helps avert a big loss

    Updated Jul 30, 2020

    STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Most of Wall Street stumbled Thursday, but yet another rise for big technology stocks helped keep the market's losses in check. The S&P 500 dropped 12.22 points, or 0.4%, to 3,246.22, with nearly three out of four stocks in the index falling. Among the hardest-hit were oil producers, banks and other companies that most need the economy to pull out of its recession. Treasury yields also sank in a sign of increased pessimism about...

  • Big Tech, hit by the pandemic, reports mixed earnings

    Updated Jul 30, 2020

    MICHAEL LIEDTKE, MATT O'BRIEN and JOSEPH PISANI AP Business Writers Big Tech companies reported mixed quarterly earnings on Thursday, a day after their top executives faced a tough congressional grilling over their market power and alleged monopolistic practices. The staggering economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic was reflected in reports from Amazon, Facebook, and Google's corporate parent, Alphabet. Apple, the most valuable company of them all, is set to disclose its numbers for the April-June quarter later o...

  • Big Tech, hit by the pandemic, reports mixed earnings

    Updated Jul 30, 2020

    MICHAEL LIEDTKE, MATT O'BRIEN and JOSEPH PISANI AP Business Writers Big Tech companies reported mixed quarterly earnings on Thursday, a day after their top executives faced a tough congressional grilling over their market power and alleged monopolistic practices. The staggering economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic was reflected in reports from Amazon, Facebook, and Google's corporate parent, Alphabet. Apple, the most valuable company of them all, is set to disclose its numbers for the April-June quarter later o...

  • John Lewis mourned as 'founding father' of 'better America'

    Updated Jul 30, 2020

    JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — John Lewis was celebrated as an American hero during his funeral Thursday as former President Barack Obama and others called on people to follow Lewis' example and fight injustice. Three former presidents joined in the eulogies at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church after nearly a week of mourning that took the civil rights icon from his birthplace in Alabama to the nation's capital of Washington to his final resting place in his home of Atlanta. Lewis was "a man of pure joy and u...

  • 2 years after Fallbrook man reported missing, authorities continue to seek information on his whereabouts

    Will Fritz, Staff Writer|Updated Jul 30, 2020

    San Diego County authorities are asking for the public's help in locating a 50-year-old man missing from Fallbrook ahead of the second anniversary of his disappearance. Arnoldlo Loaiza Franco was reported missing on Aug. 10, 2018, according to a statement from San Diego County Crime Stoppers. The last time anyone had heard from him was on Aug. 1, 2018. At the time Arnoldo went missing, he was believed to be working at an avocado grove somewhere in Escondido or San Marcos,...

  • Record economic plunge, bleak jobs numbers reveal virus toll

    Updated Jul 30, 2020

    MARTIN CRUTSINGER and PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic sent the U.S. economy plunging by a record-shattering 32.9% annual rate last quarter and is still inflicting damage across the country, squeezing already struggling businesses and forcing a wave of layoffs that shows no sign of abating. The economy's collapse in the April-June quarter, stunning in its speed and depth, came as a resurgence of the viral outbreak has pushed businesses to close for a second time in many areas. T...

  • 2nd US virus surge hits plateau, but few experts celebrate

    Updated Jul 30, 2020

    MIKE STOBBE and NICKY FORSTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - While deaths from the coronavirus in the U.S. are mounting rapidly, public health experts are seeing a flicker of good news: The second surge of confirmed cases appears to be leveling off. Scientists aren't celebrating by any means, warning that the trend is driven by four big, hard-hit places - Arizona, California, Florida and Texas - and that cases are rising in close to 30 states in all, with the outbreak's...

  • Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain dies at 74

    Updated Jul 30, 2020

    LISA J. ADAMS WAGNER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - Herman Cain, former Republican presidential candidate and former CEO of a major pizza chain who went on to become an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, has died of complications from the coronavirus. He was 74. A post on Cain's Twitter account Thursday announced the death. Cain had been ill with the virus for several weeks. It's not clear when or where he was infected, but he was hospitalized less than two weeks...

  • COVID-19 cases dip, county increases protections for employees in health order

    City News Service|Updated Jul 29, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials today reported 282 new COVID-19 cases and five additional deaths, while amending the public health order to increase protection for employees working during the pandemic. The amendment to the county's public health order, which goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, will require all employers to inform employees of any COVID-19 outbreaks or cases at a place of business. Previously, the county recommended employers disclose outbreak information but did not require it...

  • On Portland's streets: Anger, fear, and a fence that divides

    Updated Jul 29, 2020

    MIKE BALSAMO and GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The party at the Salmon Street Springs fountain, a riverfront landmark in the heart of Portland, was just getting started. Dozens of drummers beat out entrancing rhythms and a crowd of hundreds danced joyfully as the setting sun cast a soft pink glow on distant Mount Hood. Poster boards bearing the names of dozens of Black men and women killed by police stirred in a gentle breeze as the energy built to fever pitch and more and more people poured into t...

  • Heat wave moves into SD county, expected to stay through weekend

    City News Service|Updated Jul 29, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - High temperatures could jump into the triple digits in the San Diego County mountain communities today as a heat wave moves into the region heading into the weekend. High pressure will build throughout the week over the southwestern United States, with temperatures expected to peak on Friday, according to the National Weather Service. The agency issued a heat advisory that will be in effect from 11 a.m. Thursday to 9 p.m. Saturday in the western valleys and the county mountains. An excessive heat warning...

  • US Open without qualifying now will be played without fans

    Updated Jul 29, 2020

    DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Now it comes down to the Masters to determine if any of golf's majors will have fans this year. A week before the PGA Championship begins without spectators, the U.S. Open announced Wednesday it would not have fans Sept. 17-20 at Winged Foot in New York because of health and safety concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic. "We will miss the excitement of the fans and what their presence brings to the championship," said Mike Davis, CEO of the USGA....