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Articles from the July 26, 2016 edition


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  • SANDAG board puts measure on November ballot to fund transportation projects

    Updated Jul 26, 2016

    SAN DIEGO – Elected officials countywide who make up the SANDAG Board of Directors voted on July 8 to place a countywide measure on the November 2016 ballot to raise funds to repair roads, relieve highway congestion, improve transit and bike/pedestrian networks, conserve open space, and manage land to reduce wildfire risk. The “San Diego County Road Repair, Transit, Traffic Relief, Safety and Water Quality Measure” is expected to generate $18 billion in dedicated local revenue. “What we approved today will benefit not jus...

  • Angel Society awards $16,000 in philanthropy, installs new officers

    Updated Jul 26, 2016

    FALLBROOK – Donations totaling $16,000 were approved by the board of directors of the Angel Society of Fallbrook at its June meeting. The Fallbrook Land Conservancy topped the list of recipients with $10,000 in funds, with $7,000 to help sponsor the group’s annual fall fundraiser, Stagecoach Sunday, and $3000 to be distributed to the organization’s Save Our Forest committee. The Friends of the Fallbrook Community Center received $3,000 in funds to help cover the cost of a sum... Full story

  • Temecula man fatally injured in Pauma crash identified

    Updated Jul 26, 2016

    PAUMA VALLEY - A 20-year-old Temecula man who was fatally injured in a collision in Pauma Valley that also killed a motorcyclist was publicly identified Monday. Chance Keakaokalani Shinn was gravely injured when the Honda Civic in which he was a passenger veered into oncoming traffic on state Route 76 and collided with a motorcyclist near Pauma Valley Road on the afternoon of July 6, according to the California Highway Patrol and the county Medical Examiner's Office. Shinn was airlifted to a hospital, where his condition...

  • Doctor accused of sexual assault to stand trial

    Updated Jul 26, 2016

    MURRIETA - A doctor accused of sexually assaulting three patients during surgical procedures at a Temecula hospital must stand trial on more than 30 felony charges, a judge ruled today. John Francis McGuire, 45, of Carlsbad was arrested last August following an investigation by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. After a five-hour preliminary hearing today at the Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta, Superior Court Judge John Monterosso found there was sufficient evidence to warrant a trial for McGuire on 34 felony...

  • No change in county's vector control benefit assessment

    Updated Jul 26, 2016

    The county's vector control benefit assessment will remain at the same level as it was during Fiscal Year 2015-16. The San Diego County Board of Supervisors, who serve as the board of the county's Vector Control District, voted 4-0 June 22 with Greg Cox in Sacramento to maintain the annual assessment of $5.00 per equivalent dwelling unit. The vector control assessment is in addition to a service charge, which remains at $3.00 for the coastal region and $2.28 for the suburban and rural regions. Both the vector control benefit...