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  • Warming begins in San Diego County ahead of Labor Day weekend heatwave

    City News Service|Updated Sep 3, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Temperatures will warm again throughout San Diego County Thursday, Aug. 3 before a heatwave arrives for Labor Day weekend and increases the risk of wildfires in the region, according to the National Weather Service. A strong, high pressure system will build over California on Friday and begin ushering in the sweltering conditions over Labor Day weekend, forecasters said. Humidity will drop to 10-15 percent on Saturday and wind gusts out of the east are expect...

  • San Diego County Credit Union raises $130,900 for school supplies for homeless students

    Updated Sep 2, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego Community Credit Union's ``Stuff the Bus'' campaign raised $130,900 to provide school supplies for students heading back to school, the financial institution announced today. The proceeds from the fundraiser, conducted in collaboration with the San Diego County Office of Education and iHeartMedia radio stations, were used to fill 7,724 backpacks and provide more than 2,000 planners and 24,000 face masks. SDCCU Stuff the Bus benefits students in San Diego County experiencing homelessness, with...

  • DC Takes Federal Largesse, but Rejects Law Enforcement Help

    Submitted|Updated Sep 2, 2020

    Protesters in the nation’s capital—one of the largest recipients of federal aid—became a rowdy mob Thursday night outside the White House after the conclusion of President Donald Trump’s acceptance speech during the Republican National Convention. Harassed guests who were present for the president’s speech credited officers of the Metropolitan Police Department with protecting them as they departed the White House. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has rejected additional federal help in law enforcement despite the unrest that swep...

  • California governor signs eviction relief bill amid virus

    Associated Press|Updated Sep 2, 2020

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Californians who haven't paid their rent since March 1 because of the coronavirus can stay in their homes through at least Jan. 31 under a new state law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed late, late Monday – one day before statewide eviction protections were set to expire. The bill does not halt foreclosures for landlords whose tenants have stopped paying rent, but it does extend some state protections to rental properties of four units or less – protections previously only available to owner-occupied homes...

  • Temperatures in SD County to warm up through end of week

    City News Service|Updated Sep 2, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Temperatures throughout San Diego County will warm slightly each day leading up to the arrival of a heat wave for Labor Day weekend, according to the National Weather Service. The agency issued an excessive heat watch that will be in effect from Friday morning through Monday evening in the western valleys, the mountains and the deserts. An excessive heat watch will also be in effect from Saturday morning through Monday evening in coastal areas. High pressure will strengthen over California throughout the...

  • 'Nice White Parents' Responsible for Failing Public Schools, New York Times Says

    Submitted|Updated Sep 2, 2020

    Why does the public education system continue to fail America’s children? Policy experts have pondered this question for decades. Most say the answer is complicated, requiring a nuanced, collaborative approach. But not The New York Times. It found the problem, and it’s simple: white parents. The solution? “Try, whenever possible, to suppress the power of white parents.” That quote comes from the Times’ podcast “Nice White Parents,” which chronicles the history of a single public school in New York. Specifically,...

  • Some SD schools reopen as county reports 257 new COVID-19 cases

    Updated Sep 1, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County schools were allowed to reopen for in-person teaching starting Thursday, Sept. 1, a day after a flurry of businesses throughout the county resumed indoor operations. County health officials reported 267 new COVID-19 cases and six additional deaths Tuesday, raising the region's totals to 38,871 cases and 688 deaths. Locally, Bonsall has reported 43 cases, Pala 73, and Fallbrook 436 since the county began collecting data. Four women and two...

  • Stone Brewing announces Maria Stipp as CEO

    Updated Sep 1, 2020

    ESCONDIDO (CNS) - Stone Brewing, founded in San Diego in 1996 and ranked as the country's ninth largest craft brewery, today announced the hiring of Maria Stipp as CEO, effective Sept. 14. Stipp spent the past five years as CEO of Lagunitas Brewing Company and before that was president of ecoATM, a company launched in Stone's hometown of San Diego. Prior to ecoATM, Stipp was executive vice president at Activision, where she was responsible for ``Call of Duty'' and ``Guitar...

  • ICE makes dozens of San Diego-area arrests during nationwide sweeps

    Updated Sep 1, 2020

    ISAN DIEGO (CNS) - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers took dozens of people into custody in the San Diego area in recent weeks as part of a nationwide crackdown on criminal suspects and convicted felons in the country illegally, agency officials said Tuesday, Sept. 1. The operation, which took place between July 22 and Aug. 20, resulted in 46 arrests across the county, ICE public affairs reported. Among those jailed, according to the federal agency, were the following Mexican nationals, whose names were not...

  • Man shot to death in Fallbrook identified

    Updated Sep 1, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Authorities Tuesday, Sept. 1 publicly identified a man who was shot to death over the weekend in Fallbrook. Deputies responding to reports of gunfire shortly after noon Saturday found Salvador Galvan, 56, mortally wounded in front of a home in the 700 block of Convertible Lane, near East Mission Road, according to San Diego County sheriff's officials. Paramedics pronounced Galvan dead at the scene, Lt. Thomas Seiver said. No suspects have been identified, the lieutenant said....

  • San Diego Superior Court summoning jurors again, trial slated for next month

    Updated Sep 1, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Following about six months without jury trials due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the San Diego Superior Court announced Tuesday, Sept. 1 that it has begun summoning jurors again in anticipation of trials resuming next month. Jury duty summons were mailed out this week calling for prospective panelists to appear at the downtown San Diego courthouse beginning Oct. 9. While one murder trial interrupted by the pandemic was completed while San Diego County courthouses were closed to the general public, a criminal...

  • Lawmaker's bill to end retail pet sales in California on governor's desk

    Updated Sep 1, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A bill by Assemblyman Todd Gloria, D-San Diego, to crack down on puppy mills is now on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk. Assembly Bill 2152, known as "Bella's Act,'' would end the retail sales of dogs, cats and rabbits throughout California while still allowing retail establishments the flexibility to partner with rescues or shelters for adoption events. ``The mass breeding operations of puppy mills are unhealthy and inhumane. We don't want animals experiencing that...

  • Cool weather expected this week, but another heat wave to arrive this weekend

    Updated Sep 1, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Seasonal temperatures will last through Thursday in San Diego County, but another heatwave is on its way for Labor Day weekend, according to the National Weather Service. The agency issued an excessive heat watch that will be in effect from Friday morning through Monday evening for western valleys, the mountains and the deserts. An excessive heat watch will also be in effect from Saturday morning through Monday evening in coastal areas. High pressure will...

  • U.S. Humane Society gives wildlife center to San Diego Humane Society

    Updated Sep 1, 2020

    RAMONA (CNS) - The Humane Society of the United States has gifted the Fund for Animals Wildlife Center in Ramona to the San Diego Humane Society, the local private animal nonprofit announced Tuesday, Sept. 1. The 13-acre wildlife center, which has been part of the Humane Society of the United States for more than two decades, provides care to wildlife, including native apex predators such as bears, bobcats, coyotes and birds of prey. The HSUS and the San Diego Humane Society are not affiliated. With the center, the San Diego...

  • Sheriffs slam governor's plan to curb Portland violence

    Associated Press|Updated Aug 31, 2020

    PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A plan by the governor of Oregon to use sheriff's deputies from surrounding counties to help patrol Portland following the deadly shooting of a Trump supporter was sharply criticized by law enforcement officials who said it wouldn't end the "cycle of violence" in the city that's approaching 100 consecutive nights of often-violent Black Lives Matter protests. Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, announced the plan Sunday to temporarily use deputies from two...

  • Chadwick Boseman's death leaves saddening mark on rough 2020

    The Associated Press|Updated Aug 31, 2020

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant. Rep. John Lewis. And now, Chadwick Boseman. So far, 2020 has been marred with bad news and tragedy with the deaths of several popular Black icons including Bryant, Lewis and recently Boseman, who died Friday. All three were viewed as leaders in their respective fields of sports, politics and film — places where people, particularly in the Black community, have often looked for inspiration during a year of racial tension and protests against the police brutality of unarmed Black people. But for...

  • 'Hotel Rwanda' arrested on terror charges, police say

    Associated Press|Updated Aug 31, 2020

    KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed in the film “Hotel Rwanda” as a hero who saved the lives of more than 1,200 people from the country's 1994 genocide, has been arrested by the Rwandan government on terror charges, police announced on Monday. A well-known critic of President Paul Kagame, Rusesabagina had been living outside Rwanda since 1996 and police did not say where he was apprehended. He had been living in Belgium and then in Texas in the U.S. Rusesabagina's daughter told the Associated Press that he tr...

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