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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Poll watchers will be permitted to observe election activities at polling stations countywide on Nov. 3, though COVID-19 related restrictions will limit the number of people allowed inside polling places. Social distancing requirements mean only about one to two observers might be rotated in and out of the polling places at any given time this year, Assistant Registrar of Voters Cynthia Paes said Thursday. The number of polling places in San Diego County has been reduced from 1,548 in March to 235 larger...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials reported 305 new cases of COVID-19 and nine additional deaths, raising the county's totals to 47,485 cases and 792 fatalities. Three women and six men died between Sept. 16 and Sept. 29 and their ages ranged from mid-50s to late 80s. All had underlying medical conditions. Locally, Fallbrook has reported 552 confirmed cases, Bonsall 47 and Pala 75. The underlying medical condition reported Sept. 29 of a 29-year-old woma... Full story
Sheriff's deputies are investigating a report of an assault with a deadly weapon in Fallbrook Thursday afternoon. The incident occurred near the intersection of Elder and Orange streets. Deputies were at the scene as of about 2:30 p.m. The San Diego County Sheriff's Department could not immediately confirm the circumstances of the incident, how many people may have been injured, or the severity of those injuries. However, witnesses said one person was taken in ambulance. This...
North County firefighters responded Wednesday afternoon to assist with a brush fire that triggered evacuations on Camp Pendleton. Base officials posted to Camp Pendleton's Twitter account at 1:28 p.m. that a vegetation fire on the west side of De Luz Road was potentially threatening structures, and the surrounding area was initially being placed under a precautionary evacuation. About 45 minutes later, Camp Pendleton officials tweeted the forward spread of the fire has been stopped. Base officials said at about 3:40 p.m....
OCEANSIDE (CNS) - Authorities on Wednesday publicly identified a 68-year-old woman who was asleep on the sand at Oceanside Harbor Beach when she was run over and killed by a tractor being used on a dredging project. Carol Ann Aguirre was fully clothed and apparently asleep when the construction vehicle hit her at the waterfront off the 1200 block of North Pacific Street at about 10 a.m. Monday, Oceanside Police spokesman Tom Bussey said. The tractor, owned by Manson Dredge Co., was heading northbound on the beach when the...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego Gas & Electric announced the start of a region-wide program today that is intended to build charging infrastructure to support the transition to zero-emission buses, trucks, forklifts and other medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and equipment. The Power Your Drive for Fleets infrastructure program will run parallel to SDG&E's goal to transition its own entire operations fleet — including pickup trucks and bucket trucks — to zero emission vehicles by 2040. According to the utility, the fleets pro...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, Sept. 29 approved a Nov. 17 date for a state-mandated immigration forum. The annual TRUTH Act Forum will take place at 5 p.m. on the same day as the board's regular meeting. In 2016, the California Legislature enacted the Transparent Review of Unjust Transfers and Holds Act, which requires a county government to hold a forum if a local law enforcement agency provided access to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Board Chairman Greg Cox...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials reported 251 new COVID-19 infections and five additional deaths related to the illness Tuesday, Sept. 29, raising the county's total to 46,985 cases and 781 deaths. Locally, Fallbrook has reported 547 confirmed cases, Bonsall 46, and Pala 75. The new data comes as the county again avoided being pushed into the ``purple'' tier, the most restrictive in the state's four-tier reopening plan. The county will remain in the... Full story
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials confirmed 124 new COVID-19 cases Monday, Sept. 24, increasing the region's totals to 46,734 cases as the county awaits the state's data for reopening tomorrow. The state will hold its weekly update Tuesday, with San Diego last week barely avoiding the dreaded ``purple'' tier. Under state monitoring metrics, San Diego County is currently in the second tier, or the red tier. The county's state-calculated, adjusted case... Full story
North County Fire firefighters were able to contain a fire at a residential structure in Bonsall Monday, Sept. 28 after about 45 minutes of work. The fire was located at the 4300 block of Via De Los Cepillos. There were no reports of injuries or what started the blaze....
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Gov. Gavin Newsom Monday, Sept. 28 signed into law Assembly Bill 2345, written by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, to incentivize developers to increase the number of affordable housing units built in the state. ``This law will encourage the construction of more affordable housing units using a data-proven mix of incentives and density bonuses,'' Gonzalez said. ``We must stop making excuses for our housing crisis and it starts with creating more housing, period.'' AB 2345 allows developers to...
PERRIS (CNS) - A 95-year-old former U.S. Army paratrooper who fought in World War II will make what may be his final parachute jump tomorrow at the side of the Army's famed Golden Knights airborne team in Perris. Vincent J. Speranza of Illinois is slated to make the tandem drop with the Knights between 10 a.m. and noon in the skies over Perris Valley Airport. ``It will be a great pleasure to jump again with the finest parachutists in the world,'' Speranza said. The WWII veteran hasn't made a jump in years, though, for more...
OCEANSIDE (CNS) - A tractor being used at a dredging project at Oceanside Harbor Beach Monday, Sept. 28 ran over a woman lying on the sand and killed her, authorities said. The fatal accident occurred shortly after 10 a.m. at the waterfront off the 1200 block of North Pacific Street, Oceanside Police Department spokesman Tom Bussey said. The unidentified victim died at the scene. It was not immediately clear if the woman, who was fully clothed, was in an unauthorized construction zone at the time of the accident. Police...
September 28, 2020 A group of four Australian law professors have nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, the third nomination he's received in recent weeks. The nomination is based on the so-called Trump doctrine, or the president's approach to foreign policy, David Flint, one of the professors, said on Monday. "The 'Trump doctrine' is so extraordinary, as so many things that Donald Trump does, he's guided by two things which seem to be absent from...