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Articles from the December 15, 2016 edition


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  • NFL owners discuss Chargers' possible move to LA in Texas meeting

    Updated Dec 15, 2016

    SAN DIEGO - San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer spoke to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday on the eve of the NFL owners meeting in Texas, his office confirmed today. Details of the conversation were not released. The conversation comes on the heels of news that some members of the San Diego City Council sent a letter to Chargers owner Dean Spanos, Goodell and owners of all the other NFL teams this week offering to lease the Qualcomm Stadium site in Mission Valley for $1 a year. The owners held a one-day meeting in Texas t...

  • Damaging winds and rain expected today

    Updated Dec 15, 2016

    SAN DIEGO - A Pacific storm is expected to hit San Diego County today with rain and potentially damaging winds. A National Weather Service high wind watch for the mountains and deserts will take effect this evening and extend through Friday evening. West to southwest winds of 20 to 40 miles per hour will be possible, along with gusts to 75 mph on mountain ridgetops and of 60 mph in isolated locales in the deserts. "Winds will strengthen this evening and become potentially... Full story

  • Homes for Our Troops to hold groundbreaking Dec. 17

    Updated Dec 15, 2016

    FALLBROOK – Fallbrook American Legion Post 776 invites local residents to join Homes for Our Troops (HFOT) in kicking off the build project for Marine PFC Isaac Blunt's forever home and to welcome him into the community on Saturday, Dec. 17. Participants are required to RSVP at www.hfotusa.org/blunt/. Registration at the event will start at 9:30 a.m. with the groundbreaking happening at 10 a.m. at 1791 Avenida de Nog, Fallbrook. A few months into his first deployment to Afghanistan in 2011, PFC Blunt, a rifleman with the 1... Full story

  • Man killed in accident on S. Mission Rd.

    Updated Dec 15, 2016

    A 73-year-old Bonsall man who grew impatient waiting at a stop sign was killed this morning when he accelerated into traffic at the intersection of Green Canyon Road and South Mission Road in Fallbrook, CHP officer Jim Bettencourt reported. The man, who was trying to turn left onto South Mission Road from Green Canyon Road, suffered fatal injuries when his 2008 GMC Sierra pickup truck was T-boned by a 1999 Ford F-150 pickup truck that was traveling northbound on South Mission. A third vehicle, a 1991 Ford F-250 that was... Full story

  • County offers free sand, sandbags before storm

    Tracy DeFore|Updated Dec 15, 2016

    With heavy rains expected, the County Department of Public Works is once again offering free sand and bags to residents in the unincorporated areas to help protect homes, neighborhoods and streets from flooding and erosion. Current forecasts are predicting rain could fall Thursday night and Friday. The region is still suffering through record levels of drought this year. Because of that, rains could trigger erosion and even debris flow, especially in areas that aren’t c... Full story