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Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The county Board of Supervisors Tuesday, Jan. 12 approved several COVID-19 measures, including stepped-up enforcement of businesses not complying with restrictions, and a fair and consistent application of policies based on scientific data. Supervisors voted 4-1, with Jim Desmond opposed. The compliance measures cover inspections responsive to complaints, proactive inspections, and citations for those violating the Safe Reopening Plan. Based on a proposal from Supervisor Nora Vargas, where legally possible,...
The seat that is currently vacant on the Fallbrook Community Planning Group is to be filled by one of the newly elected members in January. Therefore, there is not time to seat an applicant in that position before the end of the year. So, the vacancy should not have been promoted in the article "Four incumbents and four newcomers elected to FCPG" in the Nov. 5 issue. Village News regrets the error....
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego Foundation activated its Regional Disaster Fund Tuesday, Sept. 8 to collect and manage charitable funds for response and recovery from the Valley Fire currently burning in East San Diego County. The fund will receive donations and make grants to nonprofit organizations engaged in disaster response, recovery and rebuilding. Grants will be based on a community needs assessment that uses third party data, research and analysis to determine where the greatest needs are within the impacted area. ``W...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego County Registrar of Voters announced a new tool Tuesday, Sept. 8 for registered voters to track the status of their ballots for the Nov. 3 election. Voters can sign up for "Where's My Ballot'' at sdvote.com to see when it is mailed to them, when the registrar receives it back in the mail and when it is officially counted. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, every active registered voter in California will receive a ballot in the mail. According to the...
San Diego County Communications Office - San Diego County’s Health and Human Services Agency, Integrative Services Division received a $75,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety to fund a yearlong program aimed at improving the safety for pedestrians, bicyclists and scooter riders. The grant is ongoing until Sept. 30, 2020, and funds a variety of educational programs for youth and adults to learn best safety practices when walking or riding a bike or a scooter. Grant funding will be used to conduct bicycle t...
Julie Watson Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) – California Rep. Duncan Hunter gave up his yearlong fight against federal corruption charges and pleaded guilty Tuesday, Dec. 3, to misusing his campaign funds, paving the way for the six-term Republican to step down. Hunter changed his not guilty plea at a federal hearing in San Diego Tuesday in a dramatic reversal. For more than a year, Hunter had insisted that criminal charges against him and his wife were the result of a conspi...
The San Diego County Probation Department received a $369,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety to supervise high-risk, repeat DUI offenders with suspended or revoked licenses. "The grant helps our officers provide intensive supervision to felony DUI offenders and we are grateful for it," Ruben Leyva, assistant chief probation officer, said. "It partially funds positions and enables officers to conduct compliance checks after hours. Without this important...
SAN DIEGO – The California Office of Traffic Safety has awarded the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department a $550,000 grant, Monday, Oct. 28, to fund a year’s worth of special operations and campaigns designed to stop drivers under the influence of alcohol and drugs. “Thanks to this important grant, the sheriff’s department can continue to protect San Diego County from impaired drivers,” Sheriff Bill Gore said. Impaired driving checkpoints, patrols and distracted driving/traffic enforcement will all be funded by the grant....
SAN DIEGO COUNTY – Local volunteers are working hard to ensure that veterans laid to rest at seven San Diego County cemeteries are honored on National Wreaths Across America Day in December. The ceremony, held simultaneously across the country at more than 1,600 locations with the assistance of 2 million volunteers, will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 14. The goal is to place a live, balsam fir wreath at the headstone of every veteran buried there and say each person’s name, so their memory lives on. Community members can...
SAN DIEGO - Suicides, accidental deaths and fentanyl overdose deaths in San Diego County rose in 2018, according to an annual report released on Monday, Sept. 23 by the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office. More than 22,000 people died countywide last year, and 8,346 of those deaths were investigated by the Medical Examiner's Office. Investigations found that more than 5,000 examined deaths were due to natural causes and roughly 3,200 required a full review, according to the report. Suicides rose from 458 in 2017 to... Full story
SAN DIEGO - A 15-year-old boy who was pulled unconscious from the ocean after jumping off a cliff in the Sunset Cliffs area has died, according to multiple media reports. Lifeguards responded to a call around 10:40 a.m. Wednesday after witnesses reported seeing the teenager in the ocean after jumping off Pappy's Point along Sunset Cliffs Boulevard near Osprey Street, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. Lifeguards searched the water for nearly an hour before finding the boy underwater and taking him to shore,... Full story
RIVERSIDE - The Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego metropolitan areas have the most homes in the Western United States considered to be at high or extreme risk of being damaged or destroyed in a wildfire, according to a report released today by a real estate information service. According to CoreLogic's 2019 Wildfire Risk Report, in the 13 Western states most commonly affected by wildfires, there are 775,654 residences deemed to be in extreme risk of being damaged or... Full story
SAN DIEGO - Assemblyman Todd Gloria, D-San Diego, praised the state legislature on Wednesday, Sept. 11 for passing a bill he co-authored to ban the sale of guns and ammunition at gun shows held at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Gloria and Assemblywoman Tasha Boerner-Horvath, D-Encinitas, introduced AB 893 in February. The measure would bar the state's 22nd District Agricultural District, which oversees operations at the fairgrounds, from authorizing the sale of guns and ammunition on fairgrounds property. The 22nd DAA's Board of Di... Full story
SAN DIEGO - A lawsuit filed on behalf of a former student at the private Bishop's School in La Jolla alleges that a female computer science teacher repeatedly molested and harassed the now 41-year-old plaintiff over a two-year period, beginning when he was 16 years old. The alleged abuse included fondling, oral sex and sexual intercourse on campus grounds, the teacher's home, a hotel, a restaurant, a park and other locations throughout San Diego, according to the lawsuit. The teacher -- a married mother with children then in... Full story
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego-based owners and operators of the conservative One America News Network filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit on Monday, Sept. 9 against MSNBC and political commentator Rachel Maddow for saying on air the network "really literally is paid Russian propaganda.'' The lawsuit filed in San Diego federal court by Herring Networks Inc., owners of the One America News Network -- or OAN -- calls Maddow's on-air statements "utterly and completely false'' because OAN "is wholly financed by the Herrings, an... Full story
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Sept. 10 unanimously signed off on a program that will provide quick access to help for first responders dealing with a mental health crisis. The Captain Ryan J. Mitchell First Responder Behavioral Health Program will offer confidential mental and behavioral health support by connecting first responders with a clinical professional via a dedicated phone line, website or smartphone app. The program will be open to first responders in any jurisdiction or branch... Full story
