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CAMP PENDLETON – A young Marine was recognized for actions taken on Feb. 15 when he saved the lives of two civilian kayakers at the 21 Area Boat Basin. Cpl. Jordan Perez, a combat engineer with 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, was present when a married couple was calling for help from the water. The boat basin, surrounded by large, sharp boulders, produced unforgiving waves that day that flipped their kayak. Through these waves, Perez estimated t...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Attorneys for the San Diego section of the California Interscholastic Federation said today that the CIF will comply with a recent court order allowing youth sports to resume countywide, though whether sports activities resume will largely depend on the individual schools' ability to meet testing standards and other COVID-19 protocols utilized by professional or collegiate teams. Following Friday's temporary restraining order ruling by a Vista judge allowing youth sports in San Diego County to resume ``as...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Public-health officials in San Diego County have reported 454 new COVID-19 cases and 29 more deaths from the pandemic as a new vaccination site opened in Otay Mesa and an inoculation "super station'' at Petco Park reopened following a five-day closure caused by weather-related delays in shipments of doses. Tuesday's numbers raised the region's total number of cases to 257,805 and upped the fatality toll to 3,218. The vaccination site at the San Diego Padres' downtown ballpark, San Diego County's largest...
RIVERSIDE - COVID-positive hospitalizations in Riverside County dropped further, falling to a 10-week low, while an additional 34 virus-related deaths were reported. According to the Riverside University Health System, coronavirus hospitalizations countywide declined to 513 Friday, compared to 535 on Thursday, and that includes 152 ICU patients, 20 less than a day ago. The last time virus-connected hospitalizations were at or near the current level was during the last week of November. Despite the downtrend, ICU bed capacity...
LOS ANGELES – Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced a new partnership between the California Department of Insurance and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration, including the governor’s Office of Emergency Services, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the governor’s Office of Planning and Research and the California Public Utilities Commission to establish consistent statewide standards for home and community hardening that will reduce wildfire risk, protect lives and property and help make insuranc...
SAN DIEGO – The San Diego County Department of Child Support Services (DCSS) was recently recognized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for its outreach efforts in 2020 to be inclusive to all members of the diverse San Diego community. Federal officials recognized the child Support department by highlighting their email flyer outreach program in the December/January edition of Child Support Report, the official publication of the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement. DCSS is using a new way to c...
A $49 million project to expand Route 74, the Ortega Highway, between Lake Elsinore and the Orange County line is scheduled to begin Tuesday, Feb. 22, and motorists were advised to expect delays as the work progresses. The State Route 74 Widening Project will consist of Watsonville-based Granite Construction Inc. making a series of modifications intended to enhance safety along the two-lane corridor, according to Kim Cherry, public information officer of Caltrans District 8. The work will begin with excavation in preparation...
The County of San Diego is working with the University of California San Diego on a pilot program that may provide a roadmap for schools to safely reopen while our community gets vaccinated. The Safer at School Early Alert system, or “Sassy” as it is called by participants, is an evidence-based program to detect SARS-CoV-2 at schools and child care centers. The project began with technology launched as part of UC San Diego’s Return to Learn program which collects daily wastewater samples that are tested for shed coron...
SACRAMENTO – Assemblymember Kelly Seyarto (R-Murrieta) has introduced AB 291, a bill that will make the payments from Survivor Benefit Plans tax free in California. California is one of the few states that fully taxes SBP which allow retired service members to allocate a portion of their retired pay to a spouse, child, or other eligible beneficiary after their death. Currently there are just over 28,700 military survivors receiving this benefit within California, with over 92% of them being 65 years old and older. “It is inc...
OCEANSIDE – The North County Transit District, with the support of regional transportation partners, celebrated the service roll out of five new, state-of-the-art Siemens locomotives and several renovated COASTER passenger cars, Monday Feb. 8. Tony Kranz, NCTD Board Chair and City of Encinitas Deputy Mayor, U.S. Congressman Mike Levin, Catherine Blakespear, San Diego Association of Governments Board Chair and City of Encinitas Mayor, and Nathan Fletcher, Chair of the County o...
SACRAMENTO – Covered California announced recently that effective Monday, Feb. 1, anyone uninsured and eligible to enroll in health care coverage through Covered California can sign up through May 15. The move follows President Biden’s executive order to declare a special enrollment period from Feb. 15 through May 15 for the 36 states served by the federally facilitated marketplace, reopening the doors to coverage for millions of Americans. An estimated 2.7 million Californians are uninsured, including 1.2 million who are...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego Republican Party made an early endorsement today for the June 8 special election in the 79th Assembly District, putting its weight behind Marco Contreras. The seat was vacated by Shirley Weber last month when she became California's Secretary of State. Weber was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to fill the vacancy caused by his appointment of Alex Padilla to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Vice President Kamala Harris. The 79th District primary...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego County Board of Supervisors today unanimously voted to provide $30 million in grants to small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, as soon as federal or state stimulus dollars are available. County staff will develop the grant program, and each supervisor's office will choose the recipients. Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer, who made the proposal along with colleague Joel Anderson, said it was important to support small businesses, who...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - On a day that UC San Diego Health opened a vaccination super station on its campus, San Diego County public health officials reported 698 new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths. The new infections are the fewest reported in a single day since Nov. 13, when 611 were reported. Monday's numbers raise the aggregate coronavirus infections in the county to 247,262, while the death toll remains at 2,821. Monday's low numbers do come with some caveats, however....
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in San Diego County rose seven-tenths of a cent today to $3.486, its highest amount since March 10, one day after an 18-day streak of increases ended when it remained unchanged. The average price is 4.9 cents more than one week ago and 21.9 cents higher than one month ago but 7.8 cents less than one year ago, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. It rose 14.1 cents...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Marty Schottenheimer, who during a 21-year NFL head coaching career led the then-San Diego Chargers for five seasons from 2002-06, has died at the age of 77. A statement released by his family said Schottenheimer died Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his family at his side. He had been battling Alzheimer's disease since 2014. "Marty was a tremendous leader of men and a man of great principle -- the love and admiration his former players have for him...
OCEANSIDE (CNS) - Police today reached out to the public for help in locating a 73-year-old Oceanside woman with memory loss who was last seen driving in Carlsbad. Marlynn Arnold was last seen around 2 p.m. Monday heading northbound on State Street in Carlsbad, according to Oceanside police. She was driving a 2007 silver Toyota Corolla with California license plate 5XTL360. About 12:10 p.m. Monday, Arnold drove her caretaker to her home in the 1700 block of Maxson Street,...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A man who fell from his skateboard and landed in a road at UC San Diego was killed when he was struck by a vehicle, police said today. The incident happened at 11:35 p.m. Friday when the 19-year-old man was skateboarding on Voight Drive, said Officer Tony Martinez of the San Diego Police Department. ``He lost control and fell from his skateboard, landing in the middle of the roadway,'' Martinez said. Some time later, a 20-year-old man was driving westbound in a Nissan Maxima and ran over the skateboarder... Full story
SAN DIEGO – As part of Human Trafficking Awareness Month, the San Diego Human Trafficking Task Force conducted a three-day operation (Jan. 26 through Jan. 28) throughout San Diego County targeting sex buyers and traffickers. The San Diego Human Trafficking Task Force and allied local law enforcement agencies arrested a total of 30 men for solicitation and one man for pimping, pandering, and possession of a concealed firearm, after he recruited an undercover detective into prostitution online. These cases will be referred t...
SACRAMENTO – Senator Patricia Bates (R-Laguna Niguel) announced Jan. 26 that she has reintroduced legislation in partnership with San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan to extend the presumption of openness that exists in California courtrooms to proceedings under the Sexually Violent Predator Act. They initiated a similar effort last year but had to put it on hold due to the Legislature’s focus on addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. Senate Bill 248 would require that proceedings for the civil commitment of a sex...
SACRAMENTO – Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a series of improvements to the state’s vaccination plan recently. Incorporating lessons learned from efforts to increase the pace of vaccination, these new steps will make it easier for people to know when they are eligible for vaccination and how to make an appointment, accelerate the administration of vaccines on hand and improve the state’s ability to track vaccination data. California has tripled the pace of vaccinations from 43,459 per day as of Jan. 4, to 131,620 as of Jan....
California's health department Monday, Jan. 25, released to the public previously secret projections for future hospital intensive care unit capacity throughout the state, the key metric for lifting the coronavirus stay-at-home order. However, state officials did not explain how regional per capita virus cases and transmission rates that also were released might influence how much ICU space will be available in four weeks. The week before, state health officials told The...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state's top two legislative leaders pledged Monday, Jan. 25, to pay off 80% of most people's unpaid rent that has piled up during the coronavirus pandemic – but only if landlords agree to forgive the other 20%. The proposal, which must be approved by the Legislature, could wipe out potentially billions of dollars in debt hanging over renters in the nation's most populous state by using federal relief money to compel landlords to forgive d...
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors began the process of developing a more lenient ordinance for the zoning of marijuana cultivation and sales, Jan. 27. A 4-1 vote, with Jim Desmond opposed, directed the development of Zoning Ordinance and Regulatory Code amendments which would repeal the existing ordinance restricting medical and recreational marijuana dispensaries and cultivation, allow the sale of edible and drinkable as well as smokable cannabis products and allow cannabis retail sales in areas with commercial and i...
Area residents and firefighters turned out Sunday morning, Jan. 24, to honor 54-year-old Temecula resident and Rancho Santa Fe Fire Capt. Chris Mertz, who died Jan. 20, from complications related to COVID-19. Mertz's family and Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection District personnel were present at Temecula Valley Hospital as his body was transferred to a waiting hearse, which they followed in a procession escorted by the California Highway Patrol to Miller-Jones Mortuary in...
