Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Sorted by date Results 51 - 75 of 138
Business in Old Town Temecula are reportedly closed due to a massive number of protesters marching from the Temecula Duck Pond to city hall, various sources have reported to Valley News. Reporter Will Fritz, who is live at the scene, is reporting more than 600 protesters at the steps of city hall. Calls to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Media Information Bureau were not returned prior to the time of this posting. This is a breaking news story and will be updated a...
Several dozen protesters again turned out to the corner of Ammunition and South Mission roads in Fallbrook on Thursday to decry the killing of George Floyd, the black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd's neck for more than eight minutes last month. Floyd's death has triggered protests, some of them violent, across the country. Even at many of the peaceful protests nationwide, though, police have been seen brutalizing...
MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration Thursday, alleging officials violated the civil rights of protesters who were forcefully removed from a park near the White House by police using chemical agents before President Donald Trump walked to a nearby church to take a photo. The lawsuit, filed in federal court on Washington, comes as Attorney General William Barr defended the decision to forcefully remove the peaceful protesters, saying it was n...
LAURIE KELLMAN and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's inability to unify the nation at a time of grave unrest is testing his uneasy alliance with mainstream Republicans, some emboldened by Gen. James Mattis' plea for a leader who lives up to the U.S. ideals of a more perfect union. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Thursday called the rebuke by Trump's first Pentagon chief "necessary and overdue." "Perhaps we're getting to the point where we can be more honest with the concerns that we m...
RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A state investigator testified Thursday that a white man was heard saying a racist slur as he stood over Ahmaud Arbery's body, moments after fatally shooting the black man with a pump-action shotgun. The inflammatory revelation came amid a week of angry nationwide protests over law enforcement biases against black victims that erupted after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. In a hearing to determine whether there was enough evidence to proceed with a murder trial, t...
AARON MORRISON and TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Celebrities, musicians and political leaders gathered in front of George Floyd's golden casket Thursday for a fiery memorial service for the man whose death at the hands of police sparked global protests, with a civil rights leader declaring it is time for black people to demand, "Get your knee off our necks!" The service — the first in a series of memorials set for three cities over six days — unfolded in Minneapolis at a sanctuary at North Central Unive...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The number of COVID-19 cases in San Diego County approached 8,000 today as public health officials reported 142 new cases and five deaths. The new data raises the total county cases to 7,940 and the deaths in the region to 288. A total of 3,714 tests were reported today, with around 4% of those testing positive for the respiratory illness. The county's rolling 14-day average of positive tests is 2.9% and has been trending slowly downward for several weeks....
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - With temperatures warming and the start of summer only a few weeks off, an annual suspension of most burn permits in areas served by Cal Fire will go into effect Monday, the state agency advised today. The prohibition, which does not apply to campfires within organized campgrounds or on private property, will remain in force through peak wildfire season. The restrictions will apply to much of eastern and southern San Diego County, in locations outside of incorporated city boundaries or in federal ownership....
CARLSBAD (CNS) - An investigation was underway today into a social media posting in which a young man claims to be putting together a ``gun squad'' to attack anyone taking part in ``looting and anarchy'' during police brutality protests in Carlsbad. ``Come with guns,'' the unidentified man says in the video while pacing around shirtless, apparently in a bedroom or home office. ``Come with Mace. Come with batons -- whatever the (expletive) you got. Anyone who tries to break into a store, watch them (expletive) suffer. Let's...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Piers, boardwalks and other water areas in San Diego that were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic will reopen next week, Mayor Kevin Faulconer announced today. San Diego piers and boardwalks, Fiesta Island, East and West Mission Bay Park, and Balboa Park Central Mesa will reopen over the course of next week, starting Monday. Scheduled reopenings include: -- Monday: East and West Mission Bay Parks reopen for park and water uses, including parking lots to 100% capacity. Fiesta Island to reopen for...
ESCONDIDO (CNS) - An Escondido resident who allegedly was intoxicated when the car she was driving struck and killed a woman, her boyfriend and her two young grandsons was arrested today on suspicion of DUI and four counts of murder, authorities reported. Officers took 28-year-old Ashley Rene Williams into custody at her home this morning in connection with the deaths last month of Carmela Camacho, 50; Abel Valdez, 33; Yovanny Felix, 10; and Emmanuel Riva, 11, according to police. The couple and the boys were walking in the...
ZEKE MILLER and ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Wednesday he opposes using military forces for law enforcement in containing current street protests, tamping down threats from President Donald Trump, who had warned states he was willing to send troops to "dominate" the streets. Less than 48 hours after the president threatened to use the Insurrection Act of 1807 to contain protests if governors were not able to get a handle on unrest, Esper said it should be invoked in the U...
ZEKE MILLER and ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's Pentagon chief shot down his idea of using troops to quell protests across the United States Wednesday, then reversed course on pulling part of the 82nd Airborne Division off standby in an extraordinary clash between the U.S. military and its commander in chief. Both Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper also drew stinging, rare public criticism from Trump's first defense secretary, Jim...
AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Prosecutors charged three more police officers Wednesday in the death of George Floyd and filed a new, tougher charge against the officer at the center of the case, delivering a victory to protesters who have filled the streets from coast to coast to fight police brutality and racial injustice. The most serious charge was filed against Derek Chauvin, who was caught on video pressing his knee to...
ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO (AP) — California's Legislative leaders on Wednesday rejected billions of dollars in budget cuts to public schools and health care services that Gov. Gavin Newsom had proposed, setting up a fight with the governor over how to close the state's estimated $54.3 billion budget deficit. Flush with cash just six months ago, California's revenues have plummeted since March after Newsom ordered everyone to stay home to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Since then, more than 5 million people h...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Drew Brees was sharply criticized by fellow high-profile athletes, including some of his own teammates, on Wednesday after the Saints quarterback reiterated his opposition to kneeling during the national anthem. In an interview with Yahoo, Brees was asked to revisit former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick's 2016 protest of police brutality against minorities, in which Kaepernick knelt during the national anthem before games. "I will never agree with anybody...
ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - A writer from a "Law & Order" spin-off and the play-by-play broadcaster for the NBA's Sacramento Kings found themselves out of jobs after making social media posts this week that their bosses found too incendiary or insensitive, highlighting an apparent surge in such firings across many lines of work. Lost jobs over social media statements that seemed like a good idea at the time have become a common occurrence, but the...
ALAN SUDERMAN and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is expected to announce plans Thursday to remove one of the country's most iconic monuments to the Confederacy, a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee along Richmond's prominent Monument Avenue, a senior administration official told The Associated Press. The move would be an extraordinary victory for civil rights activists, whose calls for the removal of that monument and others in this fo...
KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In an extraordinary rebuke, former defense secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday denounced President Donald Trump's heavy-handed use of military force to quell protests near the White House and said his former boss was setting up a "false conflict" between the military and civilian society. "I have watched this week's unfolding events, angry and appalled," Mattis wrote. The criticism was all the more remarkable because Mattis has generally kept a low profile since retiring as defen...
MARIA CHENG and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A vaccine summit hosted by the British government on Thursday raised billions of dollars to immunize children in developing countries as experts wrestled with the difficult question of how any potential vaccine against the new coronavirus might be distributed globally — and fairly. The United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement have urged that "a people's vaccine" be developed for COVID-19 that would be freely available to eve...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Five San Diego-area law enforcement agencies announced today that they were halting their use of the so-called carotid restraint, a much-maligned compliance technique that renders uncooperative detainees unconscious but can prove deadly if performed improperly. In a posting on Twitter, county Sheriff Bill Gore stated that he was taking the step ``in light of community concerns and after consultation with many elected officials throughout the county.'' The police departments in Coronado, La Mesa, National...
ZEN SOO and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Thousands of people in Hong Kong defied a police ban Thursday evening, breaking through barricades to hold a candlelight vigil on the 31st anniversary of China's crushing of a democracy movement centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square. With democracy snuffed out in the mainland, the focus has shifted increasingly to semi-autonomous Hong Kong, where authorities for the first time banned the annual vigil that remembers victims of the 1989 crackdown. Beijing is taking a...
AARON MORRISON, NOMAAN MERCHANT and MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Mourners filed into a sanctuary in Minneapolis on Thursday for the first in a series of a memorials to George Floyd, whose death at the hands of police has sparked sporadic violence and turbulent protests around the world against racial injustice. The afternoon service was set for North Central University, where the civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton was among those scheduled to eulogize the 46-year-old Floyd. "He was a human being. H...
JANIE HAR and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California authorities have praised the thousands of peaceful protesters who thronged streets around the state while announcing criminal charges against more than 100 people accused of looting and violence. Police in the San Francisco Bay Area said a break-in suspect was killed when officers mistook his hammer for a gun. The shooting of 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa in the city of Vallejo on Tuesday was the only confirmed California death at the hands of law e...
The San Diego High School Sports Association annually honors one male student-athlete and one female student-athlete from each CIF San Diego Section school. This year, Erin Murray was Fallbrook High School’s recognized female Senior Scholar-Athlete. “I feel super honored and blessed to have the opportunity to receive this award,” Murray said. The SDHSSA allows athletic directors and coaches to pick the honorees from each school and notes that the student-athletes should have excelled both on and off the field. “They would b...
