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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego County Registrar of Voters announced Friday, Aug. 28 he was seeking temporary full-time site managers to operate assigned polling places for the Nov. 3 General Election. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, polling places will be open for four days instead of one, Registrar Michael Vu said. His office will hire election workers rather than use volunteers because training is more extensive for the expanded time period. Site managers can earn $20 per hour. Site managers will be required to train and...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials reported 277 new COVID-19 cases and five deaths from the illness, raising the region's totals to 37,499 cases and 673 deaths Thursday, Aug. 27. Three women and two men died between July 28 and Aug. 26, ranging in age from the early 40s to the early 90s. Of the 5,235 tests reported Thursday, 5% returned positive, raising the 14-day rolling average of positive tests to 3.7%, well below the state's 8% guideline. The...
NEW YORK (AP) — The S&P 500 ticked further into record territory on Thursday after the Federal Reserve made a major overhaul to its strategy, one that could keep interest rates low for longer. The benchmark index rose 0.2%, to another all-time high, but it veered through a jumbled day of trading to get there. Prices for stocks, bonds and gold all made several U-turns after Fed Chair Jerome Powell gave a highly anticipated speech. In it, he essentially said the Fed may c...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles Rams are opening a lavish new stadium with no fans in it next month. That might not even be the weirdest thing they'll experience in this utterly unique NFL season. A year that was already unprecedented because of the coronavirus pandemic got even stranger when the Rams added the omnipresent cameras of HBO's "Hard Knocks" to their daily routines. That microscope has already led to some surreal moments, and others that might be better off...
In a typically awkward way, Major League Baseball has been pulled into America's discussion about racial injustice. Some teams are playing. Some aren't. Some have played with individual players sitting out. But across the sport, one theme became clear: Baseball shouldn't avoid potentially difficult conversations and decisions regarding social issues. Though the process may be imperfect, there was agreement that coaches, players and teams should speak their mind. "This is at...
Walmart is the latest company to want a piece of TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned video app that has come under fire from the Trump administration. The world's largest retailer made a joint bid with tech giant Microsoft to buy TikTok's U.S. business, according to a person close to the deal who isn't authorized to discuss the terms publicly. It may seem like an unlikely combination, but Microsoft and Walmart are already business partners. Microsoft provides cloud computing...
From the air, the destruction of Hurricane Laura is especially stark. Photographs from The Associated Press show entire neighborhoods surrounded by green-brown floodwater. A glassy high-rise stands with most of its windows missing. An airport hangar is shredded into ribbons of metal. After days of gathering strength in the Gulf of Mexico, Laura grew into one of the most powerful storms ever to strike the U.S., a Category 4 monster with 150 mph winds that surpassed even...
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - Prosecutors have charged a 17-year-old from Illinois in the fatal shooting of two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and the wounding of a third. Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley filed the charges against Kyle Rittenhouse Thursday afternoon. The charges include one count of first-degree intentional homicide; one count of first-degree reckless homicide; one count of attempted first-degree intentional homicide; two counts of first-degree...
Washington, DC - The U.S. Marshals Service Missing Child Unit, in conjunction with the agency’s Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and Georgia state and local agencies, led a two-week operation in August in Atlanta and Macon, Georgia, to rescue endangered missing children. "Operation Not Forgotten" resulted in the rescue of 26 children, the safe location of 13 children and the arrest of nine criminal associates. Additionally, investigators cleared 26 a...
FALLBROOK — A residential structure fire on the 1700 block of Bellington Lane on Wednesday, Aug. 26 caused two people to evacuate and become displaced and caused one firefighter to receive treatment after fighting the blaze. The multi-agency effort, which began at 6:30 p.m., was contained roughly an hour later. “The first units on the scene arrived to find about 50% of the structure well involved in fire,” Division Chief of Operations and Emergency Medical Services, Kevin Mahr said. “And so they took a defensive strateg...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector Dan McAllister announced Thursday, Aug. 27 his office was trying to reunite $450,324 in county tax refunds with its rightful owners. ``With many people out of work or cash-strapped, it's essential to return this money to the citizens of San Diego,'' said McAllister. ``The average refund is $378, and that can go a long way for those who need it.'' The tax collector's office has 1,190 refunds which can be searched online at sdttc.com. According to the office, if a...
PALA (CNS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an emergency order after finding the owners of a privately owned mobile home park on the Pala Band of Mission Indians Reservation were in violation of federal laws that safeguard clean drinking water, it was announced Thursday, Aug. 27. EPA officials said problems with a faulty septic system and broken water lines at the Lee Bar Ranch mobile home park were so bad that the park's residents have been told to start boiling water to drink. The EPA called the water...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - An act of arson may have sparked an explosive fire that tore through the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego last month, extensively damaging the warship and injuring scores of emergency personnel while raging for four days, it was reported today. Citing anonymous sources, 10News reported that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service has identified a Navy sailor who may have set the blaze intentionally. The sources told the news station that search...
Given that the county’s case rate for COVID-19 has been and appears likely to remain below 100 cases per every 100,000 residents, all schools in the region, kindergarten through 12th grade, could reopen for in-person instruction beginning Sept. 1. Schools that choose to reopen must follow the guidance for schools and school-based programs. The guidance applies to in-person learning and distance learning. “San Diegans have done a tremendous job in helping us to keep the local case rate below 100,” said Wilma Wooten, M.D.,...
A former California police officer, dubbed the Golden State Killer, told victims Friday, Aug. 21, he was "truly sorry" before he was sentenced to multiple life prison sentences for a decadeslong string of rapes and murders that terrorized a wide swath of the state. Joseph James DeAngelo, 74, pleaded guilty in June to 13 murders and 13 rape-related charges under a plea deal that avoided a possible death sentence. The punishment imposed by Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman means DeAngelo will die in prison...
Sky-darkening wildfires that took at least six lives and forced tens of thousands of people from their homes blazed throughout California Friday, Aug. 21, as firefighting resources strained under the vastness of the infernos authorities were trying to control. Three major complexes encompassing dozens of fires chewed through a combined 780 square miles (2,020 square kilometers) of forests, canyons and rural areas flanking San Francisco on three sides. Statewide, nearly 12,000...
August marks a huge milestone. In 1920, women were granted the right to vote nationwide when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment. According to the amendment, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Just to be clear, millions of women had already been voting. Fifteen states had granted women full suffrage, and limited voting rights had been granted in...
Dear Editor, I can’t wait for the Republican National Convention to hear all of our president’s accomplishments. Clearly, the media won’t tell us what is happening at home or around the world. Before President Donald J. Trump: If anyone recalls, when this president took office unemployment was the highest it had been in a decade, because former President Barack Obama gave away our manufacturing jobs which supported minorities when he signed NAFTA. Obama gave China all of our prescription medication formulas closing down...
What to some people is nothing more than part of a political platform, or a political narrative, to others is the opportunity for freedom and life changing opportunity. School Choice was painted for years with ignorance and fear that uneducated or “bad” parents would take their children to “witch schools” or some other inappropriate school setting. These fear-based oppositions were ignorant in my opinion. I appreciated the ability to follow four different paths for my four ch...
A tip of the hat and a round of applause for the U.S. Postal Service in Fallbrook. Despite the difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a visit to the post office lobby is always met with a smile and a helpful attitude. And the delivery folks deliver our mail every day no matter the weather. This has been our experience here for 29 years, and we look forward to the continuation of the outstanding service. Bravo USPS! Robert Haney...
A tip of the hat and a round of applause for the U.S. Postal Service in Fallbrook. Despite the difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a visit to the post office lobby is always met with a smile and a helpful attitude. And the delivery folks deliver our mail every day no matter the weather. This has been our experience here for 29 years, and we look forward to the continuation of the outstanding service. Bravo USPS! Robert Haney...
In 2004, San Diegans voted to extend a half-cent sales tax for 40 years starting in 2008. In exchange SANDAG promised to build mass transit projects and also relieve traffic congestion by making critical highway improvements to Routes 78, 67, 94, 125, 805 and 52 and many other major San Diego highways. Those promised projects have not come to fruition. After spending over two-thirds of the transportation dollars in the last decade on mass transit, public transit ridership has actually declined. And we can all see it:...
Charles Albert Spellman III, 85, died Aug. 14, 2020, surrounded by his family. Charles was also known as Charlie, Spike and most fondly, Grumpy, chosen by his first grandchild's version of Grandpa. Somehow the name stuck. Charles was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He flew the B-59 Mitchell in the Air Force where he met his wife and best friend, Betty. In 1965, he moved to flying for commercial airlines Pan Am and later United. The family moved to Fallbrook in 1975 and...
Few can forget the terrible images of the Lilac Fire in 2017. Among the worst were scenes of people trying to rescue horses at San Luis Rey Training Center in Bonsall, where rescuers were burned and 45 horses ultimately perished. It was therefore terribly disturbing when the California Horse Racing Board, during its Aug. 20 meeting, granted an exemption to its own Fire Safety Rule to the San Luis Rey Training Center - where the center’s representative admitted that about half of the barns have no sprinklers and asked for a...
Juan Martinez Flores was born in Ponzitlan, Jalisco Mexico, on March 9, 1945. Roughly two years later, his parents, Mariano Flores and Esperanza Martinez Flores moved to Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. As a youngster, Juan held the responsibility of working to help support his family, selling newspapers in downtown Tijuana and eventually becoming a mechanic’s apprentice, which ended up defining his career. At around 13 years of age, Juan began to travel (with his father) across the border to the United States. They were b...