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
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Early morning sunlight filters down through redwood trees, catching the rising smoke of a campfire, creating white misty rays. As I walk through a grove of towering coast redwoods, the damp cool air invigorates me and the carpet of dry needles beneath my feet is soft and inviting. The intoxicating scent of damp redwood and smoke permeates the air. I breathe deeply. Rays of light illuminate the lacy ferns crowding the forest floor. The sun glows green through wide, flat...
San Luis Rey Thoroughbred Training Center colt Mo Forza won the Grade 2 Del Mar Mile stakes race Sunday, Aug. 23, at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. Mo Forza, who was ridden by Flavien Prat, won the one-mile turf race in 1:33.27 and finished 4 1/4 lengths in front of second-place Restrainedvengence. "We expected him to run well, and he did," trainer Peter Miller said. The race was the first for Mo Forza since the Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational Stakes race Jan. 25 at...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce opened registration for its annual Charity Golf Tournament at Pala Mesa Resort, scheduled for Friday, Sept. 25. All the fun starts midday, with check-in at 11 a.m. and shotgun start at 1 p.m. Tournament play is enhanced by lunch, an opportunity drawing, a virtual silent auction, contests and golf awards. A portion of the proceeds will benefit REINS Therapeutic Horsemanship Program, a local nonprofit where children and adults w...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The extreme late-summer heatwave that has brought triple-digit temperatures to parts of the San Diego area is expected to roast the region through the Labor Day weekend. The hot spell and accompanying low humidity and gusty winds out of the east prompted the National Weather Service to issue a ``red flag'' wildfire warning for the inland valleys and mountains, effective from 10 a.m. Saturday to 6 p.m. Sunday. The alert signifies a likelihood of critical...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego State University announced Friday, Sept. 4 that head men's basketball coach Brian Dutcher has signed a contract extension that will keep him with the Aztecs through 2025-26 season. The 2019-20 USA Today National Coach of the Year is entering his fourth season as head coach and beginning his 22nd year as part of the staff at SDSU. The three-year extension follows a season that featured a 26-game win streak and a Mountain West Conference-record 12th men's basketball championship with a 17-1 mark....
LOS ANGLES (CNS) - Friday, Sept. 4, the FBI released a more specific location of that person wearing a jet pack spotted in the air by pilots just west of the Long Beach (710) Freeway in the Cudahy and South Gate areas. The pilot of American Airlines flight 1997 radioed the LAX tower Sunday evening to make the unusual report of somebody apparently flying at about 3,000 feet with a jet pack. The FBI released a map with the location of the pilot and advised, ``Anyone with info about activity on or above the ground at the...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials reported 453 new COVID-19 cases and one additional death from the illness Friday, Sept. 4, raising the county's cumulative totals to 39,899 cases and 701 fatalities. One woman in her late 60s died. She had an underlying medical condition. Locally, Bonsall has reported 45 cases, Pala 75 and Fallbrook 465 cases since the county began tracking infections. The number of new cases is the most since 551 were reported Aug....
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Community Center will be open from noon to 5 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 5; Sunday, Sept. 6, and Monday, Sept. 7, as a county-designated Cool Zone for seniors can keep cool and and save energy costs, 341 Heald Lane. In the summer, the County designates Cool Zone sites, air-conditioned settings where seniors and others can gather. The sites encourage people to share air conditioning during the heat of the day, lowering individual usage and helping to conserve energy for the whole community. Residents can u...
On July 27, San Luis Rey Training Center colt Dominant Soul gave trainer Paula Capestro her first Del Mar Thoroughbred Club victory since 2015. Capestro saddled a 104.5:1 long shot Aug. 16 at Del Mar, and Severin finished third only three-quarters of a length behind the winner. The win was in the eighth career race for Dominant Soul, who had 12:1 odds that day. The 3-year-old, who is owned as well as trained by Capestro, finished fourth in his previous race June 6 at Santa Anita Park. A third-place result March 8 at Santa...
North County Fire said five people were taken to area hospitals after a semi-truck overturned on northbound Interstate 15 around 2:44 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3 in a crash that involved two other vehicles in Fallbrook just south of Highway 76. North County Fire had begun a technical rescue associated with the incident, as CHP reported two people needed rescue in two different vehicles. "Impairment is not believed to be a factor within this collision," according to CHP Officer...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Temperatures could soar into the triple digits in most of San Diego County Friday, Sept. 4 as a brutal stretch of heat begins, bringing an elevated risk of wildfires this weekend in the mountains and the western valleys, according to the National Weather Service. High pressure will strengthen over the West Coast throughout Labor Day weekend, ushering in the sweltering conditions, forecasters said. The heat, low relative humidity and gust winds out of the...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials reported 325 new COVID-19 cases and five additional deaths from the illness, raising the county's cumulative totals to 39,446 cases and 700 deaths. Five men died between Aug. 1 and 31, and their ages ranged from mid-40s to early 90s. All had underlying medical conditions. Of 9,031 tests reported Thursday, 4% returned positive, maintaining the county's 14-day rolling positive testing rate at 3.8%, well below the...
FALLBROOK – Homeowners know that the process of buying a home can be both exciting and nerve-wracking. The anxiety associated with buying a home has hit new heights during the coronavirus pandemic. Historically low interest rates and limited inventory has made 2020 an especially unique time to buy a home. It’s also a competitive and potentially expensive time to buy a home. While the economic consequences of COVID-19 have been severe, the Federal National Mortgage Association, also known as Fannie Mae, forecasted a significan...
An act of arson may have sparked an explosive fire that tore through the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego in July, extensively damaging the warship and injuring scores of emergency personnel while raging for four days, it was said Wednesday, Aug. 26. 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 warrants have executed at the home of the sailor, whose name...
An act of arson may have sparked an explosive fire that tore through the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego in July, extensively damaging the warship and injuring scores of emergency personnel while raging for four days, it was said Wednesday, Aug. 26. 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 warrants have executed at the home of the sailor, whose name...
The Registrar of Voters is seeking temporary full-time site managers to operate assigned polling places for the Nov. 3 general election. Site managers can earn $20 per hour. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, polling places will be open for four days instead of one. The registrar’s office will hire election workers rather than use volunteers because training is more extensive for the expanded time period. Site managers will be required to train and lead a staff while representing the Registrar of Voters in a professional, n...
San Diego City Councilmember Chris Cate sent a letter to Mayor Kevin Faulconer Friday, Aug. 28, asking for the city’s libraries to be reopened in light of school years beginning and a decreasing case rate of COVID-19 in the county. “I am requesting that the city evaluate options to safely reopen all city libraries as soon as possible. This can, and must, be done safely by following all social-distancing, health and sanitation guidelines,” he said. In the letter, he acknowledged that the majority of students will be parti...
Sen. Brian Jones, R-Santee, announced Wednesday, Aug. 27, that he tested positive for COVID-19. Jones, who was on the Senate floor in Sacramento, wearing a face mask, Monday, Aug. 24, did not say when he was tested or if he was showing symptoms. According to a statement posted on his Twitter and Facebook accounts, Jones “today, upon his return to Sacramento this week for the end of session, received news that he has tested positive for COVID-19. “He will be taking additional tests to recheck the results and to rule out pos...
The California Senate voted Sunday, Aug. 30, to require the state’s top prosecutor to investigate all police shootings that kill an unarmed civilian, advancing one of the highest profile reforms introduced this year in response to the killing of George Floyd. The Senate OK’d the bill despite opposition from Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who called a previous version of the bill “untenable and unreasonable” because it would cost his office up to $80 million a year. But the legislation had enough votes to pass the Senate wit...
John Ratcliffe, director of National Intelligence, said it's necessary to scale back election security briefings in person to Congress because of leaks. Over the weekend, reports said Ratcliffe and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence told the House and Senate intelligence committees that it will still provide written briefings on election security matters. Ratcliffe, in letters to the panels, said that leaks from members of Congress were a primary reason for th...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Californians who haven't paid their rent since March 1 because of the coronavirus can stay in their homes through at least Jan. 31 under a new state law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed late, late Monday – one day before statewide eviction protections were set to expire. The bill does not halt foreclosures for landlords whose tenants have stopped paying rent, but it does extend some state protections to rental properties of four units or less – protections previously only available to owner-occupied homes...
Agriculture values blossomed for the third year out of the past four and grew close to $1.8 billion, a height they last reached in 2014, in San Diego County's annual crop report. The value of all agriculture crops and commodities rose about 1.5% in the new crop report that covers the 2019 growing season, from $1,769,815,715 in 2018 to $1,795,528,573. Total agriculture values also increased in the 2016 and 2017 reports, before slipping by one-quarter of 1% in 2019's 2018 report. This year's increase was fueled in large part...
Businesses are shifting operations from downtown Portland, Oregon, or scuttling plans to open stores there because of the near-nightly rioting and protests that have gone on since May 28. Portions of the city are boarded up. Rioters, who often gather around 9 p.m. and don't disperse until early the next morning, had caused tens of millions of dollars of damage or lost business by early July. While many Standard Insurance employees have been working from home since March...
A white 17-year-old who said he went to protests in Wisconsin to protect businesses and people has become a flashpoint in a debate over anti-racism demonstrations that have gripped many American cities and the vigilantism that has sometimes met them. On Tuesday, Aug. 25, Kyle Rittenhouse grabbed an AR-15 style rifle and joined several other armed people in the streets of Kenosha, where businesses had been vandalized and buildings burned following a police shooting that left...
Kobe Bryant, Rep. John Lewis, and now, Chadwick Boseman. So far, 2020 has been marred with bad news and tragedy with the deaths of several popular Black icons including Bryant, Lewis and recently Boseman, who died Friday, Aug. 28. All three were viewed as leaders in their respective fields of sports, politics and film – places where people, particularly in the Black community, have often looked for inspiration during a year of racial tension and protests against the police bru...
