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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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Eight people were selected to serve on the county's Independent Redistricting Commission, in a random drawing during the San Diego County Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday, Oct. 13. Commissioners will redraw boundaries for the county's five supervisorial districts by December 2021, based on new federal census numbers. Those chosen to serve are David Bame, Colleen Brown, Amy Caterina, Chris Chen, Sonia Diaz, Barbara Hansen, Arvid Larson and John Russ. Bame lives in District 1; Russ lives in District 2;...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, Oct. 13 unanimously supported crafting a resolution that ratifies the public health officer's guidance on hospital capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Supervisors Jim Desmond and Kristin Gaspar made the proposal in connection with the state's Blueprint for a Safer Economy, which was unveiled Aug. 29. Desmond's spokesman Miles Himmel said that while the resolution is symbolic, it allows the board to keep the pressure on the state by focusing on...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County will remain in the red tier of the state's four-tier COVID-19 reopening plan for at least another week, the California Department of Public Health confirmed Tuesday, Oct. 13. The county's state-calculated, adjusted case rate is 6.8 daily infections per 100,000 residents, up from 6.7 the previous week. The unadjusted case rate was 7.2, up from 7 last Tuesday. The adjusted rate is due to San Diego County's high volume of tests, but still leaves the county on the precipice of the state's most...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials reported 195 new COVID-19 infections Monday, Oct. 12, raising the total to 50,746 cases as the county awaits reopening data from the state tomorrow. The number of deaths in the region from the illness remains at 826. Of the 7,573 tests reported Monday, 3% returned positive, bringing the 14-day rolling average percentage of positive cases to 2.9%. The seven-day daily average of tests was 10,424. Of the total number of...
DEL MAR (CNS) - Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse trainer Gary Jones died at his Del Mar home at the age of 76, it was announced Monday, Oct. 12. Jones, whose career accomplishments included earning more than $52 million in purses and 1,465 race victories, died Sunday following a lengthy illness. His son Marty, also a trainer, told the Thoroughbred Daily News that his father had been in hospice care and died of natural causes. The son of legendary trainer Farrell ``Wild Horse'' Jones took over his father's stable in 1974 and...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Temperatures will soar to near triple digits Monday, Oct. 12 in the San Diego County valleys as a heatwave is set to grip the region until this weekend, according to the National Weather Service. High pressure centered off the West Coast will strengthen throughout the week and bring above-average temperatures through at least Friday, forecasters said. Humidity will also drop to around 10-15 percent throughout the county most afternoons, slightly elevating...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County public health officials reported 291 new COVID-19 infections and six deaths from the illness Thursday, Oct. 8, raising the county's totals to 49,446 cases of the coronavirus and 819 deaths, while a new daily record for community outbreaks was set. A total of 19 community outbreaks were reported Thursday, six in restaurant/bar settings, six in business settings, two in grocery settings, two in restaurants, one in a food processing setting,...
October 7, 2020 WASHINGTON – Today the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the conclusion to a week-long targeted enforcement operation that resulted in the apprehension of over 125 at-large aliens across the state of California, where sanctuary policies have largely prohibited the cooperation of law enforcement agencies in the arrest of criminal aliens. The ICE enforcement actions, which took place Sept. 18 to O...
Oct 08, 2020 1:14 PM LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Agents foiled a stunning plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, authorities said Thursday in announcing charges in an alleged scheme that involved months of planning and even rehearsals to snatch her from her vacation home. Six men were charged in federal court with conspiring to kidnap the governor in reaction to what they viewed as her "uncontrolled power," according to a federal complaint. Separately, seven...
INDIO (CNS) - The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival may be pushed back a third time to next fall, according to a report published Wednesday, Oct. 7. Rolling Stone cited ``multiple music industry insiders'' in its reporting, including an unnamed person who works with a ``major talent agency that represents popular festival performers," who pegged October 2021 for when the popular two-weekend festival could return. Event promoter Goldenvoice did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The festival, which...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego Gas & Electric released a sustainability strategy Thursday, Oct. 8 with climate change-conscious goals in the areas of environmental stewardship, clean transportation, grid modernization, community engagement and company operations. The strategy, titled ``Building a Better Future: Our Commitment to Sustainability,'' is intended to serve as a foundation for SDG&E to work toward key sustainability goals in the future. Its release is timely, as the city of San Diego is currently reassessing its...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Food baskets heading out to families in the San Diego Unified School District today will be sent without a letter from President Donald Trump. District officials say the letter is misleading about ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The letter has been placed in millions of boxes across the country that are part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's $4 billion Farmers to Families Food Box Program. Since May, the program has distributed more than 100 million boxes, but the letter is a new development....
The National Guard has designated military police units in two states to serve as rapid reaction forces so they can respond quickly to any potential civil unrest around the country, following violent protests that rocked the nation's capital and several states this summer. Military leaders don't explicitly tie the changes to concerns about possible election-related violence, but the nation is bracing for unrest surrounding the tumultuous presidential campaign, particularly if...
Police said they knocked repeatedly and identified themselves for a minute or more before using a battering ram to enter Breonna Taylor's apartment, according to Kentucky grand jury recordings released Friday, Oct. 2, then killed her in a rapid hail of gunfire after the first officer inside her door was struck by a bullet. But Taylor's boyfriend, who fired on the officers, said in an police interview played for the jury that he did not hear them announce themselves. If they...
Four horses stabled at the San Luis Rey Training Center, when they are not at the track where the meet is being held, won stakes races on the opening weekend of the Santa Anita Park fall meet. The meet was originally scheduled to begin Sept. 19, but smoke from the Bobcat Fire postponed Opening Day to Sept. 25. The Sept. 25 races included the Grade 3 Chillingworth Stakes won by Into Chocolate. On Sept. 26, Bulletproof One was the winner of the Unzip Me Stakes and Get Her...
SACRAMENTO – Senate Bill 1003, a measure written by state Sen. Brian Jones, R-Santee, which extends the immunity from liability that local governments receive when operating skate parks, was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Tuesday, Sept. 29. Skate parks are reserved areas, often in community parks, that are set aside and built for use by skateboarders and extreme sport riders who use all-wheeled, nonmotorized bicycles, scooters and wheelchairs. Locally operated skate parks offer a place for skateboarders and sport r...
For likely the first time in the history of high school tennis there will be a new format for the upcoming season. The boys and the girls teams will play a coed season in the spring. "For the one year that this is happening, it's really pretty much changed everything," Fallbrook Union High School boys and girls varsity tennis coach Bill Lenaway said. "We're actually going to play a coed season in the spring. We're not even having separate boys and girls teams. "We're going to...
Sept. 24 400 block Grand Vista Ln Petty theft 1600 block Scooter Ln Fraud Riverview Dr @ E. Mission Rd Possession of controlled substance 1600 block S. Mission Rd Arrest: Vandalism 1900 block Rainbow Glen Rd Battery Sept. 25 100 block Via Casitas Grand theft 1600 block S. Mission Rd Assault with a deadly weapon 900 block E. Mission Rd Fraud 1400 block S. Mission Rd Vehicle vandalism 1400 block Alturas Rd Petty theft Sept. 26 4900 block S. Mission Rd Arrest: Domestic battery 5400 block Villas Dr Arrest: Domestic battery,...
TEMECULA – Saving lives is the core mission of the California Highway Patrol. To accomplish this mission, the CHP Temecula Area office will use a federal grant to conduct a regional traffic safety campaign in Riverside County. The project starts Oct. 1, 2020, and ends Sept. 30, 2021. The Temecula Area will deploy officers on enhanced enforcement on Interstates 15 and 215; State Routes 74, 79 and 371; and unincorporated roads where the CHP Temecula Area has jurisdiction in Riverside County. This traffic safety effort will a...
Poll watchers will be permitted to observe election activities at polling stations countywide Nov. 3, though COVID-19 related restrictions will limit the number of people allowed inside polling places. Social distancing requirements mean only about one to two observers might be rotated in and out of the polling places at any given time this year, Assistant Registrar of Voters Cynthia Paes said Oct. 1. The number of polling places in San Diego County has been reduced from 1,548 in March to 235 larger polling places that will...
Some of the national forests in California are now open for limited activity, but neither of the federal preserves in Riverside County are open for anything except official access, rangers said Wednesday, Sept. 30. “We understand how important access to national forests is to our visitors,” Randy Moore, Pacific Southwest Regional forester for the U.S. Forest Service, said. “As we evaluate fire and weather conditions on a daily basis, we will continue to make adjustments to ensure safe visitation. Our aim continues to preve...
The staggering scale of California's wildfires reached another milestone Monday, Oct. 5: A single fire surpassed 1 million acres. The new mark for the August Complex in the Coast Range between San Francisco and the Oregon border came a day after the total area of land burned by California wildfires this year passed 4 million acres, more than double the previous record. Gov. Gavin Newsom said the amount of land scorched by the August Complex is larger than all of the recorded...
North County firefighters responded to assist with a brush fire in the afternoon, Wednesday, Sept. 30, that triggered evacuations on U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. Base officials posted to Camp Pendleton’s Twitter account at 1:28 p.m. that a vegetation fire on the west side of De Luz Road was potentially threatening structures, and the surrounding area was initially being placed under a precautionary evacuation. About 45 minutes later, Camp Pendleton officials tweeted the forward spread of the fire has been s...
SACRAMENTO – The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services announced today the launch of a public awareness campaign to educate all California residents about California's innovative earthquake warning system -- Earthquake Warning California. The campaign, "Don't Get Caught Off Guard," directs Californians to no-cost tools, resources, and information, including the smartphone MyShake App, Android Earthquake Alerts, Government Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs), and earthquake.ca.gov. Building upon the success of C...
