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SAN PASQUAL - A fast-moving wildfire threatened homes near Ramona this afternoon while charring scores of open acres east of San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The blaze erupted for unknown reasons about 1 p.m. off the 18000 block of state Route 78, near Rangeland Road in northern San Diego, according to Cal Fire. In less than 90 minutes, the flames had spread to the east over about 150 hilly acres and were posing immediate hazards to houses in the rural area, the state agency reported. Police shut down a stretch of SR 78 near the...
Gig Conaughton County of San Diego Communications Office San Diego County’s land use and environmental departments have introduced a new service to make life easier for customers – a tool to let people set up appointments on their own online, rather than over the phone or in person. The new “Click! to Schedule” tool, at www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/lueg/schedule-appointments-online.html, lets customers use their smartphones, laptops, tablets or computers to access onscreen calendars, find open dates and set appoint...
ESCONDIDO – A man was arrested Wednesday after leading authorities on a chase across San Diego County before the stolen vehicle he was driving caught fire on Interstate 15 in Escondido, authorities said. Deputies located a stolen black 2006 Audi A3 in Valley Center around 4 p.m. Deputies attempted to stop the vehicle but the driver refused to yield and a chase ensued, said sheriff's Sgt. Nathan Rowley. The pursuit traveled through Valley Center, and the Rincon, Pauma, and Pala Indian reservations at speeds up to 90 mph, R...
TEMECULA – County fire crews stopped the spread of a 30-acre brush fire that broke out east of Temecula today. The fire was reported around noon near East Benton and San Ignacio roads, said April Newman of the Riverside County Fire Department. Nearly 150 firefighters from Riverside County,the San Bernardino Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management responded to the blaze, which had blackened about three acres by the time they arrived. The so-called Valley Fire grew to 30 acres by 1 p.m., but the forward rate of the s...
SAN DIEGO – A small Menifee liquor store located next to a retirement village 70 has vaulted into the history books for selling one of the biggest lottery tickets in U.S. lottery history: a Powerball ticket worth an estimated $448 million before taxes. "And it feels good,'' said Matthew Alberre, co-owner of the Marietta Liquor & Deli in Sun City, a retirement community located off Interstate 215 in Menifee. His store gets $1 million from the state as the lucky retailer. But Alberre said he has no idea which customer bought t...
Dear Friends, Thanks to your help, our petition to stop California from becoming a sanctuary state has nearly 50,000 signatures. I believe that if we get to 100,000 our impact will be impossible to ignore in the Capitol. I will personally bring the signatures to Governor Brown. It’s important to look at real life examples to better understand the debate over sanctuary from immigration enforcement. What does SB 54 actually say? That local law enforcement can’t give ICE personal information about undocumented inmates like the...
SAN DIEGO – Detectives investigating accusations by three women that a North County chiropractor groped them during treatments asked any other alleged victims today to come forward. John Charles Michals, 42, who practices at a private office and a clinic in San Marcos, was arrested last Tuesday on suspicion of committing sexual battery on a patient in March, according to sheriff's officials. He has since bailed out of jail and pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor count. Since then, two other women have reported similar o...
BORREGO SPRINGS - Two men apparently walked away uninjured after the small plane in which they were riding crashed after taking off from the Borrego Valley Airport en route to Palm Springs over the weekend, it was reported. The Air Force Rescue Coordination Center in Florida picked up a signal from the single-engine Cubcrafters CC11-160's emergency locator beacon Saturday afternoon indicating it was somewhere in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. A Civil Air Patrol search plane spotted the wrecked aircraft about nine miles north...
SAN DIEGO - A 29-year-old man who was sitting in his car in a San Diego alley smoking marijuana was punched and carjacked today, authorities said. It happened about 6:15 p.m. in an alley in the 300 block of Willie James Jones Avenue, said San Diego police Officer Robert Heims. A suspect walked up to the window of the man's car, Heims said. "The suspect punched the victim in the head causing him to almost lose consciousness.'' The suspect pulled the victim out of the car through the window and began choking him, the officer...
SAN DIEGO - The city of San Diego will begin offering expedited processing of U.S. passport applications today, according to the City Clerk's office. The city resumed offering standard passport applications at City Hall in 2013, following a four-year layoff. Expedited processing, which cuts the turnaround time from 4-6 weeks to 2-3 weeks, was not available until today, however. U.S. citizens planning international travel can book appointments to apply for their passports at www.sandiego.gov/passports, or by calling the City...
SAN DIEGO - The Padres confirmed today that former outfielder Tony Gwynn Jr., son of the late Hall of Famer, will be part of this year's broadcast team. Gwynn Jr. -- who played for the Padres for two seasons -- will be part of television pre- and post-game shows on Fox Sports San Diego and an analyst on select game broadcasts on the club's new flagship radio station, FM 94.9. He worked on post-game radio shows for the Dodgers last year. His father, Tony Gwynn, manned right field for the Padres for 20 seasons and was inducted...
LA JOLLA - A drive to collect badly needed mothers' milk donations is scheduled at UC San Diego today. UCSD Health and the San Jose Mothers' Milk Bank will collect human milk that can be used in the care of premature babies. According to UCSD Health, the usual recipients of banked human milk are infants with very low birth weight -- less than 3.3 pounds -- or infants with an intestinal injury. Research shows that breast milk empties from the stomach faster, matures the intestines and results in less feeding problems than...
SAN DIEGO - A Hemet man was sentenced today in federal court in San Diego to 40 years in prison for forcing a 16-year-old girl into prostitution and keeping the money she made for himself. A jury found Luther Gene Ray, 33, guilty in December 2015 of sex trafficking of a minor by force, fraud or coercion. The victim, a runaway, had met Ray the previous year, about a month after his release from an eight-year prison stint for committing the same crime in Los Angeles, according to prosecutors. At the time, he was on supervised...
RAMONA - Efforts to recover the body of a 20-year-old woman killed when a small plane crashed in a remote mountainside area north of Ramona are expected to resume today. Two men, 25 and 28, sustained only minor injuries when the aircraft crashed for unknown reasons near Pamo Valley in the Cleveland National Forest around 2:30 p.m. Sunday. They were able to climb out of the crash site and use their cell phones to call for help, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and Cal Fire. Cal Fire and sheriff's...
ESCONDIDO - An Escondido motorcycle dealership was destroyed by fire Saturday night, according to fire officials. The building was fully engulfed in flames as firefighters were called at about 10:30 p.m. to the Moto Forza dealership in the 500 block of North Tulip Street, a dispatcher said. A second alarm was called, which brought in additional firefighters in from neighboring areas. But the dealership was "totaled'' despite their efforts, the dispatcher said. No other buildings were damaged and no injuries were reported....
SAN JACINTO - The daughter of a Hemet woman who went missing a week ago and whose traveling companion was found dead on the Soboba Indian Reservation said today she fears her mother was a witness to murder and suffered dire consequences. Kathleen Ann Haney, 56, was last seen on the night of Jan. 22, when she drove her daughter's friend, 27-year-old Kyle Nathan Cagey of Pala, to the Soboba Casino. Haney's van was discovered the following day, burning on the reservation....
LOS ANGELES - George Michael, a teenage music idol of the 1980s, died over the Christmas holiday. He was 53. A co-star of the pop duo Wham! and later a solo artist, Michael was best known for Wham! hits such as ``Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,'' "Careless Whisper'' and "Everything She Wants.'' His popular solo songs included "Faith'' and "I Want Your Sex.'' The superstar died peacefully at his home from heart failure, it was announced today. "It is with great sadness that we can confirm our beloved son, brother and friend...
ESCONDIDO - A fleeing driver in a Cadillac was able to elude pursuing California Highway Patrol officers early today but apparently ditched the car and took off after crashing into a light pole north of Escondido, authorities said. Officers attempted to pull over a speeding black Cadillac CTS on southbound Interstate 15 near Old Highway 395 shortly after 1 a.m., but the driver did not yield, according to the CHP. Officers chased the Cadillac for a time, but lost sight of it after the driver exited onto southbound Old Highway...
LOS ANGELES — Today, the Story of Stuff Project, the California-based Courage Campaign Institute, and the Center for Biological Diversity formally noticed their intent to appeal a federal court's decision that allows Nestlé to continue to remove an estimated 36 million gallons of water from Strawberry Creek in the San Bernardino National Forest, based on a permit that expired 28 years ago. This notice comes after a US District Court ruling in September that allows Nestlé to continue its annual remove of tens of millions of...
FALLBROOK – Bob Hillery, broker/owner of CR Properties Real Estate Services, recently welcomed Donna Gene Koci to the CR Family. “Donna Gene’s career in real estate affords her the opportunity to engage both of her passions: connecting with people and helping those people to buy or sell homes. She has been in the real estate industry working in every capacity from builder/developer, property manager and real estate appraiser to REALTOR®,” Hillery said. Having closed multiple...
Three Peter Miller-trained horses based at the San Luis Rey Training Center in Bonsall recorded victories at Del Mar during the racing week of July 27-31. Miller scored with the following runners: Kennedie Sky, who captured the sixth race on July 27; Stand by for News, who won the sixth race on July 29; and Big League, who took the third race on July 30. Kennedie Sky, a 4-year-old filly who joined Miller's barn in late June, rallied from last in a field of nine to win a 1 1/16-mile starter allowance race on the turf by a...
VISTA – A 20-year-old driver involved in an alcohol-fueled, head-on collision during a street race in Vista earlier this week has died, authorities said today. Jose Zamora of Oceanside was behind the wheel of a Ford Focus that was seen racing another vehicle on East Bobier Drive at speeds of up to 100 mph shortly after 12:30 a.m. Monday. He lost control of the car near Heidi Circle and it traveled over the median and into oncoming traffic, according to the sheriff's department and the county medical examiner's office. The F...
VISTA – An alcohol-fueled head-on collision during a street race in Vista early today sent five people to a hospital. A suspected drunken driver behind the wheel of a Ford Focus lost control while racing another vehicle on East Bobier Drive at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour, which caused the car to go over the raised center median and hit a sign as it crossed into oncoming traffic near Heidi Circle, sheriff's deputy Jason Ferguson said. The Ford slammed into a Mercedes-Benz C300 sedan in the eastbound lanes shortly after...
RIVERSIDE – A member of the US Navy suspected of stabbing his girlfriend to death in the City of Riverside Sunday, July 10, was apprehended this morning; the day after he fatally stabbed his girlfriend. He was arrested after leading authorities on an early morning pursuit from San Diego back to the City of Riverside, where the deadly stabbing occurred, according to Riverside Police Detective Adrian Tillett. Riverside Police officers conducted an investigation that revealed t...
Officer Jim Bettencourt of the California Highway Patrol reports that a 78-year-old male motorcyclist was killed in an accident today on SR76 when he was unable to avoid an out-of-control vehicle that veered into his path. The accident occurred at approximately 12:23 p.m. when an 18-year-old female from Temecula was driving her 2006 Honda Civic eastbound on SR76 just east of Cole Grade Rd. at an unknown speed. For reasons still under investigation, the driver veered to the right onto the gravel shoulder, lost control and...
