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SAN DIEGO–San Diego County Crime Stoppers and the San Diego Police Department request the public’s assistance to locate a vehicle used in an attempted armed robbery. On March 16, an attempted armed robbery occurred in the 7200 block of Navajo Road. During the incident, the armed suspect was shot to death. The suspects fled in [...]
SAN DIEGO–With warmer weather and mosquito season fast-approaching, California legislators have declared April 22-28 “West Nile virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness” week, reminding us all to be smart and protect ourselves from the potentially-fatal disease. San Diego County, with larvicide drops, education and prevention, has done a good job of warding off West [...]
SAN DIEGO–San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) will host a series of workshops around San Diego County this month to solicit public input on where and how specialized public transportation can fill the gaps – especially for seniors, low-income, and disabled individuals — in the existing transit system. SANDAG will hold the public meetings as [...]
SAN DIEGO–The City Club will host Paul Hirschson, Deputy Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of Israel, who will speak on Thursday on U.S. and Israel relations. The event will include a reception, followed by the program at 7 p.m. Cost is $15 for City Club members and La Jolla Country Day parents, $25 for non-members. [...]
SAN DIEGO–The national Emergency Management Accreditation Program this week renewed its accreditation of the County of San Diego’s Office of Emergency Services. The accreditation is one of 34 nationwide approved by EMAP and the only one to be received by a county government within California. “This external validation shows how seriously we take public safety,” [...]
SAN DIEGO–Detectives from the San Diego Police Department’s Mid-City Division are looking for two suspects who stole large appliances from a Redwood Village/Rolando Park home. On March 12, at about 3 p.m., a resident confronted two males as they loaded her clothes dryer into a pickup truck in the driveway of her home at 6800 [...]
SAN DIEGO COUNTY–The Department of Environmental Health issued a General Advisory for the coastal waters of San Diego County due to rainfall on April 11. Activities such as swimming, surfing and diving should be avoided in all coastal waters for 72 hours following rain. This includes all coastal beaches and all of Mission Bay and [...]
SAN DIEGO–Detectives from the San Diego Police Department’s Northeastern Division are investigating a series of hot-prowl burglaries in the Rancho Bernardo area. Between November 2011 and April, there have been several hot-prowl burglaries reported in the Rancho Bernardo area. The suspect(s) in these cases are burglarizing attached condos and homes in the local retirement communities. [...]
SAN DIEGO–San Diego County Crime Stoppers, along with detectives from the San Diego Police Department, are asking for assistance from the public to help identify and locate an unknown person of interest in connection with the investigation of an attempt robbery and sexual assault. Detectives said on April 8, at approximately 3:30 a.m., an unknown [...]
SAN DIEGO–A San Diego man was sentenced Monday by a U.S. district court judge to serve a total of 25 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for distributing and possessing child pornography. A federal jury found David Michael McElmurry guilty on August 26, 2011 following a three-day jury trial. The jury returned [...]
