CHULA VISTA–An individual at the Castle Park Head Start, 1375 Third Avenue, Chula Vista, has been diagnosed with the Hepatitis A virus, according to the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency. Some staff and children who attended the Head Start program and ate breakfast at the facility between Jan. 7 and Jan. 14 […]

By Gina Yarbrough BORREGO SPRINGS–A county park ranger discovered a body inside a burned pickup truck Tuesday morning at the Vallecito County Regional Park in Borrego Springs. Sheriff’s homicide detectives responded to the scene and began an investigation. A cause and manner of death, as well as a positive identification of the decedent will be […]

MOUNT HELIX–Five adults and two dogs were displaced after a structure fire broke out inside their Mount Helix home on Thursday. CAL FIRE/San Miguel Fire District Firefighters responded to a single family, single story structure fire located in the 4500 block of Calavo Drive. The fire was reported at about 12:55 p.m., and was knocked […]

EL CAJON–A bicyclist was shot by El Cajon police Friday morning during an altercation with the officer at a used car lot. At 9:29 a.m., a El Cajon police officer Friday was driving eastbound in a marked police vehicle in the 1300-1400 block of E. Main Street when he saw a man riding a bicycle […]

SAN DIEGO–A grand jury has handed down indictments against 15 defendants in a widening public corruption case involving elected school board members from the Sweetwater Union High School and San Ysidro School districts along with the San Ysidro School District superintendent, former members of the board of trustees for Southwestern Community College, the former president […]

ESCONDIDO–Detectives are searching for witnesses of a fight between a group of people that left one man dead. On Sunday, December 30, just before 9 p.m., Escondido police received calls of a fight, gunfire, and a person who had been shot in the area of the 800 block of E. Mission Avenue in Escondido. Officers […]

SPRING VALLEY–San Diego County Crime Stoppers and detectives from the Lemon Grove Sheriff’s Department are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate two unknown suspects wanted for robbing a gas station at gunpoint. On November 30, at about 7 a.m., two unknown males entered the BPS gas station, located at 9111 Campo Road in Spring […]

SPRING VALLEY–A Spring Valley resident working on her computer saw smoke pouring out of a window of her neighbor’s home across the street. The woman sought the help of another neighbor and tried to alert the couple inside unit 206 at the Sweetwater Lodge Mobile Home Park on Jamacha Road. There was no response. They […]

LEMON GROVE–A La Mesa woman and her 10-year-old son escaped serious injury after someone shot at her vehicle shattering car window. On Tuesday evening, the woman was driving her vehicle southbound in the 1600 block of Glencoe Dr., in Lemon Grove. Her son was also in the car with her at the time. As the […]