Congressman Duncan Hunter’s guilty plea to a single charge of campaign finance fraud late last year and his resignation this week has made the 50th Congressional District race one of the most-watched 2020 races in the nation, as a millennial Democratic candidate makes his second attempt to flip the Republican stronghold.
Read moreAppearing before San Diego Superior Court’s presiding judge Thursday, the 20-year-old man accused of shooting and killing a synagogue congregant during the sacred Jewish holiday of Passover this past spring pleaded not guilty to murder and hate crime charges.
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Former longtime GOP congressman Darrell Issa is tossing his hat in the ring for the fight to unseat embattled Rep. Duncan Hunter in District 50, one of California’s last Republican strongholds.
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A San Diego voter has sued Assemblyman Todd Gloria, accusing him of illegally using donations from his Assembly re-election campaign to pay for his run for the mayor’s office.
Read moreAdvancing claims that San Diego County allowed a social worker to detain two young children without parental consent, a federal judge noted that “lying and threatening to take a 3-year-old from a mother so as to supplant a parent’s medical decision-making is conscience-shocking behavior.”
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Republican, radio personality and proponent of the failed 2018 effort to repeal California’s gas tax, Carl DeMaio of San Diego, announced Monday he will run for the congressional seat held by a fellow Republican about to go on trial on campaign-finance fraud charges.
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The day before he was shot and killed by a police officer in El Cajon, California, in 2016, Alfred Olango stopped by his family’s house to tell his estranged wife and his teen daughter he loved them, his wife testified during his wrongful death trial Monday, recalling his “strange” behavior.
Read moreA federal judge in San Diego entered a not guilty plea Tuesday on behalf of John T. Earnest, 19, who is accused of shooting and killing a woman and wounding several others at a synagogue in April and now faces federal hate crime, arson and other charges.
Read moreThe Justice Department filed 109 federal hate crime charges Thursday against a 19-year-old man accused of killing a 60-year-old woman and wounding a rabbi, a girl and others during a shooting at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue near San Diego.
Read moreThe man accused of killing a 60-year-old woman and wounding a rabbi, an 8-year-old girl and her uncle at a Passover celebration this past weekend pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted murder and arson Tuesday afternoon.
Read moreKeeping in mind local and state mandates to combat climate change, San Diego city and county officials approved measures to explore entering the clean energy market as providers.
Read moreAn attorney representing the San Diego branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a handful of protesters arrested while holding vigil for a man shot and killed by a police officer in 2016 said San Diego law enforcement has a pattern of declaring protests unlawful assemblies once they become “inconvenient.”
Read moreSan Diego County, often the first U.S. stop for asylum-seeking families who make their way to sponsors across the country, will allow an old courthouse to be used as a temporary shelter while it waits on the state and federal government to put up funds to address the migrant crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Read moreIn a bipartisan effort, San Diego County’s mostly Republican Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday on a handful of measures to temporarily house asylum-seekers, including asking the state to reimburse local government for footing the bill.
Read moreLess than a year after the most expensive courthouse in California opened – a $556 million endeavor – work to refurbish cracking windows is already underway.
Read moreA federal judge refused Monday to dismiss claims against a San Diego County Jail nurse, brought by the mother of a schizophrenic man who killed himself.
Read moreU.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, is polling ahead in his re-election bid for the 50th Congressional District, despite facing federal charges of misuse of campaign funds, a poll released Monday shows.
Read moreNeedy civil litigants who cannot afford to hire a private court reporter are still entitled to have one provided for them, California Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Read moreTwo residents say San Diego County discriminates against people of color and women by “forc(ing) nearly all persons seeking welfare assistance to submit to home inspections without any reason to believe they are ineligible,” in superior court.
Read moreDid officers have probable cause to arrest and incarcerate two men for gang murders they didn’t commit? A federal judge heard arguments Tuesday on why he should toss a gang conspiracy case where the San Diego District Attorney’s Office botched a new legal theory over an obscure gang law.
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