SD Union-Tribune News

The death of a 24-year-old man who was found unconscious in a parking lot on Coast Highway in Cardiff by the Sea last month is being investigated as a homicide, the Sheriff’s Department says.

With his prison agency under fire, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today ordered an immediate halt to destroying parole records of sex offenders.

The state assemblyman who represents the neighborhoods where Chelsea King lived and died has already begun working with family members of the 17-year-old murder victim to toughen sexual-predator laws.

Gardner worked at Santa's Village and as a lifeguard and says his father abused him, according to report obtained by The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Judge sets new hearing date in August for Chelsea King murder case and issues a gag order for attorneys and police.

A man killed in a weekend head-on crash in Lakeside was identified Tuesday as Catarino Montano Navarro, 62, of Santee, the Medical Examiner’s office said.

Five San Diego County schools were identified by the state yesterday as chronically low-performing, and they could be forced to undergo drastic reforms or shut down.

State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner yesterday explained his shift on two key issues as he positions himself as the “true conservative” in the campaign for the Republican nomination for governor.

The city made substantial progress in restoring its financial credibility and reputation in the years after federal authorities rapped San Diego for failing to properly disclose a massive pension deficit to investors, according to an independent consultant’s report released yesterday.

A damaging mix of high tides and high surf and a growing number of winter storms have stripped the sand from much of Imperial Beach.

James Sikes was on his way home to Jacumba yesterday afternoon, driving his blue Toyota Prius on a winding stretch of Interstate 8, when he encountered a car that was going a little too slow. Sikes hit the accelerator, totally unprepared for what happened next.

The city made substantial progress in restoring its financial credibility and reputation in the years after federal authorities rapped San Diego for failing to properly disclose a massive pension deficit to investors, according to an independent consultant’s report released Monday.

Five San Diego County schools were identified by the state yesterday as chronically low-performing, and they could be forced to undergo drastic reforms or shut down.

Opponents of the proposed Merriam Mountains development north of Escondido have asked San Diego County supervisors to postpone their discussion of the 2,600-home project, citing the need to consider the results of a county-commissioned report on fire services.

A magnitude 4.0 earthquake shook the area Monday night, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, officials said.

A Chula Vista tax preparer who admitted to stealing more than $1 million from his clients pleaded guilty Monday to one count of mail fraud and one count of tax evasion in federal court, officials say.

The death of a 3-month-old girl in a Serra Mesa apartment has been ruled a homicide, the Medical Examiner’s Office says.

Federal officials are sending two investigators to California to determine what caused a Toyota Prius to race out of control.

A Superior Court judge on Monday ordered the release of a decade-old probation report generated after John Albert Gardner III was convicted of molesting a 13-year-old girl in Rancho Bernardo. The judge gave Gardner's defense lawyers until Wednesday morning to appeal the court's decision.

In August, Jack, a short-haired pointer from Virgina and Quincy, a yellow lab from Maine, came to Escondido to find Amber Dubois. Apparently they came very close.