Escondido News Archives

“I want to get more information on a lot of things that can help my son in school. I want to learn about college, health, the train.”

The courses were part of the 10th annual North County Latino and Migrant Parent Involvement Conference. via Immigration Watchdog

SAN DIEGO - The FBI is asking the public's help in identifying a bank robber it has dubbed "The Grandpa Bandit." The man is believed responsible for four North County bank robberies, with the most recent ... via San Diego Union-Tribune

The California Public Utilities Commission Thursday approved a plan to change the 760 area code for residents in the North County to 442 to help ease a telephone number shortage. via KESQ-TV Palm Desert

California's utilities commission has voted to carve out a new area code for northern San Diego County. via Sacramento Bee Newspaper

“This is actually a very, very significant historical moment”

Board to discuss tunnel-transfer plan By Michael Burge The long-standing plan to tap Lake Hodges as a source of water for the entire county appears to have hit the rocks. via San Diego Union-Tribune

ESCONDIDO, Calif. A mentally ill man who jumped off a bunk bed in an Escondido jail cell and broke his neck is suing authorities for $15 million over his injury. via Press-Enterprise

“We've been in Coronado since '73. Nobody ever remembers seeing anything like this.”

Winter rains built up food for massive influx UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS April 15, 2008 The spring has been ideal for little things with wings. via San Diego Union-Tribune

NATURAL PERSPECTIVES: Spring lamb for Easter By Vic Leipzig and Lou Murray Reader Feedback - Currently Comments Many people like lamb for Easter. via Huntington Beach Independent

“From our point of view, it is our responsibility to protect the county's money”

By Angela Lau ESCONDIDO - St. Clare's Home, a shelter for homeless, battered and addicted women and their children in Escondido and Vista, has lost some of its contracts with the county. via San Diego Union-Tribune

Escondido police searched Tuesday for witnesses to a traffic accident that killed a 92-year-old San Marcos man. via KGTV

“My girlfriend, she had a very hard time with it. My mom, she took it real hard. They weren't happy to see me going, but they're happy to see me return every time.”

When more than a dozen local firefighters set out last month to help Californians battle raging infernos that threatened to destroy thousands of homes, most had no idea what to expect. via Farmington Daily Times

Police reported that an Escondido man wanted for alleged child molestation was arrested after a short car chase through Carlsbad. via KFMB-TV San Diego

Authorities are investigating the apparent murder of a young man who had been stabbed to death and was found on an Escondido street. via KFMB-TV San Diego

“Exceptionally weak home sales related to jumbo loans problems will depress home prices in the first half of the year, but steady liquidity improvements in the conforming jumbo loan market will help prices recover in the second half of the year”

Pending home sales continued to decline in February. That's the word this morning from the National Association of Realtors who reported a drop of 1.9 percent in the month and 21.4 percent lower than February a ... via San Diego Daily Transcript

“If I were going to pack up and leave, I would take everything I could get my hands on.”

Fueling their suspicions that the disappearance of Lance Cpl. Margaret McMahon may not have been a voluntary desertion of her military duties, relatives of the vanished Sag Harbor Marine said Monday that she ... via AMNY

SIGNONSANDIEGO NEWS SERVICES 6:35 a.m. April 7, 2008 ESCONDIDO - A local Marine who went missing last week along with her new husband, also a Marine, has been spotted on an ATM surveillance video in Kansas, it ... via San Diego Union-Tribune

Escondido, Calif., police say a newlywed Marine from Long Island who went missing on Monday has been spotted trying to withdraw money from an ATM in Salina, Kan. via ABC News

Sheriff's officials said a man fleeing sheriff's deputies by driving erratically on city streets and a freeway in Vista was hospitalized with injuries from a crash on Highway 78. via KFMB-am

Military and law enforcement officials are looking for a newlywed couple, both active Marines, who have been missing since Monday. via Sun Post News

“It's almost as though in his own mind it wasn't that big of a deal.”

A federal grand jury has indicted the cousin of a man who was apparently poisoned by the deadly toxin ricin. via WCBSTV.com

“I informed these callers that we don't do any fundraisers of that nature.”

Questionable door-to-door sales tactics have been knocking on the Friendly Village these days and prompting a flurry of calls to the Fallbrook Sheriff's Substation. via The Village News