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The percentage of San Diego County bank robberies that have been solved: 70: 2006 60: 2007 61: 2008 66: 2009 SOURCE: FBI ROBBERY SPREE The FBI is looking for a bank robber described as an elderly white man of medium build with liver spots on his skin who is behind four heists.

Authorities asked the public Tuesday for help in identifying a retirement-age man responsible for a spree of local bank robberies in recent weeks.

A motorcyclist who was injured Friday in a crash in Rancho Penasquitos died early Saturday morning.

Prince Albert II of Monaco will be awarded the Roger Revelle Prize from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla Friday for his efforts to promote scientific research and protect the environment.

Featured Article Main Category: Genetics Also Included In: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Article Date: 16 Oct 2009 - 2:00 PDT When scientists mapped the DNA sequence of 3 billion bases in the human genome they uncovered the master blueprint of what makes a human being; now a team in the US has produced a high resolution map of the first complete ...

American Geotechnical and Environmental Services conduct forensic geology in the land slide zone on Soledad Mountain Rd.

Tony Award nominees Kathryn Meisle and Omar Metwally, and Drama Desk Award nominee T. Ryder Smith, star in the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright's Creditors , adapted from the 1888 play by August Strindberg, beginning Sept.

A spokesman for the San Diego Holistic Healing medical marijuana cooperative claims it's legitimate, but Bird Rock residents have concerns.

An estimated 28,500 students will start classes this week at the University of California San Diego, according to university officials.

Half a million dollars in cash...and this is what it looks like. The Little League World Champs from Chula Vista electrified Petco Park.

Meet the Geriatric Bandits: One has a cane, the other needs an oxygen mask. They're old enough to be your grandfather.

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IN La Jolla, California, a well-dressed elderly man carrying an oxygen tank has robbed a branch of the San Diego National Bank Saturday.

A tall, sportily-dressed man in his 70s, with an oxygen bottle over his shoulder and a tube leading to a nose-piece, robbed the San Diego National Bank of an unspecified amount of money this morning, the FBI said.

Fire heavily damaged a classroom at a La Jolla high school early Wednesday morning.

A pole vaulter at UC San Diego has died from an apparent headinjury sustainedduring a training accident.

A former San Diego resident accused in a series of break-ins and rapes in Mission Beach, Ocean Beach and the College area in late 2000 and early 2001 pleaded not guilty today to 23 felony charges, including forcible rape.

A landslide that damaged dozens of La Jolla homes was caused by water leaking into the soil, a homeowners' attorney said Monday, but a lawyer representing the city of San Diego said shifting earth was to blame.

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