San Marcos News

Riverside's Main Street pedestrian mall area will have another vacant spot by the end of the month, when locally based First National Bank of Southern California shuts its downtown office.

An Escondido man suspected of committing more than two dozen commercial robberies was behind bars Friday, police said.

Wispy clouds lazily sail with pale blue sky. A prevailing offshore flow ripples through the autumn-tinged oaks.

A masked gunman dressed in black from head to toe robbed a North County gas station Wednesday, a sheriff's official reported.

Horus Ocampo worked with Eric Noriega on an English project at Palomar College. Ocampo's motorized wheelchair was stolen this month and he has been using a loaner.

The president of a San Marcos mushroom-importing company has been sentenced to 13 months in prison after pleading guilty to evading customs duties on the mushrooms his firm imported from Japan.

Murrieta officials needed an experienced planner but did not want to pay the high cost to contract with one from a private firm.

High winds blew across the county Wednesday. It was a scary morning for a couple in North County.

A commuter train line shut down when high winds knocked a canopy onto power cables has fully reopened in time for the evening rush hour.

A couple escaped serious injury today when a large wind-buffeted eucalyptus tree toppled onto their car as they drove along a San Marcos street.

A new wave of vandalism has upset homeowners near San Marcos High School, 10News reported.

A fire in the second floor of a Hillcrest apartment building was put out quickly by the fire department but not before it injured one person Tuesday night.

Barbara of Melbourne, Australia's "1700" conducted an interview with MEGADETH guitarist Chris Broderick when the band played the Festival Hall in Melbourne on October 9 with SLAYER .

William D. Gore, Sheriff, San Diego County, today announces the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, representing the cities of Vista, San Marcos, Encinitas, Solana Beach, Del Mar, Poway, Santee, Lemon Grove and Imperial Beach is set to commence a year-long anti-DUI program aimed at preventing deaths and injuries on our roadways.

There are new concerns about a proposed 2,700-home development in the North County called Merriam Mountains.

A fire has broken out in San Marcos . Early reports put the fire near North Twin Oaks Valley Road just west of the Twin Oaks Golf Course.

A 15-year-old girl was hospitalized Tuesday with serious injuries after she and her dog were struck by a sport utility vehicle while crossing the street in San Marcos, authorities said.

A motorist struck a 14-year-old girl and her dog in San Marcos Monday, injuring the pedestrian and killing her pet, authorities said.

Jeffrey Easton of Metal Exiles recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH bassist James Lomenzo .

Clayton resident Barbara Jennings flew to Southern California in July to surprise her son, Russ Jennings, on his birthday.