San Diego County News

Police released this sketch of the suspect who is said to have followed four girls home from school since mid-May. San Diego police are searching for a suspect who has followed four girls home as they walked from Emerson Elementary School in Mountain View.

The County of San Diego was one of 11 counties to miss the deadline to send 8,250 ballots to overseas and military voters for the June 5 primary, according to CaliforniaWatch.org. The failure to send the ballots by the April 21 deadline is in violation of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, according to the online news source.

A San Diego teenager born with a hearing deficiency has won himself support slots for upcoming shows with SCOTTY McCREERY and CODY SIMPSON on the back of his YouTube.com JUSTIN BIEBER covers.

Authorities Thursday released the name of a man who molested a child in San Diego County and was killed in prison this week, allegedly by a murderer also serving a life-sentence at California State Prison in Lancaster.

Campbell has started to take on the hues of summer. The neon shades of green that signaled spring have given way to deeper tints.

SPY Optics, along with media partner TransWorld Motocross, A announce the first annual SPY Del Moto Derby Pro/Am Invitational.

Challenges lie ahead for meeting summer peak power demand in San Diego County as time runs out for restoring electricity generation at the San Onofre nuclear power plant, according to an assessment published Wednesday by grid reliability authorities.

Hours after being released from jail, a man walked through an emergency door at San Diego International Airport, onto the tarmac and sat down on a United Express plane Tuesday, according to San Diego authorities.

Officials say police arrested a parolee who broke through an emergency door opening to the tarmac at the San Diego airport and boarded a commuter jet bound for Los Angeles.San Diego port spokeswoman Marguerite Elicone told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the man voluntarily got off the Sky West aircraft on Tuesday after a flight attendant ... (more)

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Three times in the last week, suspects have held up a local convenience store clerk and demanded money and lottery tickets.

A blue sedan driving southbound on Sweetwater Road ran a red light and struck the van in the intersection at Jamacha Boulevard just before 6:30 a.m. according to San Diego County sheriff's deputies.

You might have noticed the police escort of runners in our neighborhood. Local law enforcement are running or biking 80 miles to raise money for the Special Olympics.

Banner Fire Acres burned: 5,321 Containment: Fully contained Location: Off Banner Grade, south of Highway 78, east of the community of Julian Start date: May 24, 2012 2:09 p.m. Cause: Equipment-related, under investigation SHELTER VALLEY - Crews battling a wildfire that blackened about 5,300 open acres east of Julian got the sprawling burn area ... (more)

San Diego police continue to respond to emergencies at all hours of the day and night, but they are operating at a low staffing level of 1,845 officers.

If you simply want to head to the mailbox, and not to the polls, to vote in the June 5 primary, Tuesday is the deadline to get your application in either by fax or hand delivery.

Four off-duty Marineswho initially reported being unable to ascend from a deep cavein eastern San Diego County were finally able to escapewithout help, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said.

A man led sheriff's deputies on a brief pursuit in Santee early Tuesday and got away on foot after crashing his borrowed vehicle into a parked car, which in turn struck a garage, authorities said.

United States Attorney Laura Duffy announced that Tuesday United States District Court Judge Irma E. Gonzalez sentenced John Clement, age 65, a resident of Encinitas, California, to serve 24 months in custody for his participation in a scheme to defraud investors out of more than $4.9 million through his operation of a Ponzi scheme under the name ... (more)

The two vehicles involved crashed into each other Jamacha Rd. in Spring Valley at about 9 p.m. Monday night, according to officials with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.