San Diego News

Authorities released the name Tuesday of a 38-year-old bicyclist who was struck and killed by a city dump truck in an Oak Park-area intersection.

The most congested rush-hour spot in San Diego County in 2009 was a stretch of state Route 78 in San Marcos, according to a newspaper analysis published Tuesday.

A woman driving a stolen car tried to run a deputy off the road late Monday afternoon while leading authorities on a meandering 20- minute chase that ended with her arrest.

A prosecutor told jurors Monday that an Ocean Beach man killed his estranged wife and got rid of her body because she took him to court for child support, but a defense attorney said his client panicked and disposed of the victim's body when she fell down some stairs at his house and died.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 10:12 p.m. VISTA - The District Attorneya s Office will not file charges against a security guard who fatally shot an Oceanside man at the Vista Transit Center last fall, authorities said Tuesday.

A man who allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at five targets over a 36-hour period in San Diego was arrested today after a chase up Interstate 15 to the Riverside County line, a San Diego Fire-Rescue Department official said.

Two men found dead in a City Heights apartment in what investigators believe to be a murder-suicide have been identified.

A three-day manhunt for a man suspected of stabbing a man to death as they argued over a taxicab in Rolando Tuesday has ended with an arrest, San Diego police announced Saturday.

Volunteers have found the body of a young girl near Border Field State Park in the San Diego area, and authorities are investigating whether she was one of two children swept away 11 days ago by a rain-swollen Tijuana creek.

A 19-year-old man was arrested early Thursday after he followed a woman into her Grantville-area apartment and raped her at gunpoint, fleeing with her laptop computer and cell phone, police said.

Sales of million-dollar homes in California fell 24 percent in 2009, the fourth straight annual decline and the lowest total in seven years, a research firm reported Thursday.

Two cast-iron water mains ruptured Thursday morning in Pacific Beach, prompting police to close part of a busy thoroughfare in the coastal community and leaving nearly 90 homes and businesses without water service.

Jury selection got under way Wednesday in the trial of an Ocean Beach man accused of killing his estranged wife and getting rid of her body a week before he was to begin paying child support.

Two people in a collision in Sorrento Valley were taken to hospitals Wednesday. A 28-year-old woman, who had been driving south in the 9700 block of Scranton Road, was turning left when her car was struck by a northbound SUV about 1:20 p.m., according to San Diego police Sgt.

At least two passengers were transported to the hospital when a U.S. Postal Service van collided with a trolley Wednesday in downtown San Diego.

Police asked for the public's help in the search for a 71-year-old woman who is believed to be suffering from Alzheimer's disease and hasn't been seen since she set off from her Rancho Bernardo home to have her nails done.

A 40-year-old Mexican truck driver was behind bars in San Diego Tuesday for allegedly trying to smuggle nearly a ton of marijuana into the United States amid a shipment of bananas.

Fire broke out in the clubhouse attic of the Black Sabbath Motorcycle Club early Tuesday, causing an estimated $30,000 in damage, authorities said.

A dispute over a cab lead to the killing of a man in the College Area Tuesday morning, San Diego police said.

Monday, February 1, 2010 at 10:39 a.m. SAN DIEGO - Police are investigating a shooting that left a woman injured in Webster this morning, officials said.