El Cajon News

El Cajon city leaders on Tuesday appointed a new council member without the vote of residents, despite calls for a special election.

On Sunday, the tables were turned. The 63-year-old Chula Vista resident was helping deliver Christmas gifts to thousands of needy Tijuana children.

Juan Carlos Rios, 9, chooses a book at the Nice Guys Christmas at Petco Park event.

David Fleming uses a pocket knife to dig out a polyphagous shot-hole borer beetle that has infested the California sycamore tree in front of his Dehesa Valley home , east of El Cajon, on Saturday.

Officer Frank Cali said a man entered the pharmacy about 8 p.m. on El Cajon Boulevard in the Talmadge neighborhood, walked up to the clerk at the pharmacy counter and simulated a handgun, demanding prescription drugs.

A sweep by the San Diego Sheriff's Department's Court Services Bureau-Field Division on Friday picked up eight suspects with outstanding driving under the influence and domestic violence related warrants in Santee and other areas of East County.

The robbers distracted a bell ringer near the store's side entrance on Camino Canada near Los Coches Road, grabbed the iconic red kettle and ran away about 5 p.m., an official with the charity said.

El Cajon police have tracked down a suspicious man caught on surveillance video digging through residents' trash, and neighbors said he's not just after recyclables.

The term of the seat Wells vacated expires in November 2016. Tuesday's candidates, which included current and former planning commission members, former City Council candidates, a member of the California Senior Legislature, the city of El Cajon's deputy director of public works and several citizens with no political background, were taken in ... (more)

Tuesday is the last day for county residents to pay the first installment of 2013-14 property taxes before incurring a penalty.

Dr. David Jeremiah, New York Times best-selling author and founder of Turning Point, one of the largest syndicated Bible teaching ministries in the world, marked the release of his most significant work to date, The Jeremiah Study Bible , with special guests before a capacity crowd at the storied Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City ... (more)

A young Lakeside man accused of causing a head-on crash that killed a 74-year-old man in Ramona was scheduled to be at the El Cajon courthouse Tuesday for a preliminary hearing.

Conroys ) celebrated a grand re-opening over the weekend kicking off the store's co-branding with 1-800-Flowers.

SANDAG wants small businesses to bid for contracts on its trolley extension project to University City.

According to the Christian Post on Dec. 7, Dr. David Jeremiah released the Jeremiah Study Bible in New York in the presence of thousands at Madison Square Garden last Thursday night.

A Two AM scheduled fixed-route trips from Ramona to Escondido/ one AM return trip from Escondido.

Fire crews and sheriffs are responding to a fire in El Cajon. Crews responded to reports of smoke and fire at Kelly's Pub, located at 719 E. Bradley Avenue.

The vacancy on the El Cajon City Council drew 27 applicants, who will be interviewed beginning next week, including a one-time Santee City Council candidate, El Cajon officials announced Thursday.

The theft was reported Nov. 27 about 5:05 p.m. on Fletcher Parkway near Garfield Avenue, said Stacia Crane, a U.S. Postal Inspection Service spokeswoman.

It is unclear if police are treating the wreck as a hit-and-run at this point, or if they believe the occupants went to get help.