El Cajon News

Deputies went to Circa Valle Verde, near Quail Canyon Road in the Blossom Valley area, about 4:50 p.m. on a report that someone was dead, authorities said.

Marie Lovell Perrott passed away on Jan. 28, 2014, at Country Hills Health Care Center in El Cajon.

San Diego sheriff's deputies arrested two people Wednesday as part of a larger investigation into burglaries and drug violations.

The unidentified woman contacted park rangers at the El Capitan Open Space Preserve about 5 p.m., saying she was lost.

Thirty people have pleaded guilty to a San Diego County Department of Motor Vehicles scam to get suspects illegal driver's licenses.

California laws requiring charter cities to pay prevailing wages on public projects are unconstitutional, Fresno and other communities claim in court.

The East County Performing Arts Center in downtown El Cajon is scheduled to be reopened soon.

Police are investigating a Granite Hills High School teacher amid allegations of inappropriate behavior with at least one student.

"The expenditure of local tax proceeds on local public construction projects is a municipal affair and not subject to state restriction," the cities said in the 157-page joint lawsuit filed in San Diego County Superior Court.

Both East County cities based their decisions on the assumptions that they will receive an allocation comparable to last year's amounts from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Contact: Jon Sorensen, Catholic Answers , 619-387-7200 EL CAJON, Calif., Feb. 26, 2014 / Christian Newswire / -- Wednesday, February 12 is remembered by academics and atheists as "Darwin Day," a day to recognize Charles Darwin's contributions to science and to promote science in general.

A tree trimmer was killed in a fatal accident involving a date palm at this home in El Cajon on Feb. 26, 2014.

A preliminary hearing was postponed today until March 21 for a woman accused of causing a head-on crash on Buckman Springs Road in El Cajon that killed a federal firefighter as he headed home from work on his motorcycle.

Here is a sampling of what some said Tuesday: Interim Mayor Todd Gloria: "William Lansdowne has served San Diego exceptionally well throughout his 10 years as our Chief of Police.

Between 2009 and 2012, those willing to pay anywhere from $500 to $2,500 to corrupt DMV employees could get a license with no questions asked.

Just before 8 p.m. Sunday, surveillance cameras mounted on a home on Sandalwood Drive captured a man rolling his bike to a front door.

Editor's Note: The San Diego Sheriff's Department made the following announcement on Friday, Feb. 21. 17 arrests were made following a multi-agency probation sweep in the East County.

By day's end, a meeting of the minds was close. The session that began at 11 a.m. at the district office was completed by 6 p.m., with both parties vowing to meet again Saturday morning to resume talks.

Members of the San Diego steampunk community gathered last October at the carousel in Westfield Parkway Plaza mall in El Cajon.

A La Mesa police officer on patrol about 2:30 a.m. spotted a Honda sedan that matched the description of one reported stolen in El Cajon sometime Tuesday night, said La Mesa police Lt.