Escondido News

We asked you about a 32% percent fee hike for the U.C. system that appears to be set for approval tomorrow.

A 14-year-old boy was hospitalized Thrusday after a man in Escondido twice stabbed him in the upper body, police said.

A teenage boy was wounded in a possibly gang-related stabbing attack at a North County park Thursday, a police official reported.

A 21-year-old man who hosted an underage drinking party at a vacant home in unincorporated Escondido pleaded guilty Thursday to burglary and will spend a year in county jail.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 7:39 a.m. ESCONDIDO - Two teenage bicycle riders were injured in a hit-and-run accident Wednesday when a driver veered into the bike lane in front of them and then took off, authorities said.

Flickr user MR38 has a nifty photoset of bumper cars modded into street legal mini cars as seen during the annual Cruisin' Grand festival in Escondido, California.

Monday, November 16, 2009 at 8:23 a.m. Officers are conducting traffic control this morning due to a mobile home fire on Stanley Avenue.

Escondido police, backed by county, state and federal law officers, swept the city for people likely to commit crimes during the holidays and arrested 56 people, an Escondido police lieutenant said Sunday.

A husband and wife in their 60s who were killed in a traffic accident on Interstate 15 north of Escondido were identified Saturday by the coroner.

Nov. 12--City officials say they have shut down all planning and analysis for the proposed downtown Marriott because the developer and an investor missed an Oct.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 1:03 a.m. ESCONDIDO - A man was shot in the leg at a home in Escondido on Tuesday night, police said.

A process server was recovering from a gunshot wound in his leg today and the man who allegedly shot him was in custody, an Escondido police official said.

An Escondido man accused of robbing up to 30 small businesses in San Diego County in what authorities dubbed the ``Sunset Bandit'' series pleaded not guilty today to six counts of armed robbery.

A man and a woman in their 60s who were passengers in a sports utility vehicle that rolled down an embankment off Interstate 15 north of Escondido were killed in the single-vehicle wreck.

Poizner, who is running for governor, said 99 percent of the 40,000 insurance claims filed by homeowners whose houses burned down or were damaged by Southern California wildfires in 2007 have been resolved, and that homeowners have received insurance payments totaling $2.3 billion.

The devastating Witch Creek Fire of 2007 damaged more than 35 homes, and many more lives.

An Escondido man accused of more than two dozen armed robberies in San Diego County will make his initial court appearance Tuesday, the District Attorney's Office announced Monday.

The California Highway Patrol reported a teenager riding in a car with an alleged drunken driver was killed early Sunday when the vehicle went off the road, smashed through a bus stop shelter and rolled over.

Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 6:44 p.m. ESCONDIDO - Three people were arrested on suspicion of alcohol and drug-related violations at an Escondido checkpoint, police said today.

A suspected drunk driver was seriously injured Saturday when his truck drifted off the road and slammed into a tree, police said.