Rancho Santa Fe News

Author/photographer Susan Madden Lankford of Rancho Santa Fe will lead a public panel discussion in San Diego on Dec.

Police are investigating whether the gunman is the same person wanted for a series of bank robberies.

A 17-year-old boy pleaded guilty Tuesday to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated for causing a crash in Rancho Santa Fe that killed a teenage passenger and seriously injured another classmate.

eric clark said in the Escondido Forum:

Did anyone else see the triangular shaped flashing object over Escondido Last night? While at Cruising Grand a group of individuals noticed an object high in the sky that was triangular shaped and had flashing lights of white red and a bluish color. The object moved very very slowly then dropped down what looked like thousands of feet only to jet up again in a matter of seconds. Very strange, and a lot of people were taking pictures and watching this object.

Construction is expected to start soon on a $2.5 million community center designed by San Diego-based Domusstudio Architecture .

Thomas Blackmore carried a two-gallon container of gasoline to his parent's exclusive Rancho Santa Fe mansion, assaulted his mother and attacked his elderly millionaire father, detectives said.

A man shot his adult son with a shotgun after the son broke into his parents' Rancho Santa Fe home and choked his mother, a sheriff's deputy said today.

In what is, sadly, a well-timed lecture, photojournalist and L.A. at Home contributor Debra Lee Baldwin will lecture on landscapes that can reduce the threat of fire or even slow the advance of flames.

In this July 20, 2009 photo released by Iams, actress Hilary Swank feeds two puppies during a visit to the Helen Woodward Animal Center in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., Hilary Swank is putting her animal appreciation to work as an ambassador for a pet adoption campaign.

The most critically ill horse from the group of 23 saddleback show horses which are believed to have been deliberately poisoned with oleander leaves at a ranch in South California has survived and was due to be released from hospital.

A quartet of local high school men's golf products teed off in the first two rounds of the 110th Southern California Golf Association Amateur Championship Friday, with one player positioning himself for a potential championship push over the weekend.

Tough times for the economy have meant tough times for San Diego restaurants as well, 10News reported.

Reporting from Encinitas -- The San Diego County Sheriff's Department has begun an internal affairs investigation into a deputy's use of pepper spray to make an arrest at a political fundraiser.

A fundraiser at the home of a lesbian couple in Encinitas, California for Francine Busby, a Democrat seeking the 50th Congressional District seat in 2010, was interrupted on Friday night over an apparent noise complaint : "It ended with Barman, 60, being arrested and jailed on suspicion of battery on a peace officer, and resisting, delaying and ...

" Francine Busby says she will demand an explanation from the Sheriff's Department about deputies breaking up a fundraising party held for her in Cardiff and arresting the host.

Jim Laslavic and Ed Campbell chaired the Alzheimera s Association San Diego/Imperial chaptera s spring fund-raiser, a oeOur Bright Future.a Singer-songwriter Tristan Prettyman headlined the event, held at the Rancho Santa Fe home of Lori and Steve Temko.

Point Loma, Solana Beach and Rancho Santa Fe and other expensive areas reported numbers several times the level seen a year ago, a sign that the trend may continue upward.

Avondale fire crews responded to a fire this morning that began in the garage and spread to the attic of a foreclosed home, fire officials said.

Carrie Prejean, 21, spoke in April at a Point Loma church. CARRIE PREJEAN: A TIMELINE April 19: Carrie Prejean, a Vista native and Miss California USA, is named runner-up in the Miss USA 2009 pageant.