Imperial County News

The National Day of recognition is Saturday. In imperial County, Judge Donal Donnelly will kick-off the events by helping to finalize thousands of adoptions Nationwide.

The Imperial County Film Commission says the group Black and Gold will be making the video.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says Imperial County now meets the federal ozone standard.

Tom Kirk joined the Coachella Association of Governments in June. Before that, he was executive director of the Salton Sea Authority and served on the La Quinta City Council.

The American College of Surgeons has named a new Executive Director: David B. Hoyt, MD, FACS, chairman, department of surgery; executive vice-dean, school of medicine; and John E. Connolly professor of surgery, University of California, Irvine Medical Center.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 3:32 p.m. Community members hoping higher-ups will force San Diego State University to reconsider a controversial shift in its admissions policy shouldna t hold their breath, California State University Chancellor Charles Reed said Tuesday.

In an extensively documented letter to SWC President Raj Chopra, David Blair-Loy, legal director for the San Diego/Imperial County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, outlines how the college's actions and policies violate the First Amendment, California Education Code, and the California Constitution.

Earthquakes are rattling the U.S.-Mexico border area in Imperial County. A magnitude-3.9 quake centered 18 miles west-southwest of El Centro struck about 11:37 last night.

The Board took the request as an Emergency item. Saikhon said the cuts could result in many clients of the Area Agency on Aging to be institutionalized because they can no longer be treated in their homes.

The California Highway Patrol is investigating a head-on collision involving a pickup truck and a big rig on eastbound Interstate 8 at Winterhaven Drive near Winterhaven , California.

Figures from the state's Employment Development Department appear to show a slight decrease in the amount of unemployment benefits paid to Mendocino County residents, as well as a reduction in the number of unemployment claims.

Mendocino County's unemployment rate dropped again in September to 10.1 percent, down from 10.5 percent in August.

The unemployment rate here and for the whole of Imperial County hit 30.1 percent in September, the highest rate in the United States .

Earthquakes of a magnitude 4.1 , 3.2 and 3.1 have followed two minor earthqaukes that occurred last night and this morning.

The latest ranking of the most stressed counties in the United States puts Yuba County in the top 10, though one local observer said the picture is a bit more mixed.

The APCD says the air quality monitor on Main Street in Brawley reached 101 on the Air Quality Index for PM 10 at 2:00 am Wednesday, for a 24-hour period.

We'll let you begin. The first thing to talk about is the overall budgetary situation.

We caught wind of this a few hours ago but couldn't confirm it until now -- Jorge Murillo, the state hospital "patient" who escaped custody last week by hopping two fences without anyone seeming to notice, has been captured.

Authorities say a 40-year-old sex offender who escaped from a state mental hospital in Phoenix more than a week ago has been arrested.

It's estimated more than 50,000 people living in San Diego County have Alzheimer's disease, and that number will grow faster every year.