San Diego County News

Toro Peak east of Temecula received light snow late Saturday and early Sunday. So did San Diego County's highest peaks.

A marked sheriff's vehicle hit a woman riding a motorized wheelchair across an Encanto-area intersection Friday, throwing her onto the roadway and leaving her with apparently minor injuries.

Woodworker: Pamela Goldman Excellence in Finishing, 1st Place Goldman designed this cabinet to match some nightstands she had built several years ago.

A man died when he ran onto Interstate 5 and was hit by several vehicles early Sunday morning, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office.

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in San Diego County dropped one-tenth of a cent on Sunday to $3.635 after increasing 11 times in 12 days.

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Use of electronic cigarettes - also known as e-cigarettes or e-cigs - doubled among middle school and high schools students between 2011 and 2012.

Be on the lookout for an important Santa and law enforcement operation Saturday.

Multiple crashes Saturday on a stretch of state Route 67 near Lakeside were expected to tie up traffic, fire officials said.

Signs posted along the shoreline of Lake Calavera warning of possible contamination were removed on Thursday, more than a week after escaped sewage flowed from a storm drain into a nearby creek and eventually into the lake.

A winter storm was expected to bring gusty wind and significant amounts of snow to parts of San Diego County's mountains starting Saturday, meteorologists said.

The Carlsbad Desalination Project in Carlsbad, Calif., a $1 billion project financing implementing a public-private partnership between Poseidon Resources and the San Diego County Water Authority, was recently named the 2013 Deal of the Year.

SANTEE, Calif. - The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego is under fire after the name of a retired priest surfaced on a list of priests accused of sexual abuse against children.

Jurors have found Richard Tuite not guilty of voluntary manslaughter for the stabbing death of 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe.

Jorge Sillas, 30, a member of the once powerful Arellano FA©lix drug trafficking organization, apologized in court before being sentenced to 21 years and four months behind bars.

A winter storm moving in from the Northwest will bring significant snowfall to the San Diego County mountains this weekend, meteorologists said today.

A San Diego sheriff's deputy hit a pedestrian in a motorized wheel chair. The incident was captured on video.

The staff members gave the animals a brief check-up, vaccinations for rabies and other diseases prevention vaccinations, flea medication, microchips, treats, and warm coats and sweaters.

Activists across California continue to pressure Governor Jerry Brown and the state Public Utilities Commission to replace the retiring San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant with clean energy.

"The death penalty, I believe, is broken in California. I also believe it can certainly be fixed," Matt Clay, president of the Deputy Sheriff's Association of San Diego County, told reporters.