San Diego County News

Cole has cashed enough six-figure contest checks and done well enough from shoe deals to afford a nice lifestyle for his family in a million-dollar house hidden away in a hilly, rural area of northern San Diego County, where rattlesnakes occasionally slither onto the property and coyotes howl at night.

Authorities were on the lookout Friday for a man who disguised his face by wearing a brown burlap sack with eye holes cut into it while robbing a Carlsbad bank.

Hooleys Irish Pub & Grill is celebrated 15-years in Rancho San Diego this weekend.

A man's death while in Border Patrol custody on Christmas Day is leading to new concerns about accountability and transparency for the agency.

Michael Carroll, a British lottery winner who may be one of the best examples of what not to do with your windfall, has resurfaced working in a cookie factory in Scotland.

A woman who walked away from a misdemeanor jail sentence in Michigan in 1977, but went back and cleared up her record, spent five weeks in a San Diego jail until her record was once again cleared up Friday.

Metrolink and Amtrak service that normally extends into San Diego County will stop in southern Orange County this weekend because of track work.

In desert camouflage and combat helmets, the Customs and Border Protection agents kneel behind a white truck.

A 23-year-old man who shot two men, killing one, after a dispute at a Bankers Hill apartment complex was sentenced Friday to 27 years and four months in state prison.

An upper level ridge of high pressure and a weak offshore flow will combine to bring unseasonably warm temperatures to San Diego County this weekend, with highs in the valleys topping out in the 90s by Sunday, meteorologists said today.

NBC San Diego is reporting today that a vigil was held Thursday for a 14-year old Poway girl who was murdered over 45 years ago in California.

An East County man long active in civic affairs and with deep ties to San Diego State University was appointed to the CSU Board of Trustees Thursday.

The San Diego County Registrar of Voters confirmed Wednesday that Ron Roberts was the only candidate to file by the March 7 deadline for election to the Board of Supervisors representing the Fourth District.

Today would have been Nikki Benedict's 61st birthday. She was age 14 when she was stabbed to death as she walked home from a friend's house.

A new chancellor has been named to help turn around the Los Angeles Community College District, which has struggled to overcome budget cuts, at risk campus accreditation and poor graduation rates.

A death-row inmate can review 16 years' worth of homicide-related court filings to determine whether race led prosecutors to seek capital punishment, a California appeals court ruled.

Deputies are investigating a gruesome discovery in Alpine: A smoldering body found on a dirt road.

A preliminary hearing was scheduled Thursday for a South Bay man accused of repeatedly stabbing his former wife during an argument at her Imperial Beach home.

It's about 10:30 p.m. on a Friday night and two racers have their eyes glued to a light tree.

A harvest mouse trapped last week near Escondido tested positive for hantavirus, prompting San Diego County public health officials today to remind people to be careful around rodents and to guard their homes against infestations.