By SDCN Staff The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its updated Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States indicating that antibiotic-resistant bacteria and fungi cause more than 2.8 million infections and 35,000 deaths in the United States each year. On average, someone in the U.S. gets an antibiotic-resistant infection every 11 seconds…
By Gina Yarbrough Escondido, CA–Escondido Police Department issued 20 citations while conducting a DUI checkpoint Saturday evening in Escondido, authorities said. A total of 425 motorists were contacted from 6:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. at Second Avenue and Broadway, Escondido Police Department said. Officers issued 14 citations to unlicensed drivers. One driver under age 21…
Emerson Elementary School students and staff at a ceremony to celebrate the completion of the campus’s transformation. Photo: San Diego Unified School District By SDCN Staff San Diego, CA–One of Southcrest’s oldest elementary schools celebrated its new state-of-the-art facilities and the completion of campus-wide renovations on Thursday. Emerson Elementary School students joined San Diego Unified…
By Gina Yarbrough Spring Valley, CA–A domestic violence incident between a husband and wife led to a SWAT standoff at a home in Spring Valley on Saturday, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said. Sheriff’s deputies received a call of a domestic violence incident, just before 4 p.m., in the 8900 block of Spring Place….
By Gina Yarbrough Oceanside, CA–A family of six and their cat were displaced from their home early Saturday morning after a structure fire broke out in their garage in North County, fire officials said. Fire crews responded to reports of a garage fire at a two-story single-family residence at 401 Lupine Way around 1:47 a.m….
By SDCN Staff A U.S. citizen who previously resided in Ukraine was sentenced to 42 months in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit bank fraud. According to court documents, Harold Sobel, 69, was a member of an international criminal enterprise that unlawfully debited money from the bank accounts of unknowing…
Colored SEM image of a pneumonia-fighting microrobot made of an algae cell (green) covered with biodegradable polymer nanoparticles (brown). The nanoparticles contain antibiotics and are coated with neutrophil cell membranes. Credit: Fangyu Zhang and Zhengxing Li By Newswise La Jolla, CA–Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed tiny swimming robots, called microrobots,…
Hall of Justice in downtown San Diego. By SDCN Staff San Diego, CA–The San Diego District Attorney’s Office has filed child molestation charges against a 72-year-old man for an April 2017 incident in which he molested a 5-year-old victim at a church on the University of San Diego campus. Chester Yang, who was extradited from…
By SDCN Staff San Diego, CA–San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan said Thursday that Capital One will pay $2 million to settle a civil lawsuit brought by a statewide team of district attorneys alleging the bank made unreasonably frequent or harassing phone calls to debtors in California. The civil consumer protection complaint alleges that…
By SDCN Editor Washington, D.C.–A California man was sentenced Thursday to 42 months in federal prison for his role in accessing, monitoring, and conveying confidential and sensitive information that could be used to identify and locate Twitter users of interest to the Saudi Royal Family. Ahmad Abouammo, 45, formerly of Walnut Creek and currently residing…