U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agriculture Specialists found something unusual while examining a shipment containing fresh celery, the interception of a rare pest, a first-in-port discovery.
A strip mall is closed off following a vehicle pursuit that ended with an officer-involved shooting between the suspect, Oceanside police, and Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies early Friday morning in Oceanside. Photo: Gina Yarbrough/San Diego County News By SDCN Editor Oceanside, CA–A man suspected of killing a woman in her home Thursday night died in…
Photo by Gina Yarbrough/San Diego County News By SDCN Editor Carlsbad, CA–Authorities are investigating an officer-involved shooting that left a 16-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the arm early Saturday morning in Carlsbad, the San Diego Police Department said. Authorities said Carlsbad police officers contacted a white truck around 12:44 a.m. that was parked…
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 SDCN Editor San Diego, CA–The San Diego International Airport, Water Works, Incorporated, and The East Village Brewing Company celebrated the production of beers made with purified condensate collected through the airport’s water stewardship program. Initially released in December 2022, Hoppy Travels IPA is a West Coast IPA with flavors of grapefruit and guava. A…
By SDCN Editor Sacramento, CA–In its continued effort to combat the opioid epidemic and all substance use disorders, California has awarded $23.3 million in grants for a new program designed to support students who want to become substance use disorder (SUD) counselors with paid on-the-job training. The SUD Earn and Learn program provides students with…
By Gina Yarbrough San Diego, CA–San Diego police arrested a man Wednesday in connection with an early morning deadly stabbing at a gas station in San Ysidro, authorities said. Detectives were notified by officials from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection that the suspect, 32-year-old Hector Alcantara, of San Diego, had been detained at the…