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  • IRS wants to give San Diegans their cash back

    FOX 5 San Diego – 20 mins ago  

    More than 1,500 taxpayers in San Diego County are being sought by the Internal Revenue Service -- to give them money, the agency announced today. Full Story »

  • Local courthouses will be closed

    FOX 5 San Diego – 20 mins ago  

    The San Diego Superior Court system will be closed the next two Wednesdays, first for a holiday and the second because of a state- ordered closure to save money, it was announced today. Full Story »

  • Sex offender arrested

    FOX 5 San Diego – 21 mins ago  

    A registered sex offender was arrested today on suspicion of sexually assaulting two women in recent months. Full Story »

  • Amber alert suspect taken into custody

    FOX 5 San Diego – 21 mins ago  

    A 29-year-old Whittier man suspected of kidnapping his children and threatening to kill them and himself was taken into custody without incident tonight after an Amber Alert was issued. Full Story »

  • Woman accused of murder at East County mobile home park

    FOX 5 San Diego – 21 mins ago  

    A domestic dispute may have lead to a fatal shooting in the Flinn Springs area east of El Cajon. Full Story »

  • Shortage prompts rationing of swine flu vaccine

    FOX 5 San Diego – Tue Nov 10, 1:54 am ET  

    Not everyone can get the H1N1 vaccine. Because of the supply shortage, it is only being offered to pregnant women, those who care for infants under six months old, anyone six months to 24 years of age, adults with underlying medical conditions between 24 and 65 years of age and health care workers. Full Story »

  • San Diego Fire-Rescue dousing fire fears with night training

    FOX 5 San Diego – Tue Nov 10, 1:24 am ET  

    It was dark and breezy Monday night but that didn't stop San Diego Fire Rescue from training, in fact, in enhanced it. Copter 1 and Copter 2 made night water drops in Stonebridge as part of an annual training exercise. Chris Hartnell is a pilot for San Diego Fire-Rescue and is skilled at performing night water drops. He credits drills like the ones on Monday night for keeping him current. Full Story »

  • Escondido makes roads from Witch Creek rubble

    FOX 5 San Diego – Tue Nov 10, 1:24 am ET  

    The devastating Witch Creek Fire of 2007 damaged more than 35 homes, and many more lives. And while families rebuild, the rubble from the homes is being put to good use in helping the daily commute. Full Story »

  • Local businesses salute veterans with deals

    FOX 5 San Diego – Tue Nov 10, 12:39 am ET  

    Troops will be armed with savings this Veterans Day. Full Story »

  • Whooping cough cases top 100

    FOX 5 San Diego – Mon Nov 9, 9:24 pm ET  

    A 12-year-old student at Roosevelt Middle School in Full Story »

  • Oil companies to pay $700K for Barrio Logan contamination

    FOX 5 San Diego – Mon Nov 9, 6:39 pm ET  

    Several oil companies agreed to pay San Diego $700,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the city seeking damages for petroleum contamination in Barrio Logan caused by above ground fuel tanks, it was announced Monday. Full Story »

  • Kayaker rescued off Point Loma

    FOX 5 San Diego – Mon Nov 9, 6:24 pm ET  

    A man was being treated for hypothermia Monday after his small boat overturned in rough waters off the Point Loma shoreline, prompting a helicopter rescue, the U.S. Coast Guard reported. Full Story »

  • Insurance commissioner announces $27M for 2007 wildfire victims

    FOX 5 San Diego – Mon Nov 9, 5:54 pm ET  

    State insurance commissioner and Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced Monday that his office helped San Diego County victims of the 2007 wildfires recover more than $27 million from their insurance companies. Full Story »

  • FBI releases photos of bank robber

    FOX 5 San Diego – Mon Nov 9, 4:39 pm ET  

    The FBI sought public help Monday in locating an armed man who robbed an Imperial Beach credit union. Full Story »

  • Patrol car hits, kills bicyclist

    FOX 5 San Diego – Mon Nov 9, 1:54 pm ET  

    A 64-year-old man was killed Monday when his bicycle was struck by a San Diego police car at a busy University City intersection at the height of the morning rush hour, officials said. Full Story »

  • Army vet walks across America

    FOX 5 San Diego – Sun Nov 8, 10:39 pm ET  

    A Texas man is finishing a shore-to-shore walk to honor the troops at the Ocean Beach Pier. Sinh Tho Nguyen has traveled nearly 26,000 miles on foot in the last four month. His journey started at Atlantic Beach in Jacksonville, Florida and is ending in San Diego, California. Nguyen has walked the whole way carrying the American flag and a poster with his message draped across his back saying ... Full Story »

  • Veteran's day ceremony pays tribute to Fort Hood victims

    FOX 5 San Diego – Sun Nov 8, 10:39 pm ET  

    The flag was flown at half mass on top of Mount Soledad on Saturday where a Veteran's day ceremony paid tribute to 13 victims of the Fort Hood shootings. Full Story »

  • Vista teen killed in rollover crash wasn't belted

    FOX 5 San Diego – Sun Nov 8, 10:09 pm ET  

    Driver arrested on suspicion of DUI A teenager riding in a car with an alleged drunken driver was killed early Sunday when the vehicle went off the road, smashed through a bus stop shelter and rolled over, according to the California Highway Patrol. Full Story »

  • Man walking a pit bull was abducted

    FOX 5 San Diego – Sun Nov 8, 10:09 pm ET  

    San Diego police today were investigating an abduction in which a man and his newly purchased pit bull were snatched off an Encanto street, and the dog was stolen in a case of what may have been mistaken identity -- the dog's. Full Story »

  • Parents remember San Diego softball player killed in North Dakota

    FOX 5 San Diego – Sun Nov 8, 2:24 am ET  

    Saturday evening was especially difficult for Lenny and Claire Gemar as they flew home to San Diego without their beloved daughter, 22 year old Kyrstin Gemar. Gemar was a star softball player at Dickenson State University in North Dakota. She, along with two fellow softball players, was found dead inside a sport utility vehicle that sunk in a rural North Dakota pond. Full Story »

  • Public invited to remember local soldier killed in Afghanistan

    FOX 5 San Diego – Sun Nov 8, 12:39 am ET  

    The funeral arraignments for one of the four Marines killed in an early morning helicopter collision on Monday, October 26th in Afghanistan's central Helmand province have been posted for the public. Full Story »

  • Suspected drunken driver slams into tree

    FOX 5 San Diego – Sat Nov 7, 11:39 pm ET  

    A suspected drunken driver was seriously injured today when his truck drifted off the road and slammed into a tree, police said. Full Story »

  • Two people related to a homicide in West Virginia arrested in San Diego

    FOX 5 San Diego – Sat Nov 7, 9:39 pm ET  

    Two murder suspects from West Virginia were arrested in the San Diego River bottom's heavy brush near Hotel Circle Friday night, San Diego police said. Full Story »

  • Fire sparks up in Del Cerro canyon

    FOX 5 San Diego – Sat Nov 7, 9:39 pm ET  

    San Diego Fire Department battled a brush fire in a Del Cerro neighborhood. Full Story »

  • Popular pier closes

    FOX 5 San Diego – Fri Nov 6, 10:10 pm ET  

    The Imperial Beach Pier will be closed for a week to replace three 60-foot-long pilings and to make other repairs to the structure, the Port of San Diego announced today. Full Story »

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