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A man who picked up women promising to pay them for cleaning jobs was arrested yesterday on suspicion of rape.

Oceanside Councilman Rocky Chavez will resign from the City Council after being appointed undersecretary for the California Department of Veterans Affairs yesterday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

As many as 18 people who sought swine flu vaccination from a county-run clinic on Oct. 15 were mistakenly immunized for common seasonal influenza, public health officials said yesterday.

The death of two soldiers fighting on opposite sides in World War II has given birth, decades later, to a warm friendship between their families on opposite sides of the globe.

The worst part for members of the Clairemont High School football team who rode around town in a party bus was not that they got caught. It was not when the police showed up, or when their parents found out, or when suspensions were handed out for a night of underage drinking five days before the season opener.

Thousands of children in the county are getting the swine flu vaccine and they don't have to skip school or wait in long lines to receive it. County health is now offering swine flu shots and sprays at some local schools.

The state has recovered more than $27 million from insurance companies for victims of the wildfires that ravaged San Diego County in October 2007.

The California Highway Patrol has reopened a major freeway connector in San Diego after cleaning up about 200 gallons of paint that spilled off a truck.

A 63-year-old man was killed today when the bicycle he was riding collided with a police car on a University City street during the morning rush hour.

Even though the city is facing a $179 million budget deficit, spending under Mayor Jerry Sanders has increased in 10 city departments.

A 56-year-old woman was rescued off a cruise ship by a Coast Guard helicopter and taken to a local hospital after complaining of abdominal pain, the U.S. Coast Guard reported Tuesday.

An Escondido man dubbed the "Sunset Bandit" and accused of carrying out more than two dozen armed robberies in San Diego County is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday.

Jurors will hold their first full day of deliberations Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of killing a young Vista woman during a burglary four years ago.

A man and a woman in their 60s who were passengers in a sports utility vehicle that rolled down an embankment off Interstate 15 north of Escondido were killed in the single-vehicle wreck, the California Highway Patrol reported Monday.

A registered sex offender was arrested Monday on suspicion of sexually assaulting two women in recent months.

The California Department of Insurance says it has helped 400 San Diego fire victims get an additional $27 million in claims.

A family hit with the double blow of cancer news and a layoff gets some good news.

A San Diego police car responding to a traffic accident struck and killed a bicyclist in University City on Monday morning.

La Jolla researchers are hoping to develop a vaccine that, similar to measles or chicken pox, would immunize children from Type-1 Diabetes.

    Having a child with Type-1 Diabetes often means worry filled days and sleepless nights trying to manage insulin levels. “For the parents it’s crazy, because they give them the insulin, then they worry the whole night...

The drug cartels are turning to increasingly gruesome methods of murder.

A serial sex offender is back behind bars, accused of luring women to his East County home then sexually assaulting them. 11/9/09

Family and friends are remembering a Vista teenager who died in a car crash over the weekend. 11/9/0

A bicyclist is dead after being hit by a police squad car. The victim's family is speaking out to San Diego 6. 11/9/09

The fate of a man accused of brutally murdering a Vista woman four years ago is in the hands of a jury. 11/9/09