Local News - North County Times

Across America on Thursday, tens of thousands of people are going to the movies to see a documentary about debt. The movie is called "I.O.U.S.A.," and it focuses on the looming federal and personal debt crises facing the United States. The filmmakers

TEMECULA ---- Construction slowdown? Not in Old Town. Mercedes and Main streets are being vigorously tilled by bulldozers to lay the groundwork for a civic center. The steel skeleton of Old Town Plaza on Fifth and Front streets is getting some skin i

ESCONDIDO ---- Facing steep budget deficits, the City Council Wednesday raised fees for the use of recreational facilities, trips in a city ambulance, safety inspections at businesses and a wide variety of other Escondido services. The increases, whi

TEMECULA ---- The parents of a 15-year-old Temecula girl who died after being involved in a fight six months ago reacted with disbelief this week when they learned the initial recommendation by homicide investigators against filing charges in connect

ESCONDIDO ---- The secret to long life is "clean living, exercise and taking lots of vitamins," says Marion Albright, an Escondido woman who celebrated her 103rd birthday Wednesday at a party hosted by her 80-year-old daughter and 54-year-old grandda

SAN DIEGO ---- Federal agents and campus police stormed San Diego State University's Fraternity Row in May as students prepared for final exams, marching students into the school's basketball arena in one of the nation's largest-ever campus drug bust

LAKE ELSINORE ---- The Elsinore Water District ---- the city's "little water district" ---- is facing some big budget questions. During a recent board meeting, the board rejected proposed rate increases that would have boosted rates around 60 percent

FRENCH VALLEY ---- A Lake Elsinore couple has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge related to their lying during a hearing about parking illegally in a space reserved for the handicapped. Jerald Edward Trujillo, 61, and his 53-year-old wife Alice, b

TEMECULA ---- Rita Hernandez only has to look to Temecula's city seal ---- Old Traditions, New Opportunities ---- to underscore why she is running for City Council. "I love old traditions," said Hernandez, 73. "And why not give someone new an opportu

RIVERSIDE ---- County residents who never finished high school because they were serving in the military or held in internment camps during World War II may be eligible to receive a retroactive diploma. The Riverside County of Office of Education is

PERRIS ---- A formal audit has revealed that a "significant amount of money" is unaccounted for from last school year's Pep Squad program at Paloma Valley High School, school district officials confirmed this week. Parents were told of the audit resu

VISTA ---- A 23-year-old man was sentenced to two years in prison earlier this month for his involvement in a May 2007 crash that killed one of his passengers. Christopher Glenn Jones initially told investigators that William F. Karsten, 20 at the ti

CARLSBAD ---- Parents who contributed $4,000 each in tuition payments for a proposed private school for autistic children in Carlsbad say they now fear that it may never open. "As far as I'm concerned the money is gone, but they need to be held

OCEANSIDE ---- A veteran Oceanside police officer was arrested on suspicion of felony drunken driving in early June after rolling his personal truck while off duty, injuring himself and a passenger, the North County Times has learned. "We have not fi

NORTH COUNTY ---- Oil stains, gritty fingernails and grease marks are nothing new to teens in the auto shops at Ramona and El Camino high schools. For decades, students at those schools have slid under donated cars, rebuilt engines and restored wreck

SAN DIEGO ---- A 57-year-old Nevada man was killed Wednesday afternoon when a small section of bluff gave way at Torrey Pines State Beach, authorities said. Watch the video Falling rock that struck the man on the head is blamed for his death, accordi

CAMP PENDLETON ---- A Temecula man died Tuesday after crashing his motorcycle on El Camino Real North on Camp Pendleton near the county line, officials said. Timothy Douglas Curl, 43, was alone on a 2006 Yamaha motorcycle at about 4:30 p.m. when he l

CAMP PENDLETON ---- Marine Corps officials said Tuesday that they are ready, if the Pentagon approves, to replace 3,400 Marines sent to Afghanistan in April. The force of about 3,000 U.S. troops, cobbled together from units around the world, would fi

MURRIETA ---- The city will initiate foreclosure proceedings on as many as 400 homes, the City Council decided Tuesday. The city's move is not intended to take away people's homes but, rather, is an attempt by the city to help people stay in them, of