The television cameras and reporters were gathered around the fringes of a crime scene in San Marcos, waiting for sheriff’s spokeswoman Jan Caldwell to arrive and brief them on the news story. When she finally pulled up, a sheriff’s senior volunteer who was staffing the barricade recognized her...
A transient sleeping near a tree on the side of Interstate 8 in Ocean Beach was killed Saturday morning when he was struck by a car that rolled off the freeway, authorities said. The crash occurred about 6:15 a.m. east of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. T...
Jim Cunningham remembers the tunnel vision, how his focus zeroed in on the eyes and the face of the man he was aiming at with his shotgun.
Then he pulled the trigger.
It was Aug. 18, 1982, in El Cajon. Two men robbed a Safeway store and were spotted fleeing in their car by reserve officers on a...
A corner argument in downtown San Diego early Saturday morning resulted in one arrest and two trips to the hospital with non-life-threatening knife wounds, according to the San Diego Police Department. Police arrested Larry Simpsion, 57, after he a...
This week’s San Diego In Depth discusses how Mexican drug cartels might react if California voters on Nov. 8 pass Proposition 64, which would legalize recreational marijuana use. In today’s Back Story, U-T criminal justice reporter Kristina Davis talks about what she learned covering the story.
...Lawyers for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are asking a San Diego judge in the upcoming fraud trial over Trump University to keep out any evidence relating to his presidential campaign. In a pretrial motion filed Thursday in federal...
One boy was dead, his brother and sister were nearly breathing their last when San Diego firefighters Dallas Higgins and Joe Zakar crawled through a burning room filled with black, choking smoke to find them and carry them out.
For putting themselves at risk and saving the lives of both children...
The District Attorney’s Office has declined to file criminal charges against a man arrested in connection with a fatal stabbing in Encanto earlier this month.
Miguel Ramos, 20, of San Diego turned himself in to police on Oct. 10. He was booked into county jail on suspicion of murder, stemming from...
A bomb planted by Islamic State fighters killed a Coronado-based sailor in northern Iraq on Thursday, U.S. military officials said.
Chief Petty Officer Jason C. Finan, 34, of Lake Forest in Orange County died after suffering injuries from an improvised explosive device near the town Bashiqa. He...
The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed fraud charges against a San Diego man and his Denver-based company, alleging that they falsely told investors they had secured $100 million to bankroll marijuana businesses.
According to the SEC's complaint, filed late last month in Colorado federal...