A 90-year-old Army veteran currently in hospice care in San Diego has only one wish this Halloween: to hand out candy to costume-clad trick-or-treaters – perhaps for the final time in his life.

Annette James’ father, Andy Furlong, is battling the end stage of Parkinson’s disease, and James says Oct. 31 will likely be his last Halloween. The holiday is one of his favorite days of the year.

James says her father -- a proud U.S. veteran and former racecar driver, boxer and chef -- moved into his home in San Diego's East County 10 years ago. Every year for Halloween, he purchases lots of candy in anticipation of passing it out to festive trick-or-treaters.

“Every Halloween at the end of the night, he ends up with the same amount of candy he started with. For some unknown reason, their street does not get trick-or-treaters,” James told NBC 7.

Usually, the only trick-or-treaters that do stop by the family home are Furlong's nine grandchildren, who always make several visits to Grandpa for Halloween candy.

Despite the poor trick-or-treater turnout, James says her father asked again to buy Halloween candy this year – just in case.

James says she didn’t have the heart to turn down her dad’s sweet request, so she’s planning something special to help make this Halloween extra memorable for him.

On Saturday, between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m., Annette plans to sit with her dad outside their home and have him hand out candy to trick-or-treaters. She’s hoping people hear his story and bring their kids to visit the WWII Army vet – even if only for a quick second.

She said he’ll be sitting in his wheelchair, his candy bowl in hand, and any visits will brighten his day amid what has been a difficult few weeks for her father and their family.

“Not only will you get a little candy from a very nice person, but you will also make a very nice 90-year-old veteran very happy,” she added.

The family lives at 9233 Briercrest Drive in La Mesa, just east of Grossmont Hospital.

Furlong’s story has gotten warm reception on social media, and hundreds of NBC 7 viewers lined the street Saturday to visit the vet. Many also brought extra candy to hand out to trick-or-treaters. 

"I have a friend who lives down the street and he says there's never trick-or-treaters in this neighborhood so I said, I know exactly where that is, lets stop by and say thank you," said Lucy Calvillo, one of the many that came out. 

"I'm just amazed by the turnout, the people, I've never seen anything like it," said Steve Allen, a Navy veteran who came out to thank Furlong. "I'm proud to be an American."

Furlong said he was overwhelmed by the amount of people who came out to see him.

"It's too much for me, I can't believe it," he said. "I didn't realize there would be that many people sitting and watching TV at home."

He sat out, handing candy to trick-or-treaters who came to visit him. 

"Thank you everybody for showing up," he told NBC 7. "I appreciate it very much. God bless you. Happy Halloween."

James is grateful for the community’s support of her father and his Halloween wish.

“I’m very appreciative,” James said. “I’m so grateful to everybody who’s been helping out, sharing and posting, and just wanting to get the word out so he can have a great Halloween.”

Furlong’s family says they can’t wait to see the twinkle in his eyes.

A bride, celebrating one of the most important days of her life, was notified right after walking down the aisle that all wedding guests needed to evacuate because of a brush fire that had broken out near the ceremony, officials confirmed.

"Everyone was trying to keep me calm, so no one told me about the fire," Jennifer Greenwald, the bride, said. "I was so concentrated on [my future husband] I didn't see it."

Jennifer and Russell Greenwald told NBC4 that as soon they said "I do" everyone had to vacate the area and find a new place for the reception.

"Me and my groomsmen noticed smoke in the background and we thought, 'Oh, someone's barbecue must have gotten a little out of control,'" Russell said.

The smoky smell in the air was something much worse - a 40-acre fire consuming dry brush in the Santa Ana riverbed right next to Fairmount Park where they were exchanging vows.

"I saw flames out  of the corner of my eye when the bride was coming down the aisle," Marie Burnsholzer, the pastor, said.

Jennifer's wedding coordinator delivered the bad news to the oblivious bride.

"My lovely coordinator said, 'I need to talk to you,'" Greenwald said. "And that's when she said, 'We need to evacuate now.'"

The reception was also supposed to take place in the park, but officials said no way.

"We took what we could to Reid Park, and I think it turned out better than we expected," Laura McAllister, wedding coordinator, said.

The fire began making its way closer to homes around 6 p.m., though no residents had yet been evacuated.

At 11:20 p.m., the fire was 100 percent contained, according to the City of Riverside Fire Department. Fire units were providing structure protection after aerial defense ended due to darkness from nightfall. No injuries were reported.

"I think what kept us afloat is thinking this is a great story to tell our children," Jennifer said. "We like to think our love burns so bright we lit the park on fire."

Police say a Dallas woman was arrested for trying to force her children to ingest poison.

Officers were called to an apartment in the 10800 block of Walnut Hill Lane Saturday.

According to police, Paw Eh, 31, forced her child to ingest poison. She also tried to force her other two children to ingest poison, but was unsuccessful, police said.

A 4-year-old was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, but has since stabilized, according to police.

Her other two children, a 7-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, were being cared for by another family member on Sunday.

According to our partners at The Dallas Morning News, the two children reported to officials their mother had threatened to kill all of them, as well as herself. The children told police that Eh put ant poison and water on a spoon, and forced her son to drink it, The Dallas Morning News reported.

The boy refused, leading Eh to slap him on the cheek before forcing the spoon into his mouth, according to The Dallas Morning News report.

Eh was charged with attempted capital murder. She was held in the Dallas County Jail on $150,000 bond.

Click here to read more from our media partners at The Dallas Morning News.

Editor's Note: Police originally released a misspelling of Eh's name. Her name has since been corrected.

The Coast Guard has suspended its search for missing big-wave surfer Alec "Ace Cool" Cooke who went missing in Hawaii, NBC News reported.

Cooke, 59, was last seen on Tuesday heading out for a surfing on Hawaii's North Shore. His girlfriend reported him missing the next day when he hadn't come home.

Cooke's truck — with his dogs and keys still inside — was found parked near the beach.

Helicopters, an H-130 Hercules airplane and jet ski crews all joined a massive search for the missing surfer; his surfboard was found on Thursday.

Police are searching for a gunman after one person was killed and another was injured in a shooting at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, the school said early Sunday.

The university said the campus was placed on full lockdown after a shooting was reported at around 1:20 a.m. The lockdown was lifted and an all-clear was given just over three hours later.

"We can confirm that there has been one fatality and one injured individual," Winston-Salem University said in a statement. "Both are believed to be students."

Tensions between his religious beliefs and wanting closure for families of victims has Jeb Bush conflicted over the death penalty, the Republican presidential candidate revealed Sunday.

"It's hard for me, as a human being, to sign the death warrant, to be honest with you," he told "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd. "I'm informed by my faith in many things, and this is one of them."

Despite the value his faith places on life, Bush said in the rare cases when the death penalty is handed down the punishment can be persuasive in healing.

During his time as governor of Florida, the death penalty was used 21 times in the state. But Bush told Todd that it's time for the process to be reformed.
 

Newly-elected House Speaker Paul Ryan all but ended any chance of comprehensive immigration reform during the final year of President Barack Obama's term in office.

In an interview Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Ryan said consensus on other issues affecting immigration policy, such as border enforcement, could be possible. But because the president took executive action, comprehensive reform is off the table.

"I don't think we can trust the president on this issue," Ryan told NBC's Chuck Todd. "The president has proven himself untrustworthy on this issue because he tried to unilaterally rewrite the law himself. Presidents don't write laws. Congress does." 

 Two people died and another was taken to the hospital in critical condition following a parking lot shooting in Colina Del Sol early Sunday morning, San Diego Police Homicide Investigators said. 

Police responded to a 911 call saying three people had been shot at 12:18 a.m. Sunday on the 5200 block of El Cajon Boulevard.

Initial reports said three victims and another adult woman were driving through a parking lot when they stopped next to a group of men standing near a lightpole, suddenly, police said. 

At least one man walked up to the group after some sort of verbal confrontation and fired several shots at the victims. 

The two adult men and woman, in a Nissan sedan, suffered gunshot wounds to their upper bodies. The two men succumbed to their wounds and were pronounced dead at the scene. The woman was taken to Mercy Hospital in critical condition. Her wounds are considered non-life threatening now. 

One suspect was described as wearing a white t-shirt. The suspects were last seen running eastbound on El Cajon Boulevard. 

The second woman was not injured.

The victim's identities are known but officials are waiting to notify their family before they release the identities. 

No further information was immediately available. 

Refresh this page for updates on this breaking news story. 

Water experts in San Diego have a warning as we head into what's expected to be a wet winter, thanks to El Niño: do not fall back to your old water wasting ways.

"Drought is the new norm," said Pam Meisner, Education Director at The Water Conservation Garden in the South Bay. "Even if we have a wet winter for two years, we will not be out of the drought."

The State Water Resources Control Board is also urging people to make sure water conservation continues through the winter.

"With continued heat, the danger of more wildfires, and no way of knowing when the drought will end, every drop of water that remains in our local reservoirs and aquifers is insurance in case of another dry year or more," said Felicia Marcus, chair of the State Water Resources Control Board. The plea came as the board announced Friday that Californians reduced water use by more than 26 percent during September, exceeding the state conservation mandate for a fourth straight month.

If El Niño rain falls in the right places, it could offer a bonanza to our two primary sources of imported supply in the Sierra Nevada and Colorado River Basin, according to Bob Muir, spokesman for the Metropolitan Water District.

"People, however, must remember that lots of rain this winter doesn't change the need to conserve," Muir said.

The Water Conservation Garden in Chula Vista opened 17 years ago to educate people about water use, and experts say the message seems to finally be sinking in.

"They're getting it, but it's taken over 25 years of San Diego educating people," Meisner said.

She created the character Miss Smarty-Plants in 2008 and more than 63,000 people now participate in her educational programs each year. She hopes the forecasted wet winter doesn't mean a slide back in the progress they've seen.

"We can no longer have rose gardens and lilies and lush lawns," said The Garden's public relations representative Reema Makani Boccia. "The goal is really to get people in here and get them inspired."

At The Garden, Meisner and 70 other volunteers teach San Diegans three main ideas she hopes they continue to follow: landscape with drought tolerant plants, use drip irrigation, and use mulch such as bark chips to keep water in the soil.

The recent move by many in Southern California to switch to drought tolerant landscaping is making a difference.

"By removing turf, the region is transforming the Southland's landscape by removing up to 170 million square-feet of grass, more than triple Governor Brown's statewide goal," Muir said.

The district, however, had to close its turf rebate program to new applications in early July because funding ran out. There is a waiting list, in case any of the approved projects do not move forward with their planned landscape changes.

If you're interested in learning more about drought tolerant landscaping, The Garden offers low cost classes, including "Toss the Turf" and "Irrigation 101," as well as private design consultations for a fee.

The Garden also has free tours every Saturday at 10am, or by appointment. The tour features a backyard makeover exhibit that shows how using drought tolerant plants can turn a backyard that uses 28,000 gallons of water a year into one that uses only 6,000 gallons. The Garden grounds also include a formal garden, organic vegetable garden and a butterfly pavilion.

The tour also includes advice of some popular choices for water tolerant plants, including: Carex pansa (also known as California meadow sedge), the Chinese Pistache tree, grevillea plants, crepe myrtle trees and native plum. Bottle brush and lavender starflower make for good screening along fences. And if you want to attract hummingbirds, butterflies and bees, consider lantana milkweed and budlia (also called butterfly bush).

While landscaping is a big part of dealing with the drought, experts also point to the importance of water harvesting during a wet winter.

Experts at the Water Conservation Garden hope San Diegans will consider installing their own water harvesting systems. Meisner advises people to use rain barrels, specifically in a dark color so algae doesn't grow.

The Metropolitan Water District is prepared to capture and store any extra water we do get thanks to an El Niño event, because of investments to regions including Diamond Valley Lake and the Inland Feeder. The district has increased its storage capacity to 13 times what it was in 1990.

 The Chargers' season of misery continues.

Philip Rivers had another outstanding game, throwing for 3 touchdowns with no turnovers but it was not enough in a 29-26 loss to the Ravens.

Baltimore QB Joe Flacco was also fantastic, throwing one touchdown pass and running for another before leading the Ravens to the game-winning drive with less than two minutes to play. Kicker Justin Tucker nailed the game-winner with 3 seconds left on the clock.

On the final drive of the game the Chargers defense missed too many tackles and when Stevie Williams was called for a pass interference penalty on 3rd and 19 the writing was on the wall.

Penalties were a major issue all game long. A pair of personal fouls on Jahleel Addae prolonged Ravens drives and a false start of Joe Barksdale wiped out a first down pass to Antonio Gates that would have given the Bolts a chance to score another TD. Instead they settled for a field goal to tie and set up the Ravens for the late drama.

The Chargers fall to 2-6. The Ravens improve to 2-6.

The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt "broke up in the air," an aviation official said Sunday, as Emirates and Fly Dubai annouced they were halting flights over the Sinai Peninsula pending clarity on what downed the airliner — mirroring moves a day earlier from Air France and Lufthansa, NBC News reported.

Intergovernmental Aviation Committee's Victor Sorochenko concluded that the Airbus A321 operated by Metrojet broke up midair before crashing Saturday, killing all 224 people on board. 

Alexander Neradko, head of Russia's federal aviation agency, similarly said investigators believe the plane disintegrated at a high altitude because the plane's fragments have been found scattered over a large area. But both officials said it was too early to make assumptions based on this finding.

Flags flew at half mast over the Kremlin as memorials to the victims sprouted both in and outside the country and Pope Francis joined world leaders offering condolences for the tragedy.

The coworker of a surfer whose body washed up on Swami's State Beach in Encinitas remembered his friend as a "perennial constant" and a person unlike any other he had ever met. 

"It's hard to think about him in the past tense and describe him because I've never met anyone else like him," said JP St. Pierre, CEO of Surfy Surfy, the retail wing of Moonlight Glassing Surfboard Factory. "Because sometimes people will have their archetypes, but I've literally never met anyone like him, at all."

On Friday morning, a surfer who frequents the beach found the lifeless body of a fellow surfer who had washed ashore, later identified as Kenneth A . Mann, a 61-year-old Encinitas resident, by the San Diego County Medical Examiner's office. 

State lifeguards, Encinitas Fire Department officials and deputies from the North Coastal Sheriff's Station were alerted around 5:10 a.m. about the body found near the shoreline located at 1298 South Coast Highway 101, approximately 26 miles north of downtown San Diego.

When investigators arrived at the beach, they discovered the surfer's body covered in kelp. Near him, officials also found a broken surfboard. The sheriff's department said Mann was wearing a wet suit and was still attached to his surfboard by the leash.

St. Pierre said when he heard a body had been found at the beach, he knew he would know the person because he often joined the group of midnight surfers. When he heard his friend had been the one identified, he was shocked. 

"He'd been surfing there since he was 10 years old," he told NBC7. 

Mann, known to many as Kenny, graduated from a San Diego high school in the 70s and lived in the North County. St. Pierre described him as a a somewhat anti-social guy who was friendly and funny.

"He was definitely a kind of a throwback, quirky kind of guy, but he has a really sharp memory for people and things and events he was like a living history book of Encinitas culture," St. Pierre said. "I'm kicking myself for never just putting him in front of a camera and just having him tell stories. He could just rattle them off."

The well-loved surfer had an "old school work ethic," St. Pierre said. For the past 35 years, he worked six days a week and always showed up at the exact same time. 

"For the factory guys on Monday, this will be the first time in 35 years where Kenny doesn’t show up at the exact time and get to work and do his thing, so it's going to be really difficult for everyone," he said. "I don’t even think the factory will be open tomorrow, unless that’s kind of cathartic for some people that work there."

 St. Pierre and Mann shared a wall at the factory. Kenny would sand the surfboards once they were glassed, essentially reshaping them by hand. 

"He was really, really good," St. Pierre said. "I mean, he was really good." 

Mann was one of the founding members of surfboad factory, a master sander memorialized in the Surfy Surfy logo.

Mann sanded an estimated 100,000 surfboards in his career.

"People are going to keep riding the boards he worked on for another decade at least," St. Pierre said.

St. Pierre said he would always say he had it good because by the time the boards came to him, they were already in such good shape. 

At work and around, Mann was known for walking by and quoting movies to people. He always had an anecdote to tell people about, always had a story to tell. "Everyone loved him," St. Pierre said. 

"The thing you gotta remember about Kenny is he would always go, 'Hey this one time, in the 70s,' and he would just tell you this story," he said. "They weren’t like large sweeping stories, they were little anecdotes."

The medical examiner has not yet determined Mann's cause and manner of death. 

Friends say they are planning to have a paddle out in Kenny Mann's memory in the coming weeks.

A large crowd of mourners assembled Sunday night at a Bronx street corner for a candlelight vigil for the three victims killed there by a careening car on Halloween.

Natalia Perez grieved the deaths of her 10-year-old daughter and her 65-year-old father.

"She was the perfect child. She never gave me any problems. She was like an angel," Perez said of her daughter, Nyanna Aquil, who was struck shortly before 5 p.m. when the vehicle plowed into a small group of Halloween trick-or-treaters at the intersection of Morris Park and Radcliff avenues.

Nyanna was in the group with her two sisters and her grandfather, Louis Perez, who had taken the girls out near their home for a second round of trick-or-treating while their mother, a makeup artist, was at work.

When the car came speeding onto the sidewalk, Natalia Perez said, her father was killed while pushing 8-year-old Sanaya Aquil out of harm's way. The youngest sister, 3-year-old Yasmina Aquil, was thrown from her stroller and suffered a minor neck injury along with bumps and bruises.

Nyanna was not able to escape the path of the car, which bumped the rear of another vehicle and crossed into the oncoming lane before launching onto the sidewalk. She was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center, where doctors operated on her, but she died of internal bleeding, her mother said.

Another person caught up in the crash, 24-year-old Kristian Leka, also died at Jacobi Medical Center. Yasmina, the driver and two others were taken to the hospital with injuries not believed to be life threatening, authorities said.

Investigators were looking into the possibility that the car's driver had suffered a seizure, police said Sunday.

Perez, who took care of the girls full-time while their single mother was at work, was a Vietnam veteran and recipient of a Purple Heart. "Papa," as the girls called him, picked them up from school, cooked their dinner, gave them baths, helped with homework, and made popcorn for movie nights, his daughter said. He was completely devoted to them, she said.

When they left to go trick-or-treating, Nyanna was dressed as a cat and had a nose and whiskers painted on her face. Not long after, Natalia Perez received a phone call from police telling her she needed to go to the hospital.

"Nyanna was a diamond," her mother said, adding that she was a straight-A student who loved school and was always helping with her sisters. She was kind, generous and good-natured, her mother said.

"I had a lot of dreams for Nyanna. I had so many plans for her," her mother said. Now, instead, she is planning a funeral for both her daughter and father.

"I'm at peace that they are in heaven together," she said.

Local authorities are urging parents to carefully check their children's Halloween candy after what appear to be sewing needles and pins were found in a half-dozen chocolate bars given out to trick-or-treating children in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Police in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania said they were notified about midnight Sunday that Halloween candy handed out in the borough's Stenning Hills section had been tampered with. Needles were discovered inside five wrapped Twix bars handed out to four different children in the area, police said.

Sunday afternoon, a 12-year-old turned in a sixth candy bar — a Snickers — with a needle in it, police said.

Police believe the tampered-with candy was given out in the area of South Union Street and West South Street. They said the original parent who reported finding the needles checked his kids' candy after seeing a Facebook post about someone else finding needles in Snickers candy. It's not clear if that post was about the Snickers the 12-year-old turned in Sunday afternoon.

The Kennett Square Police Department first alerted the community via its Facebook page on Sunday morning to the candy that had apparently been tampered with, saying that a "needle-type item was found inside five wrapped Twix bars given to four different children the evening of Oct. 31, 2015 in the Stenning Hills area of the borough."

Police said they immediately began investigating and that the candy and wrappers have been submitted for extra examination. They later released photos of the candy in question showing needles sticking out of the chocolate bars.

"The police department continues to urge parents to check all candy received prior to ingestion, and people with candy leftover that was not distributed to check it for tampering," the post on the police department's Facebook page read.

In Gloucester County, New Jersey, Woodbury Heights Police said they received a report of a needle or pin being found in a Snickers Almond chocolate bar.

Michelle Garwood, who lives in the town, posted several photos to Facebook Sunday showing a small pin or nail sticking out of a Snickers Almond bar. She wrote the candy was given to her children in the area of St. Margaret's Church and that her brother-in-law found the object after biting into the candy.

Garwood said she called police to notify them and planned to turn it in on Monday. Despite not seeing the candy, police again urged parents to check each piece for allowing kids to eat it.

In both cases, it's not clear whether the problems with the candy originated at the manufacturer, if someone giving candy out inserted the needles or the incidents were hoaxes.

Police asked that anyone with information about candy tampering contact their respective department.

A teenage boy went to a Halloween party at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, dressed up as a police officer and he ended up getting arrested on sexual assault charges after making unwanted advances on a female student, police said.

The student reported to Sacred Heart University Public Safety that a male donning a police officer costume kissed and groped her at a Halloween party on the Fairfield college campus, persisting despite several commands from her to stop, police said. The party started Saturday evening and the incident happened just after midnight early Sunday morning.

Police identified the man as Frank Anthony Sapienza, 19, of Bronx, New York.  The suspect isn't a Sacred Heart student, but he was a guest at a party there Saturday night, police said.

He admitted to police that he didn't stop when the victim told him to do so. Several witness accounts also corroborate the victim's story, police said.

Sacred Heart University officials released the following statement about the incident.

"A guest of a Sacred Heart University student was arrested last night for an alleged sexual assault in the 4th degree on one of our students. This is an ongoing investigation, and the University is working directly with the Fairfield Police on this matter, and we must refer all specific questions to them. Due to federal privacy law and University policy, we are not able to disclose any details related to specific incidents involving students. However, our University sexual assault team was immediately called into duty and were on the scene last night to offer counseling and any other assistance needed. The safety and well-being of our students is our highest priority. Sacred Heart University takes allegations of sexual assault very seriously. We will continue our efforts to ensure an atmosphere that is both safe and secure."

Police arrested Sapienza, charging him with fourth-degree sexual assault. Officers initially held him in custody on a $1,000 bond and released him Sunday morning after he posted his bail.

Sapienza is scheduled to appear in Bridgeport Superior Court on Nov. 9.

It's unknown if Sapienza has an attorney.

Here’s what is going on in San Diego sports for the week of November 2nd-8th.

CHARGERS: No Chargers during this time because they’re on Monday night next week.

GULLS: Tuesday you can catch some American Hockey League action at the Valley View Casino Center when the Gulls host San Antonio at 7:05. Thursday they’re on the road at Ontario at 7 p.m. before heading to San Jose for a Saturday afternoon match-up at 1:15 p.m.

SOCKERS: The San Diego Sockers hit the road for the first time this season with a Saturday night 7:05 p.m. match at Soles de Sonora.

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO TOREROS:
MEN’S GOLF: Monday-Wednesday at the Warrior Princeville Makai Invite in Princeville, Hawaii.
WOMEN’S TENNIS: Thursday –Sunday at the Kramer Tournament in Palos Verdes, California.
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL: Thursday vs. Pacific 7 p.m. in the Jenny Craig Pavilion, Saturday vs. Saint Mary’s 12 p.m. at the Jenny Craig Pavilion.
MEN’S SOCCER: Friday vs. San Francisco 5 p.m. at Torero Stadium.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Friday vs. San Diego Christian (Exhibition) 6 p.m. at Jenny Craig Pavilion.
WOMEN’S SOCCER: Friday vs. Pacific 7:30 p.m. at Torero Stadium.
FOOTBALL: Saturday vs. Campbell 12 p.m. in San Diego.
SOFTBALL: Saturday vs. Mesa College 12 p.m. in San Diego.
WOMEN’S SWIMMING: Saturday vs. Loyola Marymount in San Diego.
MEN’S BASKETBALL: Saturday vs. Cal Tech (Exhibition) 6 p.m. in San Diego.

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY AZTECS:
MEN’S BASKETBALL: Monday vs. Cal State San Marcos (Exhibition) 7 p.m. at Viejas Arena.
MEN’S GOLF: Monday-Wednesday vs. Gifford Collegiate all day at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad.
WOMEN’S SOCCER: Thursday vs. (4) Wyoming or (5) Colorado College in Semifinals 7 p.m. at the SDSU Sports Deck.
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL: Thursday vs. Fresno State 6 p.m. at Aztec Court, Saturday vs. UNLV 6 p.m. at Aztec Court.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Friday vs. Point Loma (Exhibition) 6:30 p.m. at Viejas Arena.
MEN’S SOCCER: Friday vs. Washington 7 p.m. at the SDSU Sports Deck, Sunday vs. Oregon State 12 p.m. at SDSU Sports Deck.
WOMEN’S ROWING: Saturday-Sunday vs. UCLA (Exhibition) 8 a.m. at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista.
WOMEN’S SWIMMING: Saturday vs. Washington State and New Mexico 10 a.m. at the Aztec Aquaplex.
POINT LOMA NAVARENE UNIVERSITY SEA LIONS:
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL: Tuesday at Azusa Pacific 7 p.m., Saturday at Dixie State 12 p.m.
WOMEN’S SOCCER: Thursday at Dominican (CA) 12 p.m., Saturday at Holy Names 11 a.m.
MEN’S SOCCER: Thursday at Dominican (CA) 2:30 p.m., Saturday at Holy Names 1:30 p.m.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Friday at San Diego State (Exhibition) 6:30 p.m.
CROSS COUNTRY: Saturday at NCAA West Regional 10 a.m.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO TRITONS:
WOMEN’S SOCCER: Tuesday-Sunday CCAA tournament, time and location TBA.
MEN’S SOCCER: Tuesday-Sunday CCAA tournament, time and location TBA.
MEN’S WATER POLO: Thursday vs. UC Davis 6 p.m. at UCSD, Saturday vs. UC Santa Barbara 6 p.m. at UCSD.
MEN’S SOCCER: Friday-Sunday CCAA tournament in Pomona.
WOMEN’S SOCCER: Friday-Sunday CCAA tournament in Pomona.
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL: Friday at Stanislaus State 7 p.m. in Turlock, Saturday at Chico State 7 p.m.
FENCING: Saturday-Sunday BladeRunner 9 a.m. at UCSD.
CROSS COUNTRY: Saturday NCAA West Regionals 10 a.m. at Monmouth, Oregon.
SWIMMING: Saturday at UC Santa Barbara 11 a.m.

Good luck to all the San Diego teams in action this week.

A motorcyclist died Sunday morning in Descanso after being thrown from his bike.

The cyclist sped around a curve going southbound on the 94 near Lake Barrett Road when he lost control and hit a dirt embankment.

He suffered severe internal injuries and was taken by ambulance to CalFire station in Descanso to be airlifted to a nearby hospital.

The motorcyclist died on the way to the station.

Check back for updates on this story.

A 16-year-old boy is dead after two men fired nearly two dozen shots at him and his friend as they rode their bicycles down a North Philadelphia street Sunday evening, police said.

The victim, who has yet to be identified, and his 15-year-old friend were riding down the 2200 block of West Sedgley Avenue around 4:45 p.m. when they came upon four men sitting in a parked silver Buick with tinted windows.

Capt. Nicholas Brown of the 22nd District said the boys had an interaction with the men earlier in the afternoon and when they realized the same car was in their path, they tried to turn around. Just then, Brown said, two men then jumped out of the Buick, began chasing them and opened fire.

The men unloaded 17 shots at the boys, according to Brown. One bullet hit the 16-year-old in the back. He was rushed to Temple University Hospital where he died a short time later.

The men fled the scene and are still on the loose. The surviving teen told police he had never seen them before Sunday. Both boys grew up together in the neighborhood, Brown said.

A motive has yet to be determined, but Brown said investigators haven't ruled out road rage.

"That is an awful lot of shots to fire at two kids, especially if this was possibly road rage," he said.

Pastor Elbert Jordan was inside his nearby church with congregants when the shooting happened. He said violence in the neighborhood has gotten worse recently. Police stats show there have been more than two dozen shootings in the neighborhood over the past few weeks.

Jordan also said he wouldn't be surprised if road rage was at play. "When people see straight road, they just ride like they're crazy so there is a lot of road rage, there is a lot of that down here," he said.

A suburban Illinois man was arrested Saturday evening for taking a 7-year-old boy trick-or-treating while drunk.

Around 7:15 p.m., Riverside police received multiple calls reporting an "intoxicated combative" man trick-or-treating with a child in the 200 block of Addison Road in Riverside. When police arrived, they found 27-year-old Jeffrey A. Lustro-Dufrain with the 7-year-old child, who is not his son.

Lustro-Dufrain later collapsed on the ground and was unable to get up due to his level of intoxication, police said. When officers attempted to assist him, he "became combative and threatened (them)," according to police.

Police said Lustro-Dufrain also became angry and threatened to punch a homeowner when they gave a glow stick to the child but did not give one to Lustro-Dufrain, according to police. During the confrontation that ensued, Lustro-Dufrain said, "I'm going to come back with my homies and take care of this party," police said.

En route to the police station, Lustro-Dufrain attempted to kick out the window of the squad car, police said. Officers later took him to a hospital for medical evaluation, and he was transported to MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn for alcohol overdose.

The 7-year-old boy, who lives in Cicero, told police Lustro-Dufrain was a friend of his mother's and the two had been trick-or-treating in Riverside. The boy's mother alter confirmed she gave Lustro-Dufrain, of Palos Hills, permission to take her son trick-or-treating. She chose Riverside instead of Cicero or Palos Hills because she thought residents there would hand out "better Halloween treats," she told police.

Lustro-Dufrain was charged with two counts of assault and one count of endangering the health and safety of a child, police said.

Information on an attorney for Lustro-Dufrain was not immediately available.