The NYPD said it will review an incident in which four plainclothes officers and a lieutenant handcuffed a postal worker who was out driving his mail truck.

The March 17 confrontation involving postal worker Glenn Grays was captured on cellphone videos that have been widely shared. The videos show officers telling Grays to stop resisting even though he does not appear to be resisting.

Grays said at a news conference last week he was delivering mail in Brooklyn when an unmarked police car nearly hit his mail truck. He said he shouted at the driver, and the officers backed the police car up and demanded identification.

Grays told The New York Times the driver said to him, "I have the right of way because I'm law enforcement."

Grays said he was handcuffed and placed in the back of the unmarked police car. He was then taken to the local precinct and issued a summons for disorderly conduct, which will require him to appear in court.

Appearing with Grays at the news conference on Tuesday, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams expressed outrage over the apparent violation of a federal employee's civil rights.

"They issued him a summons in hopes of sweeping this under the rug," said Adams, a Democrat and a former police officer.

Adams added, "It is not a crime for someone to voice outrage after almost being struck by a vehicle."

The police department said only that the incident was under internal review.

A New York City pet owner said she plans to sue the NYPD after an officer gunned down her friendly dog, which had gone to the door as the cop responded to a dispute at another apartment. 

Yvonne Rosado said her 4-year-old pit bull named Spike was shot to death by an officer who responded to her Bronx apartment building on Feb. 13.

She said the 70-pound dog had come to the door with its tail wagging and showed no signs of aggression when the officer knocked on the door. 

Surveillance video of the confrontation shows Spike sneak through the door with his tail wagging rapidly. The officer backs up, draws his weapon and fires a fatal shot.

Footage later shows several people standing outside the apartment, and Rosado can be seen in obvious distress over the dead animal. She later appears to hit the officer who shot her dog. 

Rosado was still emotional Friday as she described Spike's death.

"I'm begging him not to leave me and he's twitching and his tail's still wagging," Rosado said. "It's like he's still trying to hang on. But he just died and I just couldn't believe it."

The officer later left the apartment building without apologizing, Rosado said. 

The NYPD said it was reviewing the case but would not say if the officer was equipped with a new type of Mace effective against dogs. Police are authorized to shoot animals in self-defense but the move is considered a last resort. The officer has not been identified. 

The Daily News first reported the shooting. 

An 80-year-old man who has been missing since the middle of February was found safe at an Oceanside hospital, sheriff’s officials said.

Gerard A. Kelly disappeared from his Encinitas home on Feb. 15. Sheriff’s officials searched for him and made calls to local hospitals.

Kelly, however, was admitted to Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside under a different name. Medical staff there told sheriff’s officials March 24 that a man matching Kelly’s description had been admitted.

Officials said Kelly is being treated for an undisclosed medical condition.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory on Monday dismissed criticism of a controversial new law curbing LGBT anti-discrimination protections as "political theater" concocted by left-wing activists.

In an interview with NBC News, he accused the activists of a "calculated smear campaign" that included threatening local businesses to oppose the measure.

"This political correctness has gone amok," he said. 

McCrory, a Republican running for re-election, said he would not back down from the measure, which blocks the city of Charlotte — and any other local government — from allowing transgender people to use bathrooms that match the gender they identify with.

 A 34-year-old man was medically evacuated from a boat battling six foot seas and 15-knot winds southwest of San Diego, the Coast Guard said. 

Crew on board the 750-foot motor vessel Zen Noh Grain Magnolia reported that the master of their boat was experiencing symptoms similar to a heart attack at approximately 9:15 a.m. on Friday. They said the man needed assistance. At the time, the boat was more than 1,000 miles southwest of San Diego. 

The Coast Guard duty flight surgeon recommended the man be taken to a hospital for emergency care. 

Because the boat was so far from available assistance and the man's condition was stable, crew members diverted towards San Diego. The vessel was transitioning from New Orleans to Japan. 

Once they were within range of CG Sector San Diego's air assets, a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter launched at 5:25 a.m. and hoisted the man at 7:09 a.m. The boat was 145 miles off the San Diego shore when crews arrived. 

The Jayhawk helicopter safely returned to San Diego to transfer the man to awaiting EMS. 

The man was taken to UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest. There is no word on his condition, but at the time of the transfer, he was in stable condition. 

No further information was immediately available.

Come and enjoy San Diego’s beautiful parks. Just don’t leave your trash behind.

That’s a message from one local resident after plastic eggs, candy, clothes, broken bottles, diapers and even a grill were discarded at Mission Bay after Sunday’s Easter holiday.

“It really looks trashy and not so good about our face in San Diego,” said Pat Holmes.

City parks and recreation crews were out early Monday morning, cleaning the trash left along the bay – an all-too-common sight during holidays.

Even those who do clean up after themselves quickly fill up the nearby trash cans.

City workers recommend park visitors bring their own trash bags. Still, there’s not much that can be done, as people and birds often rummage through the trash cans or the wind blows the refuse across parking lots and sometimes into the ocean.

“Especially on days like today, putting trash bags near the trash can just isn’t good enough,” Holmes said.

A nearly century-old San Diego home made its way across the County Monday as it moved to a new location. 

The 800-square foot house, built in 1925, was slowly moved from Hillcrest to its new home in San Diego’s South Bay.

The owner wanted to demolish the property so she could build a new, three-story home on the Vermont Avenue lot.

But instead of letting the property get destroyed, local entrepreneur Garnell Fitz-Henley, who specializes in saving homes from demolition, saw possibility. Fitz-Henley wanted to salvage the home.

“When a building is demolished so much material and energy goes to waste,” Fitz-Henley said in a statement. “Eighty-year-old solid oak or maple floors, gum wood built-ins, lead crystal. All of these precious materials, not including all the talent and energy expended by the original laborers. It simply makes sense to preserve and reuse all that. ”

The home’s original owner, Anne Wilson, said she enjoyed living in the house for 22 years, but was ready for a change.

“I hated the thought that it would just be demolished when I start to build a larger home. Fitz found me when an architect he works with heard of my project,” Wilson said in a statement. “He proposed salvaging rather than demolishing, which I was happy to hear was even a possibility. Working with him to move the house is actually saving me money in demolition costs.”

Fitz-Henley, his contractor and a crew helped find the building a new physical home.

Soon, a new family will move into the home at its new location. The property is at a storage facility in Otay Mesa and will eventually be put on a lot in San Ysidro.

Fitz-Henley has worked to move or recycle dozens of previous structures in San Diego County. 

Universal Studios Hollywood is the latest theme park to raise ticket prices – this time, prices are increasing by 20 percent.

The news came just before the park’s opening of the highly awaited and publicized Wizarding World of Harry Potter. The attraction opens April 7.

The Los Angeles Times reports Universal Studios Hollywood raised the daily ticket prices last weekend by 20 percent.

The cheapest tickets for “low demand” days are now $90 and “on demand” days will see ticket prices at $115.

This is more expensive than its sister parks in Orlando, The Times reports.

And Universal Studios’ new rates are just slightly below Disneyland, which adopted a new “surge pricing” for peak days in late February.

The price of an adult general admission ticket for Disneyland or California Adventure changed from its current $99 to one of three new rates: $95, $105 or $119.

 San Diegans had mixed reactions to a plan that will increase the state minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next seven years.

Local business owners say it will cost jobs, and criticized the decision by legislators.

“I think it’s a sleezy, underhanded, back room deal,” said Anne Kinner, who owns Nautical Books in Point Loma.

But Elvis De La Cruz, who has been part of protest rallies calling for the increase, says the long fight has paid off.

“It will actually help businesses. When workers are happier with their wage, everything is going to be better for the business, and also for the workers,” said De La Cruz, who has worked at a Burger King restaurant for the last two years.

Jerry Sanders, President and CEO of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, released a statement criticizing the move.

“A $15 state minimum wage will have substantial negative effects on many businesses and will undoubtedly have similar impacts on workers. It’s unrealistic to think that businesses, particularly small businesses, just absorb these dramatic cost increases. If the impacts we’ve seen in Seattle are any indication, we can expect this policy to cost us jobs,” the statement read.

But San Diego city councilman Todd Gloria, who fought to raise the minimum wage, praised the policy.

“I commend the Governor, the legislature and advocates for working together to create this bold proposal for California. Today’s historic announcement by Governor Brown is an affirmation of the leadership San Diego showed when our City passed a measure for higher wages in 2014 to help working families make ends meet,” said Gloria.

The measure passed by the council, however, was overridden by an initiative drive by business leaders. A minimum wage increase was set to go to voters on the June 2016 ballot.

According to the Chamber of Commerce, the issue will still be on the ballot. However, any state increase would supersede a local increase. Voters would only be voting on a provision that calls for additional sick days.

Gloria noted that the local proposal would have raised the minimum wage in San Diego to $11.50 per hour on January 1, 2017. If enacted the state measure would not reach those wages until 2018.

A new job center inside the East Mesa Reentry Facility in Otay Mesa is giving inmates a second chance.

"We recognize something happened in the past that got inmates to our jails, but everyone deserves a second chance. Our goal at the job center is to encourage inmates so they can be successful and we don't find them back in our custody again,” Sheriff Bill Gore said.

The center is a collaboration between the Sheriff’s Department, San Diego Workforce Partnership and County Probation as well as the community program Second Chance.

“The job center is brand new and we just got started about a month ago. It is actually a job center that is physically inside the jail,” Christine Brown the Sheriff’s Reentry Services Manager said. “The goal of the program is to be able to provide assistance to inmates on finding employment.”

The inmates will have access to the center when they’re still in custody Brown explained.

Six months before their release, inmates learn computer skills, resume writing, practice interviewing and apply for jobs online.

They also receive other services such as a free suit for job interviews, a bus pass, California ID, housing help and help finding a substance abuse program.

“That is a key to having a successful reintegration into the community. If you ask the offenders in custody what is one of the things that will help them not to return, the number one thing that the men will say is I need a job,” Brown said.

One of the goals of the program is to provide skill-level training while they’re in custody to help them find employment.

“I’ve been in and out of the system for about 11 years now and I really feel if on my first time if I would have come to a jail that would have had a program like this available that that would have been my last time coming to jail,” job center participant Tayron Jones said. “I think this program will help a lot of people…I definitely look forward to getting out, getting a job and getting my life together.”

The program offers work experiences for the inmates through various vocational programs such as Culinary Arts, Bakery Program, Print Shop, Construction Trades, Painting Program, Bicycle Repair, Laundry Services, Commissary, Landscaping Program and CIVICS (Community Involved
Vocational Inmate Crew Service).

The money for the program comes from a grant from the Department of Labor.
 

An inmate sentenced to death over 30 years ago was pronounced dead Saturday morning of natural causes in a California jail. 

Bernard L. Hamilton, was sentenced on March 2, 1981, by a San Diego County jury for the 1979, first-degree murder and second-degree burglary of Eleanore Buchanan.

Hamilton kidnapped, murdered and dismembered Buchanan’s body after she caught him burglarizing her van. He had a prior conviction for burglary in 1973.

Hamilton had been on death row since March 4, 1981.

Seventy condemned inmates have died from natural causes since California reinstated the death penalty in 1978.

Twenty-five inmates have committed suicide, thirteen have been executed in California and two were executed in Missouri and Virginia.

Eight other inmates have died from other causes, and one cause of death is pending.

There are 747 offenders on California’s death row.
 

Around 7 million people live in places vulnerable to man-made tremors, according to a first ever report from the U.S. Geological Survey on the hazards of human-induced quakes.

For the first time, the United States Geological Survey is releasing maps that show the potential ground-shaking hazards from human-induced quakes. In the past, maps from USGS only identified tectonic hazards.

According to the USGS, more and more earthquakes are being caused by humans activities, such as waste water injection.

The most significant hazards from induced seismicity are concentrated in six states. Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico and Arkansas. Oklahoma and Texas have the largest populations exposed to induced earthquakes, according to the USGS.

The USGS Did You Feel It? website has archived tens of thousands of reports from the public who experienced shaking in those states, including about 1,500 reports of "strong shaking or damage.”

"In the past five years, the USGS has documented high shaking and damage in areas of these six states, mostly from induced earthquakes," said Mark Petersen, chief of the USGS National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project.

Petersen says the purpose is to help people understand the risks.

“In California, people are very aware that they have a problem with earthquakes. This is nothing new for them,” Petersen said.

What is new are maps that now account for the potential of earth movements caused by fracking – and its byproducts such as when the oil industry disposes waste water by pumping it into deep wells.

“In the scientific world, the issue about pumping water underground, and can that trigger an earthquake? That was solved conclusively in the 1960’s,” said Dr. Pat Abbott, professor emeritus of Geology at San Diego State University. “Yes. Humans can trigger earthquakes by pumping water underground.”

Abbott said even though it’s well-known that humans can trigger earthquakes, in individual cases it’s very tricky to say whether an individual quake was caused by humans or whether it was just mother nature.

Still, the risks are great.

“When we talk about how bad a human-triggered earthquake can be, we can go back to China in 2008. The earthquake that killed the panda bears? 87,000 people killed. That earthquake was almost certainly triggered by human activities,” Abbott said, adding it was not triggered by fracking but rather building a dam a half a mile away from an active fault.

Around seven million people live and work in areas that could be affected by earthquakes caused by human activity, according to the report.

"By including human-induced events, our assessment of earthquake hazards has significantly increased in parts of the U.S.," said Petersen. "This research also shows that much more of the nation faces a significant chance of having damaging earthquakes over the next year, whether natural or human-induced."

People living in areas of higher earthquake hazard should learn how to be prepared for earthquakes, and guidance can be found through FEMA’s Ready Campaign.

The Washington, D.C., population of eagles has grown in recent weeks, and a new social media campaign will ask people to help name two of them.

DC2 and DC3, the two eaglets recently hatched at the U.S. National Arboretum, were born to eagles known as "Mr. President" and "The First Lady." The American Eagle Foundation, which has been livestreaming the nest activity, is holding a campaign to let fans suggest fitting names for the new duo.

People can submit their suggestion on Twitter or Instagram using the hashtags #dceaglecam and #namethenestlings along with the submission.

Facebook users can visit the American Eagle Foundation's website or the D.C. Department of Energy and Environment's site to share the suggestions using the same hashtags.

Fans are encouraged to suggest names that are gender-neutral or names that can be altered to fit either sex. The sexes of the two eaglets have not been determined.

The final names will be announced April 26.

The wall of opposition against President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nomination appears to be crumbling, NBC News reported.

Some Republicans are changing their stance on considering Merrick Garland, who Obama nominated to replace the vacated seat created by Justice Anotnin Scalia's death.

Two weeks into the nomination fight, 16 Republican senators now say they will meet with Garland — over 25 percent of the GOP caucus — according to a running count by NBC News.

That includes senators up for re-election in Blue States, such as New Hampshire's Kelly Ayotte and Illinois' Mark Kirk, who will be the first Republican to actually meet with Garland when they talk Tuesday.

A carjacking suspect crashed into a wooden beam on the 15 after a pursuit with authorities San Diego police confirmed.

The car crashed into a construction zone going south between El Cajon Boulevard and University around 9:41 p.m. 

La Mesa police tried to pull over the suspect when he took off. The San Diego Police Department continued the pursuit,  then finally CHP took over.

The driver was taken to the hospital with unknown injuries. 

No further information was immediately available.

The Easter bombing in Pakistan that killed at least 72 people was particularly devastating for one family that reportedly lost 10 members.

"What could be more painful to me than this?" asked Qasim Ali, who is related to many of the victims in the Lahore suicide bombing.

"Almost the whole family has gone," Ali said. "My sister, her husband and daughter were killed. My two daughters and son were wounded."

He said his nephew Fahad, 10, and his niece Affafa, 18, were injured in the attack and are now at Ali's home, unable to stand because of heavy bandaging on their feet and legs.

"I don't know how I will be able to do anything, to continue at school," Fahad said.

On Monday, Kobe Bryant played his final game in Utah.

Prior to the game, though, the Utah Jazz took the classy move of providing the 37-year-old retiring superstar a collection of gifts that identified with the Beehive State. The Jazz gifted Bryant a season pass to Snowbird ski resort, along with a pair of skis.

We presented @kobebryant with some of the best that Utah has to offer... pic.twitter.com/OBaCLFDRRk

• Human Induced Earthquakes Across US Raise Chances of Damaging Tremors

— Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) March 28, 2016

Then, the Jazz put together an in-arena video prior to introducing Bryant one last time, and the video captured the essence of rooting against a player that would simply not be denied. The tribute featured Utah Jazz fans sharing their admiration for the NBA superstar in his 20th and final season.

At one point, a fan shares that he grew up wearing his John Stockton jersey practicing his "Kobe fadeaway" in his driveway. Another fan likened Bryant to the Joker character in Batman, as played by Heath Ledger.

"To us, he was the villain," The fan's voice blared in the arena. "But his performance was so awesome that you can't help but respect it."

LOVE / HATE - Thank You @KobeBryanthttps://t.co/QxsTwrNxdU

— Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) March 29, 2016

When the game finally did get underway, the Jazz immediately got down to business, while the Lakers seemingly forgot they had to play a 48-minute game. About five and a half minutes into the contest, the Lakers only had two points and Utah had already opened up a 15-point lead.

From there, it got worse for the visitors—much worse. At halftime, the Jazz led by 27 points. That difference would jump up to 40 points after three quarters.

The fourth quarter started with Bryant coming out for a short stint on the court, but Lakers coach Byron Scott pulled out his aging superstar almost immediately in order to allow the crowd to acknowledge Bryant's exit. Bryant got a standing ovation and heard his name chanted loudly and clearly.

Bryant did not have his best night, as he exited the game with only five points in 28 minutes and missed 10 of his 11 shot attempts on the night. Still, the fans in attendance seemed thrilled to see the future hall of famer take the court one last time.

One set of lucky fans even received Bryant's arm sleeve. A girl inexplicably took a whiff of Bryant's sweat soaked arm sleeve, which immediately set the internet ablaze.

Conceivably, the arm sleeve still did not stink nearly as much as the Lakers' team did on Monday night. Utah led by as many as 53 points and eventually won by a final count of 123-75, which tied the record for the worst loss in Lakers' franchise history: 48 points.

Notes: Rodney Hood made 8/9 from three-point land, and all eight of his makes came in the first half. However, Hood could not manage four makes in the second half, which would have tied the NBA record for three-pointers in a game--a record held by Bryant.

The daughter of an Indiana woman who was found after being missing for 42 years says they will never have a tear-filled happy reunion.

"I'm angry," Tammy Miller, 45, told People. "This isn't going to be one of those happy, made-for-TV movies."

Indiana State Police told The Associated Press Lula Ann Gillespie-Miller, who went missing in 1974 at the age of 28, thought she was too young to be a mother and signed custody of her three children to her parents in 1974. She then left home.

Detective Scott Jarvis took the case in 2014 after being contacted by the Doe Network, an organization that helps law enforcement close cold cases, police told the AP. They eventually learned Gillespie-Miller, 69, was living in Texas under a different name.

"I could have fell out of my chair," Tammy Miller told People. "I was shocked."

Tammy told the publication she called her mother last Friday, but her mom had an unexpected reaction.

"It was less than a two minute conversation," Tammy Miller said. "She said, 'I'll call you when I'm able to talk.’”

Tammy Miller said she “will never call her again” because "it felt like being rejected all over again."

"It's almost like going through the grieving process again," Miller says. "I'm glad she's alive, but it hurts emotionally knowing this was her choice."

Despite the non-fairy tale ending, Miller is happy to know what became of her mother.

"I'm going to have a wonderful life," Miller said. "I know it wasn't my fault. It was her loss." 

A high wind warning is now in effect for the desert areas east of San Diego with the possibility of wind gusts of up to 90 mph. 

The warning will be in effect from noon Monday to 3 a.m. Tuesday according to the National Weather Service.

Winds will strengthen through the day Monday reaching between 30 to 40 mph with gusts to 55 mph. The strongest gusts may arrive in the evening.

The Volcan Mountains south of Lake Henshaw saw gusts of 73 mph earlier Monday and Carlsbad and Encinitas saw 35 and 34 mph gusts. 

Driving may be difficult for high-profile vehicles. Broken tree limbs and other debris may be found on the roads, forecasters said. In the desert, there may be blowing sand and dust.

Cloud cover is predominantly west of the mountains and the light drizzle that is coming down is barely registering on radar. There's a strong jet stream, but it's a fairly dry system with little rain expected. 

There's a 20 to 30% chance of light to moderate showers west on the mountains Monday evening. Isolated heavy showers are a possibility. 

Cooler temperatures and winds should last for the next three to four days. 

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