Retired U.S. Army Major Raymond Edgerly was caught in the crosshairs of an alleged scam targeting elderly people.

“This guy could talk so smooth,” said Edgerly. “He could sell an Eskimo an icebox."

Yair Zilberman is facing theft and fraud charges related to defrauding Edgerly of $15,000.

“You get sick to your stomach when you make a big error like that," explained Edgerly.

According to Oceanside Police, the World War II veteran got a call from the 32-year-old contractor in April. Operating under the company name "American Way Remodeling," he quoted Edgerly prices for replacing duct work and insulation at his Oceanside home.

Once a portion of the work was completed in the attic, Edgerly says the alleged crooked contractor's scam kicked in.

“Sir he said, um, your attic is full of mold and you know that’s dangerous to your health."

The cost to clean out the made-up hazard was $15,000 in cash.

Fearing for his health, the decorated veteran went to the bank to get the cash.

Zilberman was right there with him.

“After he didn’t show up the next day to do anything, I knew I'd been taken."

Zilberman's alleged scams are not limited to Oceanside. He is also under investigation in Escondido.

The L.A.County DA released a statement saying Zilberman pleaded no contest to residential burglary and three counts of theft from an elder in 2014.

There's another similar 2014 case against Zilberman in Albany as well.

“That’s the lesson I’ve learned, “ said Edgerly. “Check with the contractor’s board and only pay a small amount down.”

Edgerly says Zilberman did agree to refund his money but sent him a check that bounced.

The contractor is behind bars at Central Jail in San Diego after he was caught in LA. He is under investigation by both Oceanside and Escondido Police.

Potential victims or witnesses are asked to call Oceanside Police Detective Karla Williams at (760) 435-4771 or Escondido Police Detective John LaRose at 760-835-4730.

Osama bin Laden's alleged bodyguard once accused of planning to hijack airliners on 9/11 has been released from the Guantanamo prison camp and transferred to Montenegro, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. 

Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab al-Rahabi, a Yemeni national, spent 14 years at the U.S. naval base but was never charged with a crime. A U.S. review board recommended his transfer after it found in 2014 that he was no longer a threat to the nation.

Montenegro's government said in a statement Wednesday that it had taken responsibility for al-Rahabi's "re-socialization" and "his return to his family." It said al-Rahabi had applied for asylum and was not being detained.

The Navy said it has completed its investigation into how sailors ended up in Iranian custody in January. Senior military officials told NBC News that the investigation will recommend disciplinary action.

Ten U.S. sailors spent a night in Iranian custody after their two boats drifted into Tehran's territorial waters. The sailors were videotaped while detained and footage of one sailor appeared to show him apologizing to his Iranian captors.

Senior military officials said several things went wrong and some of the sailors made poor decisions that led to the embarrassing event. One official suggested "more than half" of the detained sailors will face disciplinary action.

"It was a calamity of errors," one U.S. military official said.

When paleontologist Melissa Macias saw bone jutting out of a cliff near a landfill construction project in Southern California, she knew she had found something big.

It turned out the fossils found at the Bowerman Landfill in Irvine belonged to what was once a sperm whale, the largest toothed mammal in the world.

"It's exciting for a paleontologist to find any fossil, but it's amazing to find something this size and so well-preserved," she said.

After weeks of evaluation, the sperm whale fossils were unveiled to the public Tuesday at the landfill. The fossils found could be up to 12 million years old and include 18 teeth, skulls parts and a flipper bone.

This is not the first time a fossil has been found at the Orange County landfill, though it is the largest. The landfill is located at what was once the bottom of the ocean, which makes it a perfect location for fossils, according to Julie Chay, spokesperson for Orange County's waste management department.

Chay said paleontologists are hired as contractors during certain construction projects to monitor digging and look for potential fossils. Macias was working as a contractor monitoring a buttress-building project when she discovered the fossils.

The fossils were put in casts and brought to a nearby trailer, where they have been studied for the past month.

After the unveiling, the original fossils will be on display at the landfill and the casts will move to the Cooper Center, which preserves and manages fossils, according to Jere Lipps, the center's director.

"These fossils paint an amazing story," Lipps said. "It was a great find."

City leaders in Poway say taxpayer dollars will not pay for the highly anticipated Tony Gwynn Memorial, despite a recent settlement the city manager made without the city council’s knowledge.

“I had no doubt that when we decided to do a statue that people would step up. And they have,” Poway Mayor Steve Vaus said of the many donors contributing to the memorial.

That’s one reason why Vaus and city leaders were upset to hear about a city settlement allocating thousands of dollars to the statue, which will overlook a baseball field at Lake Poway.

The settlement was with Sportsplex USA.

But it turns out, the city of Poway had been billing Sportsplex too little on its city lease since 2010. City Councilmembers say they learned about this mistake only after City Manager Dan Singer had already negotiated a deal with Sportsplex.

The deal included the business giving the city nearly $16,000 to $10,000, part of which would go toward the memorial.

“I wasn't comfortable with money from a settlement going to the statue because those are in essence, taxpayer dollars,” Vaus said. “So there was no way that was going to happen on my watch.” 

On Tuesday night, city officials met in a closed session. After the meeting, Councilman John Mullin could only tell NBC 7 that public funds will not pay for the memorial and that they are back to the negotiating table.

Singer did not respond to questions regarding the previous settlement. But he said: "We anticipate an amicable solution will be reached in our negotiations." 

Meanwhile, the countdown continues at Lake Poway for the Tony Gwynn Memorial which will honor the baseball legend and for the people of Poway, a hometown hero.

“It's going to be a really special thing that everyone's going to want to see,” Vaus said of the statue.

The target for the cost of the memorial is $150,000. So far, Vaus said the city has raised about $143,000.

The plan is to break ground for the memorial on July 11th and have it completed before the end of 2016.

A gunman who reportedly opened fire and took hostages at a German movie theater on Thursday was shot dead by police, according to a local official. 

Local Interior Minister Hesse Peter Beuth told a parliamentary debate that initial reports suggested that a gunman fired several shots, took hostages and was later fatally shot by police.

Footage from outside the theater in the southwestern town of Viernheim showed heavily armed police strapping on bulletproof vests and running toward the building as sirens blared.

There were no other injuries and the hostages are safe, police confirmed to NBC News.

Police have not identified the suspect or a potential motive.

At least one person is dead after a fire broke out inside a garage of a La Jolla home Wednesday night, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department (SDFD) confirmed.

The fire started around 8:42 p.m. on the 1200 block of Via Barranca near Avenida De Las Pescas. 

SDFD officials said one person was found dead inside the garage but it is unconfirmed if it's a woman or a man.

But according to reports, a woman related to the family who lives in the home had been living inside the garage.

The fire was knocked down quickly and there was no fire damage to the home.

An investigation is underway to determine the cause of the fire.

No other information was immediately available.

San Diego Pride Month is next month and to celebrate, Zipcar has partnered with the San Diego LGBT Community Center for a campaign to drive equality forward, according to a company spokesperson.

Zipcar will donate $1 to the San Diego LGBT Community Center for every hour that a Pride car is reserved for during Pride Month.

San Diego Pride Month is from July 15-17.

There are two Pride cars that can be reserved in San Diego; a Ford Escape named “Icedtea” and a Ford Focus named “Yelp”. Each Pride Zipcar is branded with a rainbow.

You can find more information about Pride Zipcars here.

Some things are just too good to be true.

A suburban Chicago man with the last name Gambles has won the lottery for the second time, using the same numbers.

Larry Gambles, of Matteson, won a $1,050,000 Lucky Day Lotto jackpot prize when his ticket matched all five numbers — 01-06-12-14-25 — in the June 7 drawing.

"Nine years ago, I won $50,000 playing the numbers from the jerseys of my high school basketball team," Gambles told the Illinois Lottery. "I’ve been playing the same numbers ever since. I can’t believe they paid off again."

Gambles, 65, is a retired school administrator and has lived in Matteson for more than 20 years, where he continues to play basketball. He plans to share the winnings with his family and friends. 

Harvey’s Corner BP, at 18300 South Cicero Ave. in Country Club Hills, where the winning ticket was purchased, received a $10,500 bonus for selling the ticket.

As for Gambles' advice to other lottery players, he said, "Pick your favorite numbers and stick with them."

"It worked for me," he added.

In a win for affirmative action, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an admissions program Thursday at the University of Texas at Austin that takes race into account to achieve a diverse campus.

Justice Anthony Kennedy said in the majority opinion that the university's plan considered race in a way permissable. 

"The university has thus met its burden of showing that the admissions policy it used at the time it rejected peti­tioner’s application was narrowly tailored," he wrote.

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Only seven justices took part in the 4-3 decision. Justice Elena Kagan recused herself because she had worked on the case when she was the U.S. solicitor general. Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February, was an opponent of affirmative action. His seat remains open.

Kennedy cautioned that the University of Texas must continue to scrutinize its admissions policy, "to assess whether changing demographics have undermined the need for a race-conscious policy; and to identify the effects, both positive and negative, of the affirmative-action measures it deems necessary."

Kennedy was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor. It was the second time the program had gone before court.

Dissenting were Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito Jr.  Alito called the majority decision remarkably wrong.

"What is at stake is whether university administrators may justify systematic racial discrimination simply by asserting that such discrimination is necessary to achieve 'the educational benefits of diversity,' without explain­ing — much less proving — why the discrimination is needed or how the discriminatory plan is well crafted to serve its objectives," he wrote.

The attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, who did not represent the University of Texas before the Supreme Court, criticized the decision. The university should be open to all students based on merit not race, Paxton said. 

"Less than 10 years ago, the Supreme Court said that '[t]he way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race,'" he said. "Sadly, the court today has departed from that guiding principle."

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas had filed a friend of the court brief on behalf of the program. Its legal and policy director, Rebecca L. Robertson, said in a statement, "After nearly a decade of litigation, including two separate arguments before the Supreme Court itself, the justices finally affirmed what teachers, parents and school administrators have known for years: that diversity in education is essential for student success."

The Democratic leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, praised the ruling, saying the strength of the country depended on Americans of all backgrounds having the education to thrive. 

"America's institutions should reflect the beautiful diversity of America's people," she said. "The beauty is in the mix."

And President Barack Obama said: "We are not a country that guarantees equal outcomes but we do strive to present an equal shot to everybody and that's what was upheld today."

The case was argued in December, and at the time Scalia drew quick criticism when he said that minority students with inferior academic records may fare better at less academically rigorous schools. 

"There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school, where they do well," he said.

Scalia also said most black scientists do not graduate from schools such as the University of Texas but from lesser schools where they do not feel they are pushed in classes too fast for them. 

The court first heard the case, Fisher v. University of Texas, in 2013. It was brought by Abigail Fisher, a white student who has since graduated from Louisiana State University and who argued that she was denied admission to the University of Texas based on her race. 

The University of Texas automatically admits three quarters of its students from the top 10 percent of state high schools. The remaining students are chosen based on a number of factors, race being one of them. 

The Supreme Court’s original decision avoided ruling directly on the program, instead asking a lower court to decide whether the school had adequately justified including race among criteria for admission. 

A federal appeals court in New Orleans twice upheld the university’s admission requirements.

Read the decision here:

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Rancho Santa Margarita-based Pieology Pizzeria has bought competitor Carlsbad-based Project Pie.

Both are fast-casual, build-your-own pizza chains.

Pieology has more than 100 locations.

Project Pie’s website lists 20 locations, including 11 in the Philippines and others in San Diego County, Michigan, Indiana, and one in the United Kingdom.

“We are thrilled to work with new individuals who share Pieology’s passion for food and building community,” Pieology founder and Chief Executive Carl Chang said in a press release.

A purchase price wasn’t disclosed but Project Pie until June 2015 had been 40 percent owned by Vancouver, Wash.-based, publicly traded Papa Murphy's Holdings Inc., a chain of about 1,500 “take-and-bake” pizza stores.

Papa Murphy’s in late 2013, through its then-owner Lee Equity Partners LLC in New York, bought one-fourth of Project Pie for $2 million. Papa Murphy’s later increased its ownership to 40 percent with rights to increase that level.

When Papa Murphy’s sold its Project Pie stake last June it valued the 40 percent stake at $4.8 million and took a $2.7 million write-down on the transaction.

Transcripts from three depositions of Donald Trump associated with two Trump University lawsuits were released into the public court record late Wednesday.

Throughout the 651 pages, Trump is asked basic questions ranging from what university he attended, how he spells his name and if he owns a personal computer. The real estate magnate told questioners the shuttered for-profit school was "very important" to him, and said the man running the school called "once in a while" to discuss it and would introduce educators to him.

The depositions are associated with two different lawsuits being heard in San Diego federal court: Cohen v. Trump, a nationwide class action lawsuit, and Low v. Trump (formerly Makaeff v. Trump), a class action in California, Florida and New York. Another lawsuit is based in a New York court.

In the class action lawsuits, Trump University is accused of misleading students with unfulfilled promises of teaching them the secret to being successful in the real estate business. Trump denies the allegations in the lawsuits. His attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, has said Trump "will defend himself fully."

A trial has been set for November 28 in the Low v. Trump case and Trump has said he will be in court to testify. The court date comes weeks after the general election in which Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for president.

The video depositions of Trump were taken on three different days: September 12, 2012; December 10, 2015 and January 21, 2016. The 2012 deposition is associated with the Low v. Trump case, the other two with the Cohen v. Trump case. The depositions in the Cohen v. Trump case contain some redactions.

In one deposition, Trump says the lawsuits are trying to hurt the Trump brand, which he describes as being “worth a lot of money...I think there was an estimate done of over $3 billion or $3 billion for the value of the brand,” according to the transcripts.

In an email to NBC 7, Lisa Cohen, who represents the attorneys representing the plaintiffs in the lawsuits, said the attorneys do not have a comment on the transcripts or their release into the public record.

Attorneys representing Trump in the case did not return a request for comment.

Trump details in the depositions how he remembers the school bering run, saying Michael Sexton was running Trump University in 2012.

Sexton reported to him, Trump says, and would call him "once in a while," come up with meetings and introduce professors and educators to Trump. In one section of the transcript, he says Sexton had "limited" experience in buying and selling real estate and could not remember if he had ever run a school before, but described him as capable.

Sexton "ran the school," Trump says in the September deposition, after not being able to answer questions about what students received in return for paying $1,500 for its apprenticeship program and the Gold Elite program.

According to the transcript of the depositions, Trump University was “very important” to Trump.

“If I can impart knowledge to a person or a group of people so they can have better lives, that’s a very important thing to me. I like doing that,” he says.

In another deposition, Trump expresses the same feelings: "I thought it was something that was going to help people. I thought it was something where people learn. They could, they could, for a relatively small amount of money, they could learn something good."

Trump says he attended a Trump University seminar in Florida a couple of times and one or two in New York, according to the transcript. He says he was “very, very satisfied” with what he saw. He adds that he believes students could attend a 90-minute free class, learn techniques and then copy them to get rich.

When asked about the people who taught for Trump University, Trump says, “at a minimum, I’ve seen resumes, I met with instructors, but I also have seen resumes of many of them.”

In one deposition, Trump says the school did not have a business plan: “It wasn’t a big transaction for me. It wasn’t a make-or-break deal. It was just something that if we can educate people into the ways of real estate and finance, that’s a good thing…”

The transcript of the September 12 deposition has a contentious tone. In it, Trump says he has testified over 100 times, including in court hearings. At one point during the questioning, the attorneys representing both sides stop the video recording and call the judge to have him intervene and weigh in on questions being asked.

“I honestly look forward to winning this case and suing your law firm for as much as we can sue them for,” Trump tells Rachel Jensen, a representative for the plaintiffs and the person questioning Trump in the deposition. “We will be doing that. We have a 97 percent approval rating. Harvard doesn’t have a 97 percent approval rating. And we will be suing your law firm for as much as we can possibly do. That I can tell you.”

Trump also tells Jensen he will be suing her individually.

Early in the questioning, Jensen says, “just to be clear for today, Mr. Trump, one, I’m not here to harass you. I’m here to ask you questions about the case.”

Trump responds, “it seems like you are, but that’s okay.”

Similar exchanges continue. A couple of questions later, Jensen says, “really nothing personal, and I’m not here to harass you.”

“That’s okay. You asked me to spell my name, so I figured that’s a form of harassment...It’s okay. Nobody has ever done that before, ” Trump responds.

Jensen explains it is “just formalities in a deposition.” To that, Trump responds, “All the depositions I’ve taken, no one has ever asked me to spell my complete name.”

Toward the end of the September deposition, Trump asks Jensen to not lick her finger before giving him documents. "It's disgusting," he says.

Trump describes himself as a real estate expert and says, “I can’t imagine anybody being much more of an expert.”

The depositions have several references to politics including political figures Jeb Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Governors Rick Perry of Texas and George Pataki of New York.

In the most recently recorded deposition, when asked why throughout discovery in the case, the plaintiff's attorneys have not received any e-mails sent by or received from Trump, he responds, “unlike Hillary Clinton, I’m not a big e-mail fan."

According to the transcript, Trump told one of the plaintiff’s attorneys, “you want to always be friendly with politicians...I needed their support to get projects done.” 

In the deposition, Trump says he really didn’t think about it that much when he said “she (Hillary Clinton) would make a great president or vice president," but does now, “yeah, at the time I might have. I didn’t give it a lot of thought, because I was in business. And as a businessman, I think it was something I never really gave much thought to." Now, after seeing how she handled herself "she wouldn’t make a very good vice president or president," he says.

Click here to read the complete transcripts. 

The documents were released associated with the Low v. Trump case by the plaintiff’s attorneys. “Relevant excerpts” from depositions with Amy H. and Paula Levand, both former Trump University customers, were also released Wednesday. Amy H.’s deposition was taken on July 1, 2015, associated with the Cohen V. Trump case; Levand’s was taken on July 17, 2013, and is associated with the Low V. Trump case, according to court records.

Other documents related to the Trump University lawsuits have been released, sometimes after intervention from outside individuals, including the Washington Post, which argued to have several playbooks entered into the public court record.

Several media organizations, including NBC 7, are asking a judge to make the video of the depositions of Trump part of the public record. A hearing on that issue is set for July 13.

Other information included in the Trump deposition transcripts:

• Trump says he does not own a personal computer: “We have many computers in the corporation, but no, I don’t have a computer."
• When asked if he sent an email to Trump University students with a personal invitation to RSVP in 2006, Trump says he did not but it could be possible that somebody, like Sexton, sent it on his behalf.
• Trump says he does not remember seeing a letter from the New York Department of Education about the use of the word “university.” He said he thinks “there was a negotiation that went on for a period of time and then Mr. Sexton said rather than arguing about it, we’ll change the name. It wasn’t a big deal.”
• Trump says he would "sometimes" review advertisements and testimonials for the University but did not have "too much" involvement in the advertising and marketing for it. Trump also says he approved ads that said, "learn to invest like a billionaire," and mentioned he is "a billionaire, many times over."
• In one depositions in the Cohen v. Trump case, Trump says he has a great memory. A couple of questions later, he is unable to answer several questions including whether or not he knows certain individuals, because he says, "I don't remember. It's so long ago...Too many years."

Donald Trump insisted Thursday that Hillary Clinton’s private email server was hacked, but could not say where he learned the information. 

"I think I read that," Trump said. "And I heard it, and somebody--"

Trump was pressed for evidence to back up his claims during an interview with NBC Nightly News’ Lester Holt, which will air Thursday.

"—that also gave me that information. I will report back to you," Trump said.

Trump’s comments come after he argued that Clinton’s server, which she used as secretary of state, left her vulnerable to blackmail if she were president.

Clinton’s campaign said there is no evidence that her server was ever hacked. U.S. officials have also told NBC News there is no evidence anyone hacked into the server, although there was evidence of phishing attempts. 

A woman accused of pulling a gun on her barber because she was unhappy with her haircut will stand trial, a judge ruled Thursday. 

Adrian Blanche Swain, 29, is facing an attempted premeditated murder and the use of a firearm charge. She previously denied all allegations against her, pleading not guilty.

On Feb. 10, Swain visited the 619 Barber Shop in North Park for a haircut. She paid for the cut and gave her stylist, Manny Montero, a $20 tip after the service before leaving the shop. 

Montero testified Tuesday that Swain came back later with the side of her head shaved and pulled a gun on him. 

"And the only thing she said was, 'look what you did to me,'" Montero testified through an interpreter. 

"She pulled the trigger," he testified. "Nothing came out. And the next thing she said was, 'Do you think I’m kidding?'"

Swain allegedly pulled the trigger three times, but the gun did not fire because she had not racked a round into the chamber, according to Deputy District Attorney Makenzie Harvey.

"My immediate reaction was to hide behind the chair," Montero said. "Then she started walking toward the outside and that is the moment when I reacted. Next, I went and knocked her down. I called one of my friends, one of the barbers, so that he could help me release the gun from her hand."

According to Montero, Swain returned with a different haircut from the one she left with; when they saw her a second time, she had a bald spot on the side of her head which Montero said he did not give her.

Immediately, Montero and others in the shop tackled Swain and grabbed the gun from her, they told NBC 7.

A judge ruled there is enough evidence for Swain to stand trial.

She faces life in prison if convicted.

It's the second-to-last weekend of the San Diego County Fair and the calendar is jam-packed with fair fun. From live music to a spirits and cocktail festival, there are plenty of reasons to toast to the fair.

Friday, June 24

The Jacksons
7:30 p.m., Heineken Grandstand Stage
The Jacksons take the Heineken Grandstand Stage for a night of toe-tapping tunes including the band of brothers’ iconic hits, “ABC,” “I Want You Back” and “I’ll Be There.” Unreserved areas in the 3rd and 5th levels are free with paid fair admission. Tickets for reserved sections start at $16.

Blink-180TRUE
9 p.m., Coors Light Rock-On Stage
Blink-180TRUE pays tribute to the trio from Poway with this fun 21+ show at the Coors Light Rock-On Stage. It’s free with paid admission into the fair.

Saturday, June 25

Gospel Fair
10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Various Locations
The 12th annual Gospel Festival takes over the fairgrounds all day Saturday with uplifting gospel choirs and solo artists across five stages, including the 8 p.m. headline performance on the Heineken Grandstand Stage featuring Shirley Caesar. All concerts, in unreserved seats, are included with fair admission. You can purchase reserved tickets to Caesar’s concert, too, starting at $16.

Distilled: Spirits & Cocktails Festival
1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Paddock Green
Head to the Paddock Green for this 21+ festival on Saturday featuring 100+ samples of award-winning spirits and cocktails, including some rare, hard-to-find bottles. The fest will also include bartender competitions, food pairings, live music and a chance to mix and mingle at education presentations all about the art of distilling. General admission tickets are $38.

Who’s Bad
8 p.m., San Diego County Ford Dealers Paddock Stage
Michael Jackson fans, rejoice. Who’s Bad, a tribute band dedicated to the King of Pop, returns to the fair Saturday night with this lively performance. The show is free with paid admission into the fair. There is no reserved seating so get there early to snag a spot.

Sunday, June 26

Archery SoCal Showdown
11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Grandstand Seating Area
For the first time ever, the San Diego County Fair will host the 2016 Archery SoCal Showdown, a world-class competition that offers spectators a chance to see the best of the best just weeks before the Rio Olympics. Categories include both compound and recurve bow archery. The action starts at 11 a.m. sharp in the seating area in front of the Grandstand.

Tea Time in Wonderland
11 a.m. and 1 p.m., Sprigs & Spirits in the Paul Ecke Jr. Garden Show
Each Sunday, the fair will host two 90-minute sessions of “Tea Time in Wonderland” in the Paul Ecke Jr. Garden Show area. Inspired by the fair’s 2016 theme, patrons will enjoy a proper “Wonderland” tea party that includes a menu of Egg Salad Sandwiches, Quiche Lorraine, Curried Chicken Boursin Puff, as well as baked goodies like mini Orange-Raspberry Scones, Raspberry Linzer Cookies and Vanilla Cupcakes with Strawberry Icing. Food is accompanied by black, green and herbal teas, and lemonade. Tickets are $35, including fair admission. The 21+ crowd can make it a “Tipsy Tea” for $50, which includes bottomless champagne. Tea party guests will also get to make a fun hat to take home. Seating is limited to 48 people. Don’t be late for this important date!

Mixed Martial Arts
12 p.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., Paddock Green
Exciting mixed martial arts action returns to the fair. Watch the bouts at the Paddock Green at 12 p.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday.

Los Tigres Del Norte
7:30 p.m., Heineken Grandstand Stage
Norteño superstars Los Tigres Del Norte return to the San Diego County Fair for this Sunday night concert. Unreserved seating in the 3rd and 5th levels is free with fair admission. Reserved seating starts at $16 per person.

The Bacon Brothers
8 p.m., San Diego County Ford Dealers Paddock Stage
The Bacon Brothers – Michael Bacon and actor Kevin Bacon – bring their cool musical talents to the fair. You can check out the show for free in the standing area; reserved seats start at $22 per person. There’s also a VIP package available for $75, which includes cocktails at the Red Star Café and front row seats to the concert.

U.S. stocks closed more than 1 percent higher Thursday, on the heels of the U.K. vote to remain in the European Union, CNBC reported. 

The S&P 500 posted its highest close since June 9. Financial stocks, which are sensitive to the vote, gained 2.1 percent, leading all S&P 500 sectors higher.

The pound traded near $1.490, its highest since December. 

Polls closed in the U.K. at 5 p.m. ET, and the results are expected well after U.S. markets closed Thursday.

Dozens of immigrants and supporters protested in the streets of Phoenix Thursday against the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to block the president’s immigration plan, NBC News reported. 

The demonstration lasted more than an hour, with more than 60 people blocking the street outside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Phoenix office. 

Police moved in around noon, arresting four people who refused to obey orders to move out of the road. 

The court’s decision let stand a lower-court ruling that blocks two immigration programs that Obama announced last year to keep undocumented immigrants from deportation and allow them to legally work in the U.S. 

The decision is seen as a victory in 26 states, including Arizona, that filed a lawsuit challenging Obama’s immigration programs.

Bernie Sanders told a roaring crowd of supporters Thursday that his campaign is "just getting started" fighting economic inequality, changing the Democratic Party and bolstering Democrats running for Congress. 

Speaking to a packed hall in Manhattan, Sanders took something of a victory lap as he reviewed the states he won and the fact that many young people flocked to his campaign over presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's. He did not mention her name, let alone endorse her as leading Democrats have urged. 

"Our goal from day one has been to transform this nation and that is the fight we are going to continue," Sanders, his voice hoarse, told supporters who packed venue called The Town Hall near Times Square. "We have got to make sure that (Republican presidential candidate Donald) Trump is not president. But that is not good enough." 

The independent senator got standing ovations as he reviewed his campaign positions, from free health care to free college tuition and campaign finance reform. Sanders urged his supporters to keep fighting inequality and insisting on "forcing open the door" of the Democratic Party to allow working Americans, and not political elites, to run it. That was a not-subtle swipe at a party he complained rigged the nominating system in Clinton's favor. 

Clinton earlier this month clinched the delegates required to carry the Democrats' banner against likely GOP nominee Donald Trump. And Sanders this week acknowledged that he would not be the nominee. 

Sanders supporters, who lined up for several blocks in advance of the speech, were not eager to hear him endorse Clinton. 

Judi Gardner, of Huntington, N.Y., waited more than five hours to get into the hall for Sanders' speech. She's an elected delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and she's sticking with him through the event. 

"The political revolution is continuing, Gardner, 69, said. "This will not end here." 

Steve Favilla, 36, acknowledged the hall might fill up before he gets in. 

"I want the media to see the thousands of people who are out here knowing we won't get in and still showing our support for Bernie," Favilla, and electrician from Queens, said. 

Sanders has been signaling the transition of his movement from a presidential run to one aimed at bolstering likeminded Democratic candidates for Congress and offices up-and-down the ballot. 

He was traveling to Syracuse, N.Y., on Friday to hold a rally with congressional candidate Eric Kingson, who is seeking the Democratic nomination in next Tuesday's primary to challenge Republican Rep. John Katko. 

Sanders has raised about $2.5 million for several congressional and legislative candidates in recent weeks, sending out fundraising emails on behalf of liberals who could further Sanders' message. The Vermont senator has raised about $300,000 for both former Sen. Russ Feingold, who is trying to win back his old seat in Wisconsin, and Florida congressional candidate Tim Canova, who is challenging DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, area district.

AP Writers Ken Thomas and Laurie Kellman contributed to this report.

As crews work to contain the massive Border Fire, countless animals left temporarily homeless are reuniting with their owners.

Over the past several days, San Diego County Animal Control workers and the San Diego Humane Society have been scooping up wayward animals, including horses, chickens, donkeys, emus, dogs, sheep and rabbits, and keeping them at makeshift shelter locations.

On Thursday, many of them went home.

About 20 horses were picked up Thursday from a shelter set up at the Circle T Ranch.

Among them were seven horses belonging to Bill Butters of Campo. He said he was extremely grateful for the shelter.

And he would know: he actually opened up his own ranch as a shelter during the 2003 Cedar Fire.

“I used to be in emergency animal rescue and when I’ve gone on rescues and you only have 10 or 15 minutes to get out because the fire’s close…you usually have a problem,” he said.

The owner of Circle T Ranch, Lisa Lightfoot, said things at her makeshift shelter went smoothly. She credits Border Patrol officers, who for the first time took part in animal rescue efforts.

The officers shuttled supplies to animal owners, she said.

San Diego County Animal Services also on Thursday released photos of some of the rescued animals. Check out the gallery above.

With two citizens' initiatives involving a Chargers stadium aimed at the November election, San Diego voters may see a third measure on mail ballots, not long after.

The proposal calls for no taxpayer money to be spent.

The team has nothing to say about it publicly.

But the plan’s release Thursday by former city councilman and mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio prompted no immediate expectations that it will get traction at Chargers Park.

Or at 345 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. -- home office of the National Football League.

"The ball's now in the court of the mayor and City Council,” DeMaio told a media scrum outside the Registrar of Voters office in Kearny Mesa. “It's time that they 'Bolt Up', take to the field, and provide some leadership."

DeMaio and several real estate investors are touting a private-money-only approach to a new stadium and hotel, anchoring a $1.5 billion retail and entertainment center in East Village or on the Qualcomm Stadium site in Mission Valley.

Fans, citizens, and business firms would be offered "equity" investment opportunities.

The Sydney Opera House is the visual concept here.

“We want to build an iconic piece of art, so that it stands the test of time and only needs to be refreshed,” said Richard Neal McCay, a Newport Beach realty financier.

But the Chargers and NFL would be on the hook for nearly a third of the cost, with no seat license or naming rights income.

Bolts fan groups say the team's ownership, already invested in a well-researched project , won't take a flyer on DeMaio's scheme.

“It's just Looney Tunes,” said David Agranoff, a schoolteacher and co-founder of the “Save Our Bolts” organization. “The Spanos family, they still have L.A. on the table ... and if you think they're going turn down all this money in L.A. for a concept that takes money out of their pockets, it's just not realistic.”

So far, Councilman Scott Sherman is the city's only elected official sticking his neck out for the plan.

It also calls for money from the Port, San Diego State and U-C San Diego -- public entities that don't figure to make speculative investment decisions in a five-month time frame.