An Oceanside Chargers fan thought buying tickets directly from the team would guarantee a hassle-free game day, but when he showed up Sunday, he learned that was not the case.

Antonio Gutierrez and his girlfriend were refused entry to the game against the New England Patriots because his tickets had been resold on the NFL Ticket Exchange website.

Gutierrez had bought his tickets at a stadium gate seven months in advance. He said can afford just one Sunday at Qualcomm per season, and he made up his mind early on that that game would be against the Patriots.

“It was a Sunday night game, Chargers-Patriots, playoff teams, Rivers verses Brady. I was more than excited for this game,” Gutierrez said.

It only compounded the disappointment when Antonio and his girlfriend were turned away before first kickoff. The seats were already taken.

“I thought it was the most legitimate way to go. This is the first time buying them at the stadium,” Gutierrez said.

In an email, Chargers front office spokesman Bill Johnston wrote to NBC7, "Mr. Gutierrez's tickets were purchased at the Chargers ticket windows in May. They were later resold in September on NFL Ticket Exchange, by whom is unknown at this time.”

The NFL Ticket Exchange is a website which, by most accounts, is as legitimate a place to purchase seats as the gate.

"NFL Ticket Exchange will continue to investigate the incident in hopes of determining who may have fraudulently posted and resold his tickets on the site," Johnston wrote.

Gutierrez is concerned he may be a victim of his own excitement. Moments after purchasing them, he put this photo of the tickets on Pinterest.

While he blurred the barcode, somehow those numbers were used to duplicate the ticket, he said.

Now, Gutierrez is out $267, but the season is not a total loss.

“I definitely learned my lesson as far as the Chargers go. I love the Chargers; that is never going to change,” Gutierrez said.

He told NBC 7 he will buy his tickets at the gate again but will be more careful about who gets to see them.

Meantime, he is back on social media warning as many people as possible that posting pictures of tickets, no matter the event, could cost you your seat.

PC manufacturer Lenovo has recalled more than half a million laptop power cords because they can overheat, posing fire and burn hazards, according to the Consumer Product and Safety Commission.

About 500,000 cords in the U.S. and about 44,000 cords in Canada are being recalled market by the Chinese firm.

The recall involves Lenovo's LS-15 AC power cords included with IdeaPad brand B-, G-, S-, U-, V- and Z-series laptop computers and Lenovo brand B-, G- and V-series laptops.

They cords were manufactured from February 2011 to December 2011.

The recall comes after reports of 15 incidents involving overheating, sparking, melting and burning. No injuries have been reported.

Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled power cords and contact Lenovo for a replacement free of charge. The laptops can continue to be used on battery power.

Consumers can reach Lenovo at (800) 426-7378 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or online at www.lenovo.com.
 

The House approved on Tuesday a bill designed to give state and federal agencies authority to move more water in coming months to California's drought-stricken farm belt.

GOP lawmakers used their majority to pass the bill by a 230-182 vote. Six Democratic lawmakers joined Republicans in supporting the legislation. However, the Senate is not expected to take up the measure before adjourning for the year, meaning lawmakers will likely have to start over on the issue next year.

Opponents called the bill a water-grab designed to help farmers at the expense of others, particularly the state's salmon industry. White House advisers had recommended to President Barack Obama that he veto the bill if it reached his desk.

The state is suffering from its third year of drought, and GOP lawmakers in the House have complained that environmental protections designed to protect fish and wildlife have exacerbated the water shortage in the state's San Joaquin Valley. The bill would increase water exports to the region. The House had already passed a drought relief measure in February. This time, GOP lawmakers pursued a bill that's much closer to what Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer helped pass in their chamber, which focused on giving government agencies more authority to move water around for irrigation and other purposes. The GOP abandoned previously-passed language that had called for agencies to move more water to the region without regard to the Environmental Species Act and other protections.

"The people in the Central Valley are living through a disaster, and this measure provides the temporary relief they need," said House Speaker John Boehner after the vote. "This relief doesn't just help Californians. It helps every business and every household that counts on California agriculture."

With Boxer and Feinstein opposing the bill, it's not expected to go anywhere after Tuesday's vote. Still, the debate gives the GOP another opportunity to remind the state's San Joaquin Valley which political party has tried to take steps to help them. The water issue did not play well for Democratic lawmakers from the region during the latest election season, although the party's incumbents did manage to win midterm races that turned out to be more competitive than expected.

The debate took on familiar arguments with lawmakers from the Central Valley arguing for sending more water to the region, and opponents from other regions arguing that their constituents would be harmed.

"Everybody in this state is paying a price for this drought, but now, in the eleventh hour of this Congress, this group of farmers, these very powerful, small people ... have decided they are going to do it this way," said Democratic Rep. George Miller in Monday's hourlong debate on the bill.

"This is about San Francisco and Los Angeles getting all of their water and never giving us one drop," countered Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, who is from the region.

Democratic congressman Jim Costa sided with Republicans in the vote. He narrowly won re-election with many voters upset about a lack of action in Washington on water issues.

"We have been here before, and we will be here again until Congress acts to provide authority for increased operational flexibility for California's water projects," said Costa, also from the region. "The situation this year has been devastating, and if we do nothing, next year it will become catastrophic."

More than 99 percent of California remains in moderate or worse drought despite recent rains and snow.

An Escondido teen has been arrested after police say he intentionally caused a crash that killed another teen Friday night and then fled the scene.

The teens did not know each other, but met at a party that night and got into some type of fight "that spilled into the roadway," said Escondido Police Lt. Neal Griffin.

Juan Rebollar, 18, was arrested and booked in the Vista Detention Facility on suspicion of murder.

Escondido police said they were called to a serious crash in the area of James Street and East Valley Parkway just before midnight last Friday.

Officers found that a Toyota pickup truck had crashed into a pillar and the driver, rendered unconscious, suffered major injuries, according to a news release from the Escondido Police Department.

The driver, 19-year-old Jose de Jesus Garcia of Escondido, was rushed to Palomar Medical Center, where he later died.

Officers determined that a second vehicle had been involved in the crash and the driver left the scene before they arrived.

Police said they located that vehicle and traced the ownership to Rebollar. In an interview with investigators, Rebollar said he had been driving in the area of Bear Valley Parkway and Valley Parkway when police said he was involved in a disturbance with Garcia.

The two drivers engaged in a "cat-and-mouse" race with speeds reaching 100 mph, Griffin said.

That 's when police said Rebollar intentionally struck the pickup with his own vehicle. This caused Garcia to lose control of his pickup, leading to the crash into the pillar, police said.

Alcohol is believed to be involved, but there were no signs it was gang related, Griffin said.

Rebollar will make his first appearance in court on Wednesday.

If you are looking to rent an apartment in San Diego County it’s likely you know two things – they are tough to find and they are expensive.

In a recent report from the San Diego County Apartment Owners Association, the vacancy rate for the region was at 2.3 percent. That number was down from 4.1 percent a year ago at this time.

The average cost for all rentals is $1,321 a month according to the survey. The average rent for a three-bedroom or larger apartment is $1,848.

With costs like this, it may be time to buy according to NBC 7’s business reporter George Chamberlin.

“With the tax benefits and low interest rates it might be much more affordable than renting an apartment,” Chamberlin said.

In the South Bay, the vacancy rate drop is even greater with a current 2.4 percent, down from 5.6 percent last year.

Renters in the East County are looking at a 2.3 percent vacancy rate, down from 3.7 and those in the North County are also seeing a drop in available units with the vacancy rate at 2.5 percent, down from 4.4 percent.
 

Hundreds of high school students will take to the streets Downtown Wednesday to rally for the continuation of a free transit pass program that they say is endangered.

At 2:30, students will rally at San Diego High School before marching together with parents down through Park Boulevard to the Metropolitan Transit System building for a press conference.

The Youth Opportunity Pass program was created three years ago to help the city’s youth with their limited access to jobs, after-school activities and connections to other communities.

The funding has been significantly reduced since its inception, spokeswoman Emily Serafy Cox of Mid-City Community Advocacy Network said in a written release, and the future of the program is in jeopardy.

"The transit pass provided for me by my school is critical to my success,” Thong Hoang, a 17-year-old Hoover High School student, said. “I want to make sure the program doesn't die and that other students can have access to transit.”

Once the students and parents reach the MTS building downtown, they will present a poster signed by all rally attendees with those demands to officials. MTS officials will also be invited up to speak and respond.

The rally is organized by the Mid-City CAN Improving Transportation in City Heights Momentum Team of Mid-City CAN. Residents formed the group in 2011 following their increased frustration with poor public transit options in San Diego.

Los Angeles police have asked to interview boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. following reports that he may have spoken to Earl Warren Hayes before the rapper killed his wife, then himself.

Detective Scott Masterson said Tuesday that Hayes and actress Stephanie Moseley had recently gotten back together.

The detective says Moseley, who'd appeared on the TV series "Hit the Floor," called relatives last week to say things were going well.

But police said on Monday, Hayes shot her and himself in their Fairfax-area apartment.

Hayes was an acquaintance of the professional boxer.

The bodies of Hayes, 34, and Moseley, 30, were found inside an apartment at the Palazzo complex in the 300 block of Hauser Boulevard and Park La Brea around 7:30 a.m. Monday, police said.

Moseley was Canadian and had moved to Los Angeles from her birthplace of Vancouver in 2004. Moseley's Internet movie database site said she appeared in a comedy, "The Best Thanksgiving Ever," which is due for release in 2015, and appeared throughout 2014 in the VH1 reality series "Hit the Floor."

The couple were married in 2008.

NBC4 Wire Services contributed to this report.

Protesters interrupted the inauguration for the San Diego City Councilmembers on Wednesday.

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As incoming Councilman Chris Cate and returning members David Alvarez, Myrtle Cole and Lorie Zapf were sworn in, protesters stood on the sidelines with their hands up in protest.

Approximately two dozen protesters were outside Golden Hall before the 10 a.m. ceremony chanting "I can't breathe" and "Hands up, don't shoot."

The language refers to the Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the July death of Eric Garner while being taken into custody by the NYPD. Grand jury decisions in both communities have prompted protests around the country including a violent one just Tuesday night in the Bay Area.

Inside Golden Hall, the protesters were silent. They stood with their hands up at times and then would grasp their necks. Occasionally as a group, the protesters would lay down on the floor. 

It was not clear if the councilmembers addressed the protesters during their inauguration speeches.

San Diego Police told NBC 7 the protesters were from various colleges in San Diego. Officers were expecting a larger crowd.

Check back for update on this developing story. 

Time magazine's Person of the Year are the Ebola Fighters. 

Time's editor Nancy Gibbs announced the pick on NBC's "Today" show on Wednesday and revealed multiple versions of the cover — each highlighting a different Ebola fighter. Those featured were Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantly, Dr. Jerry Brown, nurse aide and survivor Salome Karwah, MSF volunteer health promoter Ella Watson-Stryker, and ambulance team supervisor and survivor Foday Galla.

Gibbs said the magazine selected the Ebola Fighters "because this was the worst outbreak in history and while officials were in denial and very slow to respond these men and women did a hard and dangerous work of treating patients and protecting the rest of us."

Brantly, medical missions adviser for Samaritan's Purse and the first American to contract the virus, said on "Today" that being included was "just a huge honor."

"It’s fitting that we acknowledge that most Ebola fighters and certainly those who paid the highest price for their service are themselves West Africans," he said.

As the disease continues to ravage West Africa the doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and first responders have been on the front lines working to stop the epidemic from spreading further.

"This is not simply a historic event that we’re looking back on, but its’ still happening right now," Brantly said. "Ebola fighters are not just people who did something brave and courageous, they are still in the trenches fighting that war as we speak."

"Today" viewers shared Time’s opinion, voting for the Ebola caregivers by a large margin via “likes” on "Today's" Facebook page.

Last year Pope Francis was named Time's Person of the Year for shifting the message of the Catholic Church from one of doctrine to that of service, making it the third time a Pope was featured on the list.

Before announcing the 2014 Person of the Year Gibbs revealed its final eight contenders on Monday. The list included Russian President Vladimir Putin, Taylor Swift, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Ferguson protesters.

The top pick goes to the person or a group who, according to Time editors, has had the biggest impact  on the news this year, in a positive or in a negative way.

Past recipients have included President Barack Obama in 2012 and 2008, Mark Zuckerberg, Mahatma Gandhi, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, and "You."

El Cajon is considering equipping its officers with body cameras following a nationwide trend among police agencies that’s gathered steam in recent weeks after the grand jury decisions in Ferguson and New York.

On Tuesday night, the city council voted to allow staff to research what it would take to obtain and implement the new equipment.

The cameras could cost the city $75,000 and, if approved, could be rolled out in 90 days once the council conducts a series of public meetings.

City spokeswoman Monica Zech said the city will now research specific camera makers and exact prices, as well as rules that surround using them. The staff will present their findings at the council's second meeting in January.

El Cajon City Councilor Gary Kendrick said the body cameras would promote transparency among police officers and would cut down on the number of complaints against officers.

“I think it’s money well spent to ensure public safety,” Kendrick said.

Some other cities in San Diego County have already implemented the cameras. San Diego police rolled out their cameras in June and Chula Vista police introduced theirs last month.

Elsewhere, a number of metropolitan area police agencies have starting using them and, according to preliminary studies, it’s led to dramatic declines in both use of force by police officers as well as citizen complaints against officers.

San Diego businessman Mark Arabo said he’s pushing for El Cajon police to start wearing the cameras and also is lobbying legislators for a statewide mandate that would equip all officers in California with body cameras.

“It ensures transparency and accountability,” he said. “Hopefully, it will save lives and ensure police officers are and the public is safe.”

A San Diego State University student has been arrested in connection to a reported sexual assault.

Francisco Paiva Sousa was arrested on charges of oral copulation with force and false imprisonment with force, according to campus police.

The alleged assault was reported on Dec. 7 and happened in the 5000 block of College Avenue.

Sousa is being held at the San Diego County Jail, police said, and is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.

The arrest comes on the same day as a protest against the university’s handling of sexual assault on campus. There have been more than a dozen reported sexual assaults since the school year started, and students say SDSU isn’t doing enough.

"I personally think about it every time I walk by myself at night," one student said.

"Where has President Hirshman been? If the campus is really trying to change what's going on, where is he? He has time to go to a 'Les Mis' concert on Sunday but doesn't have time to meet with us," said another.

SDSU Title IX Coordinator Jessica Rentto admits the university needs to do a better job communicating its actions to students.

"I don't want you to think we're sitting here thinking that everything we do is perfect. We're constantly challenging how we do things and looking to see if there is a better way," Rentto said.

Last month, the SDSU Greek community voluntarily suspended all social activities after fraternity members allegedly threw eggs at the protesters during a march to end sexual violence.

Editor's Note: Campus police originally reported the alleged assault happened at a fraternity house. Police later said the incident happened in the 5000 block of College Avenue. We have made the correction.

San Diego Unified School District trustees unanimously approved moving its schools and more than 132,000 students to a traditional schedule over the next few years.

The district voted Tuesday to implement the first phase that will move year-round schools onto the traditional schedule. The transition will continue until all schools follow one district-wide calendar.

In a separate matter considered Tuesday, the board discussed two proposals to change the school year's start date to either August or Sept 8. However, several parents at the meeting expressed frustration about not being informed about the potential date change.

Instead, the board voted to maintain the status quo -- Sept. 8 -- for the start of the 2015-16 school year and accept public comment on the issue. They will meet again within 90 days to discuss a possible change for the 2016-17 year.

“There was no outreach,” said parent Heather Worms who was upset a task force focusing on the calendar changes hasn’t shared information so parents can make an informed decision.

“The calendar committee actually voted not to survey parents. They chose not to ask the people they supposedly represent. And I have a real issue with that.”

According to the meeting agenda, a recent phone survey conducted in November suggests 45 percent of the 31,000 homes polled preferred Sept. 8 as a start date.

Click here for proposed calendar with Aug. 31 start date

Click here for calendar with Sept. 8 start date

At first, 15 schools will shift including Dewey, Ericson, Farb, Hancock, Hardy, Jerabek, Johnson, Mason, Miller, Porter, Sequoia, Tierrasanta, Valencia Park and Walker elementaries, and Knox Middle School.

One principal told NBC 7 a common traditional school year is helpful to military families whose children often miss the end of the school year when their parents get moving orders.

An SUV crashed into the roof of a home in Escondido, California, Wednesday with such force it felt like an earthquake, the homeowner said.

George Strother told NBC 7 his morning started with a bang.

It was 12:23 a.m. when a satellite radio company called Escondido police reporting an airbag deployment inside an SUV on Hubbard Place.

Strother said he and his wife heard a pounding at their door moments later. Police officers were trying to wake the couple to make sure everyone inside the one-story home was okay.

Strother said his wife thought she felt an earthquake but when they both walked into their garage they saw the damage.

“The first thing we saw, the BMW that had come through the roof had landed on the hood of our Pathfinder and had pushed it back into the garage door, which had buckled the door,” Strother said.

Strother, who is a photographer, grabbed his camera and took these images.

Officers jumped on top of the Pathfinder and peered into the BMW SUV to check on the condition of the driver but found no one there.

Using the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department helicopter, law enforcement officers searched homes around the area for any sign of an injured person. No hospitals reported anyone seeking medical care for a vehicle crash.

On top of that, there were no witnesses to the collision.

A building inspector and tow truck driver were called out to begin the cleanup.

The homeowner believes that from the tire marks it appears the driver was heading downhill on Hubbard Avenue when the vehicle went right off the sidewalk, flew through trees and several yards in the air.

The SUV could’ve gone into the kitchen but Strother said he and his wife were never in danger.

“Our bedroom is at the extreme other end of the house so we were way out of range,” Strother said.

“He picked about the best spot.”
 

Christmas trees are coming in truck by truck for one special annual event.

Members of the military will be lining up around the block to pick up their free Christmas trees Wednesday afternoon. Trees for Troops and Lincoln Military Housing are teaming up Wednesday for the 10th annual Christmas Tree Giveaway for military families.

Families who pre-registered for the event will be able to pick out a tree at the Community Services Office on Wellington Way near Genesee Avenue starting at 3:00 p.m. Event organizers are expecting more than 200 vehicles to line up to pick up their trees.

Lincoln Military Housing employees will be volunteering to help families with picking their tree and securing it to their car. As families wait in their car to pick up the tree, Lincoln will provide entertainment, snacks, water, holiday music, and holiday gifts for children.

Similar events nationwide are delivering more than 16,000 farm-grown Christmas Trees to all branches of the military. The event is sponsored by the Christmas SPIRIT Foundation and FedEx.

Local San Diegan Jason Lappies was as healthy as ever when he laid down on his couch June 26 to watch a World Cup soccer match.

Hours later, his roommate came home to find his dead body on the couch of their apartment. He was young and healthy, and there were no warning signs, his mother said in a press release.

The mystery of the healthy 31-year-old’s unexplained death is one of many each year that a new clinical study hopes to unravel. A dozen or more of these deaths occur annually in San Diego County, the medical examiner said Wednesday.

Lappies was the first participant in the Molecular Autopsy Study, a collaborative study that brings researchers at the Scripps Translational Science Institute together with the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office to solve such deaths using genomics, or a type of molecular biology that focuses on the structure and evolution of genomes.

The institute has teamed up with the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office to sequence the genomes of adults, children, and infants in the county whose deaths, most likely a result of health failure, have not been explained using traditional medical investigative methods.

Following these unexplained and sudden deaths, family members often wonder if something similar could affect them.

“This may turn out to be important not only for family members to know if they are at risk and need to take preventive steps, but also for the public to avoid such catastrophes in young people,” said STSI Director Eric Topol, M.D., who also is chief academic officer of Scripps Health.

The study hopes to enroll up to 100 primary study participants and, with consent, their biological family members. Participants, initially identified by the Medical Examiner’s staff, must be 45 years or younger and must not have any history of excessive drug use, alcohol abuse, morbid obesity, heart disease or any other serious medical conditions.

Researchers are looking into the possibility of expanding the project to other county medical examiner departments in California in addition to other regions in the county.

“In individuals with early unexplained sudden death, genome sequencing has the ability to uncover rare conditions with difficult-to-detect symptoms that are invisible to standard physical autopsy,” said Ali Torkamani, director of genomic informatics and drug discovery at STSI. “We hope that if a rare life-threatening genetic condition is detected, life-saving interventions may be indicated in living relatives.”

Officials will use the findings of the study to develop preventative screening programs and potentially life-saving interventions for relatives of study participants and others.

A 22-year-old demonstrator has been accused of punching two police officers during last week’s protests of a Staten Island grand jury’s decision to not indict a police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

Yotameli Sayer was charged Wednesday with resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, disorderly conduct and multiple counts of assault after officers in Union Square and at the Staten Island Ferry terminal in lower Manhattan were both sucker-punched Thursday night, authorities say. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment and his lawyer declined to comment.

Sayer, of Bushwick, was arrested after the officer in Union Square was punched at about 10:30 p.m., the NYPD says.

After arresting the man, officers were able to link Sayer to the punching at the ferry terminal about two hours earlier, the NYPD says.

Police officer Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD cop seen in widely circulated amateur video wrapping his arm around Garner's neck as the heavyset, asthmatic 43-year-old yelled, "I can't breathe!", nearly a dozen times while gasping for air during the July 17 confrontation in Tompkinsville, met Wednesday with the department's internal affairs investigators looking into the case.

Pantaleo's attorney Stuart London told NBC 4 New York the investigators questioned Pantaleo for about two hours as they probe whether department policy was violated in the case. Pantaleo and the police union have said he did not use a chokehold, which is forbidden under NYPD policy, while taking Garner into custody, but a takedown tactic taught by the department.

The meeting comes one week after a grand jury decided not to indict the officer on criminal charges in Garner's death. The deliberative body delivered a vote of "no true bill," which determined there was not probable cause that a crime of criminally negligent homicide or manslaughter -- the two charges NBC 4 New York was told the jury was given to consider -- was committed by Pantaleo. 

Los Angeles fire officials have "beefed up" the team of investigators looking into what may have caused a massive fire at an under-construction apartment building in downtown Los Angeles.

Investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms joined Los Angeles Fire Department and LAPD teams on Wednesday to begin looking into the cause of Monday morning's fire, which is estimated to have caused tens of millions of dollars in damage.

LAFD Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas said the investigation, which could take weeks or months, is not being treated as a criminal investigation, but officials are "have not ruled anything out yet."

"Upon (firefighters) leaving their corridors which is literally across the street, this structure was heavily involved in fire," Terrazas said. "That's unusual, to have that much fire all at the same time."

A specially trained Labrador named Major will help investigators by searching in the destruction for ignitable liquids that may have spread the flames. Officials are hoping a rainstorm approaching the region won't hamper their efforts.

Flames consumed the seven-story, wood-framed structure and radiated enough heat to shatter the windows of office towers on Figueroa Street, reaching inside to melt computers onto desks. The LADWP building had cracks in at least 160 of its 10-by-4-foot windows.

"We beefed up the team a little bit as a result of the magnitude and size of the scene," ATF Special Agent in Charge Carlos Canino said during a news conference Wednesday.

"You can see, it's a city block burned to the ground," Canino said. "With that, we're all in ... All hands on deck."

Canino said response teams called the fire a "seven to an eight" on a scale from one to 10.

"If we need to bring people in from all over the country, we will," Canino said. "We will spare no expense. We will leave no stone unturned in there. We want to get to the bottom of this."

Chargers cornerback Brandon Flowers love animals. He wants everyone to know in his new anti-fur campaign with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

"I wanted to get involved with (PETA) because first off, I'm an animal lover," Flowers said. “"I have a dog. And I couldn't imagine someone just taking my dog's fur or skinning my dog alive or killing him just to be selfish. And get his fur just for an accessory.”

He’s part of the organization’s new ad campaign, talking about his personal experiences, including his dog, named Pup.

“I know, that’s an original name,” he said, laughing. “I play with him all day. He's just so happy to see you every time you come in the house."

He shows off his tattoo that says “Ink, Not Mink.”

Flowers joins a growing list of NFL players to align with PETA, including Le’Veon Bell, Terrell Suggs, Stevie Johnson and Maurice Jones-Drew.

Everything’s a bit sunnier in California.

Glassdoor released its list of the 50 best places to work and a number of Golden state-based companies made the cut.

Google was listed as the No. 1 place to work in 2015; the web giant is also atop a similar list for the United Kingdom, according to the website that allows employees to post anonymous reviews of their employers.

Notably from our neck of the United States, IN-N-Out Burger came in at No. 8 and Facebook ranked at No. 13.

For the local job seekers, San Diego was represented in the list: Qualcomm was ranked No. 14 and NBC Universal came in at No. 31 (it's headquartered in New York but has offices in San Diego as well as Los Angeles and the Bay area.)

Of Qualcomm, one reviewer wrote: “The salary is above average and Qualcomm is among the high-paying companies. The benefits are really awesome. You get full health care coverage with very little copay.”

The ratings were determined based on reviews by employees participating in a survey conducted between November 2013 and November of this year.

You can check out the full list here.

The grandparents of a La Costa Heights Elementary School student are demanding additional training and an apology from school officials after a dispute over the use of the Bible in class.

Noah McMahon, a special needs student with Down syndrome, has attended the school since 2009 under an individualized education program.

In November, his grandparents Craig and Lori Nordal asked his teachers to allow Noah to bring his Bible for his reading period.

The Nordals say their grandson was denied the ability to read his Bible in class.

The Encinitas Union School District Superintendent Timothy B. Baird has denied the allegation.

After several weeks, the issue has been resolved and Noah has been able to bring the Bible in for independent reading.

However, his grandparents say they want to see teachers trained on First Amendment rights and are demanding an apology from the district.

“How EUSD has handled this situation has set a very poor example for the more than 5,000 students in the district,” the couple says in a letter from the National Center for Law and Policy, a conservative nonprofit law firm. “As public servants, EUSD should do the right thing here and apologize.”

Baird said that at no time did any staff member deny Noah the right to bring the Bible to school and read it during free time.

Instead, Baird says the grandparents were asking the teacher to use the Bible as a main teaching tool, which the district told them they could not do because the book did not fall into the specific curricular tools used for Noah’s educational goals.

The district said it's unsure why this continues to be an issue and released a statement saying in part, "Noah was able to bring his Bible to school and read it during free choice reading time."

"He has always had this right and continues to have this right," the statement reads.

The NCLP memo demands an apology be issued within 10 days and training be administered to staff within 90 days.

This is not the first legal dispute between the National Center for Law and Policy and the EUSD.

Last year, the center filed a civil rights lawsuit against the district’s city-wide yoga curriculum, calling it “inherently and pervasively religious.” A San Diego judge later ruled in favor of the EUSD, but it is currently being appealed.