The County Health and Human Services Agency reported another eight people in San Diego lost their lives to the flu, bringing the season total to 62 flu-related deaths.

More people have died from the flu this year than the same time last year, according to the agency. At this time last year, 58 people had died, but 70 lost their lives to the illness for all of the 2013-2014 season.

There were 65 deaths the year before that, they said, making the last three flu seasons the deadliest since the agency began keep track.

According to HHSA, 4 percent of emergency room trips were for flu-like illness, down from 6 percent the week before. There were 330 confirmed cases of the flu in the county this week, down nearly 50 percent from 644 the prior week.

County Public Health Officer Wilma Wooten, M.D., M.P.H. said the flu cases seem to be dropping, but prevention is still the best attack.

“While influenza activity appears to be decreasing, people should continue to take precautionary measures to avoid getting sick,” Wooten said. “Most people recuperate from the flu easily, but in some cases influenza can be deadly.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the best way to prevent the flu is to get vaccinated. They suggest everyone over six months old should get a flu shot annually, especially those with chronic medical conditions such as asthma or lung disease, pregnant women and elderly people over the age of 65 years old.

Those who live with or take care of high-risk people should also get a flu shot.

For information on where to get vaccinated, click here or call 211.

A man in the Sacramento area won't take down the swastika displays outside of his house despite vocal opposition from neighbors and a national anti-hate group.

Large swastikas dotting Israeli and American flags were spotted draped over the front of the home at 3805 Moddison Avenue in Sacramento's River Park neighborhood, according to NBC affiliate KCRA.

A structure of what appears to be a man in Army green holding his hands up, along with a Palestinian flag, also dot the display. Christmas lights are strung over the display so that it's highly visible at night. 

Seth Brysk, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League in San Francisco, told NBC Bay Area that displaying an Isaeli flag with a swastika likely implies that the homeowner is comparing staunch Israel supporters to Nazis. He called the display "repugnant."

"Such a gratuitous and offensive display of swastikas has no place in Sacramento or anywhere else," Brysk said, adding that while the consitution guarantees freedom of speech and expression there is no place for "bigoted and anti-Semitic expressions like these."

Residents of the River Park neighborhood told KCRA on Tuesday that they’ve asked the unidentified homeowner to take down the swastikas. But the homeowner refused and called the flags his art, the news station reported. The homeowner also refused to speak with KCRA about why he had swastikas in front of his house. 

Separate public displays involving anti-Jewish imagery have been posted recently in the nearby city of Davis, though for seemingly different reasons.

On Jan 30, a Jewish fraternity at UC Davis was vandalized with swastikas.

A week prior, at a separate Jewish organization on the UC Davis campus, a janitor found anti-Jewish graffiti in a toilet stall. The city of Davis police department is investigating both incidents as hate crimes.

Three Brooklyn men who allegedly plotted to travel to Syria to join ISIS and posted online messages about planting a bomb on Coney Island and shooting police officers were taken into custody during FBI terror raids Wednesday, authorities said.

The men, 24- and 30-year-old Uzbekistan citizens and a 19-year-old Kazakhstan citizen who all lived in Brooklyn, allegedly planned to return to New York to commit a domestic act of terror if they failed to join the group overseas, law enforcement officials said.

The youngest man, identified in a criminal complaint as Akhror Saidakhmetov, allegedly posted on an Uzbek-language website in the last six months that he would buy a machine gun and shoot police officers and FBI agents if his plan to join ISIS was thwarted. In August, 24-year-old suspect Abdurasul Hasanofvich Juraboev posted on the board that he would kill President Obama if ISIS asked him to and asked for help getting weapons, according to the complaint.

He also said he would plant a bomb on Coney Island if the terror group asked, the complaint said. 

Law enforcement officials say any potential homegrown threat was aspirational, not operational, but authorities moved in because they believed the suspects' plans to travel abroad were imminent and their alleged intent to join ISIS real. Agents had been tracking the men for about eight months.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said the suspects made statements that indicated their intent to carry out a domestic attack -- specifically by attacking police officers -- if they couldn't join ISIS.

“This is real," the police commissioner said. "This is the concern about the lone wolf inspired to act without ever going to the Mideast -- or the concern of once they get to the Mideast, acquire fighting skills, capabilities and then attempting to return to the country."

Court documents highlight the extent of the suspects' alleged intentions. In a recorded conversation in January, Saidakhmetov told an FBI informant he would "just go and buy a machine gun, AK-47, go out and shoot all police," if he could not get travel documents to Syria, according to the complaint.

"We will go and purchase one handgun ... then go and shoot one police officer. Boom ... Then, we will take his gun, bullets and a bulletproof vest ... then, we will do the same with a couple of others. Then we will go to the FBI headquarters, kill the FBI people," Saidakhmetov said, according to the complaint. 

Saidakhmetov was arrested early Wednesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport, where he was attempting to board a flight to Istanbul. Juraboev had already bought a plane ticket to Istanbul from New York and was scheduled to leave March 29. According to the complaint, the 30-year-old suspect Abror Habibov, operated a domestic support network that helped fund Saidakhmetov's efforts to join ISIS abroad. Habibov operates kiosks that sell kitchenware and repair mobile phones in retail malls in several states; he employed Saidakhmetov last fall and winter.

Last week, Saidakhmetov called his mother to ask for his passport, and when she asked him where he was going, he said, "If a person has a chance to join Islamic State and does not go there, on judgment day he will be asked why, and that it is a sin to live in the land of infidels," according to the complaint. Around the same time, federal agents observed Saidakhmetov and Habibov arrive at a Coney Island Avenue travel agency. That was when Saidakhmetov bought the ticket to Istanbul. 

Frank Cakir, the travel agent who sold Saidakhmetov the ticket, said the 19-year-old seemed young, "like a kid, not even an adult." Cakir said the suspect spoke English well and seemed calm. He only spent five to 10 minutes in the travel agency and bought a ticket to Istanbul on Ukraine Airlines. Federal officials say Habibov waited outside for Saidakhmetov and the two left in a car together. 

Cakir said there was "nothing unusual about him." He said he was shocked to learn the young man was allegedly trying to join ISIS, and that his hands hadn't stopped shaking. 

All three suspects have been charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a terror group, officials said. Juraboev and Saidakhmetov appeared in Brooklyn court later Wednesday, and were each ordered held without bail, with U.S. Attorney Douglas Pravda arguing that the suspects "present a flight risk and pose a threat to the community." 

Habibov had an additional court appearance in Florida. If convicted, each man faces up to 15 years in prison.

Saidakhmetov's attorney says his client was a "young, innocent kid." Juraboev's attorney didn't comment.

"We all take the threat of ISIS very seriously The vigilance levels that we maintain every day are our best shield," Mayor de Blasio said. "We are going to continue to deepen our anti-terrorism capacity. A lot of what we are trying to do is not only making sure we have the number of officers on anti-terror duty that we need, the training, the equipment, but that we are constantly deepening our relationship with communities all over the city so that there is a flow of information."

The mayor referred questions about the Brooklyn investigation to the FBI.

“The defendants looked to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, by flying to Turkey in a vain attempt to evade detection. And several of the defendants planned to commit acts of terror here—in America—if they could not travel, to include killing FBI agents," FBI Assistant Director in Charge Diego Rodriguez said in a statement. " The defendants violated the true tenants of their faith in pursuit of their radical, violent agenda. We rely on help from the community, the public and religious leaders to be mindful of those who could be radicalized. We cannot do this alone.”

The Brooklyn arrests come about a month after an audio recording purportedly released by ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani urged supporters to carry out lone wolf attacks. The message was posted on Twitter and jihadi forums. Intelligence analysts said the recording, which praised recent attacks in France, Australia, Canada and Belgium, appeared to be authentic, NBC News reported.

In September, members of online ISIS message boards encouraged similar "lone wolf" attacks on Times Square and other high-profile locations around the U.S. using homemade explosives. Bratton said at the time there was no credible information pointing to any terror plot against the city, though security was stepped up as a precautionary measure.

The NYPD routinely enhances security based on threats or terror acts overseas, but the additional measures are in line with standard police procedure and not a response to a specific threat.

Such potential "lone wolf" threats as the ones mentioned in the purported January ISIS recording were a particular focus of a November NYPD counterterrorism conference, and Bratton said the department is investing more time and resources in monitoring extremist-influenced websites and social media.

In September, federal authorities in upstate New York charged a Rochester-area man with terror-related charges after they say he alleged tried to buy guns to support ISIS and boasted about wanting to kill American soldiers.

ISIS is notorious for using message boards and social media to lure recruits. Authorities are continuing to look for three missing London schoolgirls believed to have left home to join the terror group; authorities believe they have already crossed into Syria.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for killing several American hostages, including journalists James Foley, Steven Sotloff and aid worker Peter Kassig. Another captive American, 26-year-old aid worker Kayla Mueller, was confirmed dead on Feb. 10, four days after ISIS claimed she had been killed in an airstrike in Syria. 

-Pete Williams and Michael George contributed to this report

The starving dog found inside a zipped suitcase outside a Bronx apartment building is showing signs of recovery at the animal hospital where he's being treated, officials say. 

The 3-year-old pit bull mix, since named Fraggle, was so badly malnourished and in poor health that doctors had to administer life-saving medical treatment after he was found in the Melrose Housing Development at 700 Morris Ave. on Jan. 22. 

One month later, Fraggle has started to eat on his own and can even walk small distances without help, according to the ASPCA. 

It's a miraculous recovery given that he was perilously close to death when he was found, according to ASPCA Anti-Cruelty Group Senior Director Howard Lawrence.

"Fraggle would likely not have survived much longer in the suitcase given his fragile state," said Lawrence. "This was a deliberate and callous act of cruelty that deserve justice."  

Fraggle will continue to recover at the ASPCA Hospital. In the meantime, a reward of $22,000 is still being offered by both the ASPCA and the NYPD for information leading an arrest and conviction in the case.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS. 

The lawyer for the truck driver arrested in the Southern California commuter train crash said his client "did the best he could" to free his truck from the tracks and run for help in the moments before the train barreled into it and derailed injuring 28 people.

Attorney Ron Bamieh said his client, Jose Alejandro Sanchez-Ramirez, made a wrong turn onto railroad tracks in farmland in Ventura County and got stuck.

"Unfortunately, Mr. Sanchez misperceived the railroad tracks to be the road," Bamieh said during a Wednesday news conference. "The (truck) became entangled on those tracks. He tried his best to get it off the tracks. Unfortunately, he was unable to do that."

Sanchez-Ramirez, 54, of Yuma, Arizona, is in jail on charges of felony hit-and-run in connection with the pre-dawn collision Tuesday in Oxnard, about 65 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

Oxnard Assistant Police Chief Jason Benites said Tuesday that Sanchez-Ramirez abandoned the commercial truck and was found about 1 1/2 miles away in apparent distress.

Ventura County prosecutors were reviewing the case to determine whether to file charges.

Bamieh said it was an unfortunate accident, that the intersection in question has been long known as a problem and that city officials had been raising money to build a bridge to prevent crashes there.

He said his client, whose Ford F-450 pickup with trailer carrying mechanical equipment for harvest machinery, was driving Tuesday morning to familiarize himself with his work route, a day before he was set to do a job in Oxnard.

He had driven from Yuma on Monday and arrived in Southern California that night, the lawyer said.

As he was stuck on the tracks, he hit his high beams to warn the oncoming train. He tried to push his two-ton truck off the tracks but couldn't. He ran away to save his own life, his attorney said.

"His first reaction was to find help on foot," Bamieh said. "He did the best he could and that's all he could do."

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and rival Jesus "Chuy" Garcia kicked off part two of the campaign early Wednesday morning, heading out to greet voters just hours after election results sparked an unprecedented runoff. 

Emanuel, who fell short of the 50-percent-plus-one support he needed to win a second term outright in Tuesday's municipal election, tweeted a photo of himself, coffee in hand, greeting voters at the 95th Street Red Line stop. 

"It's a warm reception after the election but my goal is to earn people's support," Emanuel told WVON after his appearance. "And I did it this morning and I'm going to continue to be throughout the city at every L stop, grocery store and meet the voters and talking to them about the choices we have to make and do you have the plan and perseverance to make progress in this city throughout every neighborhood."

Garcia, meanwhile, told reporters that he was feeling good as he started the day at the Brown Line Merchandise Mart stop. 

"All along we had said that people in Chicago, especially neighborhoods, wanted change," he told NBC 5 in an interview. "They felt left behind, they felt like special interests had had their way for too long and they had something to say and they said it yesterday,"

He said he looks forward to continuing his campaign to connect with a diverse cross-section of Chicago voters. 

"We campaigned throughout the city of Chicago that we truly embraced the multi-racial, multi-ethnic type of coalition that's required to effectively govern and include everyone in the city of Chicago," he said.

While Emanuel lead by double digits in the polls on Tuesday, the runoff result was seen as a victory for Garcia and the Chicago Teachers Union and progressives that backed his bid against the powerful incumbent. Emanuel, a former congressman and White House chief of staff, spent millions on his bid to win a second term as the mayor of the nation's third most populous city, blanketing the airwaves and calling on President Barack Obama for help on the campaign trail.

But those efforts failed to give him the boost he needed to win over enough voters to secure a second term while avoiding going head-to-head against Garcia in a second round of balloting. The April 7 election will mark the first time since the city changed its election process in the 1990s that an incumbent mayor has been forced into a runoff race. 

A former Manchester resident pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing military secrets and trying to send them to Iran, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

Mozaffar Khazaee, 60, entered the guilty plea Wednesday in Hartford and will face up to 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine.

Federal prosecutors said Khazaee leaked military secrets to Iran while working for U.S. defense contractors between 2009 and 2013.

“While employed with U.S. defense contractors, Mozaffar Khazaee stole sensitive, proprietary and controlled technology to send it to Iran,” U.S. Attorney Dierdre Daly said in a statement Wednesday. “The illegal export of our military technology compromises U.S. national security and reduces the advantages our armed forces currently possess.”

According to the U.S. attorney's office, in November and December 2009, Khazaee sent an email to someone in Iran containing classified information about the U.S. Joint Strike Fighter Program.

“Some of these are very controlled… and I am taking [a] big risk. Again please after downloading these two Power Point files delete everything immediately,” he allegedly wrote.

Khazaee also wrote in multiple other letters that “as lead engineer in these projects I have learned some of the key technique[s] that could be transferred to our own industry and universities.”

He added that he was “looking for an opportunity to work in Iran, and… transferring my skill and knowledge to my nation,” prosecutors said.

According to the U.S. attorney’s office, Khazaee sent a shipment intended for Iran from Connecticut to Long Beach, California in November 2013.

Insides were thousands of sensitive manuals and documents pertaining to military jet engines, which Kazaee was not authorized to give out.

He was arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport while trying to board a flight for Iran on Jan. 9, 2014. Prosecutors said Khazaee had more sensitive information in his luggage.

Khazaee will be sentenced May 20.

A woman’s screams alerted San Diego County Sheriff’s Deputies to a man who officials say sexually assaulted two women he and his girifriend had just met Tuesday in San Marcos.

Garth Clem, 37, is in custody, accused of multiple charges including assault with the intent to commit rape, false imprisonment, sexual battery, kidnapping and resisting arrest.

Clem and his girlfriend went to the Prominence Apartments on S. Twin Oaks Valley Road after meeting two women at a nearby restaurant.

Once inside, deputies say Clem sexually assaulted the two women and got into a physical fight with his girlfriend.

The two alleged sexual assault victims were able to escape and help direct deputies to the apartment where they say Clem was holding his girlfriend against her will. That's when deputies heard a woman scream.

Deputies used a sheriff’s K-9 to get Clem into custody. Officials say Clem was treated at a local hospital for the dog bite.

The girlfriend was treated at a nearby hospital for soreness and minor cuts, according to deputies.

Clem was booked into the Vista Detention Facility and is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.

Clem, a former Camp Pendleton Marine, was a realtor in the North County coastal area until his license expired about two years ago, records show. His former employer said he was let go from his job as a result.

Another “yellow fever mosquito” has been found in Chula Vista, near the place where the potentially dangerous mosquitoes were found last October.

The Aedes aegypti mosquito was discovered in an office in Chula Vista, the first such one discovered this year. Four of the mosquitoes were found last fall in offices on Naval Base San Diego and also at a Chula Vista home.

At total of nine mosquitoes and two larvae sources have emerged since last October, according to county environmental officials.

The tropical disease that the mosquito is best known for carrying are rarely seen here: yellow fever, chikungunya and dengue fever. There hasn’t been an outbreak of yellow fever in the United States in more than a century, according to the county.

Still, health officials want to prevent the spread of these potentially dangerous mosquitoes and have been putting up and monitoring traps for them.

Yellow fever mosquitoes are more common on the East Coast but started appearing in California in 2013, officials said. The mosquitoes have recently been found in Commerce and Pico Rivera in Los Angeles County.

Unlike native California mosquitoes, these insects feed during the day. They can breed almost anywhere there’s standing water, including indoors, according to the county.

To help prevent mosquito breeding, the county is urging residents to dump out anything that can hold water – such as plant saucers, buckets or wheelbarrows – and report any standing water or dead birds to Vector Control.

The deaf man whose car struck a pedestrian during a zombie walk near Comic Con last July will face a charge of felony reckless driving resulting in serious injuries.

The San Diego District Attorney’s Office announced the charge against Matthew O. Pocci Jr. in a letter on Monday. The letter was obtained by NBC 7 on Wednesday.

Pocci will be arraigned on March 9.

Passersby were hit by while the annual Comic-Con Zombie Walk took over downtown San Diego on July 26.

Police said at the time that a deaf family with small children in the black Honda Accord was stopped near 2nd and Island avenues just after 5:30 p.m., waiting for participants of the Zombie Walk to cross.

After several minutes the 48-year-old father Pocci slowly rolled forward, trying to get out of the area.

According to the SDPD, several people from the crowd of zombies allegedly surrounded the car and began punching it. Police said the car windshield was shattered by the crowd.

In an interview with another news website, Pocci said his family became frightened so he plowed through the crowd to "save my family."  As he drove, he struck a 64-year-old woman with the side of his car.

The woman was taken to a hospital for an injury to her arm. Two others sustained minor injuries. Witnesses to the crash say Pocci floored his car and his tires squealed seconds before impact.

At the time of the incident, Pocci was not cited or arrested.

"Seven months later. This is not a complicated situation. It's caught on videotape," said attorney Dan Gilleon, who is representing Pocci. "I mean, charges should have been filed -- if there was a real crime they would have filed charges within days normally."

Pocci later filed a claim against the San Diego Police Department and its Chief Shelley Zimmerman, saying the organizers did not file a permit for the event. He claimed the "SDPD caused and created a confusing and misleading situation for motorists."

"It turned into a crime to try and shield the embarrassment and liablity of the city because Chief Zimmerman is down there letting them do this unpermitted parade. The permit process would have required traffic control," said Gilleon.

The SDPD has not commented on Pocci's claim.

School police have arrested a student after he was caught on cellphone video beating up a freshman at a San Diego high school.

The victim’s family says he is being bullied because he is gay.

The video appears to show a freshman student walking around an outside corner of Morse High School last Thursday at lunch.

He is confronted by another student in a red t-shirt who starts yelling at him. That teenager stars punching the freshman, hitting at least 10 times in the face.

When the victim starts running away, the other student chases him, grabs him and punches him to the ground.

Though they did not want to do an interview with NBC 7 Wednesday, the victim’s family has expressed frustration with how the school handled the incident. According to them, the school did nothing to reprimand the alleged bully until two days after the incident.

The San Diego Unified School District said, "We can confirm that after the video surfaced, it was turned over to School Police for a full investigation and that, yes, a police report was filed with school police. The suspect was arrested and released to his parents."

That arrest took place on Monday.

The family says their son has gotten multiple threats in the past but the school did not do anything about it. They say the student’s punishment is too little, too late.

NBC 7 asked the district what the protocol is for incidents like this, but they have not gotten back to us yet.

Crime in San Diego dropped 13.5 percent in 2014, though three communities are still struggling with a rise in violent crime, according to new statistics released this week.

At the San Diego City Council’s public safety committee meeting Wednesday, San Diego Police officials presented 2014 crime numbers, comparing the rates to the year before.

They showed property crimes dropped by 15.5 percent and violent crimes decreased by 1.7 percent to a rate similar to the early 1970s.

However, some areas of crime did see an increase, like juvenile arrests (up 16.5 percent), domestic violence (up 2.1 percent) and rape (up 17.4 percent).

SDPD Chief Shelley Zimmerman said the rise in rapes is likely because more were reported after last summer’s North Park assault suspect was on the loose. Pacific Beach residents told the public safety committee that they believe it’s a function of alcohol-induced problems.

Pacific Beach, North Park and East Village all saw a spike in violent crime last year, despite the city’s overall crime rate dropping. According to the SDPD statistics, East Village was leading the city with 254 reported violent crimes last year, which include murders, rapes and aggravated assaults.

Concerned residents say it’s an issue that ultimately affects all communities.

“The way it affects you in Clairemont is maybe police don’t get there fast because they've got a lot of officers in East Village, Pacific Beach and North Park, dealing with the alcohol, the stuff that spills out of the bar,” said Robert Hall with the North City Prevention Coalition.

Zimmerman also noted 48 new recruits started at the academy in the past week. More boots on the ground will keep crime down, she said.

What better way to unify a school than beat a world record?

Students and teachers at Canyon Crest Academy in Carmel Valley did just that on Wednesday, surpassing the world record for a group hug in a school library. The record previously was 74.

Canyon Crest crushed that record, drawing 191 people for their massive display of affection.

Even the mascot joined the throng. Someone shouted “Hold it! Hold it!” as the group crushed together in the school library.

A group hug is a perfect display of what the school – which is part of a program called Purposeful Action Leaders on Campus (PALS) – stands for, said Spanish teacher Laura Krough.

“We obviously got more students than we expected,” Krough said. “It’s amazing. Just goes to show this place is what they say it is.”

The school decided to attempt the world record as a way to further unify the school and rally behind a cause.

The school researched records it could plausibly beat and found the record for largest group hug.

What will be the school’s next world record?

“I guess we’ll have to start our next research project,” Krough said.

The first-ever technology assessment report by San Diego education officials found schools lack the proper technology to prepare students for the future.

The San Diego Office of Education partnered with the University of San Diego for the study to evaluate 38 area school districts and asses how technology has an impact on schools and what more needs to be done. The first-ever assessment was unveiled Wednesday at a press conference at the University of San Diego.

The study evaluated student use of mobile learning devices such as iPads, Internet availability and teacher training, among other areas, and found that San Diego County Schools lack the proper technology to prepare students.

The results show that educators need to provide students with better access to mobile devices and the Internet. Only 9 percent of high school students and 11 percent of middle school students have full-time access to a mobile device, the study found.

58 percent of those surveyed in the assessment said aging infrastructure and old devices were their number one concern. The second concern was bandwidth and the lack of funding was the third concern.

School districts said teacher training was their biggest need because many of their teachers would have to play catch-up.

The study’s director said the private sector would likely be needed due to budget deficits.

Two people were sent to a local hospital after a car collided with a motorcycle in Carlsbad Wednesday afternoon.

According to Carlsbad police, a 47-year-old man driving a silver Honda S2300 collided with a Harley Davidson driven by a 22-year-old man at 7238 Ponto Drive.

The driver of the car suffered moderate injuries and the man on the motorcycle, who was ejected from his bike, suffered major injuries. Both drivers were transported to Scripps La Jolla, police said.

Northbound Carlsbad Avenue was closed at Avenida Encinas and Ponto Drive while police investigate the accident. It was expected to last a few hours.

Anyone with information about the accident is asked to contact the Carlsbad Police Department patrol division at (760) 931-2115.

This is a developing story. Check back here for updates.

The Valley Center Library lost thousands of dollars’ worth of electronics, art and a safe in two separate break-ins, and now deputies are looking for the suspect.

The first burglary happened around Christmas, sometime between 8 p.m. on Dec. 24 and 8:45 a.m. Dec. 26, 2014.

The suspect broke into the library, located at 14147 Horse Creek Trail, and took $6,600 worth of items.

Here is the full list: 10 white iPads with individual cases, a mobile iPad charging station, a black digital Nikon DX camera, a red digital Canon camera and a dark gray Safeguard safe with about $200 in cash. The suspect also made off with keys to the library and Valley Center History Museum attached to the library.

The second break-in was noticed on Jan. 27, 2015. The suspect got into a storage room and took a black Aspire laptop, a gray Dell Latitude laptop, a black Epson projector, a 42” Insignia television, an Insignia Blu-ray player, two PlayStation 2 game consoles, a white Xbox game console, a DVD/Disc player, paintings, sculptures and art pieces.

Library employees believe they lost $8,000 worth of items in the last burglary.

If you know anything about the suspect in this case, call the Valley Center Sheriff’s Substation at 760-751-4400 or Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477. If your information leads to an arrest, Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward.
 

A California woman faces deportation for charges on child abduction of her daughter in a legal battle being watched closely by the Asian-American community in San Diego.

Korean American Coalition to End Domestic Abuse members say Nan-Hui Jo fled Sacramento to South Korea with her daughter in 2009.

Domestic violence activists say she fled to escape alleged abuse by the baby’s father.

A family court awarded the baby’s father, Jesse Charlton full custody 6-year-old daughter, Hwi.

Charlton is an Iraq war veteran who spent five years searching for Hwi, according to the Sacramento Bee.

A trial in December on Jo’s case ended in a hung jury and the Yolo County’s District Attorney’s Office ordered a retrial which began on Friday, according to the Sacramento Bee.

Asian-American community members in San Diego are watching Nan-Hui Jo’s
trial closely.

Many Asian-American church, domestic violence and community groups are organizing a social media storm in support of Jo with the hashtag #StandWithNanHui.

They plan to attend her trial hearings wearing purple ribbons to show support.
 

San Diego television sports anchor Kyle Kraska returned to his workplace for a visit Wednesday - the first since he was gunned down just outside his Scripps Ranch home.

Kraska appeared at KFMB-TV wearing a ballcap, jeans and sneakers. The only visible sign of the Feb. 10 shooting was his bandaged left hand.

Kraska was released from the hospital one week ago after spending four days in a medically-induced coma.

Mike Montana, 54, has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges in the shooting. His preliminary hearing is set for April 30.

Montana faces at least 37 years to life in prison if convicted.

Kraska was shot six times including once in the torso and once in the abdomen, prosecutors said in court.

The District Attorney's office said a business dispute was the motive behind the shooting. 

Thieves stealing hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel from an Oceanside business were caught in the act and fled, spilling fuel and creating a hazardous material mess.

Two men were spotted siphoning the fuel from one of the tanks at the Superior Concrete Company at 3227 Oceanside Boulevard at approximately 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The company’s security guard called Oceanside police who say the suspects were running on foot once they got on scene.

In the process, a valve on the 10,000 gallon fuel tank was left open spilling fuel in and around the suspects’ car.

Oceanside searched the area on foot and using the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department helicopter but made no arrests.

Officials say 600 gallons of fuel was siphoned. The suspects’ vehicle was determined to have been stolen out of Whittier last month.

Over the last two days, this business had suffered similar diesel fuel thefts, police said.

Hazardous material crews and Oceanside firefighters were called in to help clean up the fuel spill overnight.

Officials say there was no contamination to the nearby Loma Alta Creek.
 

The partner of slain San Diego Police Officer Archie Buggs spoke Wednesday about what happened the evening his partner was shot and killed.

It's taken 36 years for Jesse Navarro to share the story of when his partner was gunned down in the Skyline area.

He spoke at a special event hosted by the San Diego Police Historical Association at the San Diego Police Museum downtown.

It was 1978.

Buggs, a four-year veteran of the San Diego Police Department, was fatally shot by a then-17-year-old Jesus Cecena.

“I can remember that night, my friends, like it happened a few minutes ago,” Navarro told a group Wednesday evening.

Navarro says, in the locker room, Buggs kept on him about wearing his bullet proof vest. He was that kind of partner.

“He said, ‘Please. I want you to wear it’ and I said ‘Okay,’” Navarro recalled.

The two usually left at the same time to patrol, but that night Navarro's supervisor requested he stay behind for a few minutes.

When Navarro heard a call requesting units respond to an officer down, everything stopped.

He just started driving...fast.

“I’ve never driven faster in my life than that night. I drove over 100 mph. I don't know what streets I was going to,” he said.

By the time he got to the scene, his partner was down.

“I ran I held him in my arms hoping that he would still be alive but I think that was on his last breath,” he said.

Since then, a parole board has recommended Buggs' killer be paroled.

According to parole hearing transcripts one of the reasons for Cecena's release at the age of 52 is that officials believe he has matured to a point he doesn't pose a violent risk.

Once again, Navarro raced to his partner's aid.

‘When I heard he was about to be released, I said ‘No way,’” Navarro said.

Navarro crafted a letter to appeal the parole board’s decision.

The DA’s office, the head of the police union and other police officers have written letters to the governor who has the ability to over-ride the parole board's decision.