Hospitals Take Part in Countywide Disaster Drill
Hospitals across San Diego County took part in large-scale, emergency preparedness drills on Thursday designed to practice and improve staffers’ response to life-threatening events when disaster...
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Driver Involved in SR-56 Fatal Crash Booked Into Jail
An 18-year-old man whose car fatally crashed into another driver on State Route 56 earlier this month has now been booked into county jail, California Highway Patrol officials confirmed Thursday night....
View ArticleWorker Pleads in Disneyland Dry Ice Blasts
A Disneyland worker pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges involving two dry-ice explosions that forced evacuations at Disneyland’s popular Toontown. Christian Isaiah Barnes, 22, of Long Beach,...
View ArticleSlain Drug Cartel Lawyer Was U.S. Informant
The Mexican drug cartel attorney who was slain execution-style in Southlake last week had been a confidential informant for the U.S. government, law enforcement sources told NBC 5. Juan Guerrero Chapa,...
View ArticleJames and Heat Take Game 5, 90-79
LeBron James has given the Miami Heat a number of performances for the ages in his three years with the team, and he delivered another for Miami against the Indiana Pacers in Game 5 of the Eastern...
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"Mayday, Mayday": Calls From Crashing Plane
"Mayday, mayday — engine out," said the pilot, in a controlled voice, to air controllers as his small plane struggled to stay aloft early Friday morning. In audio files obtained by News4 Washington,...
View ArticleNY Teen Breaks "German Curse" to Win Spelling Bee
After finishing third each of the last two years, Arvind Mahankali, a 13-year-old from Queens, New York, won the 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee by finally conquering a word of German origin. He...
View ArticleSchools Offer New STD App for Students 7th Grade and Up
A tool that lets sexually active people receive and share their STD testing results digitally is now available to junior high and high school students in the Los Angeles School District. Qpid.me relays...
View ArticleStarbucks Bans Smoking Within 25 Feet of Shops
Coffee and cigarettes, for some, are an inseparable pair. But if that coffee is from Starbucks, smokers will have to take a walk if they want to light up. Cigarettes and their electronic counterparts...
View ArticleBlack Rebel Motorcycle Club's Fast Fingers
Eight24.com's Scott McDonald talked to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's frontman about some furniture that went missing from the House of Blues San Diego.Photo Credit: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
View ArticleStarbucks Bans Smoking Within 25 Feet of Shops
Coffee and cigarettes, for some, are an inseparable pair. But if that coffee is from Starbucks, smokers will have to take a walk if they want to light up. Cigarettes and their electronic counterparts...
View ArticleSchools to Tackle Adult-Student Bullying Report
In a small room, with just about two dozen people, San Diego Unified Superintendent Cindy Marten addressed a Grand Jury report accusing the district of ignoring the problem of adult to student...
View ArticlePowerhouse Fire Fight Continues, Evacuations Ordered
Evacuations were again ordered Friday afternoon in the 1,500-acre brush fire burning in steep, rugged terrain of San Francisquito Canyon, north of Los Angeles. Flare-ups, meanwhile, tested homeowners'...
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Woman Abandoned as Newborn Meets Rescuer 62 Years Later
Abandoned as a newborn, a 62-year-old woman has returned to the Northern California city of Concord in search of her birth mother. Kira Derhgawen was left in the passenger seat of a parked car,...
View ArticleSan Diego Tourism Authority to Cease Operations
The San Diego Tourism Authority announced Thursday that it will suspend operations citing the lack of funding from the Tourism Marketing District (TMD). The TMD funds have been frozen for weeks as part...
View ArticleBank Bandit Pushes Employee Out of Way
On May 30 at around 3:05 p.m., an unknown man robbed a Wells Fargo Bank located at 10535 Craftsman Way. FBI officials say the man entered the bank and pushed a bank employee out of the way who was in...
View ArticleChristian Metal Singer Tim Lambesis Posts Bail
Tim Lambesis, a local musician accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill his estranged wife, posted bail on Tuesday, according to law enforcement officials. The As I Lay Dying frontman faced a $2...
View ArticleFamily of Missing Man Pleads for Help
Thomas Vera of Chula Vista was last seen Monday at the UCSD Medical center in Hillcrest. NBC 7's Mark Mullen reports.
View Article'General Fire' 100 Percent Contained
Firefighters have fully contained a 1,271-acre wildfire near State Route 78 and the Banner Grade area that sparked as a result of a recreational shooting last weekend, fire officials confirmed. The...
View ArticleCalif. Minimum Wage Could Grow to Highest in U.S.
Minimum-wage workers in California could see their first raises in six years if a bill that passed the state Assembly this week continues to make its way through Sacramento. The state’s minimum hourly...
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