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A brush fire spread to 300 acres Thursday on the Pacific Crest Trail between Campo and Potrero, creating highly visible black smoke in the back country, according to Cal Fire.
A 22-year-old student at Southwestern College was behind bars Thursday for threats against the college and a professor.
As the three hostages at Discovery Channel's headquarters appeared ready to make a run for it, police said Thursday that a SWAT team officer quickly shot and killed the increasingly agitated gunman who had explosives strapped to himself, ending the four-hour standoff.
A grant requested by San Diego County Supervisor Bill Horn was canceled by county officials Thursday because they determined it violated the separation of church and state.
A water main break was reported in Pacific Beach Thursday afternoon, authorities said.
Fire crews quickly contained a fire just north of the Sycamore Landfill near Miramar Base in the Santee area.
For some passengers going through the new full-body scanner at Lindbergh Field, exposure to radiation is a concern.
Supporters of Assembly Bill 1060 are asking Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign the bill that would prevent alcohol sales at store self-checkout lanes.
Nearly one-third of households in San Diego County have incomes below what is needed to meet the basic cost of living, according to a study released Thursday.
Caltrans is asking the public to attend two hearings regarding its $1.3 billion Interstate 805 Corridor Improvement Project.
A scientific voyage to study an environmental situation off the Pacific coast pulled into San Diego Thursday with troubling findings.
A former Vista resident who posted a video on Facebook showing him mutilating and killing an opossum was charged with animal abuse, the San Diego Humane Society announced Thursday.
San Diego County prosecutors said Thursday they will not charge a 92-year-old man who drove off after hitting and killing a teenager in Vista.
Three males accused of attacking a Grossmont College football player with a bat and golf club in La Mesa, leaving him permanently disabled, are to go on trial Jan. 18, prosecutors said Thursday.
A man whose female passenger was killed when his pickup truck crashed after drifting off state Route 78 pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony charge of gross vehicular manslaughter without intoxication.
About 4,600 San Diego Gas & Electric customers in the Chula Vista area lost power when a bird flew into an electrical line, the utility reported.
About 4,600 San Diego Gas & Electric customers in the Chula Vista area lost power Thursday because of a suspected problem with an overhead electrical system.
A Dec. 6 trial date was set Thursday for a former star pitcher at Steele Canyon High School, who faces charges stemming from a head-on crash that killed a 50-year-old Spring Valley man.
A man convicted in a scam in which homeowners were falsely told that "land patents" would protect their properties from foreclosure is scheduled to be sentenced in downtown San Diego Thursday.
A man who ran away from La Mesa police, abandoning a car filled with stolen property and drugs, remained at large Thursday.
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A bomb squad investigated a report of a suspicious package after police evacuated four of six concourses at Miami International Airport for several hours on the eve of the Labor Day travel period, an airport spokesman said Friday.
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A fire chief says crews detonated four explosives linked to a gunman who took three hostages at Discovery Communications headquarters in Maryland.
Workers are paying a larger portion of their health insurance costs as businesses shift more of the burden to their employees to help ride out the economic downturn, an annual study shows.
A chart of FedEx Cup standings at the Deutsche Bank Championship showed Tiger Woods at the top, not unusual considering he was won the cup and its $10 million prize every year he has played.
Beatrice Capra, an 18-year-old from Ellicott City, Md. and a wild-card entry, is following in Melanie Oudin's footsteps.
Michael Vick's first start in four years was merely a cameo.
Don Fosburg recalled friends and family killed in World War II as he marked the 65th anniversary of the end of the conflict on Thursday.
Talk about pigging out: Joey Chestnut has eaten his way to another ribs-eating title in Nevada.
Did creation need a creator? British physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking says no, arguing in his new book that there need not be a God behind the creation of the universe.
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