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Israelis gathered on Wednesday to commemorate the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack that killed 1,200 people, saw 251 taken hostage, and sparked a devastating war in Gaza that has left much of the territory in ruins and its 2 million people living in dire conditions.
Republicans are entering the final month of the midterm campaign increasingly anxious that the $1 billion at their disposal may not be enough to fend off sweeping losses as the party reckons with President Donald Trump ‘s unpopularity, persistent cost concerns and the fallout from the war in Iran .
After losing the first two games of the National League Division Series in brutal fashion, two one-run late game defeats, the Padres returned to Petco Park needing a win in Game 3 of the National League Division Series to prolong their season.
James Gartland, San Diego’s lifeguard chief since 2018 and a fixture in the department for three decades, is no longer a city employee, city officials confirmed. Officials have not disclosed why he’s no longer on the job.
Authorities ruled the cause of death of a woman whose body was found in the ocean off the coast of La Jolla in July as an accidental drowning.
A man who persuaded two elderly women to give him more than $1.8 million after convincing each that they were in a romantic relationship pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court Tuesday to wire fraud and money laundering charges.
San Diego-based defense technology company Seasats celebrated their new, larger Bay Ho facility Tuesday as they look to expand production of autonomous surface vessels.
A Chula Vista mother said her 15-year-old Hilltop High School student with autism was repeatedly left sitting on a hot school bus without air conditioning and was later hospitalized for severe dehydration.
A new $100 million financing partnership that aims to bring more affordable apartments built faster for working households broke ground Tuesday.
Three friends of Nolan Wells, a Black college student who went missing from a Mississippi island during a Fourth of July celebration and was later found dead, are suing NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Owens for defamation.
The San Diego City Council Tuesday voted to declare a state of emergency in the city ahead of potentially severe weather associated with the coming weather associated with El Niño.
San Diego County Monday announced three lawsuits as part of its new Consumer Fairness and Public Protection Unit against AppLovin, Roblox and Polymaker, cases county leaders said involve children’s safety, consumer privacy and 3D-printed ghost guns.
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is awake and speaking at a hospital, her lawyers said Tuesday, six days after the state’s failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection left her unconscious and on a ventilator.
A resilient bobcat rescued with severe burns and life- threatening injuries has returned to the wild following more than two months of veterinary care through the San Diego Humane Society’s Project Wildlife program at the Ramona Wildlife Center, officials announced Tuesday.
Plague had not been detected among close contacts of a worker in an anti-plague laboratory in Siberia who died last week, with 60% of the identified group tested so far, officials in Russia said Tuesday.
The pilot who tried to bring down an Israel-bound flight had been planning a 9/11-style attack by crashing into the country’s main airport in Tel Aviv, a Middle Eastern official has told NBC News.
Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that scientists believe offer clues to how the universe evolved.
San Diego and California officials were reacting with outrage Tuesday to President Donald Trump’s comment that Iran could “take out” San Diego and Los Angeles, while the White House said the remark was being misinterpreted.
A man who allegedly stabbed two Chula Vista residents to death in their home, then fled the state, pleaded not guilty Monday to murder charges.
The Padres return to San Diego facing elimination Tuesday night after a pair of playoff losses on the road. It’s not the first time.
City crews conducted emergency stormwater repairs Monday in Del Mar Heights to fix a storm drain system and stabilize a slope along Del Mar Heights Road.
The Pentagon says President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major convicted in the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood.
A family-owned market in Solana Beach says declining customer traffic over the past year is putting pressure on the business, with its owners attributing the drop in sales in part to fear surrounding increased immigration enforcement in the region.
A San Diego homeowner who lives about 100 yards from Mission Beach turned to NBC 7 Responds after his nearly $17,000 aluminum fence began showing paint chipping, bubbling and rust a little over a year after it was installed.
Graphic content warning: This story contains details about sexual assault involving a child.
The White House prohibited Politico on Monday from traveling on Air Force One with President Donald Trump as he heads to Nebraska for a campaign rally.
As Americans grapple with record-high gas prices, Amazon is offering Prime members a little more relief at the pump just in time for the holiday travel season.
The death of a 28-year-old woman who worked in an anti-plague laboratory in Russia is raising concerns about what caused her illness.
The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier is expected to arrive in the San Diego area Thursday after a near-record deployment in the Middle East , according to multiple reports Sunday.
The Supreme Court’s new term begins Monday with cases on climate change , religious rights and President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration high on the agenda.
A homicide investigation was launched Monday in Pacific Beach after an unarmed security guard working at Crystal Pier was shot and killed, San Diego Police homicide detectives said.
The death of a worker at an anti-plague laboratory in Russia has prompted officials to put at least one hospital facility under quarantine and nearly 200 people reportedly under medical observation as of Monday.
A Cornell University student gave campus police leads in the alleged rape of Jane Doe in 2024 but expressed dismay over how the authorities handled the case.
Thousands of homes and businesses across San Diego County were left without power amid an unusual fall heat wave that has sent temperatures 20 degrees above average for this time of year.
A 14-year-old Monterey County girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been rescued in Mexico and her father, who is suspected of sexually abusing her, has been arrested, authorities said.
A pair of vegetation fires burned three acres of land and briefly threatened structures in Valencia Park Sunday, according to the San Diego Fire Department.
In Game 2 of the National League Division Series, the Padres followed the script they like the most: Michael King starting a game and Mason Miller finishing it.
Metrolink fares for one-way tickets and the SoCal Day Pass will increase Monday, marking the regional rail system’s first fare increase in 13 years.
A group of Ukrainian military veterans wounded in the war with Russia brought their stories from the front lines to San Diego County, this weekend.
The San Diego Police Department’s Southern Division in the Palm City neighborhood will open to walk-up services Monday after it was closed last week due to mold concerns, the SDPD said Sunday.
Early indications suggest the Flydubai co-pilot accused of attacking his captain and trying to seize control of an Israel-bound plane acted alone, rather than as part of a larger organization or on behalf of a foreign government, multiple U.S. officials briefed on the investigation and a former Israeli security…
Searchers found a “debris field” off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, from an air ambulance that was carrying six people when it vanished over the Atlantic on Saturday during a flight from Bermuda to Boston, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
In the wacky game of baseball, if you watch long enough you’re inevtiably going to see something you’ve never witnessed before.
The San Diego Padres and Milwaukee Brewers have two different types of offense. The Friars have several players who can hit the ball out of the park while the Brew Crew relies on stringing hits together, having the fewest home runs in the National League in 2026.
Nearly 2,000 runners ran on Pacific Beach, Saturday morning, as extreme heat impacted the fifth annual Pacific Beach Half Marathon and 5K .
A man who took more than $180,000 from low-income families through a scheme that involved installing card-skimming devices on ATMs and point-of-sale terminals was sentenced in San Diego federal court Friday to two years in prison.
If it ain’t broke, don’t break it. The San Diego Padres finalized their 26-man roster for the National League Division Series against the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday morning. It’s the same group that swept the Chicago Cubs out of the Wild Card round. As a refresher, here’s the full list:
The major league-best Milwaukee Brewers’ first postseason test comes against the one team that’s had their number lately.
The U.S. Coast Guard says crews have found a debris field confirmed to be from the missing medical transport aircraft that was carrying six people from Bermuda to Boston when it lost contact with the Federal Aviation Administration early Saturday, prompting a massive search off Nantucket, Massachusetts.
A Flydubai pilot attacked his flight captain using a crash ax and tried to take control of the aircraft’s controls in an attempted terrorist attack, an official with the United Arab Emirates said Saturday.
Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of sexually violent predator Merle Wakefield, who disappeared a week ago from his job at an Amazon processing facility in Rancho Bernardo.
The North County Transit District is inviting riders on board for another Free Ride Day in celebration of California’s Clean Air Day.
Police bodycam footage released Friday shows the moment officers located and arrested Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s in connection with the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan.
For the full month of October, kids can enjoy more than 60 attractions around San Diego County for free.
San Diego Thursday ended its lease negotiations with Save Starlight, a nonprofit which had been seeking to re-purpose the 91-year-old Starlight Bowl in Balboa Park.
It’s October and time for flu shots. Medical experts urge getting a flu vaccination soon, before influenza starts spreading widely — and to get up to date on protection against other fall respiratory viruses, too. Updated COVID-19 shots are available now, plus shots for people especially vulnerable to another winter…
A day after moving seven-tenths of a cent from matching its record, the average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in San Diego County recorded its largest decrease since Aug. 11 Friday, dropping eight-tenths of a cent.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has identified the pilot and nurse who were killed in a medical helicopter crash off Santa Catalina Island earlier this week.
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The Indian airline captain who helped thwart an apparent attempt to crash a FlyDubai flight described Friday how he fought for his life in the minutes after his co-pilot stabbed him and the plane began a steep descent.
Just as a heat wave is expected to hit San Diego County starting Friday through to Oct. 8, San Diego Gas & Electric this week began notifying customers throughout the county of possible public safety power shutoffs in the next few days.
The Padres playoff party will last a few more days, at least. After sweeping the Chicago Cubs in the National League Wild Card series, the San Diego Padres have advanced to the NL Divisional Series.
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to take up ICE’s mandatory detention policy, the Trump Administration’s practice of holding people in custody without the opportunity for a bond hearing.
Former employees of Choi’s, an Asian fusion restaurant near Petco Park in Downtown San Diego, alleged its owner failed to pay more than $100,000 in wages before the business closed Wednesday after nearly three years.
Contracts covering nearly 4,000 sanitation workers in San Diego County and four other Southern California counties have expired without tentative agreements being reached between Teamsters Local 396 and several waste-hauling companies, the union announced Thursday.
Weeks after Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents arrested one person near San Diego City College and pursued another onto campus, the San Diego Community College District Thursday began installing signs prohibiting immigration enforcement on its property.
From affordable housing funding to taxes on billionaires, California voters will be asked to vote on a wide range of issues on the November 2026 General Election ballot.
Just because it’s fall, don’t expect to take out those sweaters. Another heat wave is expected to hit San Diego County, and meteorologists say this will be a long one.
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been placed in solitary confinement following an NBC News report on his VIP lifestyle inside prison, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.
The tall ship the Mexican Navy uses as a training vessel that sailed into San Diego Bay on Thursday will be open to the public to visit, free of charge, Friday through Monday.
Christa Pike was in critical condition Thursday and receiving “lifesaving care” at a hospital, her lawyers said, a day after a failed attempt to execute her pushed Tennessee’s governor to halt further executions this year and order an independent review.
And then there were eight. The 2026 MLB postseason field has been trimmed from 12 to eight teams as the playoffs move to the Division Series. The four clubs that emerged from the Wild Card Series were the American League’s No. 4 New York Yankees and No. 6 Chicago White Sox , along with the National League’s No. 3…
Two people were found dead in an apartment in the Del Cerro neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon after an hour-long SWAT standoff that police later ruled a murder-suicide.
The lethal drug administered in Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute Christa Pike has been used in multiple states that carry out the death penalty and by the U.S. government after President Donald Trump resumed federal executions during his first term.
The cost of taking public transportation in San Diego County will increase Thursday for the Metropolitan Transit System and the North County Transit San Diego Railroad, the first major increase since 2009.
The medical helicopter that crashed into the water off Santa Catalina Island, killing three and injuring two, took off from Oceanside Wednesday evening.
A stabbing, an emergency alert, a terrifying mid-air plunge. Details are still emerging after an Israel-bound flight carrying some 180 people emitted a distress signal Wednesday, raising fears of a possible hijacking when one pilot stabbed the other in the cockpit .
The motive of the Omani copilot who stabbed his captain on a flight to Israel , causing the plane to plummet dangerously and forcing it to land in Saudi Arabia, remained unknown on Thursday as investigators across the region raced to learn more.
Revenge is a dish best served at your own ballpark in front of 47,513 towel-waving lunatics.
A lawsuit was filed this week against the city of San Diego and the San Diego Police Department that seeks to halt the city’s use of automated license plate readers.
Two people are dead, two are injured and a patient is missing after a medical helicopter crashed into the water off Santa Catalina Island shortly after takeoff on Wednesday evening, officials said.
A San Diego food truck vendor says scammers posed as “December Nights” event planners and used a fake website to nearly steal his money.
The city of San Diego says a billing data glitch involving its new trash fees resulted in incorrect charges on roughly 87,000 property tax statements, with some customers charged too much and others charged too little.
Ethan Salas became the youngest player to catch in a major league postseason game when he started for the San Diego Padres in Game 2 of their Wild Card Series with the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night.
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr said Wednesday that new pro-Trump TV ads paid for with government funds don’t “merit any sort of FCC review.”
An outbreak of mumps among San Diego State’s football team has now increased to 14 confirmed cases and one probable case, the university announced Wednesday.
Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug. A death penalty expert said it was an unprecedented failure.
A suspicious package reported at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry forced investigators to temporarily shut down the border crossing for an investigation Wednesday morning.
TSA officers will no longer be allowed to sit on the job. The Transportation Security Administration announced that it is removing chairs from airport checkpoints nationwide, saying the policy change is meant to keep officers “alert.”
San Diego County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a homicide near a gas station in Vista on Wednesday.
Voter information pamphlets for California’s Nov. 3 general election are being mailed to more than 2 million registered voters in San Diego County beginning this weekend.
This historic heat wave will continue for another couple days before the heat finally starts to break in time for the weekend.
A La Jolla church took a special Sunday worship service to the sand for the first time, gathering the congregation at La Jolla Shores to bless surfers and their boards.
The San Diego Regional Auto Theft Task Force (RATT) is investigating a series of vehicle thefts in the Pacific Beach and La Jolla areas.
A search and recovery operation is underway after a U.S. Marine, who was serving aboard the USS Anchorage during a training, was reported missing early Thursday, off the coast of Southern California, according to a press release from the U.S. Navy.
A California couple on vacation in Mexico witnessed a man get attacked and killed by a crocodile near their hotel Friday night.
With San Diego Pride roughly two weeks away, businesses and residents in Hillcrest say they’re growing increasingly frustrated as construction on the long-awaited Pride Promenade continues with no clear end in sight.
Casa de Venezuela San Diego is leading a relief effort to support victims of the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, as the death toll has surpassed 1,400 people as of Saturday at noon. More than 3,000 people have been injured, and thousands remain missing.
Almost 200 motorcyclists took to the roads across North County, Saturday, helping raise more than $100,000 for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in San Diego County.
A San Diego attorney has filed a $35 million claim against the city of San Diego, alleging an exposed parking meter base on a Mission Hills sidewalk caused a 70-year-old man to suffer a broken neck and back after a fall.