Members of Occupy San Diego tried to make a citizen's arrest of their mayor, Jerry Sanders, but, alas, they were not successful. more ›

Griffin O'Neal, the son of actor Ryan O'Neal, rang in the new year from a San Diego Central Jail after being arrested on domestic violence charges. Cops came to O'Neal's home on 6:23 pm on New Year's Eve, after they received a 9-1-1 call that someone had been drinking too heavily at his home. more ›

A drunk guy threw his puppy at some cops who came to tell him to turn his music down last night. And that's how a noise disturbance complaint at an apartment building in San Diego escalated into a standoff requiring a SWAT team and the evacuation of his neighbors. more ›

Robert McGill, a 57-year-old teacher from Los Angeles, was sentenced to life in prison today by a federal judge for the 2009 murder of his wife during a cruise to Cabo San Lucas. High school sweethearts, the couple had embarked on a five-day Mexican cruise aboard a Carnival Elation ship to celebrate McGill's 55th birthday when he apparently snapped. more ›

Two brothers, ages 20 and 21, were jogging on a trail near Valley Center Middle School in San Diego County's Valley Center on Sunday night when four pit bulls attacked them. The dogs chased and mauled the victims, who remain hospitalized. more ›

Last week, a pregnant fin whale washed ashore in San Diego. Scientists are using the whale's death as an opportunity to study how a dead whale affects the ecosystem of the ocean floor. more ›

San Diego-based sailors are in hot water after being busted for using, possessing and/or distributing the designer drug dubbed "spice." Six investigations of the crew aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan over the past month have identified 28 sailors as the culprits. more ›

During a multi-agency task force investigation coordinated by U.S. and Mexican authorities, over 14 tons of marijuana and a cross-border tunnel between San Diego and Tijuana were discovered on Tuesday. Similar drug smuggling tunnels have been uncovered in recent years, usually located in the light industrial area of San Diego's Otay Mesa neighborhood. more ›

Citing a zoning ordinance that makes marijuana dispensaries illegal in San Diego, a Superior Court judge gave landlords the right to kick pot shops out of their buildings, reports L.A. Now. The decision stemmed from a dispute between Kimber Investment Group and the Medibloom dispensary... more ›

The Occupy protests, as we all know by now, claim to represent the 99% of Americans who aren't the wealthiest in the nation. Among that 99%, it's probably safe to count street vendors, who sometimes hawk their wares in the wee hours of the morning, sometimes among rowdy crowds, and likely don't bring home thousands of dollars from doing so. more ›

SoCal lifeguards might soon be found basking in the limelight in a new reality television show on the Weather Channel. "Southern California Lifeguards" would showcase 13 episodes, featuring lifeguards from Long Beach, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and San Diego. Though perhaps the last thing television needs is another reality flub, this show would not offer the typical shallow drama of most candidates in its pool. more ›

Is it wrong for a girl to be king? Since Rebecca Arellano and Haileigh Adams were crowned homecoming king and queen last week at Patrick Henry High School in San Diego, the school has been flooded with hate mail and disturbing calls. more ›

When millions of people in Southern California, and neighboring Arizona and Mexico, were plunged into the dark and left without power for several hours in early September, everyone wanted to know how such a massive outage could happen. When the lights came back on, it seemed to be just one worker's fault, but that employee's error doesn't explain how widespread the blackout was. more ›

The naked body of a woman authorities first was that of a teenager was discovered washed ashore at Camp Pendleton back on January 4, 2011, and now investigators are hoping the public can help determine how she came to be there. The woman was 58-year-old Anneka Vasta, also known as Anneka Di Lorenzo and Marjorie Thoresen, an actress and Penthouse "Pet of the Year" model from the 1970s. more ›

Prince Harry, who is in Southern California learning how to navigate an Apache attack helicopter, has been spotted with a San Diego cocktail waitress, according to Page Six. more ›

The era of legal pot dispensaries could be coming to an end. Sixteen shops in San Diego received notices from the federal government ordering them to shut down within 45 days, even if they are operating legally under California's 15-year-old medical marijuana law, according the Associated Press. more ›

On March 13, 2011, Irum Abbasi was escorted off of a Southwest Airlines plane by a TSA employee. The Muslim woman from San Diego was wearing a hijab - the Islamic head scarf - while seated on a flight preparing for departure from San Diego to San Jose. A flight attendant became alarmed after hearing something she thought Abbasi said on her cellphone. more ›

When you gotta go, you gotta go, even if it means getting busted: A man considered a "person of interest" in the recent San Diego freeway shooting spree was detained by authorities in Lake View Terrace today when he pulled over to relieve himself. more ›

Algae blooms off the coast of San Diego have been turning waves a rusty red by day and a radiant, bioluminescent blue at night. A video uploaded to YouTube by user LoghanCall shows the phenomenon, including a shot of a surfer catching one of the eerie waves at twilight. more ›

If you're looking to get lucky this weekend, science suggests that you head to San Diego or San Bernadino. According to an OK Cupid survey, the two SoCal cities are among the most promiscuous in the country. CBS News reports on the survey, saying that San Diego slid into the list at #9, while San Bernadino eased it's way on at #7. more ›

Which of the lovebirds in the May-December romance of Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher has been given marching orders out of the relationship? If we're to believe what the great media gossip machine says, it's Kutcher who is in the doghouse, having brought down the six-year marriage with a dalliance with a young woman he met in a San Diego nightclub. Say it isn't so, Ashton! more ›

A man who dressed up as the claymation hero Gumby and his accomplice could face time in the pokey. Jacob Kiss, 19, and his accomplice PokeyJason Giramma, also 19, turned themselves into police after they were caught on tape demanding cigarettes from a convenience store clerk over the Labor Day weekend. more ›

When an electrical outage hit San Diego Thursday night, the rides at Sea World froze, everyone lost refrigerated food, sewage flowed into the ocean — and one utility worker in Arizona bore the brunt of the blame. That's not fair, say ratepayers advocates. more ›

Power is back up and running in San Diego after yesterday's massive blackout which is being called the worst in our state's history. Not only were San Diego Gas & Electric's 1.4 million customers left in the dark, but millions of people in Arizona, California's Orange and Imperial Counties, and even Mexico, were affected. What caused the power to go out? more ›

A major power outage in San Diego is being attributed to a severed power line in Arizona, and currently all 1.4 million San Diego Gas & Electric (SDGE) customers are in the dark. more ›

Gumby - the beloved green clay humanoid - has assumed a life of crime. He reportedly attempted to rob a 7-Eleven in San Diego on Monday. Pokey has not been listed as an accomplice. more ›

We like our hot sauce with tacos, burritos, eggs and mac 'n' cheese. According to Friday's scandalous cargo discovery near San Diego, some prefer a little thousands of pounds of marijuana with said spicy condiment. more ›

27-year-old Christian Borro thought he was driving on borrowed time in a car he'd stolen. He pulled alongside a Los Angeles Police Department squad car on Monday morning and declared to the officers: "I just stole this car." As one might expect, the cops were intrigued, and pulled Borro over to look into his claim. more ›

Does religious imagery have a place alongside state highways? Some in San Diego think not, and have requested that three giant crosses that were erected on a hillside be taken down, according to CBS News. The crosses are located on Inspiration Point, which is inside a city-owned park called Presidio Park. more ›