Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman, a coastal expert and professor at Florida International University, has named San Diego's own Coronado Beach the number one beach in America. more ›

A new report has determined that a deadly 2011 Marine helicopter crash at Camp Pendleton was caused by a bird strike. That bird, specifically, was a female red-tailed hawk. more ›

A 92-year-old San Diego woman who sold $40 suicide kits was sentenced to five years' supervised probation today for failing to pay taxes on her home business. more ›

Police in San Diego County's Oceanside are investigating a possible shooting involving former NFL star Junior Seau. The details surrounding the situation are quite murky. Law enforcement officials told TMZ 43-year-old Seau is dead, but the information has yet to be confirmed. more ›

UC San Diego senior Daniel Chong, detained in a drug bust April 21, says he was left alone in his tiny federal holding cell for five days, forgotten by the agents who put him there. During his confinement he drank his own urine, and inadvertently ate shards of glass and methamphetamine discarded in the cell. more ›

Police arrested a San Diego man last weekend who was spotted sacrificing his 8-year-old son in a cemetery. Joseph Ramirez, 30, took three of his children on a field trip to Mount Hope Cemetery in San Diego Saturday afternoon and began slicing the forearms of his young son. more ›

Three bodies were recovered from the water among the ruins of a yacht early this morning near the Coronado Islands off the coast of Mexico. The skipper of the Redondo Beach-based yacht Theo Mavromatis and his crew were racing 212 other boats in a 125-mile race from Newport Beach to Ensenada. more ›

A Las Vegas man who admitted to smuggling 159 pounds of iguana meat from Mexico into the U.S. was sentenced today to two years in federal prison. Eliodoro Soria Fonseca admitted in San Diego federal court "that he intentionally concealed the iguana meat inside several coolers because he lacked the necessary import permits from the U.S. or Mexican governments." more ›

Many people have watched golf tournaments, or perhaps even played, at the famous Torrey Pines course in San Diego County. Fewer are aware that the course is named after one of America’s rarest trees, the Pinus Torreyana or Torrey Pine. The pines are noted for their rambling, twisted limbs, the result of exposure to the winds on the coastlines where they grow. more ›

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign trail brings him to Southern California today, and we assume he stopped by his pad in San Diego's ritzy La Jolla neighborhood while fundraising in the area on Monday to remember the residence as-is, as he's planning a massive renovation. more ›

A woman severely beaten in her El Cajon home this week died from her injuries yesterday, and now police are investigating whether the act constituted a hate crime. The woman Shaima Alawadi, 32, was Iraqi but she has been living here since 1993, and she was the mother of five, according to San Diego's KUSI. more ›

The family of "Kony 2012" filmmaker Jason Russell has issued a statement on his health, explaining his recent public meltdown. Russell's family says he was diagnosed with "brief reactive psychosis" following his naked rant on the streets of a Pacific Beach neighborhood last Thursday and will remain hospitalized for several weeks. more ›

Footage of "Kony 2012" filmmaker Jason Russell's recent public meltdown in San Diego has gone viral and has been entertaining the world for the past few days. Unfortunately, we do not have another video to show you today, but we do have more information on the depth of shit Russell's in after losing his shit. more ›

A new video of "Kony 2012" filmmaker Jason Russell shows an up-close-and-personal view of his meltdown on the streets of San Diego. He curses incoherently, screams at the devil and claps his hands. more ›

Jason Russell's family is blaming extreme dehydration, exhaustion and above all the haters for her husband's very public, naked, masturbatory meltdown in the streets of San Diego. more ›

Can you imagine what the mood was like at Invisible Children headquarters today after news broke that co-founder Jason Russell went apeshit on the streets of San Diego? Los Angeles Times San Diego bureau chief Tony Perry checked in at the non-profit's headquarters just long enough to send a dispatch. more ›

Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell, the man who launched a thousand memes, was caught on tape having a meltdown. more ›

Jason Russell, co-founder of the "Kony 2012" project and the filmmaker behind the controversial and viral Invisible Children video, was arrested in San Diego. The "mastermind" behind the high profile campaign was hauled in for "allegedly being drunk in public and masturbating," as well as for "vandaliz[ing] cars." more ›

Los Angeles, it looks like San Diego has beat us to the new Starbucks buzz. And we're okay with that. In January, the coffee giant announced plans to serve booze at a handful of SoCal locations by the end of 2012, and Starbucks confirmed today that the first local spot to start pouring alcoholic beverages is a cafe in San Diego's Coronado. more ›

A San Diego high school art teacher has been put on administrative leave after allegedly forcing a female student to urinate in a bucket in front of other students. The 14-year-old student claims the teacher, Gonja Wolf, at Patrick Henry High School refused her urgent request to use the restroom and directed the student to use a bucket in a "small room adjacent to the class," according to a statement from Principal Patricia Crowder. more ›

Just a little entry into the bizarro crime files from our friends to the south in San Diego: "A man wearing purple tights and a tutu with his genitals exposed was arrested early Wednesday on suspicion of burglarizing" a church in the Allied Gardens area, reports the Union-Tribune. more ›

Well done, humans. You've unleashed an invention to provoke the lazy in our furry best friends. Instead of happily roaming backyards and wreaking havoc on toys, dogs will morph into couch pet-atoes while watching DOGTV. Yes, you read that correctly. more ›

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 ›