The body of a missing Orange County woman turned up in the county morgue, but her two sons are still missing. Authorities had been looking for Arlet Hernandez Contreras, 31, ever since someone sent to clean the Orange apartment where she lived with her two sons found a blood-stained carpet last week. more ›

Authorities in Orange County have launched a search for the bodies of a missing woman and her two young sons, and the woman's ex-boyfriend has been arrested on suspicion of murder. more ›

As we saw in the 1978 film "Grease," drag racing was once quite common in Southern California, providing a quick yet dangerous solution to almost any problem and serving as a sport and hobby for many SoCalians. Though the SoCal tradition has continued to dwindle since the 1960s, a trio of tracks remains in the region, clinging to what once was a prevalent form of entertainment. 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 ›

This week the New York Times checked in with the curious case of San Diegans who are no longer afraid of drinking water that was once in someone's toilet. more ›

A man died this morning at Gillespie Field in El Cajon after attempting to hand-crank a Piper Cherokee, a light aircraft designed for flight training, air taxi and personal use. During his attempt, the man was struck in the head by an airplane propeller around 8:30am. more ›

Police have arrested a 26-year-old San Diego County man on suspicion of beating his 4-month-old Siberian husky nearly to death. The puppy's injuries were so severe that veterinarians were forced to euthanize him. more ›

A San Diego County boy is accused of fatally stabbing his friend and neighbor. The suspect, a 10-year-old boy with known anger issues, allegedly delivered the deadly stabbing a 12-year-old friend in the younger child's own driveway Monday afternoon, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. The victim was stabbed to death in the chest with a kitchen knife. more ›

The San Diego County Sheriff's Department has seized 58 animals on a ranch — horses, goats, sheep, cattle and llamas — as a part of an investigation into whether the ranch's owners were neglecting their animals. more ›

A father distraught that his son had been killed in an accident earlier today drove into oncoming traffic and died in a separate accident in Eastern San Diego County. more ›

Check it out: A 44-year-old Carlsbad woman was arrested this week after she was found to be in possession of over 2,000 books and DVDs taken from multiple San Diego County libraries. more ›

Authorities are looking for the public's help in finding information relating to the murder of 31-year-old Javier Hernandez Rojas. Rojas' body was found on Friday on the Pala Indian Reservation in Pala, CA, alongside Pala Temecula Road, according to a statement released by the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. Radio station 760 AM notes that there were no obvious injuries on the body. more ›

Meth abuse dropped 43 percent between 2005 and 2009 and arrests for the drug were reduced by more than half, according to the County of San Diego's Methamphetamine Task Force. Despite the results, the county once known as the Meth Capital of the World still saw 28 percent of all arrested adults test positive for the drug in 2009 and 138 deaths. Emergency room admissions related to meth use remained unchanged between 2005 and 2009. more ›

When the home was ignited in a controlled burn, it was a spectacular sight, visible not only in the immediate Escondido neighborhood, but sending up a plume of dark smoke seen from miles away. more ›

State investigators are looking into separate deaths of mountain lions in Southern California, according to the OC Register. A mountain lion being tracked via GPS collar by scientists was shot and killed in Trabuco Canyon on July 3rd. Department of Fish and Game are not releasing any details until the investigation has been completed, but the paper calls the deaths questionable. more ›

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 (previously 5.9, later downgraded) jolted the Borrego Springs area at 4:53 p.m. today. It was widely felt across Southern California, some in the San Diego County area reporting it as a quick jolt and others in Los Angeles as a long deep roll. It was even felt in Las Vegas. more ›

A moderate quake rumbled in San Diego County this morning, but authorities are reporting no calls, damage or injuries, according to CBS2. The magnitude 4.2 quake hit at 8:32 a.m. near Mount Laguna in the Laguna Mountains, which are located in central San Diego County. The epicenter of the quake was about 48 miles east of downtown San Diego. more ›

Using dental records to aid in identification, authorities in Escondido this weekend located the remains of missing 14-year-old Amber Dubois, according to cbs2. The teen had been missing for just over a year. Amber's father, Maurice Dubois, feared his daughter may have been abducted similarly to 17-year-old Chelsea King of San Diego, though the Escondido police "did not say if the discovery [of Amber's remains] was linked to Chelsea's accused killer, John Albert Gardner III." more ›

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