Southern California Man Charged With Murdering Family Of Four
Investigators say Charles "Chase" Merritt was responsible for the 2010 abduction and murder of Joseph McStay, his wife, and their two young children.
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Investigators say Charles "Chase" Merritt was responsible for the 2010 abduction and murder of Joseph McStay, his wife, and their two young children.
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A retired San Diego police criminalist apparently killed himself after being linked to the murder of a 14-year-old girl three decades ago, say authorities.
Rescuers searched an area of the far western Pacific Ocean Saturday for a Navy fighter pilot whose jet was one of two that crashed west of Wake Island.
United Taxi Workers of San Diego says it perpetuates a stereotype that predominantly foreign-born taxi drivers smell bad.
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An 11-year-old boy at a Boy Scout camp in San Diego died from a gunshot wound to the head Monday morning, and police were investigating whether the shooting was self-inflicted or accidental.
Tony Gwynn, the Hall of Famer with a sweet left-handed swing who spent his entire 20-year career with the Padres and was one of San Diego's most beloved athletes, died of cancer Monday. He was 54.
The man backed over his wife, killing her, and was then killed when he got out of the truck to try to help her, say authorities.
The last of tens of thousands of evacuees returned home Saturday after firefighters scoured charred hillsides north of San Diego to guard against a resurgence of flames that ripped through the region this week.
57-year-old man has been charged with setting one of the wildfires that burned through San Diego County.
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Homes are being evacuated in Southern California where a wildfire fanned by gusty winds is burning near housing tracts and a second fire has destroyed a mobile home.
Fishing vessel caught fire and sank hundreds of miles off Mexico's Pacific coast, Air Force rescuers parachuted into the water to reach the ship.
A family lifted from a disabled sailboat hundreds of miles off the Mexican coast with their sick 1-year-old thanked rescuers and defended their "maritime life" in their first public comments since returning to land.
A U.S. Navy warship was headed Saturday to rescue a 1-year-old girl who fell ill on a crippled sailboat that was attempting to circle the world.
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30 dancers at Cheetahs Gentlemen's Club say officers photographed them nearly nude and made "arrogant" demands.
Officials blamed a lack of information for the arrest of a San Diego woman who spent more than a month in jail before she was released Friday.
U.S. citizen died of methamphetamine overdose at a Border Patrol station near San Diego.
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Signs prohibiting parking near the iconic Bixby Bridge on the Central California coast are set to be installed in the coming days, officials announced Monday.
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Firefighters have fully contained the Dove Fire in Tuolumne County, bringing an end to a weeklong firefight that prompted mandatory evacuations near Sonora and Jamestown and led to the arrest of a man accused of starting the blaze.
Keider Montero pitched six scoreless innings, Eduardo Valencia drove in four runs and the Detroit Tigers completed their first season-series sweep ever against an American League opponent with an 11-0 victory over the Athletics.
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An artificial intelligence model that was being tested by OpenAI went rogue and hacked the firm Hugging Face on its own, in what Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue called a "very weird and unprecedented" incident.
Records reveal California twice missed deadlines to buy the trains at the center of a federal funding fight — then quietly dropped its lawsuit weeks after missing its new deadline.
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