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Records obtained by The Associated Press show a convicted sex offender charged with killing a 17-year-old San Diego County girl could have been sent back to prison in 2007 for violating his parole. ...

As the safety investigation into the Toyota Prius continues, the county is taking a closer look at its own fleet. ...

The Poway community is preparing to celebrate the life of Chelsea King, the 17-year-old high school senior who went for a jog in Rancho Bernardo and never came home. ...

Another San Diego driver is speaking out about her scary moments at the wheel of a Toyota Prius. ...

An environmental report card is out for the City of San Diego. San Diego Coast Keeper says it reviewed city council minutes between October 2008 and December 2009. ...

Five people are displaced after fire ripped through a home in Del Cerro Wednesday night at a duplex along the 6000 block of Caminito Plata. ...

A federal jury in San Diego has awarded more than http://feeds.feedburner.com/News8LocalNews million to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who says he was roughed up by Chula Vista police officers during an undercover operation. ...

A letter carrier who is a registered sex offender has been reassigned after concerns were raised that he was delivering mail in a San Diego suburb with many children, a Postal Service spokeswoman said Wednesday. ...

He'd been convicted of molesting a child, but the postal service still allowed this worker to deliver mail in neighborhoods across San Diego County. Now a local congressman is calling for an investigation into the hiring of this convicted sex offender. ...

The son of a woman found murdered inside her Valley Center home has been arrested in Arizona. ...

California's practice of shredding the parole files of sex offenders one year after parole is served is now on hold because of the slaying of Poway teen Chelsea King.

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David Irving Epstein, 87, was killed in a San Diego car accident the morning of March 2, 2010 after he lost control of his Toyota sedan and crashed into a big rig on Route 15.

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A 65-year-old Lakeside woman was taken into custody after Animal Control officials found sixty dogs in her small home.

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A Southern California letter carrier who is a registered sex offender has been reassigned after concerns were raised that he was delivering mail in an area with many children.

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A pot-laden panga crashed on Santa Rosa Island off the Santa Barbara coast, and four Mexicans who had been aboard the vessel were arrested, federal agents in San Diego said Tuesday.

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A San Diego assemblyman called Tuesday for changes in California's sex offender laws in the wake of Chelsea King's murder and the arrest of a registered sex offender in the case.

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This undated file image provided by the Dubois family shows Amber Dubois. Authorities in Southern California say the skeletal remains of Dubois, a 14-year-old girl who disappeared a year ago while walking to school, have been found in a remote area of the Pala Indian Reservation.

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Extra ounselors were on hand today at Escondido High School to help students cope with the weekend discovery of 14-year-old Amber Dubois' skeletal remains, more than a year after the freshman disappeared while walking to school.

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The death of an infant found unconscious and unresponsive in a baby swing in a Serra Mesa apartment last fall has been ruled a homicide, the county Medical Examiner's Office reported Monday.

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A California Highway Patrol officer helped slow a runaway Toyota Prius from 94 mph to a safe stop on Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck on a San Diego County freeway, the CHP said.

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A man who law enforcement officials dubbed the "Long Jaw Bandit'' pleaded guilty Monday to robbing 35 San Diego-area businesses over a four-month period last year.

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Reporting from San Diego - A yearlong search for a missing 14-year-old girl from Escondido has ended with the discovery of her skeletal remains in a remote area of northern San Diego County, police said.

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In this photo released by the Government Press Office on Friday June 1, 2007, Israeli army paratroopers Zion Karasanti, left, Yitzhak Yifat, center, and Haim Oshri, right, stand next to the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City after it was captured on June 7, 1967.

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Termed-out San Diego City Councilwoman Donna Frye announced Wednesday that she will not run for the county Board of Supervisors.

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A 90-year-old retired fighter pilot from Rancho Bernardo will receive the French Legion of Honor Medal Saturday for his service during World War II.

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