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The board of supervisors unanimously approved Tuesday to respond with new measures to a state audit that singles out the county for a high number of deaths in custody, and warns that "deficiencies" of wardens may have contributed to those deaths.

An investigation is underway for a 25 year veteran of the San Diego Sheriffs Department after a video was posted online of a citizen-led sting operation alleged he was soliciting sex from an underage boy.  

A man’s second-degree murder conviction of 56 years to life in state prison was upheld by an appellate court on Friday for stabbing his Chula Vista housemate 66 times, then dumping his body into San Diego Bay in a barrel.

In 2019, State Farm says it paid $2.5 million for 1,104 catalytic converter theft claims in California.

A large commercial structure fire broke out on Thursday afternoon that damaged a Chula Vista storage facility. According to the Chula Vista Fire Department spokesman Capt. Josh Sanders, the fire broke out minutes after 1 p.m. at the Storage Outlet Self Storage

The Chula Vista Police Department is the only law enforcement agency in the country authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly drones in emergency response.

This surveillance was in the leading companies that make cash transfers to relatives in Mexico and other Latin American countries.

The defendants have swindled over $300,000 from at least 10 elderly San Diego County residents. 

Three civil rights law firms were denied their plea to provide further protections against COVID-19 in San Diego County Jails by Jude Joel R Wohfeil, who upheld his tentative ruling on Monday.

Mexican authorities have identified a U.S. citizen as the killer who shot and killed photojournalist Margarito Martínez Esquivel in Tijuana in January.