A Long Beach man who trafficked two young girls to the San Diego area to work as prostitutes was sentenced this week to nine years in federal prison. Deonathan Abdul Gaston, 26, transported the 15 and 16 year old to San Diego last summer, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

A man gunned down a young couple and a toddler in Normal Heights nearly 25 years ago over about $30 worth of methamphetamine, a prosecutor argued Wednesday, while a defense attorney said there was no evidence his client committed the shooting outside of the word of untrustworthy witnesses. Sergio Lopez...

Lawmakers in Arizona’s House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to repeal an 1864 ban on abortion that may go into effect next month. In a 32-28 vote, lawmakers decided that the old abortion ban should be repealed. The Arizona state Senate must now also vote to repeal the bill before the 160-year-old ban is knocked down.

A predawn hit-and-run near Chollas Lake Park left a pedestrian dead Wednesday. The victim, described only as male, was crossing the street at College Avenue and Federal Boulevard in Lemon Grove when a vehicle struck him shortly before 12:30 a.m., according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. Following...

A man robbed a gas station early Wednesday in North Park, the San Diego Police Department reported. The robbery happened at 2:50 a.m. in the 3200 block of University Avenue, according to SDPD Officer David O’Brien. A man entered the Speedway gas station, approached the front counter, and displayed...

A 17-year-old boy was stabbed twice in the ribs in the Bay Terraces neighborhood, San Diego Police Department said Wednesday. According to OnScene TV police officers believed the stabbing occurred near the WingStop in a strip mall at Alta View Drive and South Woodman. OnScene added officers canvassed the area...

As Mother’s Day approaches, commercial genealogical sites will once again target the inboxes of Americans with special offers to delve electronically into their family history. Many will take the plunge, enticed by an online trove of information and the chance to learn a fascinating detail in the recesses of an unexplored past. But fair warning: prepare for the possibility of dramatic, even unwelcome finds in establishing the historical record.

In the legal equivalent of a bare-knuckles brawl, defense lawyers and prosecutors in the January 2021 Pacific Beach violence accused each other at trial of lying. Closing arguments Monday and Tuesday in downtown Superior Court saw Jeremy White’s defense counsel lash a deputy district attorney for “insinuating” crimes, “reaching” for conclusions and “misrepresenting” videos.

San Diego County will conduct its first routine aerial larvicide drop of the year Wednesday to stop mosquitoes from potentially spreading diseases. County officials said helicopter larvicide drops will be done Wednesday, and Thursday if necessary, to cover nearly 1,400 acres of hard-to- reach potential mosquito breeding areas in 52 local waterways.

Two brothers who kidnapped three people without documentation and held them for ransom at an Escondido home in 2023 pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges, prosecutors said. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said that Virves Pablo-Francisco, 22, and his brother Nicolas Pablo-Francisco, 20, held a father and son from Ecuador and...

Tesla said it will lay off 6,020 employees in California and Texas ahead of its quarterly results on Tuesday when CEO Elon Musk is expected to outline the electric-vehicle maker’s strategy to combat slowing demand and falling margins. Last week, Tesla announced a more than 10% cut in its...

A man who tried to grab a California Highway Patrol officer’s gun during an altercation on Interstate 8 in Mission Valley, leaving the lawman with a gunshot to a leg, was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 23 years in state prison. Yuhao Du, 27, pleaded guilty earlier this year to...

An out-of-control vehicle veered off an Escondido thoroughfare Tuesday and crashed into a fuel pump at an adjacent gas station, knocking it over and leaving a man trapped underneath it until emergency crews could free him. The accident occurred shortly after 10 a.m., when two vehicles collided at East Valley...

A coalition of mayors from the state’s largest cities, including San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, Tuesday visited Sacramento to urge Gov. Gavin Newsom and the legislature to make permanent funding homelessness services across California. The Big City Mayors coalition, chaired by Gloria, requested Newsom and legislators avoid making cuts...

A suspect with a “very violent criminal history” was in custody Tuesday for allegedly shooting a Los Angeles County sheriff’s motorcycle deputy in the back at a West Covina intersection — with a bulletproof vest saving the lawman’s life. Raymundo Duran, 47, was arrested in...

British Airways will increase the frequency of flights between San Diego and London from one flight per day to two, it was announced Tuesday. Since San Diego International Airport first started offering the flights in 2011, British Airways has served about 2 million passengers traveling between San Diego and Europe, according to the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority. The market for the flight has grown 50% from 2019 to 2023, the agency said.

A predawn shooting in City Heights left one man dead Tuesday and another behind bars on suspicion of murder. The homicide in the 4000 block of 36th Street was reported shortly before 2:30 a.m., according to the San Diego Police Department. “The preliminary investigation showed the victim was standing in...

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing to $129 million. One ticket with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, was sold in New York and is worth $1 million, according...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has been busy lately, or so it would seem from the never-ending stream of press releases from the Department of Justice. If he’s not announcing successful prosecution for possession of child pornography (April 11) or commenting on a U.S. Supreme Court decision (April 12), Bonta’s staging a news conference to announce a lawsuit against the city of Huntington Beach for imposing its own voting requirements (April 14), releasing final regulations of one-line charities (April 16), or declaring outcome of investigation into an officer-involved shooting (April 17).