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Groundbreaking is scheduled Wednesday for a $40 million project that transportation planners hope will be the first step in clearing up a bottleneck on state Route 78 that has become the worst in San Diego County. 

A local woman was shocked to learn her bank sent her account information to another customer by mistake. 

The high cost of housing and financial inequality are the biggest concerns for San Diego's economy, a panel of economic experts said at a City Hall roundtable discussion Tuesday. 

A judge refused Tuesday to issue a temporary restraining order that could have resulted in a pension reform initiative being removed from the June ballot. 

A woman who stole about 2,000 books and DVDs from libraries in Carlsbad, Oceanside and San Diego so she could re-sell them pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony burglary. 

The president of California's Fish and Game Commission is under fire Monday after a photo of him holding a dead mountain lion appeared online. 

About 40,000 people are expected to flock into downtown San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter Tuesday night to celebrate Mardi Gras. 

SDG&E may seek to recover nearly half a billion dollars in the cost of the 2007 wildfires with a rate hike, but the Utility Consumers' Action Network, a consumer watchdog group known as UCAN, is fighting to prevent the increase. 

Border Patrol agents arrested 13 Mexican nationals when a human smuggling boat was intercepted off Ponto Beach at the south end of Carlsbad Monday. 

A fugitive wanted since October, 2010 for the murder of his estranged wife on the San Diego City College campus, was arrested in Tijuana Sunday morning. Now new video has been released of Armando Perez. 

Scary moments for some parents in Point Loma after they thought their children were trapped in a storm drainage tunnel. 

Authorities Sunday released the name of a man who was stabbed to death during an apparent argument near Mt. Hope Cemetery in San Diego. 

A sailor assigned to the USS Carl Vinson, home-ported in San Diego, died during a port visit in the United Arab Emirates, the Department of Defense announced Sunday. 

There will be some closures Monday in observance of the President's Day holiday. 

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in San Diego County rose Sunday to its highest amount since May 25, increasing 2.5 cents to $4.059. 

Sheriff's deputies Sunday sought a man who eluded law enforcement officers after a shooting near the Rincon Indian Reservation. 

There is an update Saturday on a story News 8 brought you earlier in the week about a sea lion that was rescued after being shot. 

Authorities say a naked 12-year-old girl was discovered eating food out of trash cans in Temecula and her mother has been arrested on suspicion of child endangerment. 

Two suspected burglars rammed their vehicle into a La Mesa police car during a car chase, and were arrested Saturday. 

Everyone in La Mesa is invited to Grossmont Center Saturday to be in an aerial photograph that will become part of the city's centennial celebration. 

A motorist whose blood-alcohol level was 4 1/2 times the legal limit when his vehicle slammed into the back of a car in Rancho Bernardo, seriously injuring a young woman, was sentenced Friday to a work furlough program. 

They may be down, but they are certainly not out. On Thursday, hundreds of wounded Marines gathered at Camp Pendleton to kick off an intense athletic competition. 

A Marine accused of driving drunk and causing a rollover accident on a Mission Valley freeway interchange that killed a fellow Marine pleaded not guilty Thursday to three felony charges, including gross vehicular manslaughter. 

Four animals are safe Thursday after being trapped inside a Serra Mesa home that caught fire. 

This time of year, most people are looking for whales off San Diego's coast, but what about a superpod of dolphins? 

A Temecula man accused of driving drunk and crashing his pickup truck into an Escondido home, leaving a man seriously injured, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony DUI charges. 

Officers used an electric stun gun Wednesday to subdue a 14-year-old theft suspect who fought with them as they took him into custody at a Point Loma Heights intermediary school. 

One individual each at adult schools in Oceanside and San Diego were diagnosed with tuberculosis and may have exposed students, faculty and staff, health officials said Wednesday. 

Alcohol and unsafe speed were the primary causes of a Dana Point crash that killed three Camp Pendleton-based U.S. Marines and left a fourth serviceman fighting for his life, a sheriff's spokesman said Wednesday. 

Police took up positions Tuesday afternoon around a parked car believed to be occupied by a home-invasion robbery suspect alongside Interstate 8 in La Mesa, creating a standoff that tangled rush-hour traffic for miles until officers smashed the windows of the sedan and pried open its trunk, apparently finding the vehicle unoccupied. 

Fire and city crews rushed to shut off a massive water geyser early Wednesday morning. 

A speeding car crashed into a tree in Dana Point Tuesday, killing three Camp Pendleton-based U.S. Marines and critically injuring a fourth, authorities said. 

Crews who fought a Kensington-area house fire Tuesday had to maneuver through extreme amounts of clutter stacked throughout the Spanish-style residence, blocking doors and windows, a spokesman said. 

The amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard is scheduled to depart San Diego Tuesday for its new home base of Sasebo, Japan. 

A man watching television in the garage of his Rancho Penasquitos home was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday. 

It was a wet and soggy night and more rain is hitting San Diego County Tuesday morning. 

Three San Diegans were appointed or reappointed Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown to state boards and commissions. 

The work week got off to a blustery start Monday with the arrival of the first of a pair of cold storms expected to chill and soak the San Diego area over the next several days. 

La Mesa police Monday investigated a robbery in which a man was apparently set up by a fellow trolley rider working with an accomplice. 

Beaches north of Oceanside were closed Monday after an estimated 18,000 gallons of sewage spilled near the Santa Margarita River. 

A water main break in Rolando may be bigger than first reported. 

The California Democratic Party voted Sunday to back measures on the June ballot that would raise the tax on tobacco products to fund research into cancer and other smoking-related illness and loosen term limits as it concluded its three-day convention at the San Diego Convention Center. 

A vehicle crashed into a sewer pipe in Camp Pendleton Sunday, causing an estimated 18,000 gallons of sewage to spill near the Santa Margarita River and prompting beach closures north of Oceanside. 

Police today searched for a man who robbed a 71-year-old woman of her purse in the parking lot of the Grossmont Center mall. 

The American Heart Association is partnering with the UCSD Cardiovascular Center for San Diego's first "Go Red Connect" Event. 

Sheriff's detectives from Orange County and San Diego County were in Boulevard Saturday, searching for evidence in the case of a man accused of killing his business partner. 

Authorities are asking for your help identifying a serial bank robber they've dubbed the "Insistent Bandit". 

A 23-year-old man alleged stabbed another man outside a liquor store near the San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego police said Saturday. 

The three-day Democratic State Convention began Friday at the San Diego Bayfront Hilton. 

San Diego police Saturday sought a man suspected of robbing a sandwich shop near Lindbergh Field and then robbing a cab driver of his wallet at gunpoint. 

A proposed alternative to the pension reform initiative set for the June 5 ballot will not be considered by the City Council or its Rules Committee, effectively killing it, council President Tony Young said Thursday. 

San Diego fire crews are in the mop up stages of a car fire that broke out in the parking garage of a downtown Hilton Hotel. 

A shark warning was in effect for Imperial Beach Thursday after a group of surfers spotted a great white just off the coast. 

The 10-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing a 12-year-old friend in East County was described Tuesday by neighbors as angry and aggressive. 

A man on probation for carrying a loaded handgun when he stole iPads at gunpoint from three people trying to sell the devices on Craigslist was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years and eight months in state prison.