The Latest Breaking News from San Diego

SAN DIEGO — It was a three-person operation based out of a compact, single-story home on Windsong Lane in Escondido — just one small piece of the massive fraud that scammed at least $20 billion in unemployment benefits intended for California workers who lost jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic.

SAN DIEGO — A Camp Pendleton-based Marine has been charged with cyberstalking several young women, accused of demanding sexually explicit photos and videos online and then repeatedly harassing and threatening them when they refused to comply, according to a complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES — For six months, Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer and a San Diego woman have waited to hear whether he would be charged with sexual assault over two encounters that his representatives said were "wholly consensual" and the woman said were not.

Prosecutors were unable to prove a San Diego woman’s accusations of physical and sexual abuse beyond a reasonable doubt, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office.

Dean Spanos made a mistake uprooting his team from San Diego, where he had a chance to make the Bolts a truly international franchise

SAN DIEGO — In a 2016 essay about life in academia, Monica Casper said that “in a shallow Twitter zeitgeist” you need to speak in a nuanced way when talking to the public about hot-button issues.

SAN DIEGO — Even as journalists in dozens of cities across Mexico held vigils and demonstrations in recent weeks to protest vicious killings of two of their colleagues, the threats against local Tijuana reporters continued to pour in on social media and in person.

SAN DIEGO — Caltrans has moved closer to installing a suicide barrier on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge with a new report that identifies a vertical stainless steel net as the best option.

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego-based Marine Corps reservist is under investigation by the Marines after membership interviews with a white supremacist hate group were leaked by activists and highlighted in a subsequent Southern Poverty Law Center report on the high percentage of applicants that claimed military ties.