The City Council agreed in principle today to ask San Diego voters to approve a temporary half-cent sales tax increase that would be levied only if nearly a dozen financial reform milestones are met.
Firefighters are making an aggressive air attack against a large brush fire burning west of Palmdale that's threatening the power supply to all of Southern California.
What began as an apparently unprovoked fight between two women outside a Chula Vista taco shop early Friday ended with one man being repeatedly stabbed and a woman being arrested, police said.
A Marine accused of throwing a kitten into a patio wall at a friend's home last year, seriously injuring the feline, pleaded not guilty Thursday to a felony animal cruelty charge.