Becky Stickney

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife is collaborating with the facility and animal welfare organizations across the country to relocate 470 exotic animals, including 42 chimpanzees.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrested a Marine for allegedly smuggling migrants through the San Ysidro Port of Entry, the department announced Tuesday.

California Rep. Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to misuse campaign funds and could face up to five years in prison when he is sentenced in March.

Rep. Duncan Hunter speaks to media after pleading guilty in his corruption case.

California Rep. Duncan Hunter said he plans to plead guilty to misusing campaign funds and is prepared to go to jail. It’s a stunning turn of events for the six-term Republican who had steadfastly denied wrongdoing and claimed he was the victim of a political witch hunt by federal prosecutors. Hunter had pleaded not guilty, but in an interview that...

A 59-year-old woman was shopping in the cosmetics section when another woman, 55, approached her, made verbal threats, grabbed her by the hair and cut her neck with a boxcutter, SDPD officer Tony Martinez confirmed.

Over 30 people were trapped a few feet off the ground on a newly reopened SeaWorld San Diego roller coaster Saturday.

An early-morning fall from a dorm room bunk bed contributed to the death of a San Diego State University student last week, according to a report from the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s office.

Police are looking for a gunman who walked into a Church’s Chicken restaurant in Otay Mesa Wednesday evening and shot three employees, killing one of them.

The parents of a woman killed in a mysterious crash along State Route 52 in April has filed two wrongful death complaints against the city and county, and blame local first responders for their daughter’s death.

Roughly 24,000 customers were left without power in the Mid-City area Tuesday afternoon after a bird flew into a substation, according to San Diego Gas and Electric.

A DNA match led San Diego police to arrest a man accused of sexually assaulting an elderly resident of a nursing home in Hillcrest.

Five months after a jury convicted Kellen Winslow Jr. of raping a homeless woman, the former NFL player pleaded guilty to additional rape and sexual battery charges during a retrial Monday.

A San Diego man dressed up for Halloween Thursday night suffered major burn injuries when a candle inside his jack-o’-lantern lit his costume on fire, turning him into a walking “fireball.”

A jewelry sale arrangement made by two OfferUp app users led to gunshots Tuesday night in the parking lot of a Chula Vista Costco.

A brand new United States Naval Ship was christened on Saturday in honor of a decorated Vietnam War veteran. USNS Miguel Keith (ESB 5) was unveiled in San Diego on Saturday morning at General Dynamics NASSCO along East Harbor Drive.

A man was arrested Friday in connection to a house fire in Logan Heights, California that killed his parents and sister and injured two more of his siblings, according to the San Diego Police Department. Wilber Romero, 26, faces three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, and arson, police said. Just before 4:30 a.m. on Oct....

Cocaine valued at an estimated $92 million was seized by the U.S. Coast Guard from boats in the Pacific Ocean has been brought to San Diego.

An armed man sprayed three San Diego County Sheriff’s Department deputies with “bear spray” and stabbed a deputy K-9 in the head Tuesday morning in Jamul.

A mother of two was recovering in a hospital Sunday after losing part of her arm in a deadly rollover crash in Escondido last month.