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The fatality occurred just north of Las Pulgas Road

Motorcyclist killed in crash near Camp Pendleton Jaromir Chalabala and last updated 2021-01-16 21:46:26-05 OCEANSIDE, Calif. (KGTV) - A motorcyclist died in a crash on northbound Interstate 5 near Camp Pendleton Saturday. According to a California Highway Patrol, the crash happened around 4 p.m. Saturday on I-5 north near Las Pulgas Canyon Road, but its unclear if another vehicle was involved. A witness told CHP deputies they saw a blue sedan in the center divider. The witness said the sedan c...

Print Thirty years ago the United States and coalition allies launched Operation Desert Storm in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. Initially considered an unqualified success for the international coalition, America’s military intervention in the Middle East has had long-term repercussions. From the San Diego Tribune, Thursday, January 17, 1991: Air strike on Baghdad is felt here Tears and cheers greet news of war Advertisement When the bombs hit Baghdad, San Diego shook...

Print David Matuszak has been surfing the waters of San Diego County for more than 40 years. One of his favorite spots is San Onofre State Beach on the northern tip of Camp Pendleton. About eight years ago, he got the idea to write about the memories of his friend Wally Duesler, a pioneer surfer who first surfed San Onofre in 1937. He envisioned a 50- to 100-page booklet. But before he even began his research, Duesler told his surfing buddies about the idea and they wanted to share their memor...

Joe Raedle/Getty Images Trump presidential-library talk is heating up among historians and Washington insiders. The ex-president and his supporters might use the opportunity to build a shrine to Trump that attacks his critics.  Expect a Trump library or museum to be a major battleground over defining his legacy.  Historians and presidential-library buffs say theyre worried that any sort of presidential library or museum built by Donald Trumps allies will be used ...

Why so many military veterans and former and current police officers support — and take part in — far-right groups and protests

"It's an incredibly disturbing trend," retired U.S. Army Col. Jeffrey D. McCausland, a professor of national security at Dickinson College and former dean at the U.S. Army War College, said in an interview. "These are people who are supposed to uphold the Constitution and the law, yet they were doing the exact opposite."

“It was scary to see that people could actually break into our nations Capitol," he said. The Joint Chiefs of Staff were also troubled by the insurrection and sent a letter signed by military leadership to all active duty service members, National Guard, and reservists denouncing the actions of the rioters and condemning the violence on Capitol Hill. They called the storming of the Capitol a "direct assault of the U.S. Congress, Capitol Building, and our Constitutional process.” The Joint ...

Photograph by Matthew Suárez What needs protecting? The beach and the bluff. Both things make the coast and the coast is being ravaged. The Sand at Encinitas Jayme Timberlake — tide-watcher, restoration ecologist, avid surfer — light-foots it down Encinitas’s iconic Stone Steps. She’s barefoot, having kicked off her shoes and left them on the sand-dusted floor of her truck cab. Desk-chained me follows, white legs and black tennies. We gaze up at the sentinel sandstone cliff-backs besid...