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Martinez won the Pennsylvania Golden Gloves State championship at 132 pounds to advance to the national event

We have details on San Diego County’s budget for the next fiscal year. It will be bigger than this year’s spending plan. In other news, UC San Diego students continue their encampment in support of Palestinians caught in the Israel-Hamas War. Plus, an original play about family, food and love is making its in-person debut at the Old Globe this weekend.

The advocacy group Mano Amiga said they've submitted signatures to repeal the civil service status for San Marcos police.

San Marcos advocacy group Mano Amiga Safe Communities submitted a petition Tuesday asking for five city ordinance changes, which the group calls the "Hartman Reforms."

Eric Martinez, MD, at Baylor Scott & White Health, discusses how living kidney donors can help those in need of a transplant.  What You Need to Know:

Units were dispatched to a residential fire call around 4:20 a.m. Saturday in the 180 block of East Naples Street, according to the Chula Vista Fire Department.

A federal judge has ordered Caldwell County to hold public bail hearings in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of officials there allowing only people arrested and on-duty magistrates to attend such proceedings.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

The Texas Tribune, the Caldwell/Hays Examiner and advocacy group Mano Amiga sued the county over its practice of holding closed magistrations.

Fears of falling into a debt trap push some jeepney drivers to sell their units to junk shops instead of consolidating their franchises with cooperatives

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has delivered a body blow to free speech as well as academic freedom in a ruling against a statistics professor at North Carolina State University.  Professor Stephen Porter objected to what he considered the lower standards used by his school to hire minority faculty. The…