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After months of waiting, all public and private schools in San Diego County received the green light to reopen for instruction starting Wednesday, now that the county’s COVID case rate has finally stayed low enough to reach the state’s less-restrictive red tier. The momentous yet expected tier announcement by county officials Tuesday, along with a decision by a county judge on Monday, cleared the way for an expanded reopening at some North County districts that have for weeks been asking t...

OCEANSIDE —  Oceanside police officers, county health workers and several service providers staged what likely was the largest homeless outreach event ever held in the city at a growing encampment just off Oceanside Boulevard on Monday morning. “Good morning, good morning,” Oceanside Police Officer Jose Perez said outside a tent alongside South Oceanside Boulevard shortly before 7 a.m. Monday. “Anyone in the tent? Can I just speak to you for a minute?” Perez, a member of the police ...

ESCONDIDO —  A growing memorial of flowers and candles marks the intersection in Escondido where two men were killed by a vehicle Feb. 12, as residents who didn’t know the victims have come to show their respects. Mateo Salvador, 33, and Sofio Sotelo Torres, 51, were sleeping in bushes next to a wall near Mission Avenue and Ash Street when an SUV struck them late Friday night. Police investigators said a 13-year-old girl was at the wheel and had taken her mother’s vehicle without permi...

The transition from Trump to Biden is already being felt in San Diego [The San Diego Union-Tribune] It’s only been a few days, and already the official transition of power in Washington, D.C., has touched San Diego in concrete ways. A flurry of executive orders from President Joe Biden’s first 24 hours in office has halted construction on border wall projects, pledged further protection for the county’s 27,000 DACA recipients, and frozen deportation orders for an unknown number of local m...

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