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An obscure plaque honoring a highway dedicated to Confederate President Jefferson Davis was quickly and quietly removed from the floor of a pavilion at a downtown San Diego park Wednesday morning.

Former San Diego mayor Bob Filner, who was forced out by sexual harassment scandals shortly after taking office, is on a new mission: “I’m helping the #Left become #progressive again!”

Nearly 30 years after their initial installation, the iconic “running immigrant” yellow signs that once dotted California’s freeways near the southern border have been disappearing over the past several years. Now there’s just one left.

About a dozen concerned residents of the southern San Diego County border town of Imperial Beach gathered in front of the Mexican Consulate on Thursday to complain about illegal sewage spills across the border in a protest dubbed “Stop the Poop.”

Arrests of illegal immigrants have more than doubled in San Diego, California, under President Trump’s immigration orders.

A massive brawl broke out at a San Diego, California concert early Thursday morning after rapper XXXTentacion was punched and knocked unconscious by an audience member who rushed the stage.

If the best jokes are stolen, the best comedians don’t think it’s funny when they’re accused of ripping off material.

SAN DIEGO — Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, Attorney General Sessions, and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) concluded a visit to the border on Friday with a tough message for “sanctuary city” jurisdictions, including California.

Out of up to 450 companies bidding to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, approximately 20 will be chosen to construct prototypes in eastern San Diego County this June.

A new review of the restaurant industry in San Diego, California, shows that since its minimum wage hike to $11.50 per hour, the city has lost a whopping 4,000 restaurant jobs.

Though national news of Zika infections have quieted with a winter slowdown in spread of the disease, San Diego, California recently saw the first baby born with a severe Zika-related birth defect.

Last week, a group of vandals targeted the Chabad at San Diego State University (SDSU) and broke one of the branches of their free-standing menorah, which the Jewish people use to celebrate Hanukkah.

A new report in the Orange County Register suggests that Republican Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) of San Diego has turned to the left after nearly losing his congressional seat in the 2016 election, in a state where being anti-Trump may help (or not).

Immigration activists and anti-Trump protesters rallied across California on Saturday, as news — both real and fake — of new deportations spread throughout the country. “No ban, no wall, sanctuary for all!”

The governors of Texas and eight other states have taken aim at California’s restriction on concealed carry permit holders and urge that their citizens “should not be forced to check their gun rights at the [California] border.”

Singer Joy Villa donned a dress with the “Make America Great Again” slogan at the Grammys Sunday night, thanks to the help of one San Diego fashion designer.

San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and Tijuana, Mexico Mayor Manuel Gastelum held a joint press conference in San Diego to stress their continued cooperation, despite mounting tensions between the U.S. and Mexican governments, and blockades on the Mexican side of the border.

A new study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has found that California lost a net 589,100 jobs from 2001 to 2015, after China entered the World Trade Organization.

SAN DIEGO, California — The Obama administration announced on Wednesday that the site of 1970 Latino protests in San Diego, known as “Chicano Park,” had received designation as a National Historic Landmark, along with 23 other U.S. sites.

For the second night in a row Sunday night, demonstrators protesting gas price hikes in Mexico blocked south traveling vehicle traffic at the busiest land port of entry in the western hemisphere, where vehicles leave the United States at San Diego to enter Mexico.

An arrest by the FBI Border Corruption Task Force has led to a married couple pleading guilty to smuggling illegal immigrants. The wife admitted to bribing a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official with cash and sex to facilitate the trafficking. The CBP officer has also been arrested.

San Diego’s moderate Republican mayor, Kevin Faulconer, may make a run for Governor of California in 2018 against a tough Democratic field.

SAN DIEGO, California — SeaWorld will bid its iconic orca shows farewell on Sunday, January 8 as the final California performance is held.

For the second time in San Diego, California, twins were born in separate years on New Year’s Eve 2016 and New Year’s day 2017.

A man accused of gouging out another man’s eye and biting a piece of his nose off during a fight in San Diego has been arrested Thursday, the San Diego Union Tribune reported.

In sunny southern California, a couple is celebrating the election of President-elect Donald J. Trump with their Christmas tree, despite a potential backlash. They already have plans for a re-election tree in four years.

A dual Iranian-U.S. citizen who was sentenced to 18 years in prison this past October wrote what appears to be a suicide note to his girlfriend in San Diego from his prison cell where he said that he is thinking about ending his life “to become free.”

The southern Californian Republican congressman in consideration for Secretary of State told Breitbart News he shares the worldview of President-elect Donald J. Trump and he would gladly leave Congress to lead the Trump State Department.

An Iranian court has sentenced Golamreza “Robin” Shahini, a dual American-Iranian citizen from San Diego, to 18 years in prison for allegedly “collaborating with a foreign government” and for Facebook posts.

A pickup truck swerved and drove over the San Diego-Coronado Bridge on Saturday, plunged over 60 feet, and landed onto a crowd, crushing and immediately killing four people who were attending the annual La Raza motorcycle event at Chicano Park.

A Lyft driver who was trying to help a drunk passenger in his car was struck and killed by a vehicle in a hit-and-run incident early Saturday morning on State Route 94 in San Diego.

YG — the rapper behind the song “F*ck Donald Trump” — opened up his concert tour of the same name in San Diego on Sunday by inviting fans onstage to beat a piñata bearing the likeness of the Republican presidential candidate.

A two-block area of San Diego’s Mount Hope neighborhood will be sprayed for mosquitoes who could potentially carry the Zika virus next next week, after a resident tested positive for the disease.

SAN DIEGO, California — Border Patrol agents in North San Diego County tracked down two men in two separate vehicles that were apparently working in tandem to smuggle more than $3 million in illicit cash in the United States on Tuesday.

A 93-year-old World War II veteran, Ernie Andrus, marked the end of a nearly 2,600 mile run across the United States when he finally dipped his toes in the Atlantic Ocean at St. Simon’s Island, Georgia, on Saturday morning, nearly three years after starting his marathon journey in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego.

A 45-year-old woman from San Diego has been sentenced to 50 months in prison for conspiring to broker the $50-million sale of military equipment to China, including fighter jet engines, a drone capable of firing missiles, and related technical data without the required consent of the U.S. government.