Police in El Cajon are investigating the disappearance of a 21-year-old woman, who went missing sometime between late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning.
According to authorities, Frances Jean Agan was reported missing approximately 1:30 a.m. from a home in El Cajon. She was reportedly last seen going to bed at approximately 11 p.m. Police say her purse, cell phone and other personal items were in the room she disappeared from. A window screen in her room had reportedly been cut.
The woman's boyfriend, Maynard Whitfield, 20, is someone police would like to speak with.
Agan's car is also missing, a 2000 Ford Range white pickup, with California license# 6h03939.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at (619) 579-3311.
Former California Insurance Commissioner and current Lt. Gov. John Garamendi announced Thursday morning that he will run for the state's governor post in 2010. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is in the second of his two terms.
Garamendi, a Democrat, ran unsuccessfully for the governor's post in 1982 and 1994. He also lost the 1986 primary for controller to future governor Gray Davis.
Garamendi became the state's first elected insurance commissioner in 1990, a post he held for one term.
In an update to a story we told you about on Tuesday, police have arrested a Boulder Creek dog breeder who was wanted for reportedly mistreating dozen of dogs on his property in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Police reported today that they arrested Robert Brunette, 45. He is suspected of crimes against animals.
A number of dogs were discovered dead on his property, while others were being left without proper living conditions. See (gocalifornia.blogspot.com/2008/07/dozens-of-dead-dogs-discovered-at.html) for the original story.
A California woman, whose body was discovered in the bathroom of a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta on Wednesday, died of a heart abnormality, according to medical examiners in Georgia.
Michaele O'Neil Carnahan of Ventura reportedly had a pre-existing condition. Her body was discovered in Flight 950's bathroom shortly before the plane was to land at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
One group of prisoners will now have an opportunity to practice safe sex while in jail.
A new pilot program that offers free condoms for prison inmates is nearing completion. The Solano State Prison in Vacaville is installing 10 condom distribution machines to be filled with 1,200 condoms a week. The idea according to prison officials is that the condoms will minimize the spread of sexually transmitted diseases among inmates.
Technically, it is against the law for inmates to have sex, and state officials said that won't change. Just now, those who do take the chance will be a little more protected.
And the best thing of all, officials say no taxpayer money will be used for the program.
Police continue to search for a San Francisco man who should not have been released from jail.
According to authorities, Alfredo Guadalupe Ortiz, 28, who was convicted of assaulting his girlfriend, was accidentally released from San Mateo County jail due to a clerical gaffe.
The defendant reportedly failed to appear at a court hearing on Monday. He had been convicted last week of domestic violence, and could have gotten nine years in jail.
The court ordered Ortiz be held without bail, but a sheriff's employee at the Maguire Correctional Facility in Redwood City noted Ortiz's bail at $25,000 instead of no bail.
Ortiz's family reportedly posted the bail and he was released late Friday evening.
Authorities announced on Tuesday that one of two teenage boys accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl found unconscious in a San Fernando Valley park in May has pled guilty to a pair of felony rape counts.
The 15-year-old boy admitted to raping the girl by use of drugs and rape of an unconscious person. He was sentenced to six months at a state youth authority camp, with three felony counts dismissed in the case.
The other individual, a 16-year-old boy, pled guilty in June to a sexual battery charge and will be sentenced in August.
According to authorities, the girl was reportedly drinking with friends and was discovered passed out in a men's bathroom at a Chatsworth park. Two other female teens were also found passed out, but were not assaulted.
Police in San Diego are looking into what they say isan increased number of rapes involving young women who take part in binge drinking and leave themselves vulnerable to men.
While others crimes in the city have decreased, police say attacks on women who have had too much to drink is one element as to why rapes have increased.
The number of rapes increased by 38 percent during the first six months of 2008 in comparison with the same period last year, from 129 to 178, according to recent crime statistics.
Women also apparently know their attacker in many cases. Stranger rapes are reportedly less than 10 percent of the attacks against women.
A San Diego area restaurant suffered more than $1 million in damage this morning as the result of a fire.
Sammy's California Woodfired Pizza in Carlsbad burned extensively, but no injuries were reported. The two-alarm blaze, which involved some four dozen firefighters, reportedly began before 8 a.m. in the back of the kitchen.
CHP issued a traffic alert when flames spread to brush near the southbound I-5 offramp to Palomar Airport Road.
Authorities continue to investigate a horrific scene discovered Monday at a remote home in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Animal control officers found countless dead and sick dogs on a Boulder Creek property they responded to. Authorities said they received a tip from a nearby resident that animals were not being properly cared for.
Authorities report that a number of the dogs had been decapitated, while one dog's head was suspended from a tree.
Other dogs and puppies were discovered living among their own feces and at least one dog was found in its own waste in the cab of a truck. In all, more than three dozen dogs and puppies were rescued from the scene.
Police have issued an arrest warrant for the owner of the home, who reportedly ran from the scene when officers arrived.
An earthquake recorded at 5.4 magnitude shook Southern California this morning, startling residents from Los Angeles to San Diego.
There were no reports of injuries or immediate damages, although several buildings in Los Angeles reportedly swayed for a few seconds.
Preliminary reports from the U.S. Geological Survey said the quake, which hit at 11:42 a.m., was centered 29 miles east-southeast of downtown Los Angeles near Chino Hills in San Bernardino County.
The language involving the Prop 8 ballot for this fall has changed, leading to the filing of a lawsuit by prop supporters.
Attorney General Jerry Brown, who may have changed the wording in an effort to bring in more of the gay vote should he run for governor again in 2010, reworded the language of Prop 8, the proposed constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage if a majority of voters cast a "yes" ballot.
The new language now states that Prop 8 would "eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry." Prop 8 supporters, who planned on filing a lawsuit to stop the wording change, said the new wording could "prejudice voters against the initiative."
Brown, however, said the change was needed to show the legalization of gay marriage prior to the November ballot.
When the proposition was submitted to the state, same-sex marriage was not yet allowed and was to be determined by the California Supreme Court justices, therefore the wording made sense. Now that it is legal, the wording had to be changed, according to Brown and supporters of gay marriage.
Three Mexican citizens were placed in federal custody over the weekend after the boat they were riding on was stopped some 12 miles off of Point Loma by the U.S. Coast Guard early Saturday morning.
According to authorities, the 25-foot open boat, which was discovered running without lights, contained more than 1,000 pounds of pot. The boat was towed into San Diego Harbor and impounded.
Authorities did not releases the men's names and did not say if they would be charged or deported.
Search engine giant and Mountain View-based Google has a new player in the computer information world to keep it occupied.
Several former Google engineers have developed a new search tool in hopes of being the most comprehensive and effective way to surf the Internet. Former employee Anna Patterson, along with several other former Google alumni, hope this invention, which is not for sale, will give Google more than just a run for its money.
The tool is Cuil, pronounced "cool." Supported by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine planned to begin processing requests for the first time Monday.
Cuil's search index spans 120 billion Web pages and Cuil inventors won't give out the formula they have developed to cover a wider swath of the Web with far less computers than Google.
Google, while acknowledging the new player on the block, may not be losing too much sleep at night. As of May, Goggle commanded a whopping 62 percent share of the U.S. search market followed by Yahoo at 21 percent and Microsoft at 8.5 percent, according to comScore Inc.
The shooting death last week of Steven Paul Hirschfield, 37, by San Diego Harbor Police was tragic. But before we start targeting the two officers for the shooting, how about we wait until all the facts come in?
Hirschfield was reportedly dancing on a chartered cruise ship during Gay Pride Day in San Diego last Saturday when he fell into the water. He was reportedly pulled out of the water by San Diego Harbor Police.
According to the police, a struggle between Hirschfield and one of the officers ensued. Hirschfield allegedly hit the officer in the face with his stun gun, before being shot to death by the other officer on the boat.
At a recent news conference, Hirschfield's attorney, Brian Claypool, claimed the police's version of what happened is "preposterous." Claypool said it does not fit with what kind of person Hirschfield was. Claypool even went as far as to question whether the officer's views on gay men impacted what happened on the police boat. Hirschfield's parents reportedly did not say whether or not their son was gay.
Here is where we have some issues with this case.
1. The attorney is saying police may have had a bias against gay men. 2. Hirschfield was performing on a boat whose passengers were primarily gay men. 3. Hirschfield's parents would not comment on whether or not their son was gay.
Assuming Hirschfield was gay, that's not a problem. There are a couple of problems, however.
Hirschfield's attorney is throwing some gasoline on the fire by saying the officers involved may have had a bias against gays. His parents also do not want to admit that their son was likely gay.
If he was gay, why not just admit it? And until you have clear proof that the two officers involved had a bias against gays, don't stroke the fire by claiming they may have. It is not only dangerous, it is unprofessional.
It is highly unlikely that two police officers would risk their careers and the safety of others and shoot a man out of the blue. Let the facts come in and then we'll judge the two officers involved. Judging them in the court of public opinion is unfair and more importantly, dangerous.
Police in El Cajon are investigating the disappearance of a 21-year-old woman, who went missing sometime between late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning.
