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A well-known radio voice in the Bay Area, who has been silent for some time now, admitted in court to distributing child porn by email. Bernie Ward's deal will result in a prison term of at least five years. Ward, who was fired from KGO-AM 810 last December, was charged last year with two counts of distributing and one count of receiving child porn.*
Traffic heading into Mexico from San Diego at the San Ysidro border crossing on I-5 was tighter than usual for several hours as federal agents searched vehicles heading south. The inspections have been beefed up recently as authorities search for drugs, stolen cars and weapons.*
California Department of Fish and Game Officers are working to stave off a coyote-humans problem in the Inland Empire. In recent days, there have been several encounters with coyotes in San Bernardino County.
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* The San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres both came up on the short end of 5-4 decisions on the road at Pittsburgh and Atlanta, respectively.
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Home prices continue to drop in the Bay Area, according to a report from Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller. The average cost of a home in this region of the state dropped just over 17 percent year-over-year in February. That compares to just over 13 percent in January and nearly 11 percent in December.*
Tooth fragments located in the body of 66-year-old David Martin, the San Diego area triathlete killed in a shark attack last Friday off Solana Beach, show that the creature was a great white shark. Martin, who bled to death, was swimming with others around 7 a.m. when he was attacked. The shark was reportedly 15 to 16 feet long.
* Lawanda Jackson, 49, a former UCLA Medical Center employee, was indicted for allegedly accessing the records of a number of high-profile patients. She reportedly then sold the information to a media outlet. Jackson, who will be arraigned on June 9, could face up to a decade in jail if convicted.
SPORTS
* The Los Angeles Dodgers got one run in the ninth inning in a 7-6 victory at Florida. Meantime, the San Diego Padres dropped a 7-4 decision in Philadelphia to start a nine-game East Coast trip.
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