The San Diego Union-Tribune

The San Diego Union-Tribune is a daily newspaper serving the San Diego area in California. It has been in operation since 1868.

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US overdose deaths fell 27% last year but remain above prepandemic levels

15 hours ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Mike Stobbe |Geoff Mulvihill

By MIKE STOBBE and GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated PressThere were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded. An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according to provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Wednesday. That’s down 27% from the 110,000 in 2023. The CDC has been collecting comparable data for 45 years.
New North Tower at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla set to open June 1

16 hours ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Paul Sisson

New North Tower at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla set to open June 1 Seven-story structure is second half of $1.1 billion two-tower construction project
New drop-in center aims to be refuge for San Diego’s sex-trafficked teens

16 hours ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Teri Figueroa

From the outside, it’s just an old building in downtown San Diego. Nothing gives a clue about the offerings in the works inside, that this place will be a refuge for sex-trafficked teens. Here, teens can come get a bite to eat, charge their phone, get access to toiletries. There’s a comfy couch and big screen TV bathed in low light, and a quiet room to maybe close their eyes for a few minutes. They can even spend time with an on-site counselor if they like. The idea is to provide safety and services.
Rep. Levin asks for surveillance towers along San Diego coast to prevent maritime smuggling

17 hours ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Alexandra Mendoza |Teri Figueroa

As concern mounts over dangerous maritime smuggling crossings, U.S. Rep. Mike Levin said this week that he plans to ask Congress for $60 million in federal funding to install surveillance towers along the San Diego coast. The move comes a week after three people died when a panga with 18 people aboard capsized off the coast of Del Mar. A 10-year-old girl also went missing and is presumed dead.
San Diego prosecutors unseal first ever narco-terrorism indictment against Mexican drug traffickers

1 day ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Alex Riggins

Federal prosecutors in San Diego unsealed a first-of-its-kind indictment Tuesday, alleging narco-terrorism charges against suspected drug traffickers linked to the Sinaloa cartel.
Pedestrian suffers ‘possibly severed leg’ when hit by train near Gaslamp Quarter

1 day ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Karen Kucher

A man suffered a “possibly severed leg” in downtown San Diego early Tuesday when he was hit while attempting to walk between stopped train cars and the freight train started moving, authorities said. A witness told police he saw several people crossing through stopped rail cars shortly before 12:10 a.m. near the San Diego Convention Center when the train began to move. One man fell and was hit.
Federal civil rights trial begins for San Diego deputy who shot unarmed fleeing man in back

1 day ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Alex Riggins

Former San Diego County sheriff’s Deputy Aaron Richard Russell gunned down an unarmed man from behind in May 2020 outside the downtown Central Jail, to the shock of other nearby law enforcement officers, simply because the man was running away, a prosecutor told a federal jury Tuesday. “No other officers on scene thought Nicholas Bils was a threat,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Seth Askins told the jury as trial got underway with opening statements at the downtown San Diego federal court.
Ramona Grange, In His Steps, receive total of $110,000 in county grants

1 day ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Regina Elling

Ramona Grange No. 63 was recently notified that it would receive a $100,000 grant from the San Diego County Neighborhood Reinvestment Program. The fraternal, community service organization, which promotes agriculture and Ramona’s rural community, was one of two organizations to receive the grants. In His Steps, a Christian-based recovery program offering residential services to men and women, was awarded $10,000.
Food aid programs are stepping up efforts in Ramona as the need increases

1 day ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Regina Elling

The number of people accessing Ramona’s food banks has seen a sharp increase over the past three months, according to several local organizations that distribute free food to those in need. Although proposed federal cuts to the two major hunger relief programs servicing the area — the San Diego Food Bank and Feeding San Diego — may impact their ability to help, both organizations say they remain ready to meet local needs.
House Republicans look to help Trump strip tax-exempt status of nonprofits he says support terrorism

1 day ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Alexa St. John |Matthew Daly

By ALEXA ST. JOHN and MATTHEW DALY, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — A proposal by Republicans in Congress would allow President Donald Trump’s administration to remove the tax-exempt status of nonprofits that it says support terrorism, creating what some nonprofits say is an arbitrary standard to financially punish charities that advocate for issues that don’t align with his agenda.