EAST COUNTY ROUNDUP: LOCAL AND STATEWIDE NEWS

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March 25, 2014 (San Diego's East County)--East County Roundup highlights top stories of interest to East County and San Diego’s inland regions, published in other media. This week’s top “Roundup” headlines include:

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STATE

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LOCAL

 

Highway project clear major hurdle – money (Ramona Sentinel)

Caltrans announced Monday that it has secured funding to improve the intersection of state Route 67 and Highland Valley/Dye Road for better traffic flow.

 

Fed SDPD audit includes criminal probe (UT San Diego)

The U.S. attorney’s office and FBI will conduct a criminal investigation into misconduct at the San Diego Police Department, a probe that will run parallel to an independent federal audit also requested by city officials, authorities said Monday.

 

Adam Day named to California State University Board of Trustees (La Mesa Courier)

… Day, 44, is the assistant tribal manager for the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation. Previously, the Alpine resident was general manager at NCG Porter Novelli and vice president at the Flannery Group.

 

Agencies slow to release private emails (UT San Diego)

... To mark Sunshine Week, a national transparency initiative, U-T Watchdog asked more than 100 government administrators across the region to hand over a sampling of personal emails discussing the public’s business. Two administrators have done so, the heads of Grossmont Healthcare District and the city of Lemon Grove. Others have said the records don’t exist, the public has no right to see them or they have not responded at all.

 

Trial ordered for woman accused of crash that killed East County off-duty firefighter (Santee Patch)

A woman accused of causing a head-on crash on Buckman Springs Road that killed a U.S. Forest Service firefighter on his motorcycle must stand trial on a charge of gross vehicular manslaughter, a judge ruled Friday. Natasia Wood, 22, faces a maximum of six years in prison if convicted of the felony charge in the death of 37-year-old Darin Steffey last October.

 

Elizabeth Smart in SD for women's week (UT San Diego)

Smart kidnapped at knife point in her family's Salt Lake City home on June 5, 2002.

 

STATE

California doctors speed up Valley fever diagnosis (Sacramento Bee)

 California doctors have found a way to diagnose the fungal disease Valley fever through DNA testing, allowing treatment of patients to begin almost immediately, officials said Monday.

 

California DMV probing possible breach of credit card system (Reuters)

The California Department of Motor Vehicles has opened an investigation into a possible security breach of its credit card processing services, a spokesman for the agency said.

 

Big California ballot battle looms over malpractice limits (Sacramento Bee)

Consumer Watchdog submitted more than 800,000 signatures Monday for a ballot measure that would modify the state's $250,000 cap on pain and suffering injuries in medical malpractice cases, touching off what promises to be a fierce battle with medical providers and their insurers.

 


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