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Pandit Ravi Shankar, the best known contemporary Indian musician, died Tuesday evening in San Diego, Calif. He was 92. The sitar star's website announced his death.

A 39-year-old handyman and explosives enthusiast whose girlfriend was killed when a cannon exploded near the couple's trailer in San Diego County is anguished over the incident, his brother said.

Three people were found dead in a San Diego home's swimming pool Tuesday and a fourth body was discovered in a bathtub inside, authorities said.

A 49-year-old man was killed Tuesday after he slipped into a commercial wood chipper while clearing brush near an avocado grove in Fallbrook, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said.

The intense search for Chelsea King ended Tuesday when authorities unearthed a body in a shallow grave near the lakeside park where the teenager had gone running last week.