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Encinitas wants to regulate the use of drones in public places, saying the devices have become a safety problem, particularly at Moonlight Beach.

A free USO traveling show for military families at Camp Pendleton is slated for June 27 as part of the USO’s 75th anniversary tour. The entertainment features a “Sesame Street” show that addresses concerns of military kids, such as frequent moves and long deployments of a parent.

The annual Semper Fi Open golf tournament in Vista drew 150 community members, including 16 local injured service members and raised $128,000 for the Oceanside-based nonprofit Semper Fi Fund.

San Marcos is likely going to hire social enterprise nonprofit Kitchens for Good to serve meals at the city’s senior center starting July 1.

The body of a woman was found in a vehicle with a shattered windshield off an Escondido freeway Monday afternoon, and California Highway Patrol officers are investigating her death.

The erection of an enclosed pig pen by a couple dozen volunteers in the backyard of a home deep in the mountains south of Julian on Saturday was far more important than it would have appeared to the uninformed naked eye.

County event will have workshops on housing, healthy, dementia; Dick Van Dyke to speak

I’m glad I read that article recently in the Union-Tribune about the call for volunteers to count sheep in the Anza-Borrego Desert.

Brother Benno’s opened its doors in 1983 as a soup kitchen and has grown into a many-faceted social services agency run mainly by volunteers to help lift the area’s working poor and homeless out of poverty.

Events were planned in San Diego Sunday night after the mass shooting in Orlando.