EL CAJON, Calif. — Families with students in an El Cajon school district who where stranded in Afghanistan amid the Taliban’s takeover spoke Thursday about their experience escaping the country. Republican Rep. Darrell Issa was joined by four fathers representing their families from Afghanistan. Mohammed Faizi is a father of five, four of which are […]

Family members of the 34 people killed in a fire aboard a scuba diving boat off the California coast two years ago have sued the U.S. Coast Guard for lax enforcement of safety regulations that they say doomed the passengers. A lawyer who filed the wrongful death lawsuit late Wednesday in U.S. District Court in […]

The school bus unloads Miramesa High School students on the first day of school.Photo by Chris Stone 33 local teachers recognized by the district for their excellent education San Diego County Teachers of the Year.. Five people are the 31st annual “Cocks Presents: Respect for Teachers.. National TV Personality and San Diego Magazine Food Writer […]

Poseida Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSTX) received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for P-BCMA-ALLO1, the company’s first fully allogeneic CAR-T product candidate for patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.  Poseida is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that utilizes proprietary genetic engineering platform technologies to create cell and gene therapeutics […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped historic rain over New York City, with at least nine deaths linked to flooding in the region as basement apartments suddenly filled with water and freeways and boulevards turned into rivers, submerging cars. Water poured into subways tunnels as catastrophic flooding, which scientists have warned […]