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Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3783 and Albertsons grocery store are among the latest organizations in Ramona to install solar panels so they can save money. Karen Welch, the recent VFW Ramona commander who stepped down July 1, said the solar panels installed a year ago have “significantly reduced” the post’s utility bills. “The bill is one-third of what it used to be,” Welch said. “It varies between seasons, but we’re saving close to $2,000 a month in utility bills.” Julie GallantSolar panels in

The Unified Esports League’s Eagles team in Poway celebrated achieving the league’s monthly point goal for July with a pizza party on Aug. 26. The league has seven locations in San Diego County that provide a Technology and Life Skills program. The after-school program is open to the San Diego Regional Center clients in the community. This program is designed to encourage positive social behavior, teamwork and participation among teammates with intellectual and developmental disabilities who hav

By DAVID FISCHER, Associated Press Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate must remain in custody as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking, a federal judge in Miami ruled Wednesday. U.S. Magistrate Lauren Louis denied a defense motion for release, meaning the Tates will remain jailed during what could be a monthslong extradition process. The Tates “have failed to meet their burden to demonstrate that they do not present

Una persona fue arrestada por el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos cerca del San Diego City College el martes, y los funcionarios de la escuela dijeron que en un momento dado, los agentes intentaron perseguir a otra persona hasta el campus. El incidente tuvo lugar alrededor de las 9:30 de la mañana, cuando agentes federales en vehículos sin distintivos detuvieron un automóvil en la intersección de las calles 16 y C. El conductor fue arrestado, mientras que el pasajer

Todo el tráfico ferroviario que conecta el condado de San Diego con el resto del país fue suspendido nuevamente el martes, ya que las mareas altas y la erosión costera continuaron socavando las vías en San Clemente, en el sur del condado de Orange. “El oleaje rebasó las vías en la zona afectada y provocó un mayor deterioro (la noche del lunes) en el talud adyacente, incluyendo daños en parte de la protección de rocas colocada anteriormente”, informaron funcionarios de la Autoridad de

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN, Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. atomic watchdog’s board on Wednesday reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council for the first time in 20 years, citing it for failure to cooperate in a long-running investigation into uranium traces detected by inspectors at undeclared sites. Western officials suspect that the traces could provide evidence that Iran had a secret nuclear weapons program until 2003. Iran says that it’s not pursuing nuclear weapons, and that its pr

By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The two NASA astronauts who led the Artemis II moonshot earlier this year are stepping away from spaceflight. NASA announced Wednesday that Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman and pilot Victor Glover will no longer serve as active astronauts but will continue to support the moon exploration program as emeritus astronauts. Glover has taken a leadership job at his alma mater, California Polytechnic State University, while Wiseman’s futu

The Encinitas City Council will consider on Wednesday whether to once again put in red light camera systems at major roadway intersections now that a new state law has changed the requirements. Senate Bill 720, which went into effect in January, has new restrictions on where the cameras can aim, as well as how red-light running violations are handled, a city staff report produced for Wednesday’s meeting states. Violations now will be civil penalties, “rather than conventional traffic citations,”

By SYLVIE CORBET and KELVIN CHAN PARIS (AP) — Key figures from Europe’s space industry and other international players have converged on Paris to discuss how to advance the continent’s ambitions in a global market dominated by the United States. The two-day International Space Summit that started Wednesday gathers officials, astronauts, researchers and industry leaders from about 120 countries to discuss the future of the space industry and pursue potential business deals. “Europe is taking its

Re “The US national debt now stands at $40 trillion” (Aug. 19): Thank you for the article on our quickly increasing national debt. If we divide that debt by the number of people in the U.S., we find that every man, woman, child and newborn baby in this country owes $114,600 to foreign governments, insurance companies, banks and investors. The $2 trillion increase in the debt this year equals an increase of $5,730 per person. In addition to what we each owe, we are seeing this debt cause an incre

By LISA MASCARO, AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s one thing to issue a Declaration of Independence. It’s quite another to launch a grand experiment in representative democracy. Congress isn’t quite yet celebrating its 250th anniversary — the House and Senate as they are recognized today first convened in 1789 — but from the start it has provided an enduring, if imperfect, forum in the country’s pursuit of a more perfect union. From drafting the Bill of Rights that enshrines

By TAMMY WEBBER and JOSHUA A. BICKEL BELHAVEN, N.C. (AP) — The birds are up with the sunrise — warblers, flycatchers, sparrows and towhees calling across the treetops. Deer browse on tender buds emerging from dense shrubs. Black bears scrounge for roots, insects and other edibles. It’s an idyllic setting in North Carolina’s Inner Banks, where fields of cotton, soybeans and corn stretch for miles, country roads wend through stands of pines and thousands of bird watchers converge to wi

By ALEX TURNBULL and JOHN LEICESTER CHAMONIX-MONT-BLANC, France (AP) — For centuries, French and Italian mountain communities on the flanks of Western Europe’s highest peak have gazed upon seemingly eternal glaciers and snow that gave the colossus its name: Mont Blanc, the white mountain. But climate warming is dismantling the picture at alarming speed. Europe’s record heat waves this summer savaged permafrost that for millennia has acted like glue on the Alpine landscape. Defrosting cliffs came

By SOFIA BALTODANO/Caplin News, PAULA DIAZ/Conecta Arizona, DORANY PINEDA and GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA LOS ANGELES (AP) — After her parents went missing under the rubble of their Venezuela apartment building, Kelly Granado Montano spent her days here “lost, worried, on the phone,” her body in one country, her mind in another. “The desperation, the pain, and the anguish grew — from not knowing” their fate, she said. She was among the more than one million Venezuelans living in the United States who

By CHAN HO-HIM, AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China hit back Wednesday against U.S. claims that Chinese artificial intelligence developers are engaged in “aggressive, malicious” industrial-scale efforts to extract capabilities from frontier American AI systems. The FBI, National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint cybersecurity advisory Tuesday that said Chinese AI developers had extracted, or “distilled,” capabilities from some of the most adv

By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making a whirlwind 24-hour trip to speak at the annual U.N. gathering of world leaders this month because “there is no option” after New York’s mayor urged his arrest over the war in Gaza, Israel’s U.N. envoy said Tuesday. Ambassador Danny Danon accused Mayor Zohran Mamdani of “doing politics” when he called the prime minister a “war criminal” and called for his arrest, which he had to withdraw because New Yor

By DÁNICA COTO HAVANA (AP) — Sweltering nights. Water and power shortages. Dwindling fuel and crumbling homes. Limited public transportation and weak cellphone signals. The psychological toll of daily life in Cuba is pushing many to their breaking point on this island of nearly 10 million people, with no relief in sight as a U.S. energy embargo persists and longtime economic and financial troubles deepen. “Before there was hope,” Dr. Yomeidis Felicó Riverón said. “Right now, what people have los

By MARC LEVY HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Around this time two years ago, Sen. John Fetterman was in high demand on the campaign trail, going county-to-county in Pennsylvania to help Democrats up and down the ballot. Now, after two years of crossing swords with Democrats and backing some of President Donald Trump’s priorities, he’s nowhere on the stump. No Democrat in the state wants to be seen with him. His approval ratings are better with Republicans — far better — than they are with Democrats. And

Editor’s Note: Send event details (who, what, where, when, cost and contact information) in an email to ehimchak@pomeradonews.com. The deadline is noon Friday. Items run on a space available basis. Questions? Call 619-806-7305. Thursday, Sept. 10 Storytime: A rockin’ toddler storytime is set for 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 10 at the Poway Library, 13137 Poway Road. For details, call 858-513-2900. Teen craft: Teens in grades 6-12 are invited to make a rainbow loom craft at 4 p.m. Thursday, S

By JAMES POLLARD NEW YORK (AP) — A major American aid group is promising to deliver more medicines in high-need areas around the world after receiving its largest ever donation. Americares, a nonprofit that supports thousands of health centers globally, announced a $50 million gift Wednesday from an unidentified Connecticut family. The contribution represents an unusual expansion at a time when the United States’ sudden aid cuts have hamstrung programs ranging from maternal and child health to H