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The Toilet Fill Valve Failed Again and You Blamed the Toilet. The Plumbing Code...

The toilet runs on its own at night, so you swap the fill valve. A year later it's hissing again. The kitchen faucet has needed a new cartridge too, and the pipes bang when the washer shuts off.
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Escondido Bicyclist Dies After Becoming Trapped Under Semi-Truck Trailer at Dawn

A bicyclist was killed early Friday morning after becoming trapped under the trailer of a semi-truck near North Centre City Parkway and Champagne Boulevard in Escondido, according to California Highway Patrol information cited in news reports. The collision happened around 5:47 a.m. in the northbound lanes, and paramed
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The Old Toilet in Your Bathroom Still Flushes Fine, So It Stayed Through the...

The toilet in the hall bathroom is the one the house came with: tall tank, heavy lid, a flush that still clears the bowl the first time. When the new vanity and tile went in, it stayed, because nothing was wrong with it.
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Shuttered retailer expanding comeback to even more stores soon

Founded in 1986, Party City had more than 700 locations at the time it shuttered.
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The City Tree Out Front Lifted the Sidewalk Slab, So You Figure the City...

The parkway tree out front was there before you were. Its roots worked under the sidewalk, and one slab now sits up at a joint, high enough that you step over it without looking.
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SDG&E begins power shutoffs amid extreme heat, Santa Ana winds

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — San Diego Gas & Electric has begun shutting off power in some communities as extreme heat and Santa Ana winds create dangerous wildfire conditions across the region. In an announcement Friday morning, the utility company said it has initiated Public Safety Power Shutoffs, or PSPS, as a precauti
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VC Crime Suppression Team busts local fentanyl dealer

On October 1, 2026, at approximately 5:00 PM, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Valley Center Crime Suppression Team, while conducting an ongoing narcotics investigation, identified a suspected narcotics dealer in the 33700 block of Valley Center Road in Valley Center. Deputies contacted and arrested Bradley Hoskins (DOB:
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Hydrant burst floods streets of downtown La Mesa ahead of Oktoberfest

A fire hydrant burst in downtown La Mesa on Thursday night, flooding local streets just before the start of the 53rd annual La Mesa Oktoberfest, which officials say will not be impacted by the incident.
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Marines stage explosive assault as wall of fire erupts in nation’s largest air show

America's largest air show drew in crowds to San Diego last weekend - featuring a massive wall of fire, aerostunts and a full lineup of events
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Rural residents take county cannabis fight to court

BONSALL — After years of raising concerns about cannabis cultivation near schools, farms and homes, rural San Diego County residents are taking their fight to court, challenging the environmental review behind the county’s plan to expand commercial cannabis operations in unincorporated communities. No Skunk Butts, a re

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