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Two iPads, two handheld radios, and two laptops were stolen from Romney aides in San Diego on Friday, 10News reports. The two aides left their rented SUV in a mall parking garage while they got dinner and returned to find their devices — which contained detailed information about the Romney campaign — stolen.

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.

The new radar-evading aircraft, which cost the Air Force $15 million, has a maximum takeoff weight of 15,800 pounds and can fly at 460 mph. The drone, built near San Diego, is for testing purposes. The Air Force has bought a new hunter-killer aircraft that is the fastest and largest armed drone in its fleet.

Justin Bieber went on "The Today Show" and denied the claims made by a San Diego woman that he got her pregnant backstage after one of his shows. "I'd just like to say, basically, that none of those allegations are true," he said Friday morning. "I know that I'm going to be a target, but I'm never going to be a victim."

Police overnight cleared out protesters in Nashville, Tenn., and San Diego, Calif., as other Occupy encampments came under growing pressure from authorities to abandon sites in parks and plazas.

With water increasingly scarce in the West, a new program is allowing some farmers to sell their allotment of it for whatever price they can find, but it comes with a hitch... They can continue to farm all their land, or they can stop farming some of it and earn more than $500 an acre — more than the market value of a crop like alfalfa in a given year — simply by not using the water required to nourish those crops. Water saved is sent on to thirsty cities and suburbs to the west: San Diego, Los Angeles and Palm Springs.

Utility crews brought electricity back to much of California, Arizona and Mexico on Friday, a day after a power outage left millions in the dark, paralyzed freeways and halted flights at San Diego's airport....

Thirteen hours after an unprecedented outage left a huge swath of Southern California without power and brought normal life to a halt, power was restored to all 1.4 million customers of San Diego Gas & Electric, the biggest service area.

Rebecca Zahau committed suicide at the Spreckels mansion after being told the son of boyfriend Jonah Shacknai was fatally injured from falling while he was in her care, officials say.Reporting from San Diego -- The girlfriend of pharmaceutical executive Jonah Shacknai committed suicide at his Coronado mansion after learning that his son would not survive injuries suffered in an accident while in her care, authorities announced Friday.

San Diego police are seeking to interview parishioners who may have witnessed a minor dust-up between basketball star Kobe Bryant and a young man at a church service Sunday, officials said.