The sheriff of the nation’s fifth-largest county on Tuesday defied a new policy to limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, setting up a showdown over a new obstacle to President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans.

Flash floods that raged through parts of San Diego were spawned by a torrential storm that produced the city’s fourth-wettest day on record, in stark contrast to its image as a balmy seaside playground.

Firefighters are making progress against a Southern California wildfire but authorities say thousands of homes still remain threatened.

Firefighters aided by aircraft are battling to contain a wind-driven wildfire that has damaged or destroyed at least nine buildings in rural Southern California and forced authorities to issue evacuation orders for 4,000 residents.

As a worsening drought forces millions of Californians to use less water, one corner of Southern California has largely shielded itself from supply-related woes: San Diego County.

San Diego County lawyers are seeking to wipe out an $85 million jury award to the family of man who died after being restrained by sheriff’s deputies in 2015.

Police are treating a fire at the home of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors chair and a prominent labor leader as suspicious.

A former San Diego-area police officer who pushed a Black man during an arrest last year has been acquitted of lying on his report.

A 22-year-old man has pleaded guilty to murder and other charges in connection with a deadly shooting at a Southern California synagogue on the last day of Passover.

A man accused of piloting a boat overloaded with migrants that crashed and killed three people off San Diego’s coast kneed a U.S. Border Patrol agent in the face who was trying to put a leg shackle on him on the beach.

Kellen Winslow II appears via video at his sentencing hearing at the Superior Court North County Division on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 in Vista, Calif. Winslow was sentenced to 14 years in prison on rape and other charges. (Eduardo Contreras/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, Pool)SAN DIEGO – Former NFL player Kellen Winslow II was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in prison for multiple rapes and other sexual offenses against five women in Southern California, including one who was homeless when he attacked her in 2018. The 37-year-old son of San Diego Chargers Hall of Fame tight end Kellen Winslow appeared via videoconference at the hearing in San Diego Superior Court in Vista, a city north of San Diego. San Diego County Superior Court Judge Blaine Bowman said Winslow can only be described in “two words and that is a sexual predator." He was convicted of forcible rape, rape of an unconscious person, assault with intent to commit rape, indecent exposure, and lewd conduct in public.

But the decision perplexed some county officials who say they don’t even have enough doses right now to vaccinate those who were already eligible. California has received more than 2.4 million vaccine doses as of Monday, but only a third of them have been used. This is about life and death,” Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez said. So can you send us 4 million doses?”About 375 miles (600 kilometers) to the north, Santa Clara County officials made their pitch to Gov. Santa Clara County wants at least 85% of its eligible residents vaccinated by Aug. 1.

Newsom said very few volunteers met qualifications for the California Health Corps, and only a tiny sliver have the high-level experience needed to help with the most serious virus cases. California health authorities reported a record high of 695 coronavirus deaths Saturday, raising the state’s death toll since the start of the pandemic to 29,233. ICYMI: California's San Diego County is opening what it calls a “ vaccination super station ” that aims to inoculate up to 5,000 health care workers daily with a coronavirus vaccine. Medical crews from the University of California, San Diego will operate the station in a parking lot near the downtown baseball stadium. ___Find AP’s full coverage of the coronavirus pandemic at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic.

LOS ANGELES – California surpassed 25,000 coronavirus deaths since the start of the pandemic and officials disclosed Thursday that three more cases involving a mutant variant of the virus have been confirmed in San Diego County. Los Angeles County, which has a quarter of the state's 40 million residents, has had 40% of the deaths in California, the third state to reach the 25,000 death count. San Diego County confirmed Thursday that it had found a total of four cases of the virus variant that appears to be more contagious. In Los Angeles County, hospitals have been pushed "to the brink of catastrophe,” said Dr. Christina Ghaly, health services director. Police in Los Angeles will be patrolling streets and looking to shut down large New Year’s Eve gatherings, Mayor Eric Garcetti said.

FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2020, file photo, a person walks past Pacers Showgirls International in San Diego. Gavin Newsom's office of the ruling that exempted two strip clubs and all restaurants from his stay-at-home order. The case brought by two San Diego strip clubs handed the biggest victory yet to California businesses fighting public health orders that they say have crippled them economically. San Diego County Superior Court Judge Joel Wohlfeil said his ruling Wednesday was “straightforward” in going beyond the strip clubs that sued the county and state — Cheetahs Gentlemen’s Club and Pacers Showgirls International. The board voted 3-2 last week to appeal any adverse ruling on the strip clubs but that decision didn't cover restaurants, rending it moot.

FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2020, file photo, Cheetahs Gentleman's Club is seen in San Diego. A California judge has extended an order exempting San Diego strip clubs from state pandemic-related restrictions, a setback for Gov. Michael Workman, a spokesman for San Diego County, said county attorneys were meeting "to decipher the ruling and determine what’s next. Stay tuned.” County supervisors last week vowed to appeal any extension of the exemption for strip clubs, which the judge initially granted last month. Last month, a judge in another case denied a request to temporarily lift some restrictions on San Diego County restaurants and gyms.

FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2020, file photo, a woman wears a mask as she walks on campus at San Diego State University in San Diego. He noted an outbreak of more than 850 cases at San Diego State University. San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, a vocal critic of the state's criteria, said staying put was no cause for celebration. Before Tuesday’s reprieve, Jon and Angie Weber said they wouldn’t comply if ordered to stop serving inside their Cowboy Star Restaurant and Butcher Shop in downtown San Diego. Angie Weber said she was “very relieved” to stay open but noted that the restaurant could be forced to close again if San Diego posts elevated numbers for two straight weeks.

FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2020, file photo, a woman wears a mask as she walks on campus at San Diego State University in San Diego. A coronavirus outbreak of more than 700 cases reported at San Diego State University has put all of San Diego County, with more than 3 million people, at risk of having to close indoor dining and shopping, many for a third time under California guidelines. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)