College Area

One person was hurt when a fire sparked at the Howard Johnson Inn in San Diego’s College Area Tuesday, officials confirmed.

An independent living facility in San Diego’s College Area has been ordered to close due, in part, to its history of health code violations including infestations of vermin, bedbugs and cockroaches. San Diego City Attorney Mara W. Elliott said Monday the “squalid” and “notorious” facility at 5128 Ewing St. was ordered to shut down by the Superior Court. Over its…

One person has died and another is injured after a shooting in the College Area Wednesday night, San Diego Police said.

Authorities are searching for two men in connection to a deadly double shooting at the Aztec Pacific Apartments.

NBC 7’s Jackie Crea has the latest information from police.

A hit-and-run driver left a whole lot of damage at an apartment near La Mesa Thursday, police said.

Kids aboard a school bus in the College Area were shaken up Friday afternoon when a car crashed into the back of the bus, police said.

NBC 7’s Erika Cervantes reports.

A dilapidated independent living facility in the College Area has been shut down after nearly a dozen elderly and disabled residents were found to be living among piles of trash and with rat feces in their beds, the San Diego City Attorney’s Office said Thursday.

A dilapidated independent living facility in the College Area has been shut down after nearly a dozen elderly and disabled residents were found to be living among piles of trash and with rat feces in their beds. NBC 7’s Danny Freeman has more.

SDPD is investigating more than a dozen incidents of vandalism involving BB guns. NBC 7’s Jackie Crea has more.

Crimes apparently committed with BB guns have popped up all over the city in the last few weeks and have targeted victims ranging from rideshare drivers and passengers in the College area to store owners in Hillcrest.

The council approved a four-story, 125-room hotel on a vacant 2-acre lot next to the College-Rolando Library on Montezuma Road blocks away from San Diego State University, but the idea is not sitting well with everyone.

NBC 7’s Omari Fleming reports from the College Area where a recently approved hotel project has some library patrons worried about parking and accessibility.

A driver’s back window was shot out with a BB gun Sunday night and four businesses in the College Area were also hit in what police are investigating as a potentially larger vandalism spree.

A driver had his back window shot out and several College Area businesses were also hit. NBC 7’s Dave Summers has more.

After three businesses and a car, in the College Area, were damaged with what is believed to be BB Guns; the SDPD suspects that the incident is tied to a series of previous BB Gun attacks. NBC 7’s Joe Little Reports.

Two teenagers were arrested in connection with a deadly shooting near Alvarado Hospital in the College Area this month, police said Thursday.

Two seconds after a firefighter forced the suspect’s door open, shots rang out.

WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO: The San Diego Police Department identified the two wounded officers in the shooting incident in the College Area. NBC 7’s Melissa Adan has more.