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Some North County residents are worried that a parking lot for the homeless is too close to schools.

NBC 7 Investigates’s Mari Payton dug through law enforcement records to find out if there’s a connection between Safe Parking Program locations and crime

NBC 7’s Mari Payton shares a San Diegan’s experience with a private autopsy company.

Families who paid thousands of dollars for autopsies say they never got the answers they were looking for.

A growing number of workers in California have fallen victim to wage theft. NBC 7’s Melissa Sandoval reveals the growing problem of wage theft, and how it impacts all of us.

Wage theft impacts more than the workers who don’t get their full pay. Our communities lose out on tax dollars as well.

San Diego faces a hefty fine for asbestos exposure at a firefighter training academy, reports NBC 7’s Mari Payton

NBC 7 Investigates’ Mari Payton takes a look at recent police killings involving San Diegans in mental distress.

A call for help that turns deadly. NBC 7 Investigates takes a look at local police shootings involving people who were in mental distress.

NBC 7 has been closely tracking a controversial firearm with a fast-growing footprint in our county: Ghost guns.

Police departments across San Diego County told NBC 7 Investigates that, in the course of their investigations during the past three years, they are seizing ghost guns at an increased rate.

Here are just some of the subjects the NBC 7 Investigates team focused on during the pandemic’s first year and the remaining questions as the fight against COVID-19 continues across the nation.

NBC 7 Investigates found 23,249 people who received both vaccine doses in San Diego County live outside of the county’s jurisdiction.

The rate in which San Diego County vaccines are administered to people who live out of the county is frustrating locals who can’t get an appointment. NBC 7’s Alexis Rivas has the story.

SDPD says they are aware of slower police response times and they’re attempting to figure out why. NBC 7 Investigates’ Mari Payton reports.

The San Diego Police Department’s response times for its most urgent calls for service were slower in 2020 compared to the two years prior, department data shows. SDPD defines Priority 1 calls as, “Dispatch Immediately. Priority One calls involve serious crimes in progress or a threat to life. Examples include: missing children, child abuse, domestic violence, disturbances involving weapons/violence and…

NBC 7 Investigates reporter Alexis Rivas, went inside grocery stores all over the county to see what they were and were not doing with COVID-19 protocols.

Grocery store employees across San Diego County contend that capacity and cleaning protocols are inconsistent, and now the union that represents them says hundreds of workers are testing positive for COVID-19.

Trevor Reed was a Camp Pendleton-based Marine. Last summer, a trip ended with him behind bars. NBC Investigates’ Mari Payton has his story.

Joey Reed’s son, Trevor, is 29. He could spend nearly a decade of his life in a Moscow prison, where he’s been held since August 2019. For most of 2020, Texan Joey Reed has been living in Moscow. Despite many challenges, including the pandemic, Reed remains in Russia.  He is trying to keep his son’s case from falling below...