Chargers win means free tacos for all

Chargers fans aren't the only ones rejoicing over Saturday's big win over the Colts. Rubio's is celebrating too -- by giving away free fish tacos today.

If you go to to this link and click on the box at the bottom right, you can print up a coupon to redeem for a free taco from 2:30 p.m. until closing time.

It's only good during those times at restaurants in San Diego County, and you'll have to provide a name and e-mail address to get your taco.

Cyclist struck, killed in Sabre Springs

A bicyclist died after being struck by a vehicle in Sabre Springs, San Diego police and fire officials said.

The vehicle driver called 911 to report that he struck the cyclist on Sabre Springs Parkway at Morning Creek Road at 7:13 p.m., according to the California Highway Patrol. The accident is being investigated by San Diego police.

Officers said one of the cyclist's legs was severed at the knee and medics were performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation. They declared the bicyclist dead several minutes later.

Northbound traffic on Sabre Springs Parkway is blocked at Morning Creek. Southbound lanes remain open.

San Diego lottery winner claims winnings

The $46 million winner of the California Lottery's Mega Millions game has claimed the winnings and will be introduced at a news conference Wednesday, state lottery officials said.

The winner bought the ticket at a 7-Eleven on Cass Street near Loring Street in Pacific Beach. The winning combination, 2, 11, 19, 21, 34 and the Mega number 38, were announced Friday night.

Officials said a 2 p.m. news conference in Kearny Mesa has been scheduled to introduce the winner.

Two arrested for stealing purse after crash

A man and woman have been arrested on suspicion of stealing the purse of a pregnant woman who was killed early Sunday in a rollover crash on Interstate 5, a California Highway Patrol officer said.

CHP Officer Mark Latulippe said two people are in custody, but he didn't have their names yet.

Yine Erandy Gonzalez Angeles, 24, of Tijuana was a passenger in a Ford Explorer headed north on I-5 in Solana Beach. Authorities say a Nissan Altima, driven by John Francis Sudac Jr., 27, of Carlsbad, was speeding and changing lanes when it hit the Explorer, causing it to roll several times. Gonzalez, who was wearing a seat belt, was partially ejected. She and her unborn child died at a hospital.

While several people, including off-duty law enforcement officers and Marines stopped to assist the crash victims, authorities say a station wagon passing the scene slowed and a passenger snatched Gonzalez's purse, which had been thrown onto the freeway.

Sudac turned himself in Sunday evening and has posted $200,000 bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Vista Superior Court. Authorities are still seeking a passenger who was in his car and fled.

UPDATE: Officers questioned and released the woman who was taken into custody after determining she was not in the car at the time of the accident.
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Chargers player arrested for DUI

San Diego Chargers' wide receiver Vincent Jackson was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving early this morning.

Jackson was booked into county jail on a misdemeanor charge and released by 6 a.m., a spokesman with the Sheriff's Department said.

Jackson was team's second-leading receiver this year with 59 catches and he led the team with 1,098 yards. He also had 7 TDs.

The Chargers face off against the Pittsburgh Steelers in a divisional playoff game at 1:45 p.m. Sunday.

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Surfer rescued from No. County beach

Firefighters and lifeguards are performing CPR on a surfer who was pulled out of the water off Cardiff by the Sea, a Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection District dispatcher said.

The surfer was rescued at 11:35 a.m. near lifeguard Tower 19 between Swami's Beach and San Elijo State Beach, the dispatcher said.

The cause for the surfer's distress and his condition were not available, she said.

Woman injured in apartment fire

A woman was injured when a fire broke out at a Point Loma Heights apartment complex early this morning, authorities said.

The fire was reported at 4:36 a.m. on Mentone Street near Camulos Street, a San Diego fire dispatcher said. The blaze was knocked down in about 20 minutes.

Fire investigators were trying to determine what sparked the blaze.

The injured woman was taken to a hospital. San Diego police said the victim suffered smoke inhalation.

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Missing pilot lands safely

The pilot of an experimental plane with engine trouble north of Ramona landed safely in a field Monday evening, a sheriff's official said.

The pilot, from Alpine, called his wife about 7:30 p.m. to say he'd made an emergency landing and caught a ride away from the spot, sheriff's Lt. Hope Andrews said. She did not know where the plane landed.

Sheriff's deputies and a sheriff's helicopter crew had searched the rough terrain north of Ramona after 5 p.m. when another pilot reported hearing a distress call from the experimental plane pilot, who was reporting engine trouble.

One trapped in Imperial Avenue crash

One person is unconscious and trapped inside a pickup that knocked over a fire hydrant on Imperial Avenue near San Jacinto Drive in Valencia Park, San Diego police said.

The crash occurred about 10:05 p.m. The broken hydrant is sending a water geyser 40 to 50 feet in the air, police said.

No information is available yet on how the crash happened. The pickup struck a utility pole and the hydrant. Paramedics are trying to free the trapped driver and police have blocked the street.

2nd San Diego shooting wounds two

Two men in the Emerald Hills area of southeastern San Diego were shot by gunmen in a gray Ford F150 pickup Monday night, police said.

Officers and paramedics found a 47-year-old victim near the scene at McHugh Street and Bollenbacher Street about 8:35 p.m. A second victim, 40, turned up at a hospital half an hour later. No other information is available.

Two shot in City Heights

At least two men were wounded in City Heights Monday night in what police said may have been a rolling shooting from one vehicle into another.

Gunfire was reported along Wightman Street near Shiloh Road at 7:40 p.m., San Diego police said. Officers stopped a vehicle with two wounded victims at Euclid Avenue and Marilou Road, about a mile and a half south of where they were shot.

One man, about age 30, was hit with pellets from a shotgun. The other man, about 20, was shot with a handgun.

Police found shell casings and shotgun wadding in different locations along Wightman Street, and a blood trail on Shiloh Road, indicating a possible third victim who has not been found. A gunman was reportedly in a large gray SUV with several other people. They may have had companions who drove away in a green pickup at the same time, with both vehicles heading west on Wightman.

Witness saw missing plane land

Authorities are trying to find the pilot who landed his aircraft at Montgomery Field in San Diego after he reported seeing an experimental aircraft make an emergency landing somewhere north of Ramona, the Sheriff's Department reports.

A sheriff's helicopter crew is trying to locate the downed plane, but darkness has fallen, the search area is vast "and there's absolutely nothing out there," said sheriff's Lt. Hope Andrews. "It's just rural, nothing around it."

Officials are trying to find the pilot who reported seeing the plane go down in hopes of narrowing the search, Andrews said.

Ramona airport informed Cal Fire dispatchers about 5:15 p.m. that an aircraft had taken off from there heading north, and did not return.