A 16-month-old girl who died at a Rancho San Diego daycare in April asphyxiated after getting her head wedged between a ...

A 16-month-old girl died of accidental asphyxia in a La Mesa daycare, as ruled by the San Diego County Medical Examiner.

New San Diego chief medical examiner has long history with department Dr. Jonathan Lucas has been San Diego County's chief deputy medical examiner since 2022; previously he led Los Angeles County ...

July 11, 2025 – San Diego County Sheriff's Office officials report that a person was found deceased inside a trailer.

San Diego County has appointed Dr. Jonathan Lucas as its next chief medical examiner, it was announced Friday. Lucas will lead the county department charged with investigating all sudden ...

SAN DIEGO — The family of a man whose body was in the custody of the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office for five months filed a legal claim Tuesday alleging that the M.E.'s office ...

SAN DIEGO — Renee Lim is still grieving the loss of her 19-year-old son, Ryan, who died of a fentanyl overdose, and adding to that pain is the fact that she searched for months while his body ...

The response by San Diego County sheriff’s deputies to Bach’s health emergency was so severely lacking that the Medical Examiner’s Office took the unusual step of ruling his death a homicide ...

The San Diego County Medical Examiner has ruled that the death of a jail inmate last year was a homicide. In other news, the city of San Diego announced this week that it’s closing Golden Hall ...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego County paid $700,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the mother of a young man who overdosed on fentanyl but remained unidentified in the Medical Examiner's Office for nearly ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — The San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office has identified the pilot who died after crashing his plane in La Jolla on Wednesday, Nov. 15. Michael Salour, 74, of Carlsbad ...

The Medical Examiner’s Office, with a budget this year of $21.2 million and staff of 78, handles investigations of unnatural, unexpected, violent and sudden deaths in the county, a job meant to ...