How cute are these desert-dwelling baby meerkats? Photo: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
😍 Four meerkat pups were born at the San Diego Zoo for the first time in six years. Meerkats live in "mobs," and visitors can see them scampering around the Conrad Prebys Africa Rocks area. (CBS8)
⛺ Mayor Todd Gloria, during his re-election campaign, has touted his addition of more than 930 shelter beds in the last year, but more than half of those beds are tents pitched in the city's safe-camping sites. (inewsource)
🚨 Five years ago, the Union-Tribune published an investigation on the high death rate in jails run by the San Diego County Sheriff. In the time since, the death rate has increased to 3.6 deaths per 1,000 incarcerated people, the highest in the state's eight largest counties. (Union-Tribune)
