San Onofre Ca

The state attorney general has warned operators of Orange County's toll road system that plans to build a tollway extension through the popular San Onofre State Beach park are unacceptable. In a strongly worded letter to the Transportation Corridor Agencies, Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer said noise, air pollution, visual and other environmental effects of the proposed Foothill South tollway would be damaging to the park, which is just over the San Diego County line.

State lifeguards and hundreds of onlookers continued their surveillance Tuesday of three great white sharks seen in recent days off San Onofre State Beach in San Diego County. "They're putting on a show every afternoon, and several hundred people have been coming down to watch them," lifeguard supervisor Steve Long said. The sharks are believed to be juvenile whites about 6 to 7 feet long. "They're cruising back and forth, patrolling along a reef anywhere from 50 feet to 300 yards offshore."

A surfer swam out to the site of a small-plane crash Tuesday, rescuing a seriously injured survivor in the waters off San Onofre State Beach. A second person died in the crash and rescue officials said there may have been a third person aboard who is still missing. Witnesses told police that about 3:15 p.m., the Cessna--a four-seat propeller-driven plane--glided toward the water about 600 yards from the beach in north San Diego County, as if it were landing.

Divers continued to search Wednesday for a third victim of a Christmas Day plane crash off San Onofre State Beach that killed an Inglewood woman and critically injured the pilot, authorities reported. Coroner's investigators in San Diego identified the dead woman as Celine Muhammad, 29, whose body was found floating in the ocean about 600 yards from the south end of San Onofre. U.S. Coast Guard officials said the pilot was Jamul Muhammad, 26, of Los Angeles.

Divers continued to search Wednesday for a third victim of a Christmas Day plane crash off San Onofre State Beach that killed an Inglewood woman and critically injured the pilot, authorities reported. Coroner's investigators in San Diego identified the dead woman as Celine Muhammad, 29, whose body was found floating in the ocean about 600 yards from the south end of San Onofre. U.S. Coast Guard officials said the pilot was Jamul Muhammad, 26, of Los Angeles.

The San Diego Sheriff's Department has suspended its search for the third person aboard a plane that crashed into the ocean Tuesday off San Onofre State Beach. A helicopter searched the shoreline Friday morning for signs of Edward Muhammad, 25, of Inglewood, but found nothing. The Sheriff's Department search and rescue dive team now is helping collect evidence and debris, said Sheriff's Lt. Guy Chambers.