Marines, Sailors to Return to San Diego County Friday

1. Marines and sailors aboard three U.S Navy warships will return to the San Diego area Friday following a seven-month deployment to the Western Pacific and Middle East. Sailors aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville and guided-missile destroyer USS Preble will return to Naval Station San Diego while sailors and Marines from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan arrive at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado Friday morning. For updates, check Coronado.Patch.com.

2. Authorities are working Friday to determine who intentionally set a 10-acre brush fire in Rancho Bernardo. It happened Thursday afternoon on West Bernardo Drive, about a mile south of Rancho Bernardo Community Park. Authorities say no one was hurt but there was about $5,000 worth of damage to a power pole. For more, check RanchoBernardo.Patch.com.

3. Three teenage boys were in custody Thursday on suspicion of attempted murder following a brawl in which three other teenage boys were stabbed, police said. Police were called to investigate a fight in the 900 block of Pier View Way at 2:40 p.m. Wednesday, according to Oceanside police Capt. Leonard Mata. They found a 17-year-old boy at the scene with at least one stab wound, he said.