New California Law Requires Whopping Cough Vaccination

1. A drug smuggler who intentionally ran over and killed a U.S. Border Patrol agent as the victim's partner tried to lay a spike strip to stop the defendant from fleeing into Mexico was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole. Jesus Navarro-Montes, 25, was convicted in April of second-degree murder and drug charges in the death of 32-year-old Border Agent Luis Aguilar, who was run over by a Hummer H2 filled with drugs on Jan. 19, 2008.

2. A new state law requiring middle and high school students to be vaccinated for pertussis in order to enter school went into effect July 1, according to the San Diego County Health and Human Services
Agency. All students in grades 7 through 12 must show proof that they received the pertussis booster shot before they return to school, said the county public health officer Wilma Wooten.

3. UC San Diego announced today that it plans to enroll fewer freshmen and more transfer students this fall than last year. Almost 3,700 freshmen are expected when school opens the fall quarter Sept. 22, compared with more than 4,200 first-year students who enrolled last fall. The number of Latino and black students climbed 15.6 percent over 2010.