The nominee for U.S. Attorney in San Diego has a reputation in local legal circles as detail-oriented with a knack for managing complex cases. Laura Duffy is best known for successfully prosecuting members of the violent Arellano-Felix drug cartel.

San Diego-area law enforcement officials have announced a campaign to generate crime tips from the ever-growing ranks of social-network enthusiasts.

A hearing before San Diego City’s Ethics Commission today was postponed after Councilwoman Marti Emerald’s attorney challenged one of the commissioners.

What we'll drop in on this Culture Lust weekend: the Dance on Film fest, a wit-cracking biologist, and The Moving Units at the Casbah.

As many as 700,000 property tax owners in San Diego County will see their property tax bills go down this year. Assessments are dropping because of a decrease in the rate of inflation.

A health care overhaul has become a "very ideological, very partisan battle," President Obama said Thursday in opening a summit he hopes will help resolve that divide.

How will big changes at NASA impact the local aerospace industry? We speak to participants in the upcoming SpaceUp unconference about the local space exploration industry, and how the nation's space exploration goals have evolved over time.

Disaster relief has been in the forefront of the news since the Jan. 12 earthquake destroyed parts of Haiti and killed and injured hundreds of thousands of people there. Raymond Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America, will address this issue and other U.S. foreign aid concerns at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego on Thursday, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. He joins us in studio to talk about proposed changed to U.S. foreign aid.

The now infamous "Compton Cookout" has become a catalyst for a broader discussion on the climate at the UC, San Diego. Some student leaders are describing a toxic environment for African-American students on campus. We'll explore what's happening with race relations at UCSD and beyond.

The U.S. military, stretched thin in Iraq and Afghanistan, has taken on another major operation after a massive earthquake hit Haiti. About 22,000 service members responded, many of them distributing food and providing medical aid.

A campus teach-in at UC San Diego turned into a walkout yesterday. Several hundreds of minority students defiantly marched away from the campus event which was designed to quell racial tensions.

The organ transplant policies of Anthem Blue Cross are being challenged in a Los Angeles court room. A patient is accusing the insurer of automatically denying his request for an out-of-network liver transplant.

The Mexican Amy says it freed six men in Tijuana early Wednesday morning and detained a man and a woman who allegedly held the group captive. However, the army shared few details about the case.

“The Crazies” (opening February 26 throughout San Diego) is the latest horror film from the 1970s to get a Hollywood remake. You can listen to my radio feature or read my extended interview with director Breck Eisner about why he wanted to remake this George Romero film.