Undocumented immigrants arrested for minor traffic violations will no longer be subject to deportation unless they're convicted.

A Camp Pendleton officer, Marine Corps Master Sgt. Scott E. Pruitt, was killed April 28 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. He was 38-years-old.

Congressman Bob Filner has finally put it in writing. The San Diego mayoral candidate has released his pension plan.

A new report from the Children's Advocacy Institute and University of San Diego says there is a "culture of secrecy" in states' disclosure laws, which hides information about child abuse deaths and near-deaths.

About 5,500 volunteers helped pick up trash in San Diego's canyons and creek-beds this past weekend.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee is highlighting some not-so-nice things former President Clinton had to say about Barack Obama. Of course, those statements were made during the bitter 2008 Democratic primary, when Obama was battling Hillary Clinton.

A Massachusetts company is buying San Diego based Gen-Probe for $3.7 billion. The local company is expected to maintain a significant presence here.

The city of San Diego's Commission on Arts and Culture plans to ask for a 5 percent increase in funding in the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, a commissioner said today.

The most famous athlete of his time, his stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. Despite the racial slurs he endured, Jesse Owens' grace and athleticism rallied crowds across the globe. But when the four-time Olympic gold medalist returned home, he could not even ride in the front of a bus. This is the story of the 22-year-old son of a sharecropper who triumphed over adversity to become a hero and world champion.

About 150 people rallied near the San Onofre nuclear power plant on Sunday, many from San Diego.

In an election year when candidates are trying to win the vote, some are "moving to the middle." We look at the movement and ask - is this new?

Activists in San Diego are joining a nationwide effort to take the Cold War stigma off May Day and bring it back to celebration of workers' rights. And this year, San Diego labor unions are joining with activists in an effort to stop big cuts in education and social services.

You're invited to join the Speak City Heights project on Saturday, June 2 at Hoover High School. Participants include community partners: KPBS, Media Arts Center San Diego, AjA Project, Mid-City CAN, Voice of San Diego. The event will feature multimedia exhibits, community resource fair, and discussions around neighborhood safety in City Heights.

Arthur Salm was the book review editor and columnist, as well as feature and arts writer, for the San Diego Union-Tribune for 20 years. But now he finds himself on the other side as his first book, a middle grader novel called Anyway, A Story About Me with 138 Footnotes, 27 Exaggerations, and 1 Plate of Spaghetti. It comes under the scrutiny of book reviewers.

Dunkin' Donuts will be just one of an abundance of stores opening May 3rd at the new Marine Corps Exchange at Camp Pendleton. At 147,000 square feet, the MCX is the largest exchange in the entire Marine Corps.

The San Diego-based biotech firm Gen-Probe announced today it has agreed to a $3.7 billion buyout by Hologic Inc., a Bedford, Mass., maker of medical devices.

San Diego-based Navy Lt. Christopher E. Mosko, who was killed in Afghanistan on April 27, will be honored in New York state this week.

The U.S. Navy is nearing a first-time agreement to curb electricity use at its sprawling San Diego-area bases if power runs short in Southern California this summer, a deal intended to diminish the threat of blackouts while the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant remains offline.

Tension is mounting between the two leading Democratic candidates vying to take on Republican Congressman Brian Bilbray in the fight for the 52nd Congressional seat next November.

A San Diego Foundation poll shows San Diego residents will accept greater urban density to get more convenience and better use of the environment.

A major revamp of the trolley system will bring the Green Line downtown and the Blue Line, eventually, to UC San Diego.

The lawsuit says firms who perform SEC outsourced investigations are paid millions by their clients -- the targets of probes -- to investigate whether they broke securities laws.

This year's San Diego Sport Fishing season will be different from any that have come before. That's because huge swaths of ocean are off limits to anglers creating uncertainty among those who make a living from the ocean's catch.

The body of the skipper of a yacht that broke apart for unknown reasons off the Coronado Islands over the weekend remained missing today, as authorities tried to determine what caused the quadruple-fatality accident.