Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the second Gulf War against Iraq, died Thursday. He was 78.

President Barack Obama will meet with the four leaders of Congress Friday to discuss a possible deal that would avoid automatic spending cuts and tax increases in the new year.

Apartments and condominiums in California will have to have carbon monoxide monitors in the new year.

Businesses licensed by the State of California will still be able to settle lawsuits against them, but they won’t be able to hide the reasons for the suits.

The San Diego International Auto Show opened at the Convention Center to show off new styles and technology.

Tom Fremantle and his adopted street dog Pancho walked 1,000 miles, crisscrossing the border between CIudad Juarez and Tijuana.

Several businesses and a restaurant at the Westfield UTC Mall were evacuated today after a tractor struck a natural gas line nearby, according to fire officials.

A San Diego-based pharmaceutical company agreed to pay $11.4 million to resolve allegations that it engaged in a scheme to promote its drugs by paying kickbacks to doctors to induce them to write prescriptions of its products, the Justice Department announced today.

Local organizations are partnering with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department to offer free or reduced price rides home on New Year's Eve.

The company behind the water shows featuring killer whales, dolphins and other animals at SeaWorld on Thursday said it was planning to go public.

KPBS takes a look at the top health and education stories with KPBS reporters Kenny Goldberg and Kyla Calvert.

States in this country are becoming like an unhappy couple. They've always had their differences, but their arguments have gotten so chronic that they're hardly talking to each other.

The Senate's top Democrat blasts Republicans' intransigence on fiscal solution.

Nearly one in four U.S. service women say they were sexually assaulted while deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, according to a survey conducted by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Former President George H.W. Bush has been admitted to the intensive care unit at a Houston hospital “following a series of setbacks including a persistent fever,” but he is alert and talking to medical staff, his spokesman said.

At least 2,040 members of the U.S. military have died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.

The Christmas holidays can be an especially rough time for the elderly who are in poor health and live alone.

Along the U.S.-Mexico border, charity can run deeply. In Arizona, one group has been quietly building communities for Sonora’s poor.

Though he is reportedly alert and enjoying a "running banter" with his nurses, former President George H.W. Bush is in the intensive care unit at Houston's Methodist Hospital.

The storm that spread snow across much of the nation and sent tornadoes roaring across parts of the Southeast on Tuesday and Wednesday isn't done just yet.