In November, experienced pilot Jeff Boatman crashed his helicopter just south of the Grand Canyon. He found his cell phone and dialed 911. Rosie Rodriquez took the call.

Democrats are out in force in San Diego this weekend for the statewide annual party convention. Democratic House leader, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, joined them Friday.

In a potentially precedent-setting decision, a federal judge in San Diego ruled that the Sweetwater Union High School District unfairly favored boys' sports over girls' sports at Castle Park High School by giving the boys better athletic facilities, resources and opportunities.

A City Council committee next week will receive a proposed ordinance to ban smoking in housing complexes if the smoker is asked to stop by another resident, according to documents displayed on the city's website.

The San Diego Unified School District today announced a tentative agreement with its Police Officers Association to hold the line on salaries and maintain furloughs for the next school year.

The State Controller’s office says January revenues came in well below what Governor Jerry Brown’s latest budget proposal had projected them to be.

The county first realized it was having problems with a hotline designed to help residents access food stamps and other benefits about a year ago, according to Nick Macchione, the director of the county's Health and Human Services Agency.

Southern California surfers gather at San Diego State University Saturday to talk about sustainability.

Federal regulators say an ammonia leak that caused an emergency alert at Southern California's San Onofre nuclear plant was caused by employees who failed to recognize degraded equipment and fix it.

A Republican state lawmaker wants to make serving in the California legislature a part-time job. She's gathering signatures for an initiative she hopes to place on the November ballot.

Some cultural endorsements for you to consider, including the dance doc "Pina," a play about race and class that has men in towels, and some crazy underwater dog photography.

Combining startlingly fresh and candid 16mm footage that had lain undiscovered in the cellar of Swedish Television for the past 30 years, with contemporary audio interviews from leading African-American artists, activists, musicians and scholars, ”Mixtape” looks at the people, society, culture and style that fueled an era of convulsive change, 1967-1975. Utilizing an innovative format that riffs on the popular 1970s mixtape format, this is a cinematic and musical journey into the black communities of America.

New report finds that on average, less than half of all community colleges students across the state are passing math courses required for an associate degree or for transferring to a four-year college.

A former San Diego police officer who bribed and sexually assaulted women he stopped in the Gaslamp District for drunken driving and other offenses was sentenced today to eight years and eight months in prison.

Roundtable: The Ninth Circuit rules on Proposition 8; the teachers union rules on San Diego Unified's budget plans, and we find out if there are rules for food trucks in San Diego County.

This program features three stories of students and their communities standing together to stop hate and bullying. Fifty years after James Meredith became the first black student at the segregated University of Mississippi, football fans revive the chant “The South will rise again.” Student leaders confront the divisive practice, sparking a campus visit from the Ku Klux Klan. The college town of Bloomington, Indiana, shocked after a Korean student was murdered by a white supremacist a decade ago, bands together again after anti-Semitic attacks on the eve of Hanukkah. In Lancaster, Calif., a middle school counselor starts an anti-bullying program that inspires a citywide campaign after teen suicides in nearby towns shake the town into action.

Beginning Monday, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and California Highway Patrol will crack down on motorists who use their cellphones to talk without hands-free devices or text while driving.

Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington team up in "Safe House" (opening February 10th throughout San Diego) for a fast-paced action-thriller directed by Sweden's Daniel Espinosa.

No matter how much California’s High Speed Rail costs balloon, the Federal Government will continue to support the project.

Under increasing pressure, the White House has offered what it's calling an "accommodation" to religious groups on a requirement to cover birth control free of charge.

The Department of Defense announced new rules that will allow women in the United States military to serve closer to the front lines of combat.

In the coming months, San Diego officials will contemplate another series of water-rate increases to fund infrastructure improvements, but the Public Utilities Department will have to answer a lot of questions first about how money was spent from the previous series of rate hikes.

The attorney for cross supporters says if the 9th Circuit Court ruling isn't overturned, veteran memorials across the country will be torn down.

Democrats from around California are assembling in San Diego this weekend for the State Party Convention. One of the hottest topics will be how redistricting and the new Open Primary will affect the Party.

How important is your hometown to who you are today? For artist John Baldessari, spending his youth in National City still impacts the way he sees the world. A new exhibit of work by the pioneering artist has opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

The Marine Corps on Thursday once again did damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS - a special unit that murdered millions of Jews, gypsies and others.

Now that backers of a major pension overhaul have ended their attempt to qualify a November ballot measure, any changes to California's public employee retirement system this year will have to come from the Democratic-controlled legislature.