Veterans march in San Diego's 2012 Veterans Day parade along Pacific Highway.

The vote to legalize marijuana in Colorado and Washington State is making waves beyond U.S. borders as Latin American leaders call for a re-evaluation of drug control strategy.

California State University trustees will consider levying fees aimed at moving students through the system on a four-year timeline.

California voters are historically resistant to statewide tax measures. But last week, they approved two of them – Propositions 30 and 39 – and more than 70 percent of local tax and bond measures. Is that a new trend? Perhaps not.

Thousands lined Pacific Highway in downtown San Diego today for the 11th annual Veterans Day Parade, which featured as grand marshal the retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier.

This election brought a change that many California women lawmakers say is disappointing.

The San Diego Humane Society and SPCA has launched a new program to spay or neuter 5,000 pets between now and next June 30, the animal welfare organization announced today.

The San Diego Zoo is scheduled to reveal the name of its 15-week-old giant panda cub on Tuesday.

Army Capt. James D. Nehl died November 9 in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, according to the Department of Defense. Nehl was shot to death while on patrol during combat operations.

Ferry service into Manhattan started Monday for the Rockaway section of Queens, one of the hardest hit New York City neighborhoods after Superstorm Sandy. Many residents are still feeling cut off, struggling without power or adequate public transportation options. And now worries about mold are creeping in.

Many veterans aren't just looking for a job; they're looking for a career, a calling, and of course, financial stability. Those recently separated from the military have to confront what is still a fairly weak civilian job market.

Poway’s superintendent, John Collins, talks about Poway Unified’s use of Mello-Roos fees to build new, top-flight schools.

The San Diego mayor’s race was expensive, hard fought and by most standards, nasty. The campaign strategists — the men behind the candidates — are paid to shape the persona and mould the message.

Mexico and three Central American nations are calling for a review of international drug policies after two U.S. states voted to legalize recreational use of marijuana.

Hundreds of health care workers in Georgia are losing their licenses to practice because of a problem created by a new immigration law in the state.

Officers with the Palms Springs Police Department shot and killed Marine Cpl. Allan DeVillena II, 22, on Saturday morning. DeVillena was assigned to the 1st Marine Logistical Group, which is based at Camp Pendleton, although he was stationed at Twentynine Palms.

San Diego State University was selected today to host early-round games of the 2014 Division 1 men's college basketball tournament, the NCAA announced today.

As part of Virginia's waiver to opt out of mandates set out in the No Child Left Behind law, the state has created a controversial new set of education goals that are higher for white and Asian kids than for blacks, Latinos and students with disabilities.

A team of students has built an app to determine traffic patterns along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Iraq War veteran Paul Chappell lectures at USD on "Why Peace is Possible."

While some U.S. military members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan will settle back into their lives at home, others continue to deal with the after-effects of war. While some of their wounds are apparent, others are not. We take a look at what USD is doing to prepare health care workers working with our nations veterans.

Two soldiers who grew up in Southern California were killed in Afghanistan over the weekend in separate incidents. Army Spc. Daniel L. Carlson, 21, of Running Springs, died November 9 in Kandahar province. Army Staff Sgt. Kenneth W. Bennett, 26, of Glendora, was killed November 10 in Sperwan Gar.

While Sunday was officially Veteran's Day, many businesses are observing the holiday today, and with it offering free meals and to folks in the military, and, of course, veterans. Home Post has the low down.

Paula Broadwell, the woman whose extramarital affair with retired Gen. David Petraeus led to his resignation Friday from the post of CIA director, is a major in the Army Reserve who specializes in counterterrorism issues. She's also the author of All In: The Education of General David Petraeus, a biography of the former top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.

One war is done, another is winding down and the calls to cut the deficit are deafening. The military, a beneficiary of robust budgets for more than a decade, is coming to grips with a new reality - fewer dollars.

Some of the Marines who saw action during the Vietnam War carried cameras instead of guns.

A San Diego researcher says reflective pavement may have an unexpected and unwanted side effect.

The new Naval Hospital being built on Camp Pendleton is 70 percent complete.

How many U.S. veterans are deported each year? No one knows, but a group of "banished veterans" in Mexico is trying to help.

Phase II of this story has begun:

In 1979, when Jim Stigler was still a graduate student at the University of Michigan, he went to Japan to research teaching methods and found himself sitting in the back row of a crowded fourth-grade math class.