The "Yes" side on Proposition 37 called for a criminal investigation of one of the "No" side's campaign mailers.

After growing up illegally in the U.S., a Southern California teenager is adjusting to her new life in Tijuana.

California’s unemployment rate decreased for September from 10-point-six percent to 10-point-two percent. But economists say job growth is still anemic.

Monday is the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 6 presidential election, county officials said today.

Explore the inside story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear holocaust. In the first major feature documentary on the subject, the film brings to life the three central characters — Kennedy, Castro and Khrushchev — and explores how the world’s most powerful men fell into an abyss of their own making and outlines the courage and luck it took to climb out again.

This intimate and intense film explores the dramatic and little-known events that unfolded inside a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. While politicians desperately sought a solution to the stand-off, Vasili Arkhipov, an officer aboard the submarine, refused to fire a nuclear torpedo, thus averting disaster. The program combines tense drama with eyewitness accounts and expert testimony about a critical event during the Cold War.

The unemployment rate in San Diego County last month was 8.4 percent, down from a revised 9 percent the previous month and 9.9 percent in the year-ago period, the state Employment Development Department reported today.

Four years ago, climate change was hot. Politicians from both parties, pressed by an anxious public, seemed poised to act. But that was then. Today, public opinion about the climate issue has cooled, and politicians either ignore the issue or loudly proclaim their skepticism of scientific evidence that human activity is imperiling the planet. What’s behind this reversal?

San Diego conservationists say the city might be blowing its chance to preserve thousands of acres of open space.

In the third episode of season two, Blanche comes face-to-face with her former lover when a scandalous novel is published; when the passion between the pair reignites, she begins to consider a life away from Eaton Place. Downstairs, Beryl’s decision to take a stand causes serious disruptions in the running of the house until a familiar face offers wise words. Meanwhile, when Lady Persie reveals a shocking secret to Sir Hallam, the pair becomes ever closer as Persie is forced to make a life-changing decision about her future.

The Navy's waterfront project gets a go-ahead; Jung Ho Pak leaves Orchestra Nova behind. Brian Bilbray and Scott Peters turn on each other; Sherri Lightner and Ray Ellis take it to the wire.

The American Civil Liberties Union says a veterans' organization should have no say in legal talks over how to modify a war memorial cross that is located on federal land.

Third-party candidates could tip the presidential race, as Ralph Nader did in Florida in 2000.

A San Diego man pleaded not guilty today to child pornography charges filed by federal prosecutors, who declined to comment on media reports suggesting he's linked to the suspect in the Federal Reserve bomb plot in New York City.

About a dozen lawyers and retired judges asked voters to consider the county bar's ratings in November's judicial election. Robert Amador is the only candidate with a "well-qualified" rating.

After "The Raid Redemption" earlier this year, all Asian action films seem somehow tame. Among the new releases is "Tai Chi Zero" (opening October 19 at AMC Mission Valley Theaters), the first film in a planned epic trilogy.

Women kick ass in this month's genre film marathon sponsored by FilmOut San Diego on Saturday at the Birch North Park Theater.