City Councilman and mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio says he hasn't communicated with U-T San Diego’s publisher Doug Manchester or CEO John Lynch about anything.

The Orange County District Attorney's office says the fatal shooting last February of Camp Pendleton Marine Sgt. Manny Loggins by a sheriff's deputy was justified.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a woman in a South Bay neighborhood this afternoon.

Introduced by George Clooney, and traveling with intrepid reporter Nicholas Kristof and celebrity advocates (America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union and Olivia Wilde), "Half The Sky" presents women and girls who are living under some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable -- and fighting bravely to change them. Their intimate, dramatic and immediate stories of struggle reflect viable and sustainable options for empowerment and offer an actionable blueprint for transformation.

Purchases of the iPhone 5 could be just for the thrill of it.

Tobacco companies have been coughing up a lot of campaign cash in California.

George Takei calls "Allegiance" his "legacy project." Listen to the Star Trek actor and social media superstar talk about why he has so much invested in this new musical at the Globe about the Japanese American internment.

Multiple terms of life in prison without parole were handed down today for two members of a Mexican kidnap-murder crew who took part in the 2007 strangulation deaths of two men whose bodies were dissolved in acid in San Ysidro.

KPBS 89.5 FM has added five new programs to the weekend schedule and is reshuffling existing programs to make room for these fresh new offerings from NPR, the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), and others.

Doug Manchester and John Lynch are pulling out all the stops for a sports-entertainment complex downtown. Mayoral candidates DeMaio gets big endorsements while Filner counters with endorsements of his own. Courtrooms are closing, employees are laid off, but judges keep their car allowance.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney made a campaign promise Thursday to stop cuts to the defense budget

A killer whale at San Diego's SeaWorld is recovering after he was injured during a night performance. SeaWorld says 11-year-old Nakai was treated for a lower jaw injury that he suffered last week when he came into contact with the pool.

A man accused of shooting two sheriff's deputies who went to his Lakeside apartment to investigate allegations that he abused one of his girlfriend's daughters pleaded not guilty Thursday to three counts of attempted murder of a peace officer.

NASA's newest Mars rover, Curiosity, has snapped photos of rocky outcroppings that jut out from the alien soil, and scientists say they look like the remnants of an ancient stream bed where water once flowed on the surface of the red planet.

It's time to get your flu shot. The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency is set to kick off its annual influenza vaccination campaign today in conjunction with area healthcare organizations.

Law enforcement agencies are looking at the rising crime rate in many San Diego cities and asking if it has to do with the influx of state prisoners to county jurisdiction under realignment. They gathered to take stock last night.