In a region where wildfires have ravaged entire neighborhoods, one couple's proactive approach to home hardening is setting an example for others, with defensible space inspections provided by Cal Fire.
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KPBS Midday EditionSupporters and opponents of the death penalty look to an election showdown over Proposition 34.
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Five years after the Witch Creek wildfire led to a nightmarishly slow evacuation of Ramona, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted today to pursue a new emergency route that leads away of the foothills community.
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The FBI has preliminarily ruled that the shooting death of U.S. Border Patrol agent Nick Ivie was a result of friendly fire.
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Family members remember Nicholas Ivie, including a brother who served in the same Border Patrol station.
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The chairman of the board of the Utility Consumers' Action Network (UCAN) demands Michael Shames return hundreds of thousands in "bonuses."
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KPBS Midday EditionProposition 36 on the November ballot would tweak the "Three Strikes" law at a time when California is being forced to cut the prison population and its budget.
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The Mexican military arrested two suspects in the murder of Border Patrol agent Nicholas Ivie.
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The arraignment of a 64-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murdering a San Diego State University faculty member was postponed due to a jail medical hold, according to the District Attorney's office.
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A dozen San Diego religious leaders joined the author of "Dead Man Walking" in a movement to repeal the death penalty.
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One U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot and another wounded early Tuesday morning near Naco, Ariz.
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