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An NPR News Investigation has found that Massey Energy had nine coal mines with high injury rates last year, in addition to the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia where 29 miners died last week. Four Massey mines had injury rates more than twice the national rate in 2009.

The City of San Diego passed a smoking ban in city parks and on beaches in 2006, are people following the law? A local community group, concerned with the amount of cigarette litter on the ground in city parks organized a clean up and found more than 17,000 butts a month. We discuss the smoking ban, who's smoking and the harms of second-hand smoke.

Grieving relatives began burying some of the 25 coal miners killed in a massive underground explosion. Meanwhile, crews ventured back into the mine Friday despite increasingly slim odds of finding survivors.

The West Virginia coal mine where 25 people were killed in an underground explosion has been cited for serious safety problems several times this year, federal records show. About $1.8 million in penalties have been levied against the mine since 2006, of which the company has paid about $365,000.

The Obama administration is delaying the release of a report on whether China manipulates its currency for trade advantages, two weeks before China's president is scheduled to visit Washington. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the delay gives the White House time to try to convince China to voluntarily let its currency go up.

What's in bloom at the Anza-Borrego Desert? A park ranger joins the show to talk about the flora and fauna of the region.

A report released late last month by the Highway Loss Data Institute found California’s new hands-free law has not reduced the number of vehicular accidents.

Since Arizona deployed speed cameras on highways statewide, traffic deaths are down and the cameras have helped raise millions in revenue. But disgruntled drivers have harassed camera company workers — and the hostility has even been implicated in a shooting death.

San Diego City Council’s independent budget analyst, or IBA, has looked at the mayor’s proposed budget cuts, and will present her recommendations to the council on Tuesday.

The New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year can trace its origins back to the 17th century. The word: "unfriend." Christine Lindberg, senior lexicographer at Oxford University Press, says the Oxford English Dictionary provides a citation for "unfriend" from 1659.