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Jasper Fforde is known to older readers for his Thursday Next literary fantasies. His first young adult novel follows 15-year-old foundling Jennifer Strange, who runs a wizard management agency in a world that's rapidly losing magic — but business is about to pick up.

The death toll officially climbed above 5,300 Thursday in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan almost a week ago. Amid deepening nuclear, humanitarian and economic crises, the U.S. authorized the first evacuations of its citizens out of Japan.

Combining education, entertainment and a wide variety of San Diego County wildlife, the 3 coastal lagoons of Carlsbad - Agua Hedionda, Batiquitos and Buena Vista - are hosting the first Migratory Bird Festival.

San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio delivered thousands of signatures to the city clerk yesterday. It was the opening salvo of an initiative campaign to make it easier for the private sector to bid on city contracts.

How much do you need to earn to make ends meet in San Diego County? We'll discuss which groups are falling below the self-sufficiency standard.

It's Cowboys Vs. Ninjas

A small factory in Charleston, S.C., just got a big contract to build 1,000 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles, or MRAPs. These armored vehicles have survived IED attacks in Iraq. The Army and Marine Corps want all U.S. troops in Iraq to be traveling in these vehicles by early next year.

The California Attorney General match-up is all set for November. We're joined on Morning Edition by nonpartisan Sacramento political consultant Leo McElroy.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Friday proposed just over 109,000 acres of protected critical habitat for the endangered Arroyo toad in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange and San Diego counties.

A new BP report concludes that "multiple companies and work teams" are to blame for the Gulf of Mexico rig explosion and the largest oil spill in U.S. history, including the rig's owner and a company doing cement work on the well bore just before the explosion.