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Since 1980, when China implemented a one-child policy, traditionally large families have turned into inverted pyramids with multiple grandparents for every child. They lavish the child with attention — and expect great things.

One question in particular has troubled arid Southern California for over two centuries. It is the question of water, so fundamental, so obvious -- and so lacking. We have learned that whoever control

The investigator of this year's disaster at the Sago coal mine in West Virginia issues a preliminary report that narrows the possible causes of the explosion. Still, the report states that, after the explosion, "everything that could go wrong, did go wrong."

Playwright Doug Wright has written award-winning works about the Marquis de Sade and a fascinating German transvestite named Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. The latter play, I Am My Own Wife, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2004. Wright has now adapted the August Strindberg play "Creditors" for the La Jolla Playhouse stage, where he'll also direct the production. We'll talk with Wright about his work.

Hurricane evacuees all across the Gulf Coast are moving out of shelters. But moving makes some evacuees realize the depths of the bond they forged in desperate circumstances. One shelter in Mississippi serves as an example.

Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility is the only State-run prison in San Diego County. It was built in 1989 and was designed to accommodate 2,208 medium to high-custody inmates -- today more than double that number, 4,680 inmates, call the facility home. What are conditions like for the prison population?

Crews are hoping to get food and air to six coal miners trapped in a collapsed mine. On Wednesday, they drilled to within about 1,000 feet of the men. The recent progress means rescuers may reach the victims in about two days.

A memorial in Berlin, Germany was recently unveiled in memory of gay victims of the Holocaust. Volker Beck, a member of the German parliament and supporter of the memorial, explains what the memorial symbolizes for members of the gay holocaust survivors and their families.

Mayor Sanders encouraged San Diego to move forward with $1.6 billion in building projects that include a new City Hall, a new library downtown, and an expansion of the convention center. Why does the mayor believe these projects will help San Diego become a "great city"?

The man whose books on Soviet-era gulags earned him international acclaim and years of exile from his homeland has died. Alexander Solzhenitsyn died Sunday of heart failure. He was 89. Although Solzhenitsyn continued to write through his last years, it is largely his early work that he is remembered for today.