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We'll find out what our Film Club critics think of the latest "Toy Story" installment and discuss the Sundance award-winning "Winter's Bone." Also on deck, the Tilda Swinton vehicle "I Am Love," and the movie version of a pulp classic, "The Killer Inside Me."

Russian officials say 108 people are confirmed dead in Monday's explosion at a coal mine in Siberia. It's the worst mining accident in Russia in decades. Investigators say the explosion could have been caused by methane gas or coal-dust.

San Francisco will become the first city in the United States to require that all employers provide paid sick leave. Labor groups hope the new law will serve as an example. Many small-business owners say they can't afford the mandate.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appeals to the federal government for disaster aid as a cold snap freezes out the state's citrus farmers. Crop loss is estimated at $1 billion, making this the costliest freeze in more than two decades.

The U.S.-backed government in Lebanon is alarmed by the Bush administration's move to have more contact with the governments of Syria and Iran. The Lebanon government is locked in a 6-month-old confrontation with Hezbollah, which is leading an opposition alliance backed by Iran and Syria.

Mailuu-Suu, Kyrgyzstan, was once an elite Soviet industrial town, where uranium was mined and processed. The mining came to a stop in the 1960s. The radioactive waste remains, and little has been done to protect the town's more than 20,000 residents.

In the second in a series of discussion on the U.S. end game in Iraq, military historian and scholar Frederick Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute says the U.S. needs more troops in Iraq to defeat the insurgency.

Home prices in San Diego are rising at a higher rate than just about every other market in the nation. Is this a sign the local real estate market is stabilizing? Plus, why is the commercial market continuing to struggle? We discuss the latest news on the residential and commercial real estate markets.

Sen. John Sununu of New Hampshire has called on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign. Sununu is the first Republican to join a chorus of Democrats in Congress who say the attorney general had an improper role in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.

A cozy huddle of friends and customers gathers in the early evening at D.G. Wills Book Shop. For an hour or two, you can imagine yourself visiting a Dickensian bookseller in old London.