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It's a complaint echoed from San Diego to Brownsville. Some five million trucks per year are subject to costly delays at the U.S.-Mexico border as a result of rigorous security measures put in place in the last decade. These delays affect the timeliness of a trucker’s delivery.

A woman filed suit in San Diego today against an Oregon fruit farm, alleging that frozen berries it sold gave her hepatitis as part of an outbreak of the disease in seven U.S. states.

The New Mexico landfill or "Atari Dump" where the game console maker buried its mistakes -- the biggest being the game E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial -- will be dug up by game developer Fuel Industries, which hopes to make a documentary about the project.

Three San Diego men have been arrested on suspicion of running a marijuana ring that mailed pot to customers around the country.

Suspected terrorists in China have struck three times in the past 10 days. More than 25 people have died in the violence in China's far west, which has prompted extra-tight security across the country during the Beijing Olympics.

More than 30 million Americans experience significant hearing loss, but only a third of them gets hearing aids.

Read an exclusive excerpt of Lionel Shriver's latest, Big Brother. Shriver is no stranger to controversial topics, from school massacres to the American health care system. Big Brother is a comedic take on obesity and its effect on an Iowa family.

On a bright and warm Saturday morning, there's a steady flow of people dropping off donations at Martha's Table, a charity in downtown Washington, D.C. A mountain of plastic and paper bags stuffed with used dresses, scarves, skirts and footwear expands in one corner of the room. Volunteers sort and put clothes on hangers. They'll go on sale next door, and the proceeds will help the needy in the area.

Shape-note singing is a communal form of music that began in New England 200 years ago, mostly from townsfolk without any musical training. Sam Amidon says the melodies of shape-note hymns are some of the "deepest-seated for me."

Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah is about a young Nigerian woman who moves to the U.S. It's a story of relocation, far-flung love and life as an outsider. But reviewer Rosecrans Baldwin says that despite the author's talent, much of the storytelling feels flat.