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A rendering of the SDSU West plan to redevelop SDCCU Stadium is shown in this undated image.

SDSU West Backers To Submit 100K Petition Signatures To Qualify For 2018 Ballot

Backers of a ballot initiative that would pave the way for San Diego State University to acquire the SDCCU Stadium property for campus expansion plan to submit their petitions to election officials Tuesday.

A single tree burns in southwest New Mexico after a lightning strike. For more than 100 years, the U.S. Forest Service has been posting men and women atop mountains and trees, and in other hard-to-reach places, to wait and watch for smoke.

A Fire Lookout On What's Lost In A Transition To Technology

The number of manned fire lookouts in the U.S. is dwindling, as technology is increasingly used to spot and monitor wildfires. But can technology replace a human watch?

San Diego's Top Weekend Events: Are You Ready To (Classic) Rock?

This weekend brings concerts and performers rich in nostalgia, whether you're a fan of folk, pop, rock or metal.

Students in New York fill their lunch trays with hot food. In Rhode Island, a controversy over a plan to limit children to cold sandwiches if they had outstanding lunch balances was quickly reversed this week.

After Backlash, Rhode Island School District Rolls Back 'Lunch Shaming' Policy

Warwick Public Schools reversed its decision to bar students with delinquent debt from access to hot lunch meals after it was met with anger. An outpouring of donations has since erased the debts.

In less than a hundred years, thousands upon thousands of Diamondback Terrapins had succumbed to the American appetite, depleting the species.

Our Taste For Turtle Soup Nearly Wiped Out Terrapins. Then Prohibition Saved Them

By the turn of the 20th century, America's love affair with Diamondback Terrapin soup — a subsistence food turned gourmet fare — had left the turtle's population teetering. Booze ban to the rescue.

A man uses heroin in a park in New York City in 2017.

Majority Of Americans Say Drug Companies Should Be Held Responsible For Opioid Crisis

According to a new NPR/Ipsos opioid poll, 71% of Americans surveyed also say the government should do more to curb the epidemic.

Ohio's prison system accounts for more than 20% of its 12,919 confirmed coronavirus cases. Mass testing at the Marion Correctional Institution, seen here, found more than 1,800 cases.

73% Of Inmates At An Ohio Prison Test Positive For Coronavirus

No other state has reported as many cases of COVID-19 behind bars as Ohio, in large part because no other state has tested as many inmates.

Patients are treated for COVID-19 at a field hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

COVID-19 Numbers Are Bad In Ecuador. The President Says The Real Story Is Even Worse

Hospitals and doctors are overwhelmed. So are funeral homes and cemeteries. "You feel powerless," said one doctor tending to 200 patients.

Louisiana, like many other states where cannabis is legal, has designated the cannabis industry as essential. Marijuana plants are shown growing under special grow lights, at GB Sciences Louisiana, in Baton Rouge.

'Illegal To Essential': How The Coronavirus Is Boosting The Legal Cannabis Industry

More than 20 states designated marijuana businesses essential during the coronavirus shutdown. Cannabis activists say it's a remarkable development, given that it remains illegal under federal law.

Ken Cuccinelli, seen here in 2016, was named on Monday as acting head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is charged with adjudicating requests for citizenship, green cards and visas.

GOP Mutters, Gently, As Trump Sidesteps Senate For Top Aides

President Donald Trump's latest anointment of an acting head of a major federal agency has prompted muttering, but no more than that, from Republican senators whose job description includes confirming top administration aides.

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