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Federal correctional officers are gathering outside the Justice Department on Wednesday to protest budget cuts and cutbacks to the federal inmate work program. The officers say it's the only program they have left to keep inmates out of trouble.

President Obama headed to Trinidad and Tobago Friday for the fifth Summit of the Americas, but much of the focus was on a nation that wasn't there, as the administration and Cuban officials hinted at warmer relations.

Law enforcement officers wanted: must work graveyard shifts alone in remote towns along the Mexican border, put in long hours and perform well in triple-digit temperatures. That message is never toute

So far I have loved Death Note in all its various incarnations and I urge you to sample it in one of its various formats.

Marines, Border Patrol, Homeland Security and some non-government organizations spent yesterday practicing disaster relief exercises at San Diego's Brown Field.

The U.S. Supreme Court reenters the battle over affirmative action, announcing that it will decide whether public schools may use race as a factor in making students assignments in order to promote racial diversity. The court will hear cases based in Seattle and Kentucky.

Kazakhstan's wounded pride over a comedian's portrayal of the country as a land of backward, racist yokels may be behind a recent flurry of late-night TV ads promoting the country.

California voters will have at least ten ballot initiatives to consider next November. The latest to qualify is a bond measure for alternative fuel vehicles and renewable energy. KPBS Reporter Ed Joyc

San Diego environmental groups are upset with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's line-item veto eliminating all state funding for beach water quality monitoring. KPBS Environmental Reporter Ed Joyce has

Ben (Seth Rogen) has been living for years off a $14,000 settlement check he received after a postal truck ran over his foot. He shares a house with some friends. Together they work on a website devoted to cataloging all the nude shots of celebrities (they think this is something novel.). They figure one day it will pay off. Alison (Katherine Heigl), on the other hand, is a hard-working assistant on an entertainment show. She lives in the guest house of her well to do sister and brother-in-law, and has her career arc all planned out. When she finally gets a promotion to become an on-air personality, she goes out to celebrate. That's when fate pulls a little joke and puts her together with Ben. The two have some drinks, get plastered, end up in bed and have a condom malfunction. In the morning, when Alison sobers up, she quickly dispenses with Ben and sends him on his way. Ben, who seems to consider himself lucky to have gotten as far as he did, doesn't seem to harbor any bad feelings about the chance encounter.