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Tonight, the Escondido City Council will decide whether to spend $50 million to build a minor league ballpark for the Padres Triple-A team. What could the City of Escondido gain in return for the $50 million investment?

Just ten days shy of sitting for his Cornell University Veterinarian's license, a family tragedy changes 23-year-old Jacob's life. Devastated, shocked and alone, Jankowski abandons school and hops a train to anywhere, though he soon discovers he's jumped aboard a circus train. He's immediately given grunt work which could keep him from getting & ldquo;redlighted, & rdquo; otherwise known as being thrown from the train in the black of night. But once Uncle Al, the resourceful and unscrupulous Ringmaster, learns of Jacob's education, he's promoted to circus veterinarian.

In the world of skateboarding, only one man can claim Bill Gates status: Tony Hawk. His brand is on everything from skateboards to Jeeps to cheeseburgers -- and he's releasing his 12th video game this week.

The United States is embroiled in a handful of concurrent international military conflicts. Yet the National Mall is quiet and the streets of Washington are pretty much protester-free. Whatever happened to the anti-war movement?

After Haiti's devastating earthquake last year, Americans gave nearly $2 billion to hundreds of charities. But one year later, much of that money remains unspent, and criticism is mounting that the international aid response has not moved fast enough to alleviate survivors' suffering.

The design of Coronado's Naval Amphibious Base Complex 320-325 sparks controversy nearly 50 years after its construction. The U.S. Navy plans to spend $600,000 to change the existing swastika-shaped l

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton will speak this afternoon at San Diego State's Cox Arena. The junior senator from New York will address a town hall meeting at 1:30 p.m. to promote her

The organization is the nation's largest single provider of abortions, yet it gets millions of dollars in federal funding with which to provide other services. Efforts over nearly three decades to change that have been unsuccessful — infuriating abortion opponents.

For the first time in many decades, Congress appears to be taking a hard look at the nation's deficit problem — one that President Obama plans to address in a speech Wednesday.

If the tax cut for wealthiest Americans is allowed to expire, those households making over $250,000 would see their income tax rate rise from 33 percent to 36 percent and those making upwards of $375,000 would go from a 35 percent rate to 39.6 percent. But does it make sense for the tax rate for someone making six figures to be the same as for multimillionaires?