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Seniors can be easy targets for purse snatchers and other thieves. Especially during the busy holiday shopping season. The San Diego County Department of Aging and Independent Services wants seniors t

Overcrowded emergency rooms seem to be the norm these days. Hospital officials from throughout San Diego County will hold a summit tomorrow to discuss what they're trying to do about it. KPBS Reporter

Writer and activist Arundhati Roy has recently come under fire from the Indian government for her comments condemning the Indian occupation of Kashmir. Anuj Chopra of Foreign Policy argues that Roy's interpretation of the conflict was correct, Kashmir is under a brutal occupation, and silencing Roy won't solve that.

Against a backdrop of deep fiscal distress, several state lawmakers rewarded their employees with pay hikes during the first half of the year, an Associated Press review of legislative pay records showed.

California animal shelters would be required to euthanize animals sooner under cuts proposed in Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's revised budget. Shelters now care for the animals for six days before they're "put down."

Film Explores the Underground Iranian Music Scene

This year, cooks poured their hearts into these carefully crafted, kitchen how-tos. T. Susan Chang says these cookbooks are like a properly seasoned skillet — heavy-duty, battle-tested and much to be prized.

We'll discuss a new traveling exhibit, RACE Are We So Different?, which opens this weekend at the San Diego Museum of Man.

The French government has put forward legislation that would see women make up half the figures in France's leading boardrooms within the next five years. In a bill modeled on similar legislation already in place in Norway, all companies listed on the Paris stock exchange would have to gradually add women directors to their boards until they make up 50 percent of board members by 2015.

Analysts estimate there are as few as 1,000 people in the U.S. with the skills needed to defend complex computer systems against attack -- and 20 to 30 times that many are needed. And so the race begins to recruit American cyberwarriors.