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Helicopters drop water on the inferno as seen near the intersection of W. San Marcos Blvd and Via Vera Cruz at about 1 p.m. May 14, 2014.

As Cocos Fire Nears Full Containment, Some Crews Being Sent Home

As of Tuesday morning, the Cocos Fire in San Marcos was 93 percent contained and firefighters were being sent home. Crews fighting two fires at Camp Pendleton also neared full containment.

March 18-24: True Tales From Haiti, Paris, Early Christendom And Hitler's Germany

Julia Alvarez's story of a promise kept, Alice Kaplan's account of three American women in Paris, Bart D. Ehrman's inquiry into the identity of Jesus, and Andrew Nagorski's survey of Americans who witnessed Hitler's ascent arrive in paperback.

Marijuana is stored in bins for trimming and packaging in preparation to be sold retail at 3D Cannabis Center, in Denver.

Colorado Collected $2.1 Million In January Taxes On Recreational Pot

For the first time since it legalized recreational marijuana, Colorado is releasing revenue figures: The state made $3.5 million in taxes and fees in January.

The National Mall, looking east from the Washington Monument.

The National Mall - America's Front Yard

Airs Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Junior Seau in 2009, when he played with the New England Patriots.

Junior Seau Autopsy Report Released

No alcohol was present in the body of former San Diego Chargers linebacker Junior Seau at the time of his death, according to an autopsy report filed today by the Medical Examiner's Office.

St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch announces the grand jury's decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown, on Nov. 24.

Prosecutor Releases More Documents Related To Ferguson Shooting

Among the 23 new documents released is an interview by police of Dorian Johnson, the young man who was with Michael Brown on the day he was killed by officer Darren Wilson.

Companies from Jordan, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran were among the more than 100 Internet startups at this year's Startup Istanbul event on Sept. 30. It was Iranian entrepreneurs' first time competing on an international stage.

Iranian Entrepreneurs Make Pitches That Are Just Practice, For Now

Young Iranians are brimming with ideas for tech startups. But extensive financial sanctions facing their country prevent them from entering the global marketplace.

"Ferry and river men. Vicksburg, Mississippi," a 1936 photo by Walker Evans, is one of many images in the NYPL's collection from the Farm Security Administration's Depression-era photography projects.

New York Public Library Makes 180,000 High-Res Images Available Online

Maps, posters, manuscripts, sheet music, drawings, photographs, letters, ancient texts: Thousands of items in the public domain are now offered as high-resolution downloads. No library card necessary.

Former Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear physicist Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni. The 79-year-old physicist, who pleaded guilty to trying to help Venezuela develop a nuclear weapon, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in jail.

U.S. Scientist Jailed For Trying To Help Venezuela Build Bombs

Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, 79, was sentenced to five years in jail after he told FBI agents posing as Venezuelan officials that he could design and supervise the building of 40 weapons.

Cooper is known as the Swim Whisperer. He's been teaching swimming full-time since 1995.

The 'Swim Whisperer' Teaches Kids To Be Water-Safe

For 20 years, Conrad Cooper has been making children in LA water-safe by earning his young students' unwavering trust.

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