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With Hüsker Dü, Mould helped invent alt-rock, and he's kept innovating ever since. "For so many years, I ran away from my own sound," he says. At 53, he's caught up to himself.

The country was just beginning to worry about nuclear fallout, and the Air Force wanted to reassure people that it was OK to use atomic weapons. And so on July 19, 1957, five Air Force officers stood on a patch of ground in the Nevada desert and waited for the bomb to drop.

A jump in small-time federal drug seizures at a U.S.-Mexico border checkpoint has left a Texas county struggling to pay for prosecution.

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The Chargers collapse in Minnesota, Major League Baseball suspends Mike Cameron for 25 games, Joe Torre takes the helm for the L.A. Dodgers, the San Diego State Aztecs mount a major comeback to beat W

Welfare reform in the 1990s helped slash cash benefit rolls, yet the use of food stamps is soaring today. About 15 percent of Americans use food stamps. They've become what some call the new welfare.

The family of missing Escondido teenager Amber Dubois will hold a candlelight vigil for the 14-year-old tonight at a bookstore she frequented. Amber was last seen Feb. 13 walking to Escondido High School. Since then, Escondido police said they have chased down more than 900 leads, and numerous volunteer searches have taken place.

The Crooked Road winds through the mountains, ridges and valleys of southern Virginia. The communities along this road have produced talented musicians performing bluegrass and mountain-style music. W

An NPR News Investigation has found that Massey Energy had nine coal mines with high injury rates last year, in addition to the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia where 29 miners died last week. Four Massey mines had injury rates more than twice the national rate in 2009.

Two Marine pilots were killed when a Super Cobra military attack helicopter carrying live ordnance crashed in the East County, sparking a quickly extinguished one-acre brush fire, authorities said today.