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Child advocates have sued the California Department of Social Services to force it to reveal more details about child deaths. Advocates say the agency’s rules block potential reforms that could save lives.

On Roundtable: Local Syrian-Americans were disappointed that air strikes by the U.S. were tabled; a new look at the causes of military suicides reveals some surprises; and plastic bags may be banned in some San Diego stores.

Norman Rush's newest novel takes a geographic hiatus from Botswana, his usual literary location. Instead, reviewer Drew Toal says the book is instead full of irritating intellectuals, postmortem scandal, and a group of collegiate clowns who come together after the death of an old friend.

School testing, lead ammunition and public records. Those issues are among the dozens California lawmakers debated Tuesday during this busy final week of session.

Jeffrey Babbitt was walking through Union Square last Wednesday, near the Manhattan comic book store that he'd been going to for years, when he had a fatal chance encounter with a stranger.

Southern California Edison has posted more than three thousand pages of documents relating to the faulty steam generators that resulted in the plant's closure

Car crashes are disproportionately high in rural parts of Texas, California and Arizona according to a recent report by TRIP, a national non-profit research group.

In two reports published Aug. 30, the U.S. Navy acknowledged that bomb testing and sonar use over the next five years will likely kill hundreds of marine mammals and seriously injure thousands more.

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The family of an East County homicide and kidnapping suspect who was fatally shot by authorities earlier this month is asking for a DNA test to see if two of his victims were in fact his biological children.