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A new case of mad cow disease has surfaced in a dairy cow in California, but the animal was not bound for the nation's food supply and posed no danger, the Agriculture Department said Tuesday.

Investigators are looking into last week's Black Hawk crash in Afghanistan that killed four soldiers, including one from San Diego. They suspect Taliban insurgents were involved in shooting down the helicopter.

Photographer Paul Conroy survived the attack in Syria that killed journalist Marie Colvin and her colleague Remi Ochlik. Conroy would rather talk about others who don't survive — those with stories that don't get told in the news.

San Diego police are investigating the death of a male SDSU student who was found unresponsive at approximately 8:30 a.m. on Friday at the Phi Kappa Theta house. SDSU officials said the student was not a member of the fraternity.

The misuse of social media has gotten another California-based Marine in hot water. Staff Sgt. Suneel Mehta of Twentynine Palms is facing punishment for a Tweet that joked about George Zimmerman's fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin.

"Americans now walk the least of any industrialized nation in the world," says writer Tom Vanderbilt. A reliance on cars combined with a lack of sidewalks means that what started as a push for convenience has become a difficult problem.

"Americans now walk the least of any industrialized nation in the world," says writer Tom Vanderbilt. To find out why that is, Vanderbilt has been exploring how towns are built, how Americans view walking -- and what might be done to get them moving around on their own two feet.

Local law enforcement agencies are focusing their attention on motorists who are talking on their phones and texting while driving this week.

A fighter jet that malfunctioned just after takeoff hurtled into a Virginia Beach apartment complex on Friday in a spectacular crash that sent flames and black smoke billowing from the rubble.

The Navy and Marine Corps want to draw attention to the significant number of motorcycle fatalities among their ranks.