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A new $2.2 billion complex of three solar electric generating units can produce nearly 400 megawatts — enough power for 140,000 homes. It began making electricity last year.

The gap in earnings between young people who have a college degree and those who don't has continued to widen over the past several decades. And while total student loan debt in the U.S. continues to rise, millennials say a college degree is still worth it.

The tipped minimum wage has been stuck at $2.13 an hour since 1991. In states where servers make more than the federal minimum wage, restaurants haven't been hurting.

In America, total student loan debt tops $1 trillion and a four-year college degree can cost as much as a house -- leaving many families wondering if college is really worth the cost.

When Woody Harrelson's character got hired as a bartender on Cheers, he was so excited, he insisted on working for no more than the minimum wage. "I'd work like a slave," he said, "and, of course, I'd wash your car."

After several lean years of cutting budgets to the bone, states hit hard by the deep recession finally have good fiscal news: Many states are now projecting budget surpluses.

Gusty winds are expected to blow through San Diego County's mountains and deserts Monday morning, which could lead to difficult driving conditions.

In her unconventional memoir, Jennifer Clement writes about the famous artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and his relationship with Suzanne Mallouk — from Mallouk's perspective. Rebecca Walker says it's harrowing, beautiful and utterly riveting.

In Marcel Theroux's Strange Bodies, dead people inhabit new bodies and immortality isn't all it's cracked up to be. Theroux tells NPR's Scott Simon, "I think that everyone who loves books has experienced the feeling of being taken over by another mind."

The death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has brought attention to a grim reality of drug abuse in America -- most notably with the increasing use of heroin.