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San Diego Healthcare Workers Show Support For Barrio Logan Community Plan

San Diego healthcare workers showed their support Wednesday for propositions that they say would protect the environment and children in Barrio Logan.

Protesters are arrested after refusing to leave a City Heights intersection, Sept. 4, 2013.

Fast-Food Workers In San Diego Strike For $15 An Hour

Groups In Up To 150 Cities Nationwide Are Participating In The Strike

Repeat Violators Of Health Privacy Laws Often Go Unpunished

Regulators have logged dozens, even hundreds of complaints against some health providers for violating federal patient privacy law. Warnings are doled out privately, and sanctions are rarely imposed.

A view of the front display of a CVS pharmacy on 8th Ave., in Manhattan, N.Y., on Dec. 17, 2015.

Few Consequences For Health Privacy Law's Repeat Offenders

Regulators have logged dozens, even hundreds, of complaints against some health providers for violating federal patient privacy law. Warnings are doled out privately, and sanctions are rarely imposed.

Scientists who eat the plants and animals they study are following in the tradition of Charles Darwin. During the voyage of The Beagle, he ate puma ("remarkably like veal in taste"), iguanas, giant tortoises, armadillos. He even accidentally ate part of a bird called a lesser rhea, after spending months trying to catch it so that he could describe the species.

Dining Like Darwin: When Scientists Swallow Their Subjects

Some scientists carry on the tradition of eating the animals or plants they study: leeches, tadpoles, 30,000-year-old bison. Darwin did it first, but why do it at all? Call it all-consuming curiosity.

It's Great To Be A Woman In California, Unless You're Hispanic

Hispanic women in California are earning the lowest amount of any race, anywhere, in the United States.

Kavita Krishnan, secretary of the All India Progressive Women's Association, photographed in the offices of the Communist Party of India. The bust in the background depicts Charu Majumdar, a Communist revolutionary from Bengali.

An Anti-Rape Activist Is Disturbed By 'India's Daughter'

Kavita Krishnan says the documentary, about the brutal rape and killing of a young woman in Delhi, makes some important points. But she has many criticisms, starting with the title.

Pictured is Tiger Woods watching his tee shot head far to the right on the 11th hole of the north course at Torrey Pines during the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament, Feb. 5, 2015.

Tiger Woods Withdraws From Farmers Insurance Open

Apparent back injury led to his decision

Loyola’s Jerry Hartness and Mississippi State’s Joe Dan Gold meet at half court for a historic handshake before the NCAA Mideast regional semifinal college basketball game in East Lansing, Mich., on March 15, 1963. "One Night In March" tells the story of a historic college basketball game that helped alter race relations on the basketball court.

One Night In March

Airs Monday, April 14, 2014 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

Jessica Adams formerly worked at the Planet Hollywood casino and resort. Now she teaches fourth grade at Robert Forbuss Elementary School.

Las Vegas: Betting On New Teachers But Coming Up Short

The crowded and fast-growing district is facing a severe teacher shortage.

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