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Installing solar panels on a house to produce electricity is expensive. Leasing is one popular alternative, but some homeowners are learning 20-year contracts can complicate a home sale.

A massive sea star die-off that started last year along a northern section of the West Coast has spread to San Diego. Some researchers are saying it’s one of the largest marine epidemics ever recorded.

Also: Evie Wyld's gorgeous, grim novel All the Birds, Singing has won the Encore award; Clinton's Hard Choices sold more than 100,000 copies in its first week.

That low price doesn't reflect the true state of Pacific bluefin: Scientists say it's in deep trouble. But fishermen who catch it say they're just trying to make a living — and obeying the law.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

The case involves three children, laws in two countries, an international treaty, criminal investigations by U.S. and Mexican authorities, and a lawsuit filed in U.S. federal court.

Officials suspect smugglers kept the undocumented immigrants seeking more money in exchange for their release. Police said the conditions in the house were awful.

2014 was a year for faraway cuisines to take up residence in U.S. kitchens — cookbook authors cast their nets for flavors from Paris, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and points in between.

The 600-acre wildfire in Carlsbad, one of San Diego County’s most destructive blazes this week, started Wednesday and was 90 percent contained by Friday night.

Command Sgt. Maj. Martin R Barreras, 49, who served 22 years as an Army Ranger, died May 13 in Texas from wounds he suffered in Afghanistan. Barreras was involved in the rescue of Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital in 2003.