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Common Ground Theatre is staging a world premiere musical about the lives of jazz vocalists Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington. The oldest African American theater company in San Diego is also under new leadership. Arts producer Angela Carone has this story.

Residents across San Diego County are being urged to help fight the growing problem of prescription-drug abuse by taking part in a nationwide medication "take back" drive this weekend.

The climbing number of non-English speakers in Nevada is challenging the state’s cash-strapped court system.

It may be the greatest exploration mystery of the 20th century: Percy Fawcett set out to discover the golden city of El Dorado, and vanished. Writer David Grann tells the story of his doomed expedition in The Lost City of Z.

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It's the right time to get weird, wild and a little spooky. Culture Lust contributor Alex Morales reveals her top 10 arts and culture finds for October.

A rash of moderate quakes shook the south end of the Salton Sea on Sunday, and the largest quakes were felt from Orange County and San Diego east into Arizona.

Egypt's way to democracy will be, at best, messy. But assuming its military can reach agreement with opposition leaders about the timing and shape of elections, Egypt's stage is set in some ways that its neighbors' have not been.

How bad has drug war violence been in Mexico? A new report says 50,000 people murdered in the last five years. The report from the University of San Diego assesses the death toll of drug cartel violence in Mexico. Researchers have pinpointed where the most deaths have occurred and trace the root causes of the violence.

Officials anticipates chaos because of the illegal pathways beaten down by cross-border smugglers that cobweb the refuge will only tempt dirt bikes and ATVs.