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President Hugo Chavez, the fiery populist who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, crusaded against U.S. influence and championed a leftist revival across Latin America, died Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer.

The crowd included dairy farm workers, day laborers and nannies waving American flags. The governor argues that the current law invites out of state criminals to obtain the state driver's license fraudulently.

Local author Patricia Santana explores what it is like growing up as a Chicana in San Diego in the 1970s in her new novel "Ghosts of El Grullo."

Agents detaining suspected illegal immigrants Monday came under assault from rock throwers, the FBI said. One agent, who was not identified, fired his handgun, killing the victim, who was identified as 14-year-old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca.

Although Venezuela has a rich literary culture, its writers remain largely unknown outside of the country. Marcela Valdes traces the intersection of literature and politics in the large Caribbean nation, showing the forces that have kept Venezuelan writers from getting the praise they deserve.

Public Reacts to Air Force Blocking Sites Printing Wikileaks Docs

This year's San Diego Sport Fishing season will be different from any that have come before. That's because huge swaths of ocean are off limits to anglers creating uncertainty among those who make a living from the ocean's catch.

With schools closed after the power outage, some families hit the beach.

Coalition airstrikes have pushed forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi away from the rebel stronghold of Benghazi. But the opposition has been unable, so far, to make much progress at all. They keep getting pushed back when they try to fight forward into the town of Ajdabiya.

The Imperial County Board of Supervisors had scheduled a public hearing Monday on a proposed military training center in rural Ocotillo.