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When is a crime near the U.S.-Mexico border just a crime or a result of spillover violence? It’s all in the eyes of the beholder.

It's hard to find a job these days. Even harder if you've just landed in the country – as many Iraqi refugees have. Efforts by local resettlement agencies to connect highly skilled refugees with potential employers have had mixed results.

Mexican drug traffickers have gotten creative by using small aircraft to drop marijuana into the U.S. The number of ultralights illegally crossing into the U.S. nearly doubled last year, when agents recorded 228 cases. But the newest method to smuggle drugs across the border is especially dangerous.

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors and 16 local mayors sent a letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today urging him to issue an executive order to bolster firefighting resources for the region in advance of the wildfire season.

The folks behind the popular Zagat dining guides recently surveyed San Diego diners and the local restaurant scene and found that it was cheaper to dine out in SD in 2010.

Health officials say one of the keys to getting a handle on the HIV epidemic is to make HIV testing more widespread. A new study in San Diego is attempting to do just that, one block at a time.

It's hard to find a job these days; even harder if you've just landed in the country – as many Iraqi refugees have. In the second part of our series, we look at efforts by local resettlement agencies to connect highly skilled refugees with potential employers.

The characters in David Corbett's novel "Do They Know I'm Running" try to navigate the immigrant smuggling routes from Central America through Mexico to California. They must deal with the ruthless gangs that control the routes and ferry immigrants across the border.

Plumes of black smoke poured from the Sidr oil facility outside the central city of Ras Lanuf as regime forces attacked rebels in two major cities. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi warned the international community that imposing a no-fly zone would prove that the West's real intention is to seize his country's oil wealth.

In a follow-up to our special series Border Battle, we look at how the war against Tijuana's drug cartels is going, and why the police chief is a prime target of the drug lords.