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A new report shows federal poverty line leaves seniors destitute. We discuss the Elder Index, a tool that measures the actual costs of basic necessities for older adults and find out how San Diego social service providers use the index to meet the needs of elderly clients.

A local playwright has taken on one of the most enigmatic figures in American literature, poet Emily Dickinson. Lynx Performance Theatre will stage the drama Dickinson: The Secret Story of Emily Dickinson, portraying the reclusive poet as a brilliant, bold and sexual woman frustrated with Victorian society and suffering from bouts of mental illness.

Comic-Con 2010 was marked by record crowds, expanded facilities, long lines and one notable pen stabbing by a frustrated fan in Hall H. Oh, and there were celebrities and comics. We'll talk Comic-Con with three veteran Con-goers.

President Bush is in Italy on Friday, the latest stop on his European tour. His visit comes as a trial involving the "extraordinary rendition" program began in Milan. Twenty-six Americans — all but one believed to be CIA — are being tried in absentia alongside seven Italian intelligence officers.

California working women make on average $8,300 less per year than men. This costs California women about $37 billion annually. The Equal Pay Act was signed into law in 1963 to prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers. In passing the bill, Congress denounced sexual discrimination in the workplace. It has been 48 years since the law was enacted. Many women are supporting a new equal pay act called the Paycheck Fairness Act, which passed in the U.S. House but fell short in the Senate. This would close loopholes in the old act to ensure that women aren't underpaid. We are going to discuss the current equal pay rules as well as the struggle women are facing, and the ways that women are trying to gain equality.

The Imperial Irrigation District's acting general manager has resigned amid fallout from an energy-trading scandal that resulted in losses of about $60 million.

National Hurricane Center forecasters release new predictions for the 2006 hurricane season, dropping the number of expected hurricanes from estimates made in May. The new numbers are only slightly lower, with three to four major hurricanes predicted instead of four to six.

Planned Parenthood and the Americal Civil Liberties Union of San Diego County want the San Diego Unified School District to adopt a policy that would prevent school employees from calling a parent if

The candidate who's caught the public eye in the race against Hugo Chavez is Benjamin Rausseo, a beloved comedian. Rausseo cracks that he and Chavez have a lot in common: they grew up poor, they're ugly, they talk. Only, unlike the globe-trotting El Presidente, Rausseo says he actually lives in Venezuela. With Chavez ahead in the polls, a spokeswoman calls the opposition -- what else -- a joke.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas formally announce an end to fighting. The two leaders held a landmark meeting at Egypt's Red Sea resort Sharm El Sheik.