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Teen girls with a history of trouble and low self-esteem often fall prey to sex traffickers. A youth organization in City Heights is working to prevent girls from becoming victims.

The USS Essex, an amphibious assault ship, is part of a relief effort to provide supplies and logistical support to Japan. The effort — called Operation Tomodachi, or "friend" — may help bolster the U.S.-Japan alliance, which has experienced friction over the issue of U.S. military bases in Japan.

Just as San Diego’s getting ready to fluoridate its water, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is recommending cities use a lower concentration of fluoride… lower than what San Diego plans to use.

Balboa Park's Spreckels Pavilion organist is paid a performance rate of $555, which comes out of the city's parks and rec budget. As the city looks at major budget cuts for libraries and parks, should the historic Spreckels organ be silenced?

Haiti is suffering the world's worst cholera epidemic, killing more than 7,000 people since the outbreak began in October 2010. One aid group is pushing for a vaccination campaign. But critics worry about its efficacy — and that it may distract from improving access to clean water and sanitation.

Mug shot newspapers might be a new fad. But before photos went digital, prisoner portraits were thrust into drawers, many to be forgotten.

For the month of August, Morning Edition and The Race Card Project are looking back at a seminal moment in civil rights history: the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have A Dream Speech" on Aug. 28, 1963. Approximately 250,000 people descended on the nation's capital from all over the country for the mass demonstration.

U.S. forces will leave Iraq by January 2012, but with thousands of diplomats and contractors remaining in the country, the U.S. presence will remain strong in the months ahead. Commentator Ted Koppel shares what he observed in a recent reporting trip to Basra, Iraq.

Many understand the draw, but not all are willing to go

Meth has been a major drug problem in San Diego County for years. Despite new laws to combat the scourge, the highly addictive drug remains abundant as traffickers find ways around the rules.