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When Adrian Tomine and Sarah Brennan started planning their wedding, they puzzled over what to give their guests as favors. Then it clicked: Tomine, who has done illustrations for The New Yorker, could put together comic strips. The strips are published in a new book, Scenes From an Impending Marriage: A Prenuptial Memoir.

Doctors at UCSD School of Medicine have teamed up with the California Highway Patrol to help keep older drivers safe behind the wheel.

Airs Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

Hilma Wolitzer's finely observed comedy of manners follows the romantic misadventures of recently widowed 62-year-old Edward Schuyler as he re-enters the dating pool with a splash.

This summer in London, female boxers will compete in the Olympics for the first time. The women competing for a spot on the U.S. team will make history, but few know who they are — and why they box.

Laura Pollan, a founder of Cuba's Ladies in White, the island's most prominent dissident group, died Friday at age 63 after a brief illness. Her death comes at a difficult time for the group, as it struggles to broaden its message beyond freedom for jailed dissidents.

People living with tinnitus — a ringing in the ears — have traditionally been counseled to drown the noise out. New research is testing the effectiveness of meditation — or mindfulness training — to help sufferers learn to accept the noise.

Hundreds of miles of new fencing has been built along the U.S.-Mexico Border. But some historic monuments that mark the exact boundary are being left behind the fence, blocking access from the U.S. side.

The high school drop out rate for American Indians is almost twice the national average. Educators in Flagstaff have tried to turn that trend around. And they’ve had some success at a place you wouldn’t suspect -- the Coconino County Juvenile Detention Center.

On KPBS Midday Edition, we take a look at top San Diego military stories of 2011. The year included military cuts, the end of "don't ask, don't tell," and a close to the war in Iraq, among other things.