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"Plan B" team celebrating on breaking through to the miners on Saturday, October 9, 2010, San José Mine, Copiapo, Chile. With special access to the site of the San José, Chile, mine and interviews with the mining engineers and the miners’ families, NOVA chronicles the miners’ 69-day ordeal and the heroic work of a global team of engineers who struggled tirelessly around the clock in a desperate bid to bring the trapped miners safely to the surface.

Airs Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

Mitt Romney engaged in a last bout of campaigning in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday. Ohio is widely considered Super Tuesday's biggest prize.

In a race where the first candidate to reach 1,144 delegates wins the GOP nomination, Mitt Romney starts the day with the wind at his back. With 437 delegates up for grabs in 10 states, Super Tuesday voting could reshape the race.

Ernie Lopez spent nearly nine years in prison for the sexual assault of a 6-month old girl.

Free, But Not Cleared: Ernie Lopez Comes Home

Ernie Lopez calls it his "rebirth." After spending nearly nine years in prison for the sexual assault of a 6-month old girl, a top Texas court threw out the conviction. And on Friday, the 41-year-old Lopez walked out of the detention center in Amarillo, Texas, where family and friends were waiting.

Nathan Fletcher Says He Has Plans For San Diego's Future

Republican Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher often says it’s time for a new era in San Diego politics, and he wants to be the one to usher it in as San Diego’s next mayor.

Academy Award-nominated actor David Strathairn, as J. Robert Oppenheimer, in "The Trials Of Robert J. Oppenheimer."

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Trials Of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Airs Monday, May 23, 2011 at 10 p.m. on KPBS

Bryan Enarson, vice president of development for the San Diego Airport Authority, last year stood in front of a structural skeleton that will become an expanded Terminal 2 at Lindbergh Field.

Airline Passengers Park In The Back As Construction Continues

Construction of an expanded Terminal 2 has shut down the familiar parking lot in front of the building at Lindbergh Field. It's part of a plan that will add ten new gates to the one-runway airport.

More Revealed About Sex Abuse By San Diego Catholic Priests

Child molestation is a horrific crime but when the offender is a trusted authority figure like a priest it's nearly incomprehensible. Here in San Diego, a group of abuse victims has been engaged in a decade-long court battle with the Roman Catholic Diocese. Thousands of pages from personnel files of accused priests were released to the public last weekend. KPBS senior editor Mark Sauer explains the significance of these documents.

San Diego has paid out at least $10 million to settle claims and pay contractors for repairs to private property that was damaged by water main breaks during the past eight years. More than $350,000 of that was to house people forced from their homes by the breaks.

Cost Of Main Breaks, Water Loss Add Up For San Diego

As significant water delivery lines are nearing the end of their service life across San Diego, mains are breaking at a pace of more than 100 a year, according to an analysis of city data by Investigative Newsource,

The Virginia Tech campus is reeling after the confirmation of two deaths: a Virginia Tech police officer shot during a routine traffic stop and a second victim found at the university's Cage parking lot. Authorities are looking for the gunman.

Gunfire At Virginia Tech, Two Deaths Reported

A man killed a police officer and another person after a traffic stop Thursday at Virginia Tech, sending a shudder through campus as students and faculty were told to stay inside and police searched for the gunman, school officials said.

A 'Showdown' That Changed Football's Racial History

Much of the NFL integrated in the 1940s. The Washington Redskins held out until 1962. In a new book, historian Thomas G. Smith writes about how it took an ultimatum from the Kennedy administration to allow blacks into pro football in the nation's capital.

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