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Better-designed highways played a role in reducing road fatalities to a 40-year low last year. But safety advocates say the road is still a dangerous place, especially once drivers leave the Interstate Highway System and on roads designed with only drivers in mind.

The wildly popular digital game Angry Birds has been downloaded more than 50 million times in the past year. In May, Mattel plans to release a board game that aims to capture the same spirit of revenge and the joy of knocking things over.

Sixty businesses in San Diego County -- from travel agencies and freight transporters to a jewelry retailer and a floral shop -- received nearly $7 million in low-interest loans from the federal government in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Thousands of Iraqi refugees in San Diego County are awaiting the results of Iraq's parliamentary election. They were able to cast their ballots in El Cajon over the weekend.

Afghan soldiers call him "The One-Legged Warlord of Ashaque." In 2008, U.S. Army Capt. Dan Luckett was injured in combat in Iraq. But he returned to the U.S., learned to walk on an artificial leg and is now in Afghanistan, deployed with his 101st Airborne Division and fighting the Taliban.

Job prospects are bleak in California for veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Roman Duris Shines in French Romantic Comedy

Tell Me More parenting contributor Leslie Morgan Steiner has a happy marriage, healthy kids and a rewarding career. But many would be surprised to know that she is also a survivor of domestic violence. Steiner's first husband beat her regularly and nearly killed her.

On Sunday, Sarah Shourd arrived in the U.S. and spoke for the first time about her experience, stressing that she, her fiance and another man detained with them along the Iran-Iraq border in July 2009, never committed any crime.

A driver who slammed into a group of motorcycle riders, killing four of them and his companion, has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, and police are looking for another driver who may have triggered the crash.