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For many students at Wellspring Academy in N.C., two months at this weight-loss boarding school have transformed them. Those who trailed behind their parents to check in back in August now own the campus. Kids who had watched from the sidelines while others exercised have turned into exercisers.

Take a map of Arizona, draw a square in the bottom right hand corner -- the one closest to New Mexico and the international border -- and you get Cochise County. Fewer people live here than in many cities, and it’s part of the nation’s most active illegal immigration corridor.

The La Jolla Playhouse's production of "Notes From Underground" based on the novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky has San Diegans talking. Culture Lust wants to hear what you have to say about it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Americans John Mather and George Smoot (left) have won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics. Their work on cosmic radiation helped pinpoint the age of the universe and added weight to the big-bang theory, which holds that the universe was created 13 billion years ago in an unparalleled explosion.

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