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NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard joins us today to discuss her role within the news organization, and to talk about some of the most contentious issues she's worked to resolve over the last two years. Alicia also takes questions and comments from listeners in San Diego.

On a Monday morning last month, highway patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to announce some horrible news: Students had been killed in car wrecks over the weekend.

San Diego's before and after school programs will get an extra $5 million in state funding this year. District officials say more than one hundred campuses will benefit from the hefty increase. KPBS r

Student aid continues to grow, but there is still a large gap between the price of college and family incomes. Small increases in tuition, paid on top of student aid, is enough to convince some families that they can't afford to send a child to school.

First Saturday in May opens with some daunting stats: 40,000 thoroughbreds are foaled in the U.S. each year but only 20 can hope to make the two-minute…

After 14 years in power, the African National Congress no longer cuts a youthful figure on the nation's political landscape, and young people say the party has let itself go. "The ANC came with a lot of promises and all the promises were never delivered," one 35-year-old says.

Disabled students at Lindberg Schweitzer Elementary School in San Diego have some new high-tech tools in their classroom. KPBS reporter Ana Tintocalis has more.

It was one year ago when a student at Virginia Tech gunned down 32 of his classmates and instructors in a nightmarish killing spree. At the Blacksburg campus, students, administrators and residents gather to honor those who died.

Are the Chargers in the AFC West driver's seat after their victory over the Broncos this weekend? Is the frequent turnover of athletic directors at SDSU the norm for universities of that size? And, what are the chances that hometown hero Adrian Gonzalez will be traded by the Padres this offseason? We speak to longtime San Diego sports talk show host, Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton, about the top local sports stories.

Imagine spending did almost 20 years on death row for a crime you not commit. That's exactly what happened to Juan Melendez. He tells us what went through his head during all those years, why he does