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A local environmental organization filed a lawsuit last week to stop the Fourth of July fireworks display in La Jolla Cove. We discuss the details of the lawsuit with Adam Harris, president of the La Jolla Community Fireworks Foundation and Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation Attorney, Marco Gonzalez.

The North County Fire Protection District will begin billing drivers for responding to automobile accidents. We'll find out why local public agencies are turning to an accident response fee to offset funding from the state.

“There Will Be Blood” (opening January 11 at AMC Mission Valley and on January 18 at Landmarks La Jolla Village Theaters) is not the film fans of Paul Thomas Anderson may be expecting but it's a film that should please them nonetheless. The filmmaker who gave us “Hard Eight,” “Boogie Nights,” “Magnolia,” and “Punch Drunk Love” now turns to an 80-year-old Upton Sinclair novel called “Oil!” as inspiration for his epic tale of greed and ambition.

The appealing thing about Mike Myers and the comedy he writes is that it's basically good-natured -- dumb but good-natured. Think about Wayne Campbell or Austin Powers. They are goofy likable characters that never display any real mean-spiritedness. Even if they do lash out at someone, it's usually more silly than vicious. Myers' work falls into the pot comedy genre where even bad guys don't come across as that bad, and there's a loopy surreal quality to the comic world created.

Learn how the Ocean Discovery Institute is connecting urban youth with science and the environment.

Defying a White House veto threat, the Senate attaches landmark hate-crime legislation to the annual bill that authorizes defense spending. No president has ever vetoed such a defense bill, and this one includes both higher pay for the military and better health care for the wounded.

First, I am a Mother

If Jennifer Grasso survives the SWAT team's intense training, she'll make history. The SWAT unit has been all-male, mostly white and resistant to change. But some critics among the ranks say SWAT is scaling back its requirements to be politically correct.

Astronomers have new evidence from the Hubble Space Telescope that a strange force was present in the universe billions of years ago. The force is called "dark energy." It's forcing the universe to expand at an ever quickening pace.

San Diego has 24 different agencies that manage the county's water supply. We'll talk about the politics, power and control of the region's precious resource.