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Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery in Point Loma can no longer offer full burial services to service men and women, and the closest national cemetery is in Riverside County. A new 313-acre national cemetery near MCAS Miramar will begin burial operations this summer, at the same time construction continues on the first phase of the cemetery-columbarium there, which will be completed in 2011.

Americans Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies and Sir Martin J. Evans of Britain won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for devising the tools to figure out what individual genes do and how to fix them. The widely used process has helped scientists use mice to study heart disease, diabetes, cancer, cystic fibrosis and other diseases.

At least half of the world's children under one-year-of-age suffer from anemia. Now researchers in California have discovered a simple step taken at birth could prevent the iron deficiency. KPBS repo

Hundreds of soccer fans packed into Chuey's Restaurant in Barrio Logan to cheer on Mexico this afternoon. Mexico took on Angola in what ended as a scoreless tie.

Walt Disney Filmmaker Don Hahn has produced classics such as Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. He just published a new 2-volume book covering the animation lectures of Walt Stanchfield. He joins us to discuss his new book and his upcoming panel at Comic-Con.

Mirrors concerns Ben Carson (Kiefer Sutherland), a New York cop who was suspended for the accidental but fatal shooting of an undercover officer. The…

Do you think your kids are getting a good education about sexual health and responsibility in school? We discuss teenage pregnancy and find out the good news and some bad news.

New legislation is being pushed that would require more farmers markets to accept food stamps.

Oprah Winfrey is promising significant changes following allegations of abuse involving a former dorm matron and several students at her school for girls in South Africa. Dr. Bruce Perry, who recently traveled to the school with Winfrey, and Sowetan reporter Tebogo Monama update listeners on the latest developments in the case.

A local playwright has taken on one of the most enigmatic figures in American literature, poet Emily Dickinson. Lynx Performance Theatre will stage the drama Dickinson: The Secret Story of Emily Dickinson, portraying the reclusive poet as a brilliant, bold and sexual woman frustrated with Victorian society and suffering from bouts of mental illness.