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  • Cheaper prescription drugs could be on the way for some people in San Diego. The County Board of Supervisors will consider adopting a new program that would provide free prescription drug discount cards.
  • State budget cuts have reduced classes at California’s public universities and colleges. Some of San Diego’s private schools are looking to fill that void.
  • As it roared through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, packing winds of up to 200 mph, the twister flattened buildings. Searchers continue to look for survivors and those who were killed.
  • Home sales, home prices and home building remain depressed -- just as they were at the start of the year. Part of the problem is the ongoing foreclosure crisis. Government efforts to help homeowners like Debra Dahlmer of Gloucester, Mass., get loan modifications haven't lived up to expectations.
  • Poverty has grown everywhere in the U.S. in recent years, but mostly in the suburbs. During the 2000s, it grew twice as fast in suburban areas as in cities, with more than 16 million poor people now living in the nation's suburbs — more than in urban or rural areas.
  • The number of poor people living in America's suburbs now surpasses those in cities or rural areas. Long focused on the urban poor, social service agencies are now trying to respond to the basic needs of a much more far-flung population.
  • Poverty has grown everywhere in the U.S. in recent years, but mostly in the suburbs. During the 2000s, it grew twice as fast in suburban areas as in cities, with more than 16 million poor people now living in the nation's suburbs -- more than in urban or rural areas.
  • A slowdown in the scrap-metal market in China is hitting scrap dealers hard. Just months ago, scrap metal was in such high demand that thieves were pulling up manhole covers and fire hydrants to sell them. Now, some prices have tumbled 80 percent in four months.
  • The San Diego City Council will vote today on whether to ask a judge to weigh in on the legality of the funding plan for a proposed Convention Center expansion.
  • California voters are getting a chance to tweak the state’s car insurance rules when they consider the fate of Proposition 33.
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