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Small business owners no longer have to purchase scanning devices or pay processing fees to be able to accept credit cards. Square, a device and phone application developed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, lets them collect on-the-spot payments with a cell phone.

Congressman Bob Filner has finally put it in writing. The San Diego mayoral candidate has released his pension plan.

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Public health experts and operators of food pantries are working to alleviate a reality in which many residents of low-income neighborhoods do not know when they will eat their next nutritious meal.

U.S. track star Jesse Owens made history at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 75 years ago, when he destroyed the Nazi myth of Aryan supremacy. He brought home four gold medals, and four oak saplings. The whereabouts of those trees has been a mystery.

The government is warning about potential scams in applying for citizenship and legal status that could cost thousands of dollars.

Broad Foundation researchers are in San Diego this week evaluating city schools for a prestigious national award.

A wholesale bakery owner and four employees accused in a scheme to hire and harbor illegal immigrants at his Otay Mesa business agreed to skip being indicted amid negotiations today aimed at the men pleading guilty in about two weeks.

Syrian security forces fired bullets and tear gas Friday at tens of thousands of protesters across the country, killing at least 75 people. It was the bloodiest day of the monthlong uprising and signaling that the authoritarian regime was prepared to turn more ruthless to put down the revolt against President Bashar Assad.

Annoying overdraft fees on insignificant purchases may be on their way out. Starting this summer, banks will have to get their customers to "opt in" if they want overdraft protection on debit card transactions. But the new rules won't necessarily ease a person's cash flow; banks are finding other ways to make the money back.