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A Florida-based company is charging military veterans as much as $20,000 for help with disability claims, even though the VA has said that may be illegal and the service should be free. But so far nobody's stopping the company and others like it.

Rafael Payare, conductor Jeff Thayer, violin San Diego Symphony Orchestra JIMMY LÓPEZ: "Perú negro" BERG: Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, “Scottish” Three works inspired in very different ways by folk music and the mix of different cultures. "Perú Negro" (Black Peru), by San Diego Symphony’s Composer-in-Residence Jimmy López, was composed in 2012, and in the words of the composer “showcases my native country’s Afro-Peruvian heritage” while celebrating the exuberant fusion of African and Latin elements in the popular music of his native land. Alban Berg’s last completed work, his mystical Violin Concerto, was written in 1935 “to the memory of an angel”. The angel was Manon, the daughter of Alma Mahler (by her second husband) who had died a few months earlier at the age of 18. Berg includes in his concerto a beautiful folk-tune from the Southern Austrian Catholic region of Carinthia, and a haunting old German Protestant hymn-tune, which Bach had used several times. Mendelssohn’s "Scottish" Symphony, like his "Hebrides Overture," was inspired by his youthful trip to Scotland where the young Berliner was overwhelmed by the feeling of a haunting and ancient culture. In his symphony we hear echoes of Scottish traditional music for bagpipes, fiddles and harps, the skipping rhythms of Scottish folk dancing, and Romantic impressions of ruined medieval castles and monasteries. San Diego Symphony on Facebook / Instagram

Anna Sulkowska-Migon, conductor Ingrid Fliter, piano San Diego Symphony Orchestra KILAR: "Orawa" CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 BORODIN: Symphony No. 2 BORODIN: “Polovtsian Dances” from Prince Igor From Polish film composer Wojciech Kilar’s beautiful "Orawa," a celebration of the mountain fiddle-players of Southern Poland, to Borodin’s legendary "Polovtsian Dances", conjuring up the wild dancing of ancient nomadic tribespeople in Southern Russia, this program is banquet of music from the shifting borderlands between Europe and Asia. At the center are Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto, written when the great Polish composer and patriot was just 20 years old, and Borodin’s brilliantly colorful and tuneful Second Symphony, evoking the uproarious and warlike merrymaking of mediaeval knights-in-armor, with their ancient bards and strange-sounding folk-instruments. San Diego Symphony on Facebook / Instagram

The EU is America's biggest business partner and the world's largest trading bloc. The U.S. decision will have repercussions for governments, companies and consumers on both sides of the Atlantic.

We're taking stock of this year's notable holiday movies, with titles including such gems as Oy to the World!, Christmas at the Catnip Cafe, A Merry Little Ex-Mas, and A Pickleball Christmas.

First, Voice of San Diego breaks down how Democrats on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors are trying to fill the budget gap caused by federal cuts. Then, calls are being made to Congress to pass a new law that would re-start Afghan refugee relocation. Then, city crews are cleaning up homeless encampments and offering relocation, but are they being taken up on that offer? Then, we look at what needs to be done to increase the use of one of the least popular trolley stations in San Diego. Finally, San Diego International Airport’s Terminal 1 is nearly complete.

Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in Nigeria's Niger state have escaped and are now with their families.

A schoolgirl who was abducted with 24 others from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria has escaped and is safe, as hunters joined security forces in the search for the missing students.

The administration's appeal to the high court over the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program comes despite new efforts to end the federal shutdown, which would render the issue moot.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to arrive in Geneva Sunday for talks with Ukraine and its European allies on the latest U.S.-proposed peace plan for the war-torn country.