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A Sept. 26 public meeting on the decommissioning of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in northern San Diego County was scheduled Thursday by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Billie Jean King was a champ — she had 20 Wimbledon titles — and a leader who urged fair treatment and pay for female players. She told Fresh Air about the problems before there was a women's league.

Interim Mayor Todd Gloria presented several changes and updates to Filner's policies and repeatedly pointed out what he said were gaps or inconsistencies in Filner's programs.

San Diego County Water Authority officials are considering how the huge Bay Delta plan in Northern California will affect our water supply. A public meeting will be held Thursday in San Diego.

Federal health officials are worried about an unusually high number of measles cases occurring in the United States this year.

Cambridge classics professor Mary Beard's latest book, Confronting the Classics, takes a gleefully contrarian approach to marble-bust greats like Homer and Thucydides. Reviewer Annalisa Quinn says the work "expertly straddles the line between scholarly and accessible."

Under the Assembly bill, domestic workers would be paid overtime if they worked more than nine hours in a day of 45 hours in a week, but the measure would have to be renewed in 2017.

Many Americans expressed relief over the chance for diplomacy in Syria, but a San Diego group says they're disappointed.

In his new book, Average Is Over, Tyler Cowen predicts that America will become a new, more creative meritocracy. Though he believes a rise in income inequality is inevitable, he hopes that "happiness inequality isn't going up in the same way."

It's been five years since Lehman Brothers collapsed and touched off a banking crisis that is still being felt by the global economy. Today, the banking industry is a lot stronger than it was, but some critics say efforts to reform banking regulations have fallen short of their potential.