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For the first time, life science companies in southern California got a microscopic look at the financial impact they have on each other and the local economy.

Apple is rejoining a widely used registry of environmentally friendly electronic devices. The surprise move comes after the company received harsh public criticism for turning its back on its green environmental image.

Economist Peter Diamond, freshly minted Nobel Prize winner, says the only way to break the unemployment logjam is another round of short-term spending and a big injection of federal money to save jobs in state and local governments.

State and federal law enforcement officials are meeting in San Diego this week to plan this year's campaign against illegal marijuana cultivation. Meanwhile, advocates for drug policy reform say the war against marijuana is a failure.

We don't know what they were used for, but they're considered healthy and adoptable.

With a burned out shell of a cafeteria, kids at Birney Elementary eat outside in tents.

Ever since the Newtown Connecticut school shooting, there's been a raging debate over how to keep America's school children safe. National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre proposed stationing an armed guard in every school in the country. Critics said that idea was impractical and would be too expensive to carry out.

It's the second sophisticated smuggling tunnel between Tijuana and San Diego that agents have discovered this month, and authorities say it's more evidence that a new cartel has muscled into Tijuana.

A new generation of wireless medical sensors mounted on an adhesive strip can call a doctor and transmit key data when they detect a problem. But federal regulators, who want to make sure the technology is safe, have yet to iron out regulations for these devices.

The estate tax hits a tiny fraction of the wealthiest Americans, but it generates debate among a much larger segment of the population. And this year could be no exception, though it's the first and probably only year with no federal estate taxes on the books.