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Using data from a report by the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children & Families, this map chronicles child fatalities by maltreatment in most states. However, state data on child fatality from maltreatment is difficult to compare: There is no federal definition of child abuse, so cases are interpreted differently.

Craft distillers are catering to drinkers who have a taste for the regional and the unique. They're still just a fraction of the market, but more small-batch spirits are showing up on liquor-store shelves, next to pints of Jack Daniel's and Everclear.

How will Arizona's controversial immigration law impact San Diego? We discuss the legality of the law, and how it might affect our region.

Gov. Jerry Brown was in San Diego today to bolster support for his tax initiative, Proposition 30, which would increase the sales tax and income tax to help finance education from kindergarten through community college.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has called the program used by 55 million Americans a "Ponzi scheme" and a "monstrous lie." Recent polls show many Republican voters are willing to give him a pass on that. But that may not be the case in a general election.

National City has dozens of abandoned or underused industrial sites. Some of these "brownfields" are contaminated. Thanks to federal and state grants, National City is transforming one brownfield in the heart of old town. The city has high hopes for this project.

U.S. federal officials say they've broken up a ring that allegedly smuggled thousands of people across the U.S.-Mexico border to San Diego County during the last few years. The group allegedly cut holes in the border fence.

The federal government has charged three top police officers in Shenandoah, Pa., of covering up evidence in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant. Federal prosecutors say the police officers knew the accused — and altered evidence in the case.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today said he’ll terminate an in-home care program for the disabled to help close a budget shortfall unless the federal government gives the state $7 billion.

Stories like Jim Stanek's are common and quickly multiplying: An Iraqi war veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, he says his life was saved by a dog that gave him the confidence to do seemingly simple things, like go out to dinner and look his wife in the eye rather than watch his own back.