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Groups of San Diego County parents are uniting behind an education reform strategy that could earn California $700 million of federal stimulus grants.

As the Berlin Wall was coming down, East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, tore up millions of files. More than two decades later, the vast array of secret papers collected by the Stasi is still in huge demand. Archivists are now using groundbreaking computer technology to reconstruct those files.

The legislation makes a variety of small changes to the recently signed health care law and also makes the government the issuer of all federal college loans, ending a program that paid a fee to private lenders to offer student loans.

The clouds have rolled out and now the praise is rolling in. San Diego leaders are lauding city workers for how they handled December’s record breaking rains.

Late last year, researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey warned of a possible rise in grizzly bear attacks in Yellowstone National Park. Writer Paul Solotaroff says the bears are on the hunt for food, increasingly scarce as unusually hot conditions kill off their food sources.

The region's main labor organization today will urge San Diegans to respect picket lines in case grocery workers go on strike.

A profile of freshman Arizona state Senator Steve Smith, who is leading the latest charge by lawmakers to address immigration issues, including raising funds for a new fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Marine Reservist Charged in Military Shootings (Video)

San Diego's U.S. Coast Guard captain says his crew is cooperating with federal transportation investigators to determine who is at fault for a deadly boat collision that took place over the weekend in San Diego Bay.

Federal prosecutors in New York charge Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu with breaking campaign finance laws and creating what they call a massive Ponzi scheme. On Thursday, they unsealed a federal complaint against him.