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San Diego's congressional delegation split on the Debt Ceiling votes Monday, but the split did not run along party lines.

Four people, including a U.S. citizen, have been arrested in connection with a shooting at the San Ysidro border crossing Tuesday. Federal agents shot at three vans loaded with undocumented immigrants as they supposedly tried to run through the port.

Undocumented immigrant activists from Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah recently gathered in Las Vegas to learn tools to keep their campaign for the Dream Act alive. Though there is not much hope for passage in the near future, they continue to organize. In the process, they are coming out openly about their undocumented status.

The president said, "we know how we can create a package that solves the deficits and debt for a significant period of time. But in order to do that we've got to get started now."

Senator Barbara Boxer was at UCSD today to draw attention to money from the federal stimulus package that's gone to fund medical research.

Despite new federal safety standards, many toys on store shelves could pose a hazard to children. The California Public Interest Research Group has released its 24th annual Trouble in Toyland report.

In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, lawlessness engulfed the city and police leadership was absent. Five years later, a continued perceived police impunity and persistently high murder rate have led to an increasing mistrust in the city's officers.

No Pay for Military during Government Shutdown

The Obama administration moved Tuesday to streamline the development of large-scale solar projects on public lands by approving 17 vast tracts across the West it says has the highest power-generating potential and the fewest environmental impacts. Two of the sites are in California: one in eastern Riverside County and the other in eastern Imperial County.

Six years ago, Hurricane Katrina blew up the Gulf Coast, killed more than 1,800 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. On the Mississippi coast, thousands still live in battered housing, trapped by a technicality: Their homes were damaged by wind gusts rather than Katrina's storm surge.