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Twelve more suspected arson fires broke out early Monday in the Los Angeles area, and a "person of interest" was taken into custody for questioning in connection with the dozens of suspicious car fires that have hit the city since last week.

California Recovery Task Force Director Cynthia Bryant says the state is getting $31 million in federal stimulus funds for nine coastal restoration projects.

As we watch in horror as oil spreads across the Gulf of Mexico, we may also be witnessing a contemporary conundrum: a problem we cannot solve.

The nomination of law professor Goodwin Liu to an appeals court judge's position drew strongly partisan opposition at a Senate panel haring Friday, with the nominee facing considerable anger over past writings involving Supreme Court nominees.

In the budget battle raging in Washington, Republicans are insisting on deep spending cuts while Democrats struggle to defend their favored programs. But one bipartisan group of senators is focusing on the longer term — the looming deficit. By putting defense, entitlements and tax breaks on the table, they're hoping to break the deadlock.

The City of San Diego is near the top of a federal agency list for using green power to generate electricity.

Over the last seven days volunteers in cities around the country have risen before dawn to conduct an annual point-in-time count of their communities’ homeless population. Late last week volunteers for the San Diego Regional Taskforce on the Homeless conducted the local count.

San Diego County Supervisors are among the first county officials in the state to consider relinquishing control over their own district boundary lines. Supervisor Greg Cox will propose an alternative to his colleagues today.

The Justice Department faces a Nov. 16 deadline to present a plan for prosecuting detainees at the U.S. prison camp. Meanwhile, the national debate continues over how to administer justice to prisoners whose allegiances may or may not lie with a terrorist ideology.

The explosive device was found in the chimney of a Bay Terraces home. No injuries have been reported.