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The West Los Angeles VA Medical Center is a nearly 400-acre campus whose onetime sole purpose was to house veterans, but some say it has lost sight of that mission. The Department of Veterans Affairs has been renting chunks of the land, mostly to enterprises that have nothing to do with helping veterans.

The arrest of a man who says he killed Etan Patz highlights how much things have changed since the 6-year-old boy was abducted in 1979. Missing children were barely on the radar of law enforcement agencies back then, but are a priority all over the country today.

A study suggests that hospitals could save time and money if patients with ankle sprains and other minor injuries could talk to a health provider instead of coming to the emergency department during regular business hours.

San Diego Unified public schools near the Miramar Corps Air Station will share a $2.5 million federal grant intended for programs that could make life easier for military students between deployments.

Some of the congressman's constituents in Michigan's Upper Peninsula say they were upset that he nearly killed the health care bill while trying to insert language to restrict federal funding for abortions. But others wish he had stuck to his guns, and accuse him of selling out.

A world-record $640 million Mega Millions jackpot has lottery players lining up for tickets early Friday and many wondering if there's any way to guarantee becoming an overnight multimillionaire.

San Diego County's three Republican Congressmen all voted against an expansion of the federally-funded Children Health Insurance Program on Tuesday. Critics say that decision could put California chil

For nearly 30 years, officials in the City of Coronado have studied the idea of building a tunnel under Fourth Street to help alleviate traffic in the city. KPBS Reporter Sharon Heilbrunn has more on when voters will get to weigh-in on the project.

The Swiss company has been named in more than 100 class action, personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits related to the April 20 rig explosion that killed 11 people on its Deepwater Horizon drill rig. Transocean planned to ask a federal court in Houston to cap its overall liability from the incident at less than $27 million.

The descendant of Mexican immigrants is popular in New Mexico despite an unpopular stance opposing licenses for immigrants.