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The Oakland-based Center for Environmental Health says Little League baseball uniforms may be hazardous to children. The non-profit group has found high levels of lead in baseball belts sold at some major retailers in California.

Visitors from industrialized countries are allowed to stay three months--and often significantly longer--in the U.S. under the Visa Waiver program. But San Diego officials are changing the custom.

Former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana is set to go on trial Tuesday on federal bribery and corruption charges. The case made headlines after the FBI found $90,000 in cash in his freezer.

Thousands of Southern California grocery workers have voted overwhelmingly to reject a health care proposal from major supermarket chains and authorize their union leaders to call a strike, a spokesman said Sunday.

Eric Holder faced scrutiny from the Republican-dominated House Judiciary Committee on Thursday regarding the "Fast and Furious" initiative meant to keep guns from reaching Mexican cartels. Holder denied misleading Congress when hundreds of weapons were found at border town crime scenes.

A man killed a police officer and another person after a traffic stop Thursday at Virginia Tech, sending a shudder through campus as students and faculty were told to stay inside and police searched for the gunman, school officials said.

Federal investigators were scheduled to conduct simulated tests of the automatic controls on Washington, D.C., commuter trains Wednesday in an effort to determine why the computer-controlled system did not prevent a deadly train crash earlier this week.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visits San Diego tomorrow to talk about federal economic stimulus money for schools and the education priorities of the Obama administration. KPBS Reporter Ana

The jobs crisis may be easing slightly on the strength of a fourth straight month of modest hiring and a dip in the unemployment rate.

Hundreds of Iraqis in San Diego County await relatives living as refugees in Middle Eastern countries. In the final part of our series, the process of resettling these refugees to the U.S. has faced major setbacks recently, especially those caught in the strife in Syria.