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The last local cop in Tubutama was shot dead in mid June. Companies stopped delivering goods to the local stores. School teachers left; businesses closed.

The federal deficit is expected to balloon to a record $1.6 trillion this year and debt will nearly double over the next decade, according to reports released Tuesday by the White House budget office and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The Supreme Court surprised some court watchers Monday by declining to gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act. One legal observer suggests that recent racist incidents involving Southern Republicans may have influenced the court's decision.

A federal agency has released a report on rising sea level and the effect on coastal areas like San Diego. The report says possible damage includes erosion of local beaches and more intense coastal fl

These Days is hosting a debate at 9 a.m. for the candidates running for supervisor in San Diego’s 4th District. That district encompasses a wide area of the City of San Diego. What will decide the race? Join the live chat.

A US Airways plane crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after striking a bird that disabled two engines, sending passengers fleeing for safety in the frigid waters, a government official says. All passengers were reported to be off the plane, federal officials said.

If commercial ventures pick up where the space shuttle program leaves off, what will outer space look like? Bob Mondello says they might take a lesson from Hollywood, which has already boldly gone where no company has gone before.

The Terror Watch List has grown exponentially since 9/11, but some with no terrorist connections end up on the list and can't find their way out.

The effort to build a 16 mile toll road that cuts through San Onofre State Beach Park has hit a road block. A federal agency rejected an appeal. KPBS Environmental Reporter Ed Joyce has details.

BP was looking for new ways Monday to stop an oil leak that is gushing an estimated 210,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico, after a containment structure placed over the leak clogged during the weekend.