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Defense Secretary Robert Gates says pension and health care costs are eating the U.S. military alive. And the Pentagon predicts the cost will keep growing.

Nearly every police agency in San Diego County took part this week in a take down of a criminal ring selling stolen cars, weapons and drugs, according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s office.

A probationer who authorities were checking on when a San Diego police officer was fatally shot at a Skyline apartment seven weeks ago was charged Friday with attempting to collect unemployment while in jail.

The Supreme Court reinstated the death sentence of a neo-Nazi who shot and killed three people and seriously wounded a fourth during a 1980s murder spree in Ohio. Frank Spisak, 57, was convicted during a sensational trial in which he grew an Adolf Hitler-style mustache, gave Nazi salutes to jurors and carried a copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf.

The City of San Diego may not have to spend billions of dollars upgrading the Point Loma Sewage Treatment Plant. The EPA has tenatively given the city a third five-year waiver from meeting federal Cle

A U.S. citizen held at a border immigration center for 15 days has been released after an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer showed a birth certificate to federal authorities.

President Obama described the relationship between the Minerals Management Service and the oil companies as "cozy." Meanwhile, congressional investigators are looking at what happened on the Deepwater Horizon before the April 20 blast that killed 11 people.

FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair suggested the government guarantee mortgages as a means of avoiding foreclosures. And former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said he had been wrong to believe banks would be more prudent in their lending practices before the financial crisis hit.

The group he was with – at least twenty migrants and two smugglers, known as "coyotes" – reportedly left him there.

Five Muslim immigrants face life in prison after a federal jury in New Jersey found them guilty of conspiring to kill military personnel. They were acquitted of attempted murder.