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Six years after being rescued, 21-year-old Elizabeth Smart for the first time publicly described the nine months in which she says she was held as a plural wife and sexually assaulted by Brian David Mitchell. The itinerant preacher has been declared mentally incompetent by a state court.

San Diego Unified is looking into allegations that military recruiters are collecting student information without the permission of parents and students.

After announcing earlier this week that it expects to report record losses, Lehman Brothers is up for sale. The Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department are helping the investment bank talk to potential suitors, including Bank of America.

What are the arguments for and against Proposition A? We'll talk to representatives on both sides of the debate over the proposed San Diego County charter amendment to prohibit the use of project labor agreements on County construction projects, except where required by state or federal law.

U.S. officials have confirmed an alleged 14-year-old drug gang killer in Mexico is a U.S. citizen.

The FBI and Justice Department overstated the certainty of the scientific evidence used to prove that Bruce Ivins carried out the anthrax mailings that killed five people in 2001, according to an independent panel of scientists. The panel limited its findings to the science and did not "assess the guilt or innocence of anyone" tied to the case.

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) clearly brought the scandal over his digital dalliances upon himself, but the media's coverage of the story from the moments after he sent that errant tweet has been orchestrated almost entirely by one person: conservative blog entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart.

A measure by San Diego Assemblywoman Lori Saldaña would make it state policy not to cooperate with federal raids on medical marijuana patients. Supporters say too many state and local law enforcement

With the exit of American forces under way, some Iraqi security officials are wondering whether they can trust their government to fund the army and police as the U.S. military has. And the situation has some Iraqis wondering if they can rely on their own Iraqi forces to protect them.

The University of San Diego hosted a panel of San Diego economists yesterday to assess the outlook for the year ahead. Most of the experts said they believe the worst of the recession is past, but they warned the recovery is not going to be rapid, and some said things may never be the same again