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Lawyers representing San Diego County will once again try to overturn California's medical marijuana law. County attorneys will argue before the 4th District Court of Appeal tomorrow that the federal

U.S. officials say they've seized a record amount of marijuana along the San Diego County coast during the last nine months. Detentions of people smuggled by sea are also up.

In a sharp about-face, Governor Schwarzenegger has withdrawn his support for a controversial proposal for new oil drilling off the Santa Barbara County coast.

After Thursday's bipartisan summit on health care, Democratic leaders have decided to press forward alone, dropping any hope of Republican support for an overhaul bill. Now Democrats have to figure out what new health care policy can pass both the House and Senate — with the votes of Democrats alone.

This election season, the TV airwaves are saturated with nasty, snarling attack ads. Those who fund some of the ads can now remain anonymous, but we'd like your help giving them a special name.

Arizona's gun laws, among the most lenient in the country, allowed Jared Lee Loughner to conceal and carry his firearm without a permit, explains Washington Post reporter James Grimaldi, who wrote a piece Sunday about Arizona's lax gun laws and Saturday's Tuscon shooting rampage.

The Supreme Court ruled last week that states and localities cannot ban handguns intended for self-defense. Washington, D.C., ended its gun ban two years ago, but some residents complain it's still too difficult to get a weapon. A D.C. councilman says the rules do what they're supposed to do -- identify the bad guys, and leave the good guys alone.

With the oldest of the boomers turning 65, eventually most will be looking to sell their houses. Changing tastes in housing could make that more difficult, but fears of a "generational housing bubble" may be overblown.

A federal judge unsealed documents in the anthrax case Wednesday. FBI officials were expected to hold a public event to describe the evidence against Army scientist Bruce Ivins, who committed suicide last week before prosecutors could charge him in the anthrax mailings that killed five people in 2001.

A federal judge in Washington has ordered the Bush administration to release five detainees from the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The men have been held there for seven years on evidence the judge finds insufficient. The ruling is the first by a trial judge since the Supreme Court declared in June that the Guantanamo prisoners have the right to challenge their detentions in U.S. courts.