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An NPR News Investigation has found that Massey Energy had nine coal mines with high injury rates last year, in addition to the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia where 29 miners died last week. Four Massey mines had injury rates more than twice the national rate in 2009.

The City of San Diego passed a smoking ban in city parks and on beaches in 2006, are people following the law? A local community group, concerned with the amount of cigarette litter on the ground in city parks organized a clean up and found more than 17,000 butts a month. We discuss the smoking ban, who's smoking and the harms of second-hand smoke.

President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who fled the capital amid bloody protests last week, made the statement hours after holding a rally with about 5,000 supporters that seemed aimed at gauging his ability to resist the self-declared provisional government.

Chelsea’s Law is being billed as closing the gaps in existing laws for sex offenders. But some say in San Diego’s legal community are questioning whether the proposed law will really make anyone safer.

Although Michigan volunteer militias are still big on gun rights and wary of Washington, they aren't necessarily violent. The groups are now more interested in living off the land, survivalism and gun practice.

Republican leaders see little downside in continuing their "say no" strategy during upcoming confirmation hearings for President Obama's as-yet-to-be-named nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court.

The Vatican says this has long been its policy, but the guidelines, posted on its Web site, mark the first time the requirement has been spelled out publicly. The Roman Catholic Church has been under fire from critics who say church officials failed to report allegations of clergy sex abuse to authorities.

Last month, David Stone Sr. and his wife, Tina, were among nine people indicted on sedition and weapons charges in what prosecutors say was a plot to spark an anti-government uprising by killing police. In an unusual twist, the FBI not only used surveillance tapes and an undercover agent to unravel the alleged plot but also got help from another militia group in Michigan.

The USS Carl Vinson and its 3,500 crew members sailed into their new homeport at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego on Monday morning.

Spring is here, and that means many plants are blooming. We'll find out how to take advantage of the wet winter rains and how to control weeds in your garden.