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How will the health care reform bill impact local health care providers? We speak to representatives from hospitals and community clinics about how they will be affected, and get an update on what changes will begin this year and what will take place in 2014.

California spends 11 percent of its budget on its overcrowded prisons. We'll look at why costs continue to rise particularly for the aging prison population.

President Bush signed a $700 billion financial bailout package Friday, shortly after the U.S. House passed the rescue measure. The action paved the way for the government to start buying up troubled assets from financial institutions caught on the wrong side of record home foreclosures.

Payroll company ADP said private employers added 32,000 jobs last month, topping forecasts by private economists. The report is seen an early indicator of the government's closely watched monthly employment report due Friday. Meanwhile, a private trade group said the service sector expanded in April, but at a slower pace than expected.

The automaker has been offering zero percent financing and other incentives to get customers back into showrooms this spring after much bad press this past winter over its accelerator pedal recalls. Sales for April jumped 24 percent compared with a year ago.

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.

As President Barack Obama presses lawmakers to approve his economic stimulus plan, many small minority-owned businesses are in a fight to keep their doors open. David Ferreira of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce explains how the deepening economic crisis finds some businesses particularly vulnerable to setbacks.

The current law punishes crack users 100 times more heavily than powder cocaine users. Critics say the sentencing disparity has had a huge impact on people of color, partly because crack cocaine is much cheaper. A bill passed by the Senate brings the 100-to-1 ratio down to 18-to-1.

The ACLU and Mexico’s Commission on Human Rights have pledged to work together to protect migrants' human rights along the U.S.-Mexico border. The groups say they'll challenge Operation Gatekeeper an

I moved to San Diego in 1998 and bought a house in Normal Heights. I sold that house this year for a profit of $220,000, which I invested into a new house that is 800 square feet bigger. I was lucky. Greg LaMarca was not.