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The Sierra Club is concerned some of the earthquake aid on its way to Mexicali may be hazardous to people's health. Baja California officials say 200 travel trailers are scheduled to arrive next week to house earthquake victims. A collaboration between KPBS and Tijuanapress.com.

Anti-smoking campaigns have had success reducing smoking, and since the 1990s smoking among youth has also declined. However, public health messages about exercise and healthy eating don't seem to be having an effect yet. Kids are developing adult diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure.

Increasingly, research shows that being fit may trump being fat -- or at least moderately overweight. In one study, physically active but overweight women were less likely to suffer heart problems than their normal weight counterparts who didn't exercise.

Democrats blame the Bush administration for lingering regulatory problems that contributed to the Gulf oil spill, the coal mine explosion in West Virginia and a recall of Toyota cars. That may or may not be fair -- but it's clear the Obama administration is far more aggressive in its rule-making.

Tijuana's Municipal Police chief says federal authorities in Mexico altered a few local officers' guns and he wants to know why. Federal agents confiscated all of the local police officers' guns last

Federal authorities are searching for a man who allegedly held undocumented immigrants against their will in San Diego. The man has allegedly run a migrant trafficking ring for the last six years and

President Bush visited Southern California Thursday to see the devastation caused by the wildfires that have been burning this week.

Congressional Democrats and the White House on Tuesday are expected to finalize a $15 billion emergency loan package to help save millions of auto-related jobs. Under the deal taking shape, a "car czar" would oversee restructuring of the Big Three automakers.

Federal researchers say the painkiller naproxen, sold over the counter as Aleve, has been linked with a 50-percent higher risk of heart attacks and strokes. Arthritis sufferers have been switching to naproxen after warnings that the drug Celebrex also carries added risk of heart attack and stroke. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

David Simon, creator of the HBO television series The Wire, is among 23 recipients of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants." The $500,000 grants were announced Tuesday by the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.