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Nearly 400,000 jobless Americans are going to see their long-term unemployment benefits cut off after Congress failed to pass a short-term extension before its two-week spring break. The House voted to extend the jobless benefits and went home; but there was a filibuster in the Senate.

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders is getting some help in deciding whether to ask for another waiver of federal clean water rules for the city's sewage treatment plant. KPBS reporter Ed Joyce has details.

Can't put your BlackBerry down? Your boss may come to dread that if you're working while you're off the clock. A police sergeant in Chicago is suing the city. He says he's due plenty of overtime back pay because he logged in on his BlackBerry to continue working even though his shift was over.

California is planning to start sending more prisoners to jails in other states. State officials are moving the inmates even if they don't want to go. This week two federal judges ordered the creation

We will be providing a forum to discuss one of the most controversial religious traditions of modern American times- Scientology.

Federal immigration officials in San Diego have launched another series of raids aimed at capturing immigrant fugitives around the county. This time, though, fewer bystanders are getting caught in the

The Bush Administration and California officials are at odds over the state's ten-year-old Family Planning program. The federal government wants the state to require undocumented immigrants to show pr

Law enforcement agencies will be doing a full-court press in San Diego County this weekend to arrest drunk drivers. The Fourth of July typically has more drunk driving crashes than any other holiday.

Calexico elementary and middle school students begin their first full week of classes Monday since an earthquake struck the Imperial Valley last month. All 13 campuses were damaged in the border-city. More than 9,000 Calexico students were forced to stay home.

The Tea Parties started as an anti-big government, anti-tax movement -- T-E-A stands for "Taxed enough already?" But Tea Partiers have another pressing concern -- an obsession, really -- the United States Constitution. And they believe the Constitution is being subverted by President Obama and the Democratic Congress.