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San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Terry Grier says he will take the Houston superintendent job once the contract is finalized. He made the announcement to a group of district administrators at a back-to-school event today.

As part of our series on America's national parks, we'll talk about the importance of parks for communities.

San Diego's only national monument, Cabrillo National Monument, is celebrating National Parks Founders' Day and San Diego County Public Lands Day with exhibitors from county parks at the lighthouse and visitors center.

President Obama nominated Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to a second four-year term, ending speculation that the man widely credited with stemming a wholesale financial collapse might be cast aside. The move was aimed at continuity as the economy pulls out of recession.

Most homeless people in America are too poor to buy their own health coverage, but many also don't qualify for Medicaid, the government-run health program for the poor.

The San Diego Port District will not halt construction of a new cruise ship terminal downtown, in spite of a lawsuit filed by a group of waterfront activists.

Most homeless people lack insurance and rely on the emergency room and government-funded clinics for treatment. Advocates say the existing system is both inadequate and expensive for taxpayers, and that expanding Medicaid to include the homeless is a better option.

The only man convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, was freed from a Scottish prison on what Scottish authorities call "compassionate grounds." He is terminally ill with cancer. Guests examine the limits of compassion.

As the government prepared to disclose information, including a 2004 CIA inspector general's report, about alleged abuses during CIA-run interrogations of top al-Qaida suspects, CIA Director Leon Panetta on Monday sent a note to the agency's workforce.

California's Assembly speaker postponed a vote Monday as she tries to line up enough votes on a controversial plan to trim the state's inmate population to save $1 billion. Speaker Karen Bass already had stripped out the most contentious provisions from a bill that passed the state Senate last week.