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A federal judge sentences Jeffrey Skilling, the former CEO of Enron, to 24 years and four months in prison. U.S. District Judge Sim Lake also turned down Skilling's request to remain free while he appeals his conviction of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading and lying to auditors.

A $1 million federal grant will help beef up security for San Diego’s transit system. MTS spokesman Luis Gonzalez says the homeland security money will be used to protect against terrorist attack or

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger blasted the federal government Wednesday for failing to secure the U.S. Mexico Border. Schwarzenegger made the comments after touring the San Diego Tijuana border and be

In drafting national standards on how health insurers should be able to use age to set premium rates, congressional committees agree that older people should pay more. But they differ widely on just how much. Ultimately, it comes down to how best to persuade young adults to get into the pool.

For the first time in 35 years, Justice John Paul Stevens is not on the Supreme Court bench as a new term opens. The 90-year-old justice, who retired this summer, talks to NPR about baseball, taking cases one at a time, and the one vote he would change.

A Vista ordinance that regulates day laborers withstood first-amendment challenges in federal court today. The ACLU had sued to temporarily block the measure. KPBS Radio's Andrew Phelps reports.

California researchers have received a $4.5 million federal grant to track heat-related deaths and emergency room visits to study how global warming could affect public health.

Is the local economy starting to improve, or are more hard times expected in the near future? Why is housing stabilizing, while the commercial real estate market is getting worse? We speak to local experts on the economy and real estate about the latest trends they are seeing.

Public health officials are discovering that blacks and Latinos have a higher risk of both getting the flu and being hospitalized for it. It is apparently not because of race or ethnicity, per se; it's because of the social circumstances of many African-Americans and Hispanics.

Despite comparative stability in the national poverty level, one number that rose in recently released Census Bureau data was the amount of people living in extreme poverty. Federal guidelines list people in extreme poverty if their incomes fall at or below 50 percent of the poverty level.