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An ongoing battle between Mayor Bob Filner and the San Diego City Council will take another turn today. The council will consider overriding the mayor’s veto of two Port appointments.

San Onofre's troubles continue. San Diego schools' CFO under fire for misinformation. The line for becoming a U.S. citizens may grow longer. Judge nixes plan for Balboa Park renovation. Meatball the Bear is living the good life in the East County.

A unique type of neurosurgery offers hope to patients with spinal cord injuries.

While different interest groups debate new copper mining projects on Arizona public land, two artists explore our relationship to copper. A new exhibition examines copper as a limited resource, and our reliance on it.

An autopsy from the Mexican state of Sonora leaves some unanswered questions about a U.S. Border Patrol agent-involved shooting that left a teenage boy dead in Mexico.

A federal judge ruled Wednesday the Tucson Unified School District must begin teaching culturally relevant courses in its schools.

A long term Eagle Scout in San Diego County is optimistic the Boy Scouts are on their way to changing their restrictive membership policy.

The San Diego City Attorney has charged a man with vehicular manslaughter in the death of Charles Gilbreth, who was hit by a car while riding his bike on Montezuma Road.

A lawsuit underway in Los Angeles reveals Johnson & Johnson apparently knew years before they recalled a faulty artificial hip that it had a critical design flaw, but they went ahead and had doctors install them in tens of thousand of patients.

Southern California Edision denies that it was aware of equipment problems linked to a 2012 tube break that released a trace of radiation.

Both the Senate and the President’s proposals for immigration reform agree the pathway to citizenship begins at the “back of the line.” But, there isn’t one line. And for families in certain lines, the wait is so long it’s like going back in time.

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 today to deny appeals and grant a major-use permit for a proposed 42.7-acre solar energy plant at the southern end of Ramona.

The number of homicides dropped to between 20,000 and 25,000 last year, and between 45 to 60 percent of those were organized-crime-style murders.

San Diego will be expanding a new program this month aimed to tackle the problem of readmitting patients after they've been discharged from a hospital.

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner answers questions from listeners in what he says will be a monthly appearance on KPBS.