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Lengthy ballots await Inyo County voters who are participating in the Presidential Primary Election next Tuesday, June 5. Photo by Darcy Ellis In addition to deciding the political fates of state and national lawmakers and the men and women challenging them for office, local residents in three areas of the county will also be casting votes on next ... (more)

America is alleged to be a country in which every citizen is afforded equal rights, and over the past few decades there has been some progress in ensuring that every American has the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Religious fanatics and Republicans have never subscribed to Jefferson's well-known phrase in the Declaration of ... (more)

The fourth ship named after San Diego and the first to be home-ported in the city will be commissioned on the city's waterfront Saturday before 6,000 people who'll be seated before a cavernous vessel that will carry local Marines to distant parts of the world.

An upcoming panel discussion on the topic of Jewish activism has experienced more than its fair share of action even before taking place.

Seventy-five years ago, on May 16, 1937, a ceremony was held to lay the cornerstone for Berkeley's new Catholic School of the Madeleine building at Berryman and Milvia.

Author David Hayes-Bautista speaks on the origins of Cinco de Mayo and why it is celebrated in the United States and not Mexico Tuesdayat Cal Poly Pomona .

In the upcoming elections this year - the June primary and the November general - California citizens will have the chance to exercise their rather unique ability to exercise direct democracy and vote on a series of propositions.

San Diego, California Talk Radio Station - 760 KFMB AM - 760kfmbUSS Independence to arrive at home port Naval Station San Diego SAN DIEGO - The USS Independence, part of a new class of warships built for combat in coastal waters but also capable of open-ocean warfare, is scheduled to arrive at its home port of Naval Station San Diego for the first ... (more)