Jul 12 18 injured in fire aboard ship at Naval Base San Diego By Associated Press The blaze was reported shortly before 9 a.m. on USS Bonhomme Richard, said Mike Raney, a spokesman for Naval Surface Force, US Pacific Fleet. Eighteen people were hospitalized with “non-life threatening injuries,” Raney said in a brief statement. He didn't… Continue reading
Dec 25 This teen CEO is empowering young volunteers to give back By Harry Zahn Kenan Pala's idea for Kids4Community came out of his family's experience. He said he learned to volunteer “as soon as I learned to walk.”… Continue reading
Nov 26 Watch 3:42 An artist hopes the stories of our treasured objects can help us understand each other By Maya Trabulsi, KPBS What objects give meaning to our lives? Kerianne Quick, artist in residence at San Diego’s New Americans Museum, spent a year researching people’s treasured possessions -- and the stories behind them -- for an innovative project in which she preserves… Continue watching
Jun 10 Watch 5:27 How these grieving mothers seek to stop the cycle of violence By Maya Trabulsi, KPBS A group of mothers whose children were murdered are taking their tragic stories to inmates imprisoned for committing violent crimes. The perspective shared by Mothers with a Message encourages prisoners, some of whom will never be released, to understand the… Continue watching
Jun 04 Watch 3:19 Where inmates and mothers of murder victims are coming together By Maya Trabulsi, KPBS Mothers with a Message is an organization of bereaved parents who have lost children to homicide. Members visit prisons to tell their stories of grief to inmates, with the goal of breaking down the walls between victim and offender. Maya… Continue watching
Mar 07 Government kept tabs on journalists, ‘instigators’ By Associated Press The U.S. government kept a database on journalists, activists, organizers and "instigators" during an investigation into last year's migrant caravan from Mexico, infuriating civil liberties and media groups. Continue reading
Dec 17 U.S. homelessness climbing overall, but some key cities make progress By Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press Cities in California, Oregon and Washington have driven an overall spike in the number of homeless people nationwide in recent years. Continue reading
Apr 28 Asylum-seekers in Mexico snub warnings of stern U.S. response By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press U.S. immigration lawyers are telling Central Americans in a caravan of asylum-seekers that traveled through Mexico to the border with San Diego that they face possible separation from their children and detention for many months. Continue reading
Mar 08 Watch 5:44 How a cartoonist is highlighting the lives of San Diego’s homeless residents By PBS News Hour Pulitzer-prize winning editorial cartoonist Steve Breen is using his drawings to highlight the growing problem of homelessness and the housing crisis in Southern California. Jeffrey Brown gets a first-hand look at the cartoonist and newspaper’s efforts to humanize and complicate… Continue watching
Jan 22 Watch 6:09 Will Trump’s wall ever be built? By PBS News Hour President Donald Trump signed an executive order last year calling for the construction of a new border wall spanning the length of the U.S.-Mexico border. While prototypes have been built in California, there is still no funding from Congress to… Continue watching