Aug 07 Watch 6:00 Panda diplomacy makes a comeback with new duo set to debut in San Diego By William Brangham, Courtney Norris The first pandas to arrive in the U.S. in more than two decades are about to make their big debut in California. It’s the latest development in what’s known as “panda diplomacy,” and the exchanges between China and the U.S. Continue watching
Feb 08 5 Marines confirmed dead in helicopter crash outside San Diego, military says By Julie Watson, Lolita Baldor, Associated Press Authorities say the CH-53E Super Stallion vanished late Tuesday night while returning to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego after training at Creech Air Force Base, northwest of Las Vegas. Continue reading
Mar 12 8 found dead after migrant smuggling boat capsizes off San Diego coast By Elliot Spagat, Gregory Bull, Associated Press Eight people were killed when two migrant smuggling boats approached a San Diego beach amid heavy fog and one capsized in the surf, authorities said Sunday, calling it one of the deadliest human smuggling operations ever in the U.S. Continue reading
Jul 26 Watch 4:58 These tight-knit retirees are helping breast cancer survivors feel like 'Boobless Wonders' By Maya Trabulsi, KPBS Losing breasts to cancer can be a shattering experience. As Maya Trabulsi of KPBS in San Diego reports, a tight-knit group of women at a retirement home in Escondido, California, is lessening the pain associated with mastectomies — one loving… Continue watching
May 03 3 killed, 27 hospitalized after boat capsizes off San Diego coast By Associated Press Lifeguards, the U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies responded around 10:30 a.m. following reports of an overturned vessel in the waves near the rugged peninsula of Point Loma, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. Photo by REUTERS/Mike Blake. Continue reading
Jul 19 How the coronavirus spread through one immigration facility By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press Gregory Arnold walked into the warden’s office April 1 as the novel coronavirus ripped through one of the largest immigration detention centers in the United States. Waiting with about 40 guards to begin his shift, he heard a captain say… Continue reading
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