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By Melissa Flores The sight of students running around Frank Paul Elementary School in Salinas has become a regular thing before school, during breaks and after classes end. The kindergarten through sixth-grade campus has 28 classes who signed up to...

By Jessica Chang While the average age of a Peace Corps volunteer is 28, 7 percent of them, like Maria Lee, are over 50. The minimum age requirement is 18 years old, but there is no upper age limit. The oldest serving volunteer today is 84.

Given the recent spike in gas prices that is forecast to continue, a paper released today by the University of California Center for Energy and Environmental Economics is especially compelling. The paper presents an apparently new theory about what tri...

Eager Mini-Med students ready for Saturday classI regret to report that I am not qualified to summarize therecent Mini-Med School  session on the skin. To do that, I’d need at least sixyears of medical school (rather than my current 18 weeks) an...

The Jeremy Lin saga gets me thinking about the effect of timing in shaping what happens to you in life. Talent and hard work can go nowhere if doors don’t open at a particular time. Lin has taken the NBA … Continue reading →

It was only a matter of time. Formula companies, in a fit a frustration over all of the potential profit they could be making, had to find a way to get inside the pocketbook of pregnant and breastfeeding moms. After all, breastfeeding moms are most lik...

Children in communities south of San Diego near the port and the traffic-choked border suffer higher rates of asthma than kids in other parts of the county. Is diesel pollution to blame? Marty Graham reports from San Diego.

February 21, 2012I have recently begun to get large bills from Sutter Medical Group dating back almost a year in some cases. Turns out the Sutter Lab where I get all my blood draws is happy to let me make decisions not the Doctor. The result is a $350 ...

When I first read about some parents in Brooklyn serving up babyccinos to their tots, I have to admit, I thought…really, do we need to be serving our tots coffee? Just like us? However, the accompanying video of the little girl enamored with her babyccino, complete with rainbow sprinkles did make me smile. It...

By Minerva Perez One California county needed to make some quick adjustments to accommodate the low-level offenders newly under their supervision since last year, when prison realignment started.