Local San Diego News From Around The County

The new health overhaul law will start producing savings for Medicare right away, and over time add 12 years of solvency to the program's giant trust fund for inpatient care, the Obama administration says in a report to be released Monday.

Advances in conventional agriculture have dramatically slowed the flow of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, in part by allowing farmers to grow more food to meet world demand without plowing up vast tracts of land, a study by three Stanford University researchers has found.

TUESDAY

Wood-fired pizza would hardly seem the chosen path to success for a Lebanese-born young man convinced he was destined for a career in politics and diplomacy.

Stocks in Asia nudged higher in early trade Monday, rebounding slightly from a series of losing sessions last week when the murky economic outlook led to sparse, cautious trade in New York.

A regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency said Sunday that significant improvement had been made at the site of an oil spill in a southern Michigan river, but the agency cautioned that it will take months to complete the cleanup.

Raul Castro said Sunday that his government will scale back controls on small businesses, lay off unnecessary workers and allow more self-employment _ major steps in a country where the state dominates nearly every facet of the economy.

A regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency says there has been "significant improvement" at the site of an oil spill in a southern Michigan river.

BP's chief operating officer says he would eat fish from the Gulf of Mexico and would let his family eat it, too.

A longtime Alaska comic book buff is selling one of the gems in his vast collection, a rare copy of Batman No. 1 published 70 years ago.

The United Arab Emirates outlined plans Sunday to block BlackBerry e-mail, messaging and Web browsing services in a crackdown that could jeopardize efforts to establish the country as an international business hub.

The only thing keeping millions more gallons of oil out of the Gulf of Mexico right now is a rush job: an experimental cap that has held for more than two weeks but was never meant to be permanent. As soon as this week, crews will be pumping in some insurance.

In 1632, John Tuttle arrived from England to a settlement near the Maine-New Hampshire border, using a small land grant from King Charles I to start a farm.

Spirit Airlines says it is gaining ground in the fight against flight delays with its controversial move to charge for carry-on bags.

A sideways stock market has investors searching for other places to make a decent return on their money. And junk bonds, for better or worse, are starting to look like gems to many.

THE PRODUCT: An ultra-strong glass that Corning Inc. calls Gorilla. It's very hard to break, dent or scratch.

An ultra-strong glass that has been looking for a purpose since its invention in 1962 is poised to become a multibillion-dollar bonanza for Corning Inc.

Wealthy Americans aren't spending so freely anymore. And the rest of us are feeling the squeeze.

"Inception" is still kicking at the box office.

As BP inched closer to permanently sealing the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, congressional investigators railed against the company and Coast Guard for liberal use of toxic chemicals that helped disperse the oil, but at unknown expense to sea life.