Steven Nelson had decided he wanted to be a nurse. He had spent his teens in trouble and his early 20s in prison. Finally, in his mid-30s, with a steady job as a receptionist in an urgent care and five kids to support, he believed he had found his calling. “He tried to get his life together,” said Gloria Hawkins, ... Read More »
It’s been a long goodbye for San Diego Hospice, an institution that helped people die with dignity and without pain. Read More »
The view is spectacular, overlooking all of Mission Valley from atop a ragged hillside that’s in spring bloom. This was once a place people came to die, now it will be home to an apartment complex. Read More »
The hospice, considered a pioneering organization in end-of-life care, closed in 2013 amid a Medicare audit that alleged it owed the federal government more than $110 million in false claims. Read More »
Officials including medical experts, advocacy groups and members of the Border Patrol and Mexican consulate are still trying to ID a John Doe whose been on life support for 15 years. Read More »
An unlikely alliance of elected officials, border enforcement, the Mexican Consulate and others have banded together to find the true identity of a John Doe on life support. Read More »
He smiles back at a reporter as she smiles and mouths the word “hello.” It’s an expression that belies both his official mental status — he’s believed to be non-responsive — and his circumstance. Read More »
With the United States on pace to detain the fewest undocumented immigrants since 2006, a Texas congressman is accusing federal immigration officials of not enforcing the law by failing to fill the country’s 34,000 detention beds. Read More »
The number of immigrants being held in detention centers across the U.S. is the lowest it’s been in nearly a decade, possibly signaling a change in a federal mandate called a "bed quota." Read More »
The reasons parents in California are choosing not to immunize their kids today is partly due to what they find on the Internet, including a study that incorrectly linked vaccines to autism. Read More »
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