Anita Vogel

For some franchises and chains, the recession has been a boon.

Love him or hate him, few people can fire up a crowd like former President Bill Clinton.

On my desk in my office, I have a lot of files pertaining to various stories, topics, and research.

The 71-year-old career politician was previously governor from 1975 to 1983.

The race for governor is heating up with the state’s economic woes taking center stage.

While news about the economy continues to be gloomy, the future is beginning to look a little brighter....in Sin City, just a little.

Five years after his death and 22 years after his presidency ended, President Reagan’s leadership style and policies are still influencing the political debate in 2010.

Jubilant Iraqis were seen cheering as an enormous statue of Saddam was pulled down in Baghdad Wednesday, but former Iraqi Olympians remain haunted by the torture they endured from Uday Hussein, the dictator’s infamously vicious son. Issam Thamer Aldiwan, a former Iraqi Olympic volleyball player now living in El Cajon, Calif., can’t forget the horrors he endured under the Hussein regime before he escaped to America. Athletes were routinely jailed and tortured for losing or disobeying orders from…

Medical schools were once the bastion of traditional medicine, based in well-researched scientific techniques. But nowadays the scalpel is making way for the acupuncture needle. Once considered far outside the medical mainstream, non-Western techniques like acupuncture have broken through traditional barriers. Now alternative healing techniques like yoga and prayer are among a number of required classes at prestigious medical colleges around the country like Columbia, Yale and University of Cali…

Computer instructor Bert Riddick works hard to provide for his wife and three children — a job that would be a lot simpler if the government wasn’t forcing him to support another child he’s never met. DNA testing has proved Riddick isn’t the father. But under California state law, a man designated by the courts as a child’s father — regardless of biology — is expected to financially support that child. “I’m not a father to that kid. All I am is a paycheck to that child,” he said. California Asse…