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Justin Bieber went on "The Today Show" and denied the claims made by a San Diego woman that he got her pregnant backstage after one of his shows. "I'd just like to say, basically, that none of those allegations are true," he said Friday morning. "I know that I'm going to be a target, but I'm never going to be a victim."

With water increasingly scarce in the West, a new program is allowing some farmers to sell their allotment of it for whatever price they can find, but it comes with a hitch... They can continue to farm all their land, or they can stop farming some of it and earn more than $500 an acre — more than the market value of a crop like alfalfa in a given year — simply by not using the water required to nourish those crops. Water saved is sent on to thirsty cities and suburbs to the west: San Diego, Los Angeles and Palm Springs.

Utility crews brought electricity back to much of California, Arizona and Mexico on Friday, a day after a power outage left millions in the dark, paralyzed freeways and halted flights at San Diego's airport....

Thirteen hours after an unprecedented outage left a huge swath of Southern California without power and brought normal life to a halt, power was restored to all 1.4 million customers of San Diego Gas & Electric, the biggest service area.

Rebecca Zahau committed suicide at the Spreckels mansion after being told the son of boyfriend Jonah Shacknai was fatally injured from falling while he was in her care, officials say.Reporting from San Diego -- The girlfriend of pharmaceutical executive Jonah Shacknai committed suicide at his Coronado mansion after learning that his son would not survive injuries suffered in an accident while in her care, authorities announced Friday.

A nearly 20-square-mile California wildfire crackles through bush and brush on a remote American Indian reservation in San Diego County.

Early risers among "Twilight" fans have gotten a chance to see what some of their big-screen idols look like first thing in the morning.

Calling all superheroes, zombies, space aliens, comic-book lovers and kids of all ages: Comic-Con is here.

Three people were found dead in a San Diego home's swimming pool Tuesday and a fourth body was discovered in a bathtub inside, authorities said.

Ten people were thrown into the waters of San Diego Bay Sunday when their sailboat capsized, leaving two men drowned and eight people injured, authorities said. The boat flipped over for reasons that remained unclear and then sank near Shelter Island shortly after 5 p.m., San Diego Fire-Rescue spokesman Maurice Luque said.