Duncan Hunter

SAN DIEGO -- A political action committee was started Tuesday in San Diego to fight proposed defense budget cuts. Organizers of the Fight 4 America super PAC unveiled three television commercials that focus on what they believe is deficient defense...

In another tribute to Cesar E. Chavez and the farm workers movement, the U.S. Labor Department on Monday named the auditorium at its Washington headquarters after the legendary California labor organizer.   It also added pioneers of the farm workers...

SAN DIEGO - A Camp Pendleton Marine is taking Defense Department brass to federal court, saying he is being hounded out of the service for exercising his First Amendment rights. Attorneys representing Sgt. Gary Stein filed a lawsuit against theU.S....

A defense bill expected to clear Congress today deals with Jewish American World War I heroes, sailors killed in Tripoli in 1804 and Navy policies for naming ships....

The House on Tuesday approved a measure that seeks to permit religious symbols in war memorials, a response to a court ruling declaring unconstitutional a cross atop a San Diego war memorial....

The federal government has a big problem with spending more than it takes in, and closing the gap is going to get harder in the coming years. So it's reasonable for President Barack Obama to conclude that, along with other parts of the government, the...

The name USNS Cesar Chavez doesn't sit well with some senators. The Senate wants the Navy to explain how it selects names for new ships in the wake of controversy over the naming of a supply ship after labor leader Cesar Chavez....

The first day of military life since the repeal of the "don’t ask/don’t tell” policy was uneventful at Navy and Marine Corps bases in San Diego County. No special notice was taken Tuesday by the region’s military commands about...

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine), who served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Marine officer, has asked the new secretary of Defense to consider upgrading the medals given to several service personnel for combat bravery to Medals of Honor....

While the anti-drug “Red Ribbon Week” campaign ends this weekend an ever-present question always tends to be surrounding the actual roots of Red Ribbon started. Various accounts as to the actual origins of Red Ribbon Week and its relationship...

CALEXICO — A drug-free reminder will be watching over the students at Enrique Camarena Junior High School in the form of a new mural of a hometown hero. Students and staff in the After School Education and Safety program worked on the image of...