NANCEE E. LEWIS / Union-Tribune Students at the University of California San Diego walked past artwork by Barbara Kruger inside Price Center East.

LA JOLLA – Come this fall, 19-year-old Vannie Nguyen won't have to wait an hour for a bus ride when she gets a craving for crispy chicken. Instead of traveling from UC San Diego for a better variety of food or social events, Nguyen and the university's other 27,000 students can stroll to Price Center East, a new hub that will feature eight restaurants, a grocery store, hair salon and a performance lounge and restaurant called The Loft.

2008 VOTE: MAYOR

SAN DIEGO – Mayor Jerry Sanders' image as an all-around nice guy survived 26 years with the San Diego Police Department and a foray into politics six years later, when a central criticism was that he was too nice.

SAN DIEGO – Mayor Jerry Sanders will bypass the City Council and appeal to voters to change the city's pension system in the fall, after the council refused to impose his contract on three unions yesterday.

Legal U.S. residents who are uninsured, seriously ill and earning up to nearly $3,000 a month may receive help with their medical bills if county supervisors broaden a program today to comply with a court ruling. If approved, the proposed expansion for the County Medical Services program would take effect July

An 8-year-old boy who was struck and killed by a suspected drunken driver Saturday near Flinn Springs was fondly recalled yesterday as an energetic second-grader who wanted to be a soldier.

When natural disasters strike, San Diegan Jan Neil goes to the rescue armed with her camera. Her mission: to save damaged photographs. Neil just returned from a trip to Winona, Minn., where floods took a heavy toll last summer.