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As the year winds down, financial experts say it’s a good time to tidy up your finances and plan for the new year. Retirees Mark and Midge Mayer live off their social security and pension. They also have a retirement account to fund the extras, something they didn’t need this year because of the pandemic.

Multiple members of Congress, including the Dean of the U.S. House and the Senate Pro Tempore, third in line to the U.S. presidency, have announced they have tested positive for COVID-19 in November.    But it’s not just high-ranking leaders who are contracting the virus on Capitol Hill. The News-4 I-Team has learned dozens more civil ser...

The Investigative Unit examines how a local pandemic shut-down order forced a San Mateo family out of their own home, they say.

A man who won a settlement in an excessive force case against the LAPD says he recently discovered he had been reported as deceased to the U.S. government, which caused his disability income and access to critical medical and mental health care to be terminated.

Infectious disease experts and epidemiologists from universities like Stanford, Yale, Harvard and Oxford say current shelter-in-place policies are not effectively protecting vulnerable people from COVID-19, while devastating public health in ways that will lead to irreparable harm for years to come.

Most coronavirus safety measures on Capitol Hill are advisories, not requirements, the News4 I-Team reports.

Attempted murder charges have been filed in an attack on two LA County Sheriff’s Department deputies who were shot while seated in a patrol car at a transit station in Compton. Officials announced the charges against Deonte Lee Murray at a Wednesday news conference. He was arrested Sept. 15 after a stakeout, car chase, and search in Lynwood t...

Mall owners Simon Property Group and BrooMall owners Simon Property Group and Brookfield Property Partners are close to a deal to buy Plano-based department store chain J.C. Penney out of bankruptcy and keep the chain running.

Human trafficking is a global problem. The victims caught in the torrent of sex trafficking are of all nationalities, all ethnicities, all ages, and all genders. Yet, while the crisis impacts a wide swath of humanity, there are some profiles for children who are most at risk in America.

To offset the increased exposure caused by social media and technology, experts are placing more and more emphasis on parents to sit down and have conversations with their children to make them aware of the dangers that lurk online.

There are more apps out there than we can keep track of, and not all of them are fun and games. Here are a few the San Diego County Human Trafficking Task Force says parents should be aware of

The novel coronavirus pandemic has impacted nearly every aspect of society. In particular, it has aided in the rise of sex trafficking on national and global levels.

From NBC 7 comes STOLEN; an expansive documentary series about sex trafficking and the exploitation of children in San Diego County and beyond.