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Some parents at Lakeview Elementary School in Lakeside are threatening to enroll their kids in a different school if a nearby cell phone tower isn’t relocated.

NBC 7’s Niala Charles heard from parents who are upset about the cell tower that will be built near the elementary school.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is back on the Supreme Court bench after missing time last week with what the court described as a stomach bug. The 86-year-old Ginsburg climbed the three steps and took her seat for a brief court session Monday. She was absent when the justices last met in public, to hear arguments on Wednesday.

Power shutdowns intended to prevent more devastating California wildfires are raising new concerns about another longstanding environmental threat: air pollution.

Kaylene Bowen-Wright — a Dallas mother who faked her son’s illness for eight years — causing him to get surgeries he didn’t need was sentenced to six years in prison Friday.

A Pennsylvania teacher who fought laryngeal cancer for two years penned an obituary before her death last month urging people to enjoy life and “let go of the insignificant things.” Ashley Ann Kuzma, of Beaver County, died Sept. 22 at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, according to her online obituary. The 32-year-old wrote the obituary to help “make the transition easier...

Democratic candidate Andrew Yang and Bernie Sanders fielded questions from USC students phoning in to the MSNBC Georgetown event. Mekahlo Medina reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019.

Japan tried to reassure foreign diplomats Wednesday about safety at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant amid concerns about massive amounts of treated but radioactive water stored in tanks. Diplomats from 22 countries and regions attended a briefing at the Foreign Ministry, where Japanese officials stressed the importance of combating rumors about safety at the plant, which was decimated by a...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has accepted an honorary degree from the University at Buffalo.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has completed radiation therapy for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas and there is no evidence of the disease remaining, according to the Supreme Court. It is the fourth time that the 86-year-old justice has announced that she has been treated for cancer over the last two decades and follows lung cancer surgery in December that...

A Texas-based company is facing criticism for naming a beer after the location of nuclear tests that resulted in the contamination of a Pacific island chain, a report said.

Breathing in air pollutants such as particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) increase your risk of developing cardiovascular illnesses such as atherosclerosis, a new study suggests. Researchers have known for years that air pollution is damaging to humans in some way, causing up to 7 millions deaths around the world each year and 100,000 deaths here in the United...

Gabriele Grunewald, one of the country’s top middle-distance runners, has died at her home in Minneapolis after inspiring many with her long and public fight against cancer. She was 32. Her husband, Justin Grunewald, said she died Tuesday night. “It was one of the most peaceful passings I’ve seen. Everything she did was timed in her own time and perfect,”...

Taco Tuesday took on greater meaning at Mexipino Craft restaurant in Chula Vista Tuesday night. Dozens of people gathered to raise money for a San Diego mother fighting cancer.

In the middle of chemotherapy and radiation, a middle school student with cancer was extremely weak – he couldn’t be in large crowds or even in the sun – but that didn’t stop him from going to a local air show where he met a very special Marine.

Karolina Jasko has a family history of melanoma, so she’s no stranger to paying attention to her skin. Her mother — who battled the deadliest form of skin cancer twice and recovered — has always been vigilant about checking Jasko’s moles for any changes. But melanoma was still able to sneak up on Jasko in a spot neither she nor...

One in five Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetimes, and our changing climate may be part of the problem.

Kira Stanley is in the fight of her life, she’s battling brain cancer and getting an enormous amount of support from her family, friends, and strangers. NBC 7’s Erika Cervantes has more on this story.

Northrop Grumman’s 11th contracted cargo resupply mission for NASA launched from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Wednesday, carrying the Cygnus cargo spacecraft.

The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant began removing fuel Monday from a cooling pool at one of three reactors that melted down in the 2011 disaster, a milestone in what will be a decades-long process to decommission the facility. Tokyo Electric Power Co. said workers started removing the first of 566 used and unused fuel units stored in...