Reuters Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is hoping his lottery bond plan will help erase the state's massive shortfall.

SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to use money from an expanded lottery to plug a big state budget hole is not looking like a winning ticket. Even though the governor's revised budget avoids deep school cuts, it was all but pronounced dead on arrival yesterday by legislators from both parties.

• Schools still may come up short, administrators say

CHENGDU, China – China mobilized tens of thousands of additional soldiers to the earthquake-shattered expanses of the nation's southwestern regions yesterday – not just to help victims but also to shore up weakened dams and other elements of the infrastructure whose failure could compound the disaster.

• Dozens gather to raise money for quake victims

2008 VOTE: U.S. CONGRESS

WASHINGTON – House Republicans turned on themselves yesterday after a third straight loss of a GOP-held House seat in special elections this year left both parties contemplating widespread Democratic gains in November.

• Edwards endorses Obama in long-anticipated speech

San Diego is one of the nation's four most “digitally savvy” cities, according to a survey that measured the concentration of technology users with a wide range of high-tech habits. The region even finished ahead of the techno-smug cities of Seattle and San Francisco in the Scarborough Research study.

Stoked by surging natural-gas prices, San Diego's Sempra Energy has completed its new Baja California liquefied-natural-gas terminal – opening the first LNG import facility on the western coast of North America.