"The Road": Based on Cormac McCarthy's tale of a father and son on a grim trek in post-apocalypse America, the movie stars Viggo Mortenson. It opens Nov. 25.

"The Book of Eli": Denzel Washington carries and protects the valued text of the title in another movie that travels through a bleak landscape of despair. It opens in January.

(Contact Jennifer Garza at jgarza(at)sacbee.com.)

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Wild hogs

America's wild hog population is exploding and spreading across the country, more than doubling in size and range in the past 20 years. Two decades ago, somewhere between 500,000 and 2 million wild pigs roamed the United States in 17 states. Now the population numbers between 2 million and 6 million in 44 states.

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As Americans struggle to take charge of their health care -- and hold down their medical costs -- a growing number are bypassing the doctor and going right to the source for diagnostic tests.

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More Americans are complaining that debt collectors are using shady and possibly illegal practices to hound them for payments, a Scripps Howard investigation has found. Complaints this year to federal authorities about unscrupulous debt collectors are on pace to be more than 6 percent higher than two years ago.

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A seven-month investigation into federal mortality records reveals hundreds of thousands of death certificates filed every year in the United States are wrong, meaning we don't really know what's killing Americans. A first-of-its-kind study also found that younger, well-educated and wealthy people are more likely to be autopsied when they die. More men than women are autopsied. And blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans are more likely to be autopsied than whites.

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