Rampaging youths hurled rocks at foreign tourists, hijacked buses and clashed with mounted police firing shotguns today in the year's first major rioting in Soweto, South Africa's biggest black township, police said.
The New Orleans Saints packed their bags and boarded a plane for the West Coast on Thursday, a day earlier than indicated on their itinerary.
y played an old-timers' match Thursday on the Grandstand Court in the second round of the U.S. Open.
Roberto Quiroz, the county's recently appointed mental health director, probably would have been a lot better off if his department had not received more than $20 million in new state funds this year.
Red Ribbon Week ends here this weekend but volunteers fighting drugs in this city hope the red ribbons that have streamed from street lights along La Mirada Boulevard, from flagpoles in front of homes and from doors and signs in front of businesses will soon be seen in other Southeast-area...
Fear, ostracism and a lingering, lonely death are often the outcome of an AIDS diagnosis.
It will be a match-up of two nationally ranked and undefeated teams when Occidental College clashes with host Azusa Pacific University in a non-conference football game at 1:30 p.m.
attempt to stop a Washington wives group from carrying the battle over off-color rock music to Capitol Hill.
When the Port of Los Angeles and a private company offered in July to give Batiquitos Lagoon a $15-million face lift, it inspired a spirit of cooperation rarely seen among the myriad parties concerned with the fate of the wide and shallow wetland.
"Drug abuse and particularly PCP is getting out of hand in the black and brown community."
pilot's seat fighting a different kind of battle above the flaming hillsides north of Moorpark.
The owner of Corona's only adult bookstore has agreed to close her shop in exchange for $97,000 in attorney's fees, bringing to an end more than four years of legal battles with the city.
It may not rank with "give me liberty or give me death," but "dashboard democracy" is a serious rallying cry for a band of firms that are fighting for shares of the car radio market.
The phone was disconnected, and a hand-lettered sign Monday on the plywood-covered door of Corona's only adult bookstore said simply: "We are closed."
The New York Giants made inroads in Texas and turned their eyes to the north.
last week despite a legal battle with federal regulators, has announced he is resigning the post.
In a brief campaign viewed here as the closing chapter to nearly two years of turmoil at City Hall, three major candidates and 11 long shots are scrambling to fill the political vacuum created last month by the forced resignation of Mayor Roger Hedgecock.
After seven years of legal battling between the residents and the owner of a University City senior citizens complex, the state Supreme Court has ruled that the owners have the right to raise rents and to rent apartments to younger people.
Andrea Mead Lawrence, the only American to win two Olympic Alpine skiing events, keeps her gold medals in a box here.
The score: Burglars 6, firefighters 0.