A 13-year-old boy was crushed to death by a soft-drink machine he was shaking in an attempt to retrieve money he had just lost, police said.
Cal State Long Beach, its once-promising season fading fast, disappeared again Thursday night and lost to UC Santa Barbara, 74-54, before a crowd of 4,326 at the Campus Events Center.
The Santana High School girls basketball team will not repeat as San Diego CIF 3-A Conference champions in 1985.
Seventeen yacht clubs finished the first two days of the 56th Southern California Yachting Assn.
The dollar retreated amid widespread profit-taking early today after seven straight days of record-breaking gains.
Washington Redskin star John Riggins put on a raucous display at a formal banquet Wednesday night, at one point urging Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to "loosen up, Sandy baby," then passing out on the ballroom floor and snoring through a speech by Vice President George Bush.
The stock market turned downward Monday, retreating from last week's new high near the 1,300 level in the Dow Jones industrial average.
The Los Angeles Community College District said Wednesday that its spring enrollment is down by more than 19,000 students, prompting officials to consider canceling a summer session this year.
The price of sugar futures fell to new lows Tuesday as the worldwide surplus weighed on the market.
The dollar, hurt by profit-taking and undermined by lower U.S. interest rates, fell sharply against most foreign currencies on Tuesday.
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The popularity of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Conservative Party has slumped to its lowest level in the lifetime of the present government, according to a Gallup poll for the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Police killed a pain-racked horse after the animal's hind legs became wedged in a manhole during an early morning ride, authorities said Sunday.
Seven children were killed and three injured Friday when the roof of their school collapsed in heavy rain in a town in Punjab, the Press Trust of India said.
Before Friday night's Grossmont League 3A game between Helix and Granite Hills, Eagles' Coach Paul Wargo seemed a bit upset with the press.
The Cal State Long Beach 49ers dug themselves another hole Saturday afternoon--the kind they have been digging all season--but this time it was too deep to escape and they were upset, 30-23, by Eastern Washington University.
The Cypress College wrestling team defeated Golden West, 23-21, in a South Coast College match at Golden West Wednesday night.
TransTechnology's profit fell 34% to $1.3 million, or 28 cents a share, in its third quarter ended Dec. 31.
Financial Corp. of America's stock took a pounding Tuesday, falling $1 to close at $4.50 a share, its lowest level in nearly three years.
My admiration for the products of 3M knows few bounds, as regular readers of this column know.