The dollar fell against most major currencies in erratic trading Wednesday. Gold prices rose.
Commodore International, battered by the long slump in home computer sales and still awaiting revenue from its newest machine, said Tuesday that it has fallen out of compliance with certain terms of its bank loans but that the banks have agreed to look the other way for now.
Maria Vasquez reached into her cash register and pulled out a crumpled $1 bill.
A 60-foot beam fell from a crane at a construction site in downtown Los Angeles today, crushing one worker to death and injuring another.
Two leading drug companies, Upjohn Co. and Pfizer Inc., reported double-digit profit increases for the third quarter, while a third drug company, American Cyanamid, reported a 32% profit decline.
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.
McDonnell Douglas Corp. said Thursday that its third-quarter earnings declined from a year ago because of a substantial increase in losses posted by its information systems unit.
After being on the go for 15 straight hours Saturday, Cal Lutheran College pooped out in the final 15 minutes, losing to Portland State, 27-20, in front of a Civic Stadium crowd of 2,390.
Julie Gleason missed a last-gasp shot at the buzzer from midcourt Tuesday night as The Master's College women's basketball team fell to visiting Biola, 62-60.
An iron worker bolting a platform onto the 285-foot shuttle launch building fell 18 floors to his death in the fourth fatality involving a shuttle worker in less than five years, officials said today.
Times Mirror Co. said Wednesday that both profit and revenue declined in the first quarter.
Darren Feenstra had 20 kills Wednesday night to lead Long Beach City College to an 11-15, 15-6, 15-11, 12-15, 15-6 nonconference victory over Chapman College in a men's volleyball match at Orange.
Cal State Long Beach outscored Fresno State, 23-4, late in the second half, but it wasn't enough as the Bulldogs held on for a 60-56 Pacific Coast Athletic Assn. win at Selland Arena.
The dollar shattered records Monday in a broad and powerful advance that analysts said was fueled by a belief that interest rates have bottomed out in the United States.
The strength of the Point Loma girls basketball team is the inside play of its towering front line.
A 13-year-old Laguna Beach boy tumbled down a sheer 100-foot cliff in the Arch Beach Heights canyon area shortly after dusk Monday, suffering apparently serious injuries and triggering a tense aerial rescue effort involving a helicopter from the U.S.
Housing construction fell a steep 11% in February, the biggest decline in almost a year, the government said Tuesday.
Lebanon's year-old national unity government collapsed today in the face of what Prime Minister Rashid Karami called "a horrific nightmare"--a savage house-to-house battle between rival militias for control of Muslim West Beirut.
President Francesco Cossiga dissolved Italy's Parliament tonight and called a June election following the defeat of the country's 10-day old minority government in a parliamentary confidence vote.
A woman jumped to her death from a 19-story building at Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in the heart of Hollywood this morning, just as paramedics arrived to try to prevent the suicide.