A 16-year-old La Puente boy was killed Saturday when he fell out of a moving pickup truck on the Pomona Freeway.
The stock market gave ground Wednesday as investors cautiously watched for signals on the outlook for interest rates.
The Belgian air force said Tuesday that dummy bombs no longer will be dropped at a practice range because one of them--dropped by a U.S. plane--hit a civilian's house the day before.
A five-nation television venture beamed its last programs across Europe Thursday night and then went off the air, a victim of debt and insufficient advertising, spokesmen said.
Stella Sampras of Palos Verdes High School swept her three singles sets Thursday to lead the Sea Kings' tennis team to an 11-7 victory over Corona del Mar in the Southern Section 4-A semifinals at Palos Verdes High.
A man flying a miniature, one-seat helicopter he had assembled from a kit was killed after the aircraft began falling apart about 100 feet in the air while he was hovering over his home, police said Sunday.
The Cal Lutheran men's basketball team played even with Cal State Dominguez Hills for one half Saturday.
The nation's basic money supply fell $400 million in late October and early November, but two broader money measures rose, the Federal Reserve Board reported Thursday.
San Diego State rallied for three runs in the ninth inning, but stranded two runners with one out Friday to give Pomona a 4-3 victory in a nonconference baseball game at Smith Field.
It is unlikely that Gov.
Ted Hayes' hopes for a Christmas Eve "miracle on 1st Street"--the setting up of Tent City II to provide holiday shelter for 300 of Los Angeles' estimated 30,000 homeless people--came close to happening Wednesday night but collapsed under the weight of governmental red tape and misunderstanding.
The Academy of Performing and Visual Arts, which has offered weekend courses to high school students since 1984, will close Saturday because of a lack of funds.
A 6-foot-2 senior racked up 54 points during a tournament game to become the top scorer in high school basketball history, with a career total of 6,266.
Robin Romeo of Van Nuys fell from second to fifth place Thursday after 34 games in the $30,000 Brunswick L.A.
Unemployment fell to 6.6% in December, its lowest rate since President Reagan took office six years ago, as the U.S. economy created more than 200,000 new jobs for the fourth consecutive month, the government reported Friday.
Aaron Krickstein felt like he had a hangover, and played like it.
Cliff Warren, Rolling Hills High School basketball coach, seemed almost reluctant to accept congratulations Tuesday night after his Titans defeated Corona del Mar, 56-54, in a Southern Section 3-A semifinal game in front of an overflow crowd of 2,500 at Orange Coast College.
Terry Craven had just watched his Cal State Northridge baseball team pile up 13 hits and 14 runs in a California Collegiate Athletic Assn. game against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
One of the last places you might expect to find a study group on women's issues is Harvard, the only all-boys school left in the San Fernando Valley.
Like the bow of a large ship, the six-story Culver Hotel greets travelers driving along Culver or Washington boulevards in Culver City.