Unocal profit fell 14% to $60.7 million in the first quarter, the company told shareholders at Monday's annual meeting.
Stock and bond markets fell in volatile trading Tuesday after it was announced that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul A.
General Motors reported a steep drop in earnings for the first quarter as its net income fell to $922.5 million, down 23.1% from the same period last year, when the world's largest industrial corporation earned nearly $1.2 billion.
Assemblyman Pete Chacon (D-San Diego) failed Monday in his attempt to allow Californians to vote on Election Day without registering in advance and without showing identification at the polls, a proposal he said was prompted by San Diego County's worst-in-the-state voter turnout in last November's elections.
Italy's topsy-turvy political crisis ended Tuesday with the collapse of a temporary government, the dissolution of Parliament and the scheduling of early parliamentary elections for mid-June.
U.S. industrial production fell 0.2% in April, the first decline in six months, as the industrial sector of the economy continued to suffer from America's weak trading performance, the government reported today.
A pilot and passenger swam to safety uninjured after their small helicopter crashed into the ocean off Manhattan Beach Sunday.
Crews worked Saturday to clear a highway of debris left by the derailment of a coal train after a truck hit the trestle below and knocked the rails out of line, officials said.
The U.S. dollar fell against most currencies in quiet and uneventful trading Thursday.
Alf M.
A City Council standoff ended any possibility of Garden Grove voters voicing their opinion next November on the city's commercial redevelopment efforts.
Roger Maltbie took advantage of the double-bogey disaster that stopped Denis Watson's challenge and went on to a four-stroke victory Sunday in the NEC World Series of Golf at Akron, Ohio.
A tractor-trailer plunged into Lake Ocoee, spilling thousands of boxes of grits, cereal, pancake mix and syrup into the water, authorities said.
Tom Seaver was in limbo for 48 hours, but the Chicago White Sox took him back Wednesday after failing to work out a deal with the New York Yankees for the three-time Cy Young Award winner.
Royal Dutch-Shell reported that its profit tumbled 55.1% in the third quarter and said it may be difficult to avoid downward pressures on oil prices in early 1986.
As Schurr Coach Ken Davis watched his team warm up before Friday night's Foothill League game with Burbank, he spoke like a man whose team was 0-7 rather than 7-0 and top-ranked in the Coastal Conference.
Kevin Warren scored 23 points and Ron Monteverde added 16 Saturday night to lead Grand Canyon College to an 88-73 victory over The Master's College basketball team in the season opener for both teams.
A 14-year-old boy was killed Tuesday when he slipped into an open sewer manhole and was swept through two miles of pipelines to a sewage treatment plant, authorities said.
Stock prices tumbled in moderate trading Monday, pushed down by a year-end surge of profit taking and news that suggests the economy will remain sluggish through early 1986.
Cal State Sacramento held off a late surge by Cal State Northridge Saturday night and beat the Matadors, 74-70.