Fred Croton, the general manager of the city Cultural Affairs Department under fire for his arts-granting procedures, won approval for a round of grant recommendations from a City Council committee Tuesday that voiced "major concerns" over those procedures.
The Ecumenical Patriarchate says it expects permission soon from the Turkish government to rebuild the delapidated, old center of the world's 250 million Eastern Orthodox Christians.
House and Senate negotiators, struggling for months over a compromise plan to extend the Superfund toxic-waste cleanup program, approved legislation to extend it for five years with a budget of $8.5 billion.
The Walnut Valley Unified School District and the Walnut Valley Educators Assn., representing teachers, have agreed on a contract that includes a 12% salary increase over two years.
Oil ministers of Saudi Arabia and its five partners in the Gulf Cooperation Council agreed Sunday to coordinate marketing policy and reaffirmed their commitment to OPEC-decreed production quotas.
The seven-member ABC Unified School District Board of Education has unanimously approved a 5% salary increase for fiscal year 1986-1987 for teachers, classified personnel and management employees.
HealthCare USA's shareholders Tuesday approved the $67-million sale of their company to Maxicare Health Plans Inc. of Los Angeles.
The City Council gave final approval to a law banning "safe and sane" fireworks, and then heard brief parting shots by two councilmen on opposing sides of the issue.
An unarmed MX ballistic missile successfully flew to a target in the Pacific on Friday, but two of its 10 dummy warheads did not work, Air Force officials said.
EECO Inc. said shareholders at a special meeting approved a re-incorporation in Delaware and also adopted a provision to prevent a buyer from purchasing the company at less than what directors consider its true value.
The "60% off" sale signs posted in San Diego-based Handyman home improvement stores probably will be replaced with "store closed" signs after a special shareholders meeting Thursday in St.
Salvador Dali, the 82-year-old Spanish surrealist painter, was recovering today after undergoing surgery to install a permanent pacemaker, his surgeon, Juan Carlos Garcia Sanmiguel, said.
The city's firefighters have settled for a one-year contract calling for a 5% increase in the city's contribution to their retirement plan rather than a 3.5% salary increase that had been proposed by the city.
Faced with a contradictory account, the White House today stuck by its assertion that President Reagan did not approve an indirect arms shipment to Iran late last year.
A proposed field test in Tulelake, Calif., involving a genetically engineered bacterium designed to protect potato plants from frost damage, is expected to be approved today by the U.S.
The University of California board of regents today unanimously adopted a budget that calls for a 9.1% increase in tuition for the nine-campus system.
Trimedyne Inc. of Santa Ana said its laser equipment for treating atherosclerosis of the legs has been recommended for U.S.
In preparation for a court challenge on Monday, the City Council gave final approval this week to an ordinance allowing airline flights at Long Beach Airport to increase from 18 to 32 if aircraft noise is lowered and then kept within levels set by state law.
The City Council tentatively approved rezoning this week to allow senior housing and commercial development on the Andrews and McCandless school sites.
The Marina del Rey Design Control Board is requiring developers to obtain board approval for all rooftop structures, including satellite dishes and television antennas.