No one knows how the expression OK came into being.
Actress Joan Collins has agreed to return her husband's Chagall prints and office and stereo equipment in exchange for her art nouveau chandelier, the maid's television set and a pink valance from the master bed, according to a stipulation signed this week in Los Angeles Superior Court.
About 6,000 members of the Service Employees International Union voted to strike today against Kaiser Permanente clinics and hospitals in Northern California.
The board of directors of StarTel Corp., an Irvine-based maker of computerized phone systems, has approved a 20% stock dividend to broaden ownership of the company.
House and Senate conferees completed work Tuesday night on a $291.8-billion defense authorization bill for fiscal 1987 after agreeing to language urging continued compliance with SALT II arms limits.
--Two-year-old Sean Keyton of Keedysville, Md., spent the night in the middle of a country road in near-freezing weather, clad only in pajamas.
County supervisors and the Los Angeles City Council have agreed to help pay for moving a bus maintenance yard from a residential neighborhood in Venice to industrial property on Jefferson Boulevard in West Los Angeles.
The City Council has approved an 82-home project on 24.1 acres at Armaga Spring and Highridge roads.
India and Pakistan signed an agreement today to remove more of the troops sent to their tense border last January, officials announced.
A Superior Court judge has said he plans to rule in favor of allowing construction of Santa Ana's planned Centerpointe office-hotel project to proceed, despite claims by citizens groups that it would violate state redevelopment laws.
Two leading imprisoned dissidents--a psychiatrist nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and the head of a charity fund set up by Alexander Solzhenitsyn--will be freed and allowed to emigrate, rights activist Yelena Bonner said today.
Shareholders of Tustin-based CMS Enhancements Inc. have approved reincorporation of the computer products company in Delaware and have approved a reduction of the company's common shares outstanding on a 7-1 basis.
Japanese auto makers have lined up against extending restraints on passenger car exports to the United States beyond the scheduled cutoff date of March 31, but there are signs that the government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone may be receptive to a request for an extension.
In an unusual twist to the issue of rent control, landlords and tenants have agreed to a series of voluntarily created regulations that will limit city mobile home park rents for the next two years.
Glendale residents who want to attend classes at Pasadena City College will be able to do so without any restrictions as of July 1, under the terms of an agreement approved this week by the Glendale Community College Board of Trustees.
A zoning ordinance that would effectively limit the population of Los Angeles to about 4 million, less than half that permitted under existing laws, has been approved by the city Planning Commission after hundreds of hours of preparation and two days of public hearings.
Officials from eight Southern California counties agreed on a plan to better manage hazardous wastes and dump sites in the area, said a spokesman for the Southern California Assn. of Governments.
Despite heated opposition from several Malibu community groups, a proposal to develop a 300-room hotel next to Pepperdine University was unanimously approved Tuesday by the county Board of Supervisors.
Bill Russell deserves to be starting somewhere.
Wiggins to the club's active roster this season, despite a decision by a drug-abuse review panel