The U.S. dollar declined Monday in quiet, pre-holiday trading on world currency markets.
A railroad trestle collapsed onto a highway Friday, derailing 26 coal cars and dropping four boxcars onto the roadway, authorities said.
Point Loma Nazarene weathered eighth- and ninth-inning rallies by Cal State Northridge to defeat the Matadors, 6-5, Friday.
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Platinum and gold prices Tuesday lost almost half of the gains that they made in Monday's rally.
As much as seven inches of snow buried parts of eastern New Mexico and western Texas on Thursday, while another storm that formed in the Northeast threatened to dump up to two feet of snow in higher elevations of the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania.
Jon Samuelson, the Chapman College shooting guard who had lost his touch and confidence the past two years, found both Tuesday night in a nonconference game against Loyola Marymount.
Viacom International shares tumbled $4 Monday on the New York Stock Exchange amid late-day rumors that the entertainment company would buy out the stake owned by investor Carl C.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, favored by public opinion polls to win next month's elections, received a new boost today as Britain's jobless figure fell for the 10th consecutive month, to 10.9%.
A window-washing platform blown sideways by strong winds fell from near the top of a 36-story downtown skyscraper Tuesday, killing three people and injuring a fourth, officials said.
The price of DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group shares plummeted to $6.50 Thursday, down $2.25 on the American Stock Exchange, due largely to the disappointing performance of its latest movie, "Million Dollar Mystery," and Paine Webber's change in recommendation to "hold" from "buy."
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Southern Utah State scored five straight points in the final 1:22 Saturday night to pull away from Chapman en route to a 66-61 win in the championship game of the McDonalds Tipoff Tournament at Cedar City, Utah.
The dollar rose sharply against major foreign currencies Monday, spurred by a new slide in oil prices and a belief that Japan might act to support the currency, analysts said.
About three hundred people were believed trapped today when a six-story hotel collapsed, toppling houses nearby, police said.
The U.S. dollar fell on Asian currency markets today in early trading after the United States and four other leading industrial nations announced plans to lower the dollar's value, dealers said.
Oil futures prices plunged well below $13 a barrel Monday, sending a low-inflation signal into the Treasury bond and precious metals futures markets.
A Georgia college student climbing from one hotel balcony to another during a spring break party fell six stories to her death, authorities said today.