Capital Cities-ABC said its third-quarter profit plunged 45% because of an extraordinary charge of $14.25 million.
Betty Lou Batey, the fundamentalist Christian accused of taking her son from his homosexual father, testified Thursday that she believed her son would have been exposed to drugs, alcohol and molestation by strangers unless she took him away.
Jeffrey Archer is an extremely unusual Englishman.
Kuwaiti tankers reflagged under American colors will also get new names, officials said Tuesday, with maritime monikers including Surf City, Ocean City and Sea Isle City--all borrowed from resort towns in New Jersey.
Ten finalists for the Los Angeles Athletic Club's John Wooden Award were announced on national television during halftime of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament final Sunday.
Until recently, Joseph Zengerle's only knowledge of AIDS had come from newspapers and television.
The costs of Carter Hawley Hale Stores' pending restructuring will result in a fourth-quarter loss of about $24 million, compared to a profit of $19 million in the same quarter a year earlier, the company disclosed Tuesday.
New measurements of ozone concentrations over the Antarctic appear to confirm that release of chlorofluorocarbons into the atmosphere, rather than natural phenomena, is the cause of the sharp decrease of stratospheric ozone during the Southern Hemisphere's spring.
Lawrence Welk, a cult hero?
A public hearing and a decision to approve General Plan amendments allowing the Irvine Co. to put up 96 apartment units in Corona del Mar under the city's affordable housing program will come before the Newport Beach City Council Monday night.
The Health and Human Services Department said Friday that 110 physicians and health care providers have been kicked out of the Medicare and Medicaid systems in the last six months for fraud, abuse or incompetence.
Orange Unified School District, which as recently as October was $2 million in debt, announced Friday it is ending the fiscal year June 30 with about $500,000 in unspent reserves.
A hefty City Council appropriation of $40,000 and the support of Councilman Art Snyder will bring a major exhibition of works by Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros to Plaza de la Raza in September.
Money might be tight for some Democrats, but New York Gov.
The first of two units of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant was on the verge of full commercial operation at last.
The first residents of the Donald S.
After complaining of weeds and trash on their front street for 25 years, Woodland Hills homeowners may soon benefit from a two-mile-long landscape project.
David Everett, an eighth-grader at Washington Middle School in La Habra, probably never thought he would win an award for helping a cafeteria worker clean a lunch area.
Syria emerged late Friday as the primary focus of negotiations to end the 15-day American hostage crisis, as officials in both Washington and Damascus said they expected the hostages to be transferred to the Syrian capital today.
A new Brea-Olinda High School, complete with a swimming pool, football stadium, baseball field, tennis courts, auditorium and two gymnasiums, is expected to be completed by the fall of 1987.