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When Laker guard Michael Cooper was chosen to compete in the NBA's slam-dunk contest three years ago, Wanda Cooper suggested that it might be a good idea for her husband to practice his best high-flying routines.
Weary jurors deliberating in the Sagon Penn murder trial were given Tuesday afternoon off, the first of two breaks this week approved by a Superior Court judge.
Terry Donahue, who can become a millionaire coach in the National Football League or remain a college coach at UCLA, will announce this morning what he's going to do.
The Army will recommend destroying obsolete chemical weapons at the eight places where they are stored rather than risk moving them to a central incinerator, a congressman who opposes the plan said Saturday.
The proposal by its creditor banks called for Poland to reschedule 95% of about $800 million in loans, but the Poles were expected to ask for an interest rate reduction before final approval of the agreement.
A grass-roots political action committee has been formed to lend support and raise funds for environmentalist candidates in the November City Council election.
The San Diego City Council is scheduled to replace four incumbent members of the Public Arts Advisory Board today in a move some observers call "political revenge."
President Reagan will enter Bethesda Naval Hospital on Friday for his third physical checkup since he underwent surgery for colon cancer nearly a year ago, the White House announced Wednesday.
The Senate is expected to ratify a treaty today that would make it easier for Britain to extradite members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army and would end a stalemate that has lasted for more than a year.
No matter what San Diego State's Mike Hooper accomplished as a child, he often found it wasn't good enough.
Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.)
Former Kirov dance Mikhail Baryshnikov, who defected from the the Soviet Union in 1974, may dance there again, a Bolshoi Ballet official and his manager said in New York Monday.
Former Westminster Mayor Kathy Buchoz, pressured by Republican leaders last October into withdrawing from the 72nd Assembly race, found a new elective office to run for Monday--the 71st Assembly District seat.
Two Los Angeles city councilmen, piqued that the foundation distributing surplus 1984 Olympic funds is not making the kind of grants they want--particularly for projects in their districts--are holding up $3.3 million in city reimbursements to the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee.
Unless there is something crouching beyond the horizon that the National Weather Service hasn't noticed, the Southern California weekend weather will offer little change from the pattern of the last several days, except to cool down a couple of degrees.
The tax men cometh.
Secretary of State George P.
Greg Pruitt, who broke the National Football League record for punt-return yardage in a season at age 32 but had his problems at 33, retired Friday at 34.
Architectural contracts totaling about $2 million for the new civic center will go before the City Council tonight.