The Los Angeles City Planning Commission has unanimously approved annexation plans for 800 acres of Playa Vista, a Summa Corp. development that is expected to bring 18,000 new residents, 3 million square feet of office space and 2,400 hotel rooms to a 3 1/2-mile belt of vacant land near Marina del Rey.
Frankie Laine, the popular singer of the 1940s and 1950s, was in stable condition Friday after undergoing quadruple arterial heart-lung bypass surgery at Mercy Hospital here, a hospital spokeswoman said.
The national boards of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have voted unanimously to mail their members a strike referendum on a new contract covering radio and TV commercials.
Chase Manhattan Corp., the New York-based parent of the nation's third largest commercial bank, has received Federal Reserve Board approval of its plan to form a limited service bank in California.
Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, in a rejection of a concerted Soviet effort to drive a wedge between Washington and its allies, indicated Tuesday that he supports President Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense plan.
Everyone has endured their share of dreadfully dull parties or social events and combatting the chronic tedium at such affairs is the impetus behind a recently introduced food product.
Ground workers at Pan American World Airways voted to end their four-week strike against the airline, which had threatened to fire thousands of employees.
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.
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.
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.