It was the sight of hundreds of street urchins pimping for their "sisters" in wartime Naples 40 years ago that impelled the "Monsignor of the Shoeshine Boys" to found the Boys' Towns of Italy.
The brown and white sign stands in the middle of the George Washington Bridge, where motorists traveling between Manhattan and New Jersey can't miss its urgent message.
When Sandy Sigoloff attended the recent opening of the Treasury of San Marco exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, he was suffering from jet lag after a business trip.
A police Explorer Scout and a Costa Mesa man were being credited Friday with saving a man who fell into the ocean off the Newport Pier.
Only luck saved TWA's Flight 840 after a 10-foot hole was blasted in the jetliner's side by an
Moroccan Jew who years ago gave up his dream of becoming a pilot to study for the rabbinate.
attacker who stabbed her 10 times disarmed another stabbing suspect early Tuesday, authorities in Temple City said.
The defeat at the polls of the Irvine Co.'
Quick action by firefighters Friday saved $13 million worth of library books in Santa Monica from a blaze in a neighboring warehouse, authorities said.
A proposal to demolish a commercial horse stable and replace it with condominiums has been unanimously denied by the Glendale Board of Zoning Appeals.
up and renting run-down dwellings on two Van Nuys streets, intent on turning a neighborhood in decline into a shining haven for good family life.
It was viewed as a prized victory for local preservationists and historians, but to 77-year-old Marie Buck it was simply putting things "back where they belong."
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cave near this tiny northern Spanish village, a town official said Sunday.
"I thought I was gone.
Santa Monica police officers are complaining that Chief James F.
As a handful of onlookers held their breath and watched from the music room floor of Villa Montezuma, a construction crew rescued a bit of history Tuesday--a rare piece of silver-embossed 19th-Century linoleum.
Road crews worked to clear highways and searchers rescued missing deer hunters Sunday after the northern Plains' first major snowstorm of the season stranded hundreds of travelers and killed at least five people.
The defense attorney for Veronica Kay Koppers conceded Tuesday that Koppers could have saved the life of kidnap-murder victim Corinna D.