The overall unemployment rate remained unchanged in October at 7%, the Labor Department reported Friday, but job growth was up strongly and the hard-hit manufacturing sector registered a gain in employment for just the second time this year.
They began working in the 1920s, and after 60-odd years on the job, they've more than earned the right to sit back and relax.
for Kim Dae Jung, filed a protest Friday over police strong-arm tactics in dealing with the opposition leader and his largely American entourage.
When the Academy of Performing and Visual Arts announced the beginning of classes last year, Executive Director Jack Plimpton expected "maybe 200 or 300 applications."
Just about the most difficult feat in professional sports these days is to repeat as champion.
A storm from the Gulf of Alaska is expected to move in over Idaho and Utah during the weekend, bringing Southern California cool, cloudy days--and a slight possibility of showers Saturday afternoon and evening, the National Weather Service said Thursday.
Geologists predict that Los Angeles will be wracked by a major earthquake along the San Andreas fault within the next several decades, but this ominous forecast seems to evoke little reaction among Southern Californians.
For quarterback Neil Lomax, after nursing a bruised elbow through a long week of practice, facing the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday represented almost a vacation.
must remain militarily strong "so that never again would we be forced . . . to resort to violence" to safeguard liberty.
You pored over them as you did long ago when they were treasures in a shoe box, the greats of the game and so many who were far from even being good, men with short hair posed batting against red, orange or blue backgrounds.
East Germans posted three 1-2 finishes in the European swimming and diving championships Friday, but West Germany surprisingly won the men's 400-meter freestyle relay event in a 1985 world-best time.
Despite a small decline from the second quarter, consumer confidence continued at a high level in the third quarter amid indications that spending will continue for cars, houses and households because of lower interest rates and favorable prices, according to a University of Michigan survey released Monday.
It was 20 minutes before recess and Jim Dugdale stood in front of his mathematics class at Fern Elementary School, sensing that his students were growing restless.
On the day after Boston's 148-114 victory over the Lakers in Game 1 of the championship series, the Celtics' shooting stars, Danny Ainge and Scott Wedman, were besieged by the media.
Bob Cooper keeps looking over his shoulder, expecting to see a familiar face. But no one is there.
The government's gauge of future business activity rose a healthy 0.5% during March, pointing to an economic resurgence in the second half of the year, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.
It's a scene that occurs somewhere each summer when the weather heats up and motorcyclists take to the roads: A bug-flecked biker knocks a leathery knuckle on a family's front door and asks to use the telephone because his Harley has just gone down on the highway.
Quarterback John Alaimo and running back Al Roberson, teammates on the Hoover High football team that went 8-2 but was denied a Southern Section playoff berth for using a player who was academically ineligible, have signed letters of intent to attend Nevada Reno.
In the wake of the U.S. air raid against Libya, the American people favor giving President Reagan broad latitude to order forceful measures against terrorists, Richard B.
Curtis Strong, who was convicted of selling cocaine to major league baseball players, has been