Bolstered by a James Irvine Foundation grant offer, the Orange County Performing Arts Center has launched a drive to raise the last $5 million needed to pay the $70.7-million cost of the main theater, center officials said Friday.
Lonnie Echols says he is only trying to get the Town Council in this rural community to do two simple things: fire a "bad cop" and stop charging a $25 user fee for private meetings at the local community center.
The new amnesty for illegal aliens has created a "burgeoning cottage industry" for new forms of counterfeit identification, ranging from false vehicle registrations to back-dated smog certificates, federal officials said Friday.
It was a victory for motherhood, contemporary style.
City leaders, seeking to deal with a firestorm of protest following the shooting death of a star football player at an inner city school two weeks ago, on Monday closed Detroit's 23 high schools for two days to hold student-parent forums on the ominous wave of teen violence.
The recent murder of a 26-year-old man, shot between the eyes during a street robbery which netted the killers only his leather jacket, has raised concern about what some local activists say is increased violence against homosexuals in the Sunset Junction area of Silver Lake.
The dollar staged a late advance in listless trading Thursday, adding to its gains in after-hours dealing following a Federal Reserve Board report of an unexpectedly sharp rise in the basic U.S. money supply.
Falling mortgage rates, from the 13% magic number to the better comfort zone of 12.25% to 12.75%, should provide an incentive to home buyers as the real estate industry approaches its busiest sales season.
Lower interest rates, lower operating costs and a "substantial increase" in lending activity is spurring Far West Financial Corp. toward a second straight year of record earnings, Alexander L.
High school students who combine good grades with consistently good extracurricular work--from the track team to the debate team--enjoy better odds of success in college than those who excel at their studies alone, a new survey of 3,700 private college students reports.
A drawing of President Reagan in Orange Coast College's new, fall catalogue of classes has triggered a minor political and academic controversy.
George Gervin, the "Iceman" who has sparked the San Antonio Spurs' scoring attack since 1974, was
California Department of Transportation officials learned an environmental lesson the hard way this week as they began a bridge-widening project along the northbound lanes of busy Interstate 5 across the San Dieguito River.
Magic Johnson sounded perfectly serious.
The subpoenas fluttering around Wall Street in the wake of the Ivan Boesky scandal are almost as thick as the blizzard of ticker tape for the New York Mets' World Series parade--and almost as many people are cheering on the sidelines.
A half-mile stretch of La Palma Avenue in Anaheim was blocked off for three hours Friday morning and 20 people were evacuated from nearby businesses after a flammable liquid began leaking from one of 16 allegedly stolen barrels on a truck.
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In the aftermath of a Los Angeles decision to allow the continued operation of a hazardous-waste plant here, residents and Los Angeles officials say they are seeking to change the laws that regulate such facilities.
The supply of blood used for transfusions is safe and then some, according to a number of researchers who call it less risky than other threats to modern health, including that commonly invoked gauge of accepted risk trade-off, driving on the freeway.
play the San Antonio Spurs tonight in their final game before the break for the NBA All-Star game.