The Los Angeles City Council unanimously asked the city's redevelopment agency on Wednesday to postpone its plans to spend nearly $1 million on a partly built downtown transit tunnel that goes nowhere and may never carry any passengers.
Psychologist Eugene Clarence Hartman, 56, convicted of second-degree murder in the 1976 death of his boss, John Langlos, has been freed by the 2nd District Court of Appeal.
A British attempt to rescue about 600 foreigners from an oil refinery near the embattled South Yemeni capital of Aden was postponed Monday amid conflicting reports of renewed fighting between rival Marxist factions in South Yemen's week-old civil war.
In a new case illustrating the old saying "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," the Los Angeles City Council Friday requested a temporary halt to the filling in of a pond in Sunland.
A city schools committee is recommending that the Board of Education delay plans for the long-term
In a move that would avoid adding a new stumbling block to progress on arms control, the Reagan Administration has decided to postpone deployment of new weapons that would break the SALT II treaty's numerical limits on strategic nuclear weapons until at least next year, according to Administration officials, even...
State funds approved more than eight months ago to restore Padre Dam were delivered to the City of San Diego Wednesday, but the project will drag on for at least another year because an endangered bird nests in the area, city officials said.
Orange County's most adventuresome and eclectic concert club, Safari Sam's in Huntington Beach, has halted live music after police warned the club's operators on Sunday that they would be cited or arrested if they continued to stage live entertainment.
Construction crews working near Union Station have run into a heavy underground concentration of hazardous wastes, throwing the $25-million San Bernardino Freeway busway being extended into downtown Los Angeles at least three months off schedule, The Times has learned.
The Board of Education voted 3 to 1 Tuesday to postpone its plan to charge fees that would average $90 annually for each student who rides the bus to school.
County officials are preparing to open Olive View Medical Center in Sylmar and begin admitting patients at 7 a.m.
Vocal opponents of a light-rail line through North Hollywood residential sections swamped a hearing on Friday, forcing postponement of a vote on which routes to continue studying.
A plan to offer four of Los Angeles' biggest lawn waterers reclaimed water from a San Fernando Valley sewage-treatment plant may be delayed by a lawsuit filed by one of the potential customers, water officials said Tuesday.
The trial in the unpredictable McMartin Pre-School molestation case, which had been scheduled to begin today, has been postponed again to give defense attorneys more time to question prosecutors and investigators about alleged mishandling of evidence by the district attorney's office.
. of Anaheim will seek a delay of a court hearing scheduled for today in Superior Court.
Steffi Graf of West Germany waited out a three-hour rain delay, then won six games in 19 minutes
A presidential panel's report on outdoor recreation is out in paperback, although the official version is still under wraps at the Interior Department.
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The chief of "Star Wars" development said Thursday that his program can stay within a narrow interpretation of the 1972 anti-ballistic missile treaty for the rest of the Reagan Administration but that delays in broadening it later will cost money.
Democratic National Chairman Paul G.