For 26 years, Yolanda Saavedra has lived with an oil well virtually on her doorstep.
Lady Bird Johnson's pet program to beautify the nation's highways is losing its luster, a victim of money cutbacks, bureaucratic indifference and a 7-year-old amendment that raised the cost of removing billboards, the government reported today.
The stock market declined broadly Thursday, yielding to the pressure of rising interest rates.
Iowa state officials and bankers, despairing over the prospects for immediate federal farm aid, are polishing a rescue plan of their own that they contend could save 5,000 family farms in the next two months and forestall the demise of 50,000 more.
Televising reruns of My Favorite Martian is more profitable than televising San Diego State athletic events.
Call it a tempest in a teapot or a classic case of sour grapes.
Five years ago, John Thaler moved to Thousand Oaks after spending 18 years in Cleveland.
investment, paying about 9.5% interest and available at no commission charge.
The stock market recorded a broad gain Thursday, renewing its recent rally with a push from falling interest rates.
Dwindling interest marked balloting at UC Irvine on Monday and Tuesday as students tried for a
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A chorus of top finance figures from around the world criticized the United States on Wednesday as aggravating poor countries' economic conditions.
takeover bid, confirmed Thursday that it may sell its interest in Tri-Star Pictures, a Hollywood movie producer and distributor.
Throughout a daylong conference Saturday in Anaheim, more than 200 Latino parents heard the message over and over again: Know what your children are doing in the classroom, and show that you care.
The minutes of the Dec. 16-17 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee confirmed what many analysts had suspected at the time--the nation's central bank slightly eased its controls over growth of the money supply.
Three Orange County medical firms saw their stocks attract particular attention Wednesday, with ICN Pharmaceuticals reaching a new 52-week high of $15.125 before closing at $15 per share in trading on the New York Stock Exchange, up 75 cents for the day.
The Treasury Department sold $7.08 billion in new three-month bills at an average discount rate of 6.07%, down from 6.08% last week.
The head of Fiat admitted that he has been unable to convince Libya to sell its 13% of common voting shares and 15% of non-voting shares in the Italian industrial giant or remove directors that represent a Libyan firm suspected of terrorist links.
The Treasury Department sold $7.4 billion in new three-month bills at an average discount rate of 6.11%, down from 6.31% last week.
The stock market rose sharply Friday, bringing an upbeat finish to a week that began with a record-setting decline.