The 155 Sri Lankan refugees rescued off the coast of Newfoundland began their voyage in West Germany aboard a German-owned ship, police said today.
Former San Diego City Councilwoman Maureen O'Connor won this month's mayoral election by rolling up majorities in traditionally Republican communities and carrying Mid-City and beach neighborhoods that she lost to former Mayor Roger Hedgecock in 1983.
A rapid increase in the number of tick-borne illnesses, particularly in the Northeast but in other parts of the country as well, has public health specialists concerned.
Last week's market surge carried some San Diego company stocks to all-time highs, and two stocks
A Tunisian arrested after a quarrel with his girlfriend has admitted carrying out terrorist attacks, including store bombings in Paris and London that killed one person and injured 16, police sources said today.
The Times of London reported Friday that the United States had sent Iran 20 planeloads of weapons and spare parts in its secret arms deal with Tehran.
Tuhk Potter is singing and dancing his way through childhood, enjoying the life that he almost lost and all the hoopla that surrounds his recovery from leukemia.
Like an aging "Love Boat," the 50-year-old Achille Lauro, now in the hands of Palestinian pirates, has fulfilled many dreams as it sailed the luxury cruise routes of the world.
A Woodland Hills woman who teaches severely handicapped high school students was identified Monday as the biggest winner in the California Lottery's first electronic Lotto game.
The separatist Corsican National Liberation Front claimed responsibility Saturday after 13 bombs exploded in three cities in southern France late Friday.
The government Thursday asked the nation's airlines to exercise greater control over passenger carry-on baggage.
Orange County's publicly traded companies generally benefited from 1985's bull market, with record gains in the Dow Jones industrial average creating an investment climate that helped boost the total market value of many local firms.
For the 30th consecutive time, a beaten, bloodied Mike Tyson opponent was led away, to quiet privacy, with friends.
Richard Secord, ending four days of testimony before congressional investigators, said he carried
The Danish Sailors Union said Thursday that the United States may have shipped arms to Iran using Danish ships for transportation and Israel as a middle-man in a secret deal to free American hostages in Lebanon.
A bone-chilling, blustery wind was the dominant performer during first-day competition in the State track and field meet at Hughes Stadium Friday.
A huge heroin haul seized by police in Rotterdam two months ago originated in Afghanistan and was brought to the Netherlands on board a Soviet ship, police said Monday.
No one has ever carried the football like Miami's Robert Sowell. Not Walter Payton.
Dick Hill, Santa Ana High School football coach, was carried on the shoulders of players into the
In the mountains of Mindanao and elsewhere in the rural Philippines, guerrillas of the New People's Army clash daily with government troops.