Housing construction fell a steep 11% in February, the biggest decline in almost a year, the government said Tuesday.
Lebanon's year-old national unity government collapsed today in the face of what Prime Minister Rashid Karami called "a horrific nightmare"--a savage house-to-house battle between rival militias for control of Muslim West Beirut.
The dollar shattered records Monday in a broad and powerful advance that analysts said was fueled by a belief that interest rates have bottomed out in the United States.
The strength of the Point Loma girls basketball team is the inside play of its towering front line.
Commodore International, battered by the long slump in home computer sales and still awaiting revenue from its newest machine, said Tuesday that it has fallen out of compliance with certain terms of its bank loans but that the banks have agreed to look the other way for now.
Oil demand in the United States, the largest oil-consuming nation, declined 2.8% in June and shrank 2.2% for the first six months of the year, the American Petroleum Institute reported today.
The dollar fell against most major currencies in erratic trading Wednesday. Gold prices rose.
Gold and silver prices fell sharply in the United States on Monday after a mixed showing overseas.
Maria Vasquez reached into her cash register and pulled out a crumpled $1 bill.
Cal State Long Beach outscored Fresno State, 23-4, late in the second half, but it wasn't enough as the Bulldogs held on for a 60-56 Pacific Coast Athletic Assn. win at Selland Arena.
Julie Gleason missed a last-gasp shot at the buzzer from midcourt Tuesday night as The Master's College women's basketball team fell to visiting Biola, 62-60.
An iron worker bolting a platform onto the 285-foot shuttle launch building fell 18 floors to his death in the fourth fatality involving a shuttle worker in less than five years, officials said today.
The dollar rose against major foreign currencies in quiet trading Friday. The price of gold fell.
The dollar fell against most major currencies Tuesday after a short-lived rally against the Japanese yen.
A Soviet satellite broke up as it plunged into the Earth's atmosphere today over Australia, and at least two chunks of debris continued in orbit before falling into the Atlantic Ocean, U.S. defense officials said.
Westmont College defeated Cal Lutheran University, 78-65, Tuesday night in an NAIA District III basketball game.
An unidentified woman fell off the pier at Archs Marina in Newport Beach on Thursday afternoon and drowned, police reported.
A 4-year-old boy was crushed to death by a tombstone that fell on him while he was visiting his grandmother's grave on Mother's Day, police said.
An acrobat fell to his death from a 390-foot high wire today at Madrid's central Plaza Espana, police said.
The Soviet government said Saturday that radiation emissions from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site have fallen sharply and that the core of the damaged reactor is cooling down substantially.