The stock market fell to a five-week low Friday, mustering no response to favorable economic news.
El Toro High School, averaging 28.2 points and allowing only 9 points per game, earned all eight first-place votes to remain the top-ranked team in the Orange County Sportswriters' Assn. prep football poll.
The nation's basic money supply dipped $1 billion in mid-November, the Federal Reserve Board reported Friday.
The girls volleyball teams at El Camino Real High and Palisades easily won their leagues this season.
Riding the crest of near-breathless job growth, the unemployment rate in Orange County fell to a 16-year low of 3.5% in December, the state's Employment Development Department reported Thursday.
A decline in the selling price of bananas and the strength of the U.S. dollar caused net income of United Brands Co. to plummet 75% for the nine months ended last Dec. 31.
A helicopter ferrying oil workers to an offshore derrick barge overturned in high winds over the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, killing two persons and injuring three others, authorities said.
Kaypro Corp., Solana Beach, reported net income for the second quarter ended Feb. 28 of $84,477 on sales of $18.6 million, while net income for the six months was $157,349 on sales of $43.9 million.
Shell Oil, the nation's seventh-largest oil company, reported that its third-quarter earnings fell by 63.6%, while 12th-largest Standard Oil said its profits dropped 85%.
Officials at radio station KS-103 thought a parody titled the "Mexican National Anthem" made a cute commentary about the problems of illegal immigration and drug trafficking at San Ysidro.
Pepsico, the nation's second-largest soft-drink company, said its second-quarter net income fell 53% from a year ago, when it had a one-time gain of $137 million from the sale of its North American Van Lines and Wilson Sporting Goods units.
Computer & Communications Technology, which last week rescinded its $39-million sale of Zeta Laboratories to Whittaker Corp. because of apparent government contract "irregularities," on Wednesday called off negotiations to purchase Action Computer Technology.
UC Irvine senior Bruce Man Son Hing upset UCLA's Brad Pearce, 6-4, 7-6, but the second-ranked Bruins scored a 7-2 win over the Anteaters in a nonconference tennis match Wednesday at UCLA.
Standard Logic Inc., a Corona computer systems manufacturer, said Thursday that its net income for the second fiscal quarter, ended May 2, fell to $48,067, a 57.7% drop from the $113,590 net income posted in last year's second quarter.
Two college students died in falls over the weekend, bringing to five the number of students who
Jena Verhey singled in Jill McCauley for the winning run in the top of the sixth inning Friday, as Moorpark College defeated top-ranked Fullerton, 3-2, in women's softball.
Westchester High School built a big lead in the first quarter and coasted to a 59-46 victory over Capistrano Valley Tuesday in the opening round of the 15th Tournament of Champions in Cal Poly Pomona's Kellogg Gymnasium.
The second half of Friday night's Orange League game between Brea-Olinda and Valencia high schools was set to begin except for one minor problem: The Tigers were nowhere in sight.
George McQuarn's doctor warned him that coming to this isolated mountain town Thursday night would only make him more miserable.
Poor Gertie by Larry Bograd, illustrations by Dirk Zimmer (Delacorte Press: $12.95) Poor Gertie!