Litton Industries Inc., Beverly Hills, said Thursday that its earnings dropped 27% in the second quarter and 25% for the six months, primarily because of lower profits from its oil services unit and lower interest income.
Two construction workers were injured Friday when part of the roof of a single-story commercial building in Los Alamitos gave way, sending them crashing to the concrete floor about 15 feet below.
An 11-month-old boy fell headfirst into a bucket of water that his mother had used to mop the floor and drowned Monday, police said.
The momentum that carried the Thousand Oaks High softball team farther than it had ever gone in the school's 25-year history ran out Saturday night at Mayfair Park in Lakewood.
A Redondo Beach man was killed when he fell out of a hang glider and plummeted 200 feet into a tree north of Sylmar, authorities said.
It was early in the season and the future was bright for Pomona High basketball star Derwin Collins.
Certron Corp., an Anaheim maker of audio recording tapes and floppy disks, said that profit for its fiscal 1987 first quarter ended Jan. 31 increased by 2.5% to $125,000 from $122,000 for the same period last year.
Ryan Shaw scored 27 points and Jeff Hughes added 22 to lead Cal State Bakersfield to a 99-91 California Collegiate Athletic Assn. victory over Chapman Saturday.
Larry Casian turned in the third impressive pitching performance in as many days for Cal State Fullerton Sunday, as he pitched a four-hitter with 14 strikeouts to lead the Titans to a 7-2 victory over Cal State Long Beach at Fullerton.
"The economy is pathetic," Postmaster Sammie Burchfield said.
When Rick Evans runs out of money, he hides his tent and backpack in the Hollywood Hills and goes to the Crescent Heights United Methodist Church for a bag supper.
The Valley Dodgers planned to spend their entire holiday weekend playing in the National Baseball Congress state tournament.
The number of rich Americans able to avoid all federal income tax has dropped significantly, but 13 of every 1,000 still pay a smaller percentage than an average middle-income family, a new government study shows.
Brassieres, which haven't made much news since some were symbolically burned two decades ago, are historical footnotes again.
Republicans bent on establishing the GOP as a permanent force in the Old South scored important Sun Belt victories Tuesday, but they apparently fell just short of restoring parity in state governorships across the country, where Democrats have held the majority since 1970.
Mitch Voges, a 36-year-old carpet sales manager from Simi Valley who scored a stunning upset of defending U.S.
The dollar fell against major foreign currencies except the Japanese yen and British pound in thin trading Thursday, as traders awaited further interest rate reductions in the wake of the Federal Reserve Board's discount rate cut on Wednesday.
When Pauline Caporaso was a teen-ager, she walked through her father's pool hall every day to catch a glimpse of the men playing billiards.
Alameda left the Van Nuys-Sherman Oaks Babe Ruth All-Star team stuck in Lodi Friday night.
A sharp decline in one of Wall Street's leadership issues, IBM, led the stock market to a broad loss late Wednesday with prices closing at their lows of the session.