Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center has been granted limited status as a county trauma center in a compromise worked out with UCLA officials, who for months have opposed the hospital's trauma center application.
Back in 1962, the Manchester Enterprise tried to rewrite Myrtle Shoupe's weekly dispatch from Kentucky's hill country, changing the occasional "hain't" to "have not," throwing in the missing verbs and fixing the misspelled words.
This is a city without sidewalks, without apartments and without much public transportation, a city of ranches and horse trails, a city that respects Western ideals like hard work and self-reliance.
Ride beneath the big sky, pass parched scrub bushes and a certain dirt road curves close to a small hill.
There'll always be an England as long as there are character comedies like Bruce Robinson's "Withnail and I" (opening Wednesday at the Beverly Center Cineplex and the new Universal City Cinemas).
In the race for three seats on the City Council, voters may have a tough time picking candidates out of the pack.
on non-urban superhighways, two motor vehicle crash studies have found that isolated rural roadways have the most dismal injury and fatality rates.
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People who live in the country may have lots of fresh air and privacy, but not many camera shops.
A computerized system for monitoring growth in Malibu, the Santa Monica Mountains and other rural
Out in Warner Springs, where Indians-turned-cowboys work the cattle, where the neighbor just down the street is actually miles away and glider planes soar overhead, there's just not much use for bureaucracy.
San Diego County Supervisor George Bailey on Monday made a series of recommendations to increase coordination and efficiency of the more than 50 county fire services and emergency agencies.
It has been compared to a relaxing soak in a hot tub and called an escape hatch from the day's accumulation of stress.
Downtown Los Angeles, that bastion of marble palaces and traffic and crowds, apartment houses and industrial squalor, rises in the smog a good 25 miles from Ralph Burns' country home, which is close enough by Burns' thinking.
Folks from Japan to Virginia are filling the mailboxes at City Hall, the Chamber of Commerce and the local newspaper as they respond to this farm town's ads for "a few good residents."
In a contest where most voters still are undecided and the candidates are courting support from the urban population centers, state Sen.
Across the road from a rural cemetery, near pastures where deer roam, stands a $50-million, space
These are good days for the California Polytechnic University here.
John Pierce's uncommon dream of converting a tiny Mexican hamlet into a productive small town still thrives despite struggles with disease, illiteracy and the cultural barriers of being the only American in one of the remotest areas of Mexico.
Pablo Mateo, a rice farmer here on the central Luzon plain, on Thursday sized up the two-day-old presidency of Corazon Aquino in one word: hope.