Entertainment & Arts
Every time I see “The Music Man,” I can’t help thinking that it’s an inspired piece of Americana--tuneful, ingenious, corny, an addition to pop culture that should be remembered as long as “West Side Story,” “My Fair Lady” and “Oklahoma!”
July 10, 1996
USC Sports
Ernie Hix, who earned the nickname “the father of USC men’s volleyball” after winning two national championships with the school, died on Saturday.
June 7, 2016
Business
Robert L.
March 11, 1988
California
The stereotypical image of the school truant officer is like something out of an old movie--a big ferocious “hooky cop” grabbing an absent-without-leave waif by the scruff of the neck and dragging the student into the principal’s office.
Dec. 30, 1991
Archives
Elsie Hix Chamberlin, 93, who wrote the family’s syndicated column “Strange As It Seems” for 15 years.
Dec. 12, 1995
World & Nation
An honor student who wore a knife to his prom as part of a Scottish outfit avoided possible suspension by agreeing not to return to his high school for a semester, school officials announced Tuesday.
July 25, 2001
A Van Nuys woman who fatally shot her disabled roommate and then set the victim’s body on fire was sentenced Friday to 17 years to life in prison.
March 30, 1991
A Van Nuys woman pleaded guilty Thursday to shooting to death a disabled roommate she had cared for and then setting the victim’s body afire.
March 8, 1991
A gang member accused of fatally shooting a gas station clerk in Seal Beach was engaged in a “cold robbery” that netted just $160 and sundries including sunflower seeds and condoms, a prosecutor told jurors on Wednesday.
Oct. 5, 1995
An arrest last year of suspected drug traffickers helped make Orange County’s narcotics task force nearly $1.5 million richer, authorities said Tuesday.
Jan. 20, 1993