Entertainment & Arts
The city’s 2-year-old Center for the Performing Arts needs a new stage surface, officials have decided.
June 23, 1994
California
You have to take Chuck Swanson’s word for it when he says he’s a car nut.
July 5, 1994
The Poway High School band played at Thursday’s campaign rally for George Bush at the Sports Arena, which featured President Reagan, but turned down a request from the Michael Dukakis campaign to attend the Democrat’s appearance at Horton Plaza last Monday.
Oct. 29, 1988
Television
There are letter writers, and there are letter writers . Dorothy Swanson is a letter writer .
April 4, 1987
World & Nation
Half-brothers who came within 16 hours of execution in 1983 before winning appeals of their death sentences were released Friday after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.
Jan. 16, 1988
Sports
Dave Swanson, Bruce Heicke and Gary Fowler each converted one-and-one situations during the final minute to lift Glendale College to a 79-76 victory over Oxnard in a Western State Conference game Wednesday night at Santa Clara High.
Jan. 25, 1990
Brennen Swanson ended his career at Cal State Northridge as the Matadors’ career leader in sacks.
Nov. 25, 1999
For about four hours Thursday, rangers and sheriff’s deputies, lifeguards and port-patrol officers from around the state were dumped into the ocean off Ventura at high speed, dragged behind personal watercraft and made to right capsized vessels.
March 14, 1997
Two suspected car thieves who led Fullerton police on a high-speed chase early Thursday died after their car struck a light pole, split in half and exploded in flames, police said.
Jan. 5, 1996
The degree to which a television news report can damage a person’s reputation is the central issue in a defamation suit against Channel 39 now being argued in Superior Court.
Oct. 16, 1989