Also . . .

* Total Renal Care Inc., the struggling Torrance-based dialysis center operator, reported first-quarter net income of $3.8 million, or 5 cents per share, compared with $28.2 million, or 28 cents, a year ago. Revenue rose to $372 million from $352.2 million.

* Denver’s two daily newspapers, which have been fighting a press war that many thought would be a duel to the death, declared a truce and announced plans to form a joint company to produce two morning papers. Dean Singleton, president of privately held MediaNews, which owns the moneymaking Denver Post, will form a joint operating agreement with the Denver Rocky Mountain News. The papers, which have competed for more than 100 years, will combine advertising, circulation and production functions, but the newsrooms will remain separate. A new entity, Denver Newspaper Agency, will be jointly owned by MediaNews and E.W. Scripps Co., owner of the Rocky Mountain News.

* Dreyfus Corp., the mutual fund unit of Mellon Financial Corp., agreed to pay almost $3 million to end investigations into one of its mutual funds by the Securities and Exchange Commission and New York’s attorney general. The settlements resolve allegations that Dreyfus did not let investors know the risks involved in its Aggressive Growth Fund and that the fund’s former manager, Michael Schonberg, made inappropriate trades for his own account. Neither Dreyfus nor Schonberg admitted any wrongdoing.

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