World & Nation
House and Senate negotiators, ironing out differences over landmark legislation to clean up and prevent oil spills, agreed Thursday to require double hulls by the year 2010 on most large oil tankers serving U.S. ports.
July 13, 1990
Politics
Gov.
Dec. 5, 2002
Books
Biographers are like photographers.
Sept. 5, 1999
Arizona Gov.
Nov. 26, 2002
California
An aged motor yacht reputedly owned by Al Capone is for sale at its Ventura Harbor mooring.
Oct. 30, 1993
Jane Addams vision for a home for the disenfranchised blossomed in the late 19th century, largely through her efforts to win the support of wealthy Chicago womens groups rather than relying on sectarian groups to build what would become Hull House, historians say.
Jan. 8, 2013
Business
Bay Area: As Marin County housing prices rise, the living is not only easier but cheaper aboard 400 craft. ‘It’s a separate world down here,’ a resident says.
Sept. 14, 1998
House and Senate negotiators Thursday approved a major bill to clean up and prevent oil spills, paving the way for final passage of the long stalemated and still controversial legislation as early as next week.
July 27, 1990
Archives
Perched among the hills of Studio City, a tiny guest house is wreathed by violet ice plants that shimmer in the late afternoon sun.
May 11, 1989
A solitary silver bell and a ragged strand of tinsel flutter from a telephone pole on Highway 96, a forlorn holiday greeting from a Mississippi River town facing a winter of dispossession.
Dec. 19, 1993