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Oct. 14, 2011
High School Sports
No one dared to pencil in Huntington Beach Edison as a Southern Section Division I title contender before the season, but the Chargers can no longer be overlooked after their 22-8 thumping of neighborhood rival Fountain Valley on Friday night before a crowd of close to 10,000 at Edison Field.
Nov. 8, 2003
World & Nation
The international arms bazaar, operated from the back streets and grand boulevards of Paris, London, Geneva and even this sleepy corner of the Cote d’Azur, is a shadowy world of secrets and intrigue, of fanciful rumors and--sometimes--incredible truths.
Nov. 30, 1986
Hockey
The Kings recalled defenseman Denis Larocque from their American Hockey League affiliate at New Haven, Conn.
March 15, 1988
Michel (Bunny) Larocque, a goaltender for four NHL teams, died in Hull, Canada, after a three-month battle with brain cancer.
July 31, 1992
Hydrology: At 65 sites along a 1,900-mile stretch of the river, youths get a firsthand lesson about the environment.
Nov. 4, 1999
Sports
Cal State Fullerton’s Amy LaRocque was thrown out at the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning, ending the game and giving visiting Long Beach State a 4-3 victory over the Titans in a Big West Conference softball game Sunday.
April 3, 2000
An engineering team will begin assessing damage aboard the battleship Iowa this week to try to determine whether its No. 2 gun turret, where 47 crewmen were killed in an explosion last Wednesday, can be repaired, the Navy said.
April 26, 1989
Politics
Two former students at a Massachusetts school for the mentally retarded told federal lawmakers Thursday that their excitement over taking part in a 1950s school Science Club had turned to fear since they learned that club members were fed cereal laced with radioactivity.
Jan. 14, 1994
The chief of naval operations, in the wake of the Navy’s unprecedented two-day break in operations last month, blasted his subordinates Tuesday for lax adherence to safety procedures and inattention to safety training and operations.
Dec. 20, 1989