ABC has finalized negotiations to bring another British TV series to U.S.

By Herbert A. Sample, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Apr. 8--OAKLAND - If the 9,200 teachers and other employees working for the San Francisco and Oakland school districts end up walking picket lines at the same time in the next two weeks, it won't be by happenstance.

They came, they stung, they left. Tens of thousands of purplish-black jellyfish that invaded Orange County beaches for the past week mostly disappeared by Thursday along with a red tide of microscopic plankton on which they may have been feeding.