Cal State Long Beach has confirmed that the shark that bit a teenager off Encinitas in late September was a great white — which came as no surprise to one of San Diego's top shark experts.
Stocks slid Wednesday, with the Dow Jones industrial average losing more than 800 points in a sell-off that accelerated in the final minutes of trading. The Dow and other major U.S. stock indexes notched their biggest declines in several months.
