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CLEVELAND -- After another victory under his belt, Cleveland Indians starter Cliff Lee slipped on a T-shirt that said: Ace of Spades. Lee (22-2) won his 11th consecutive decision, leading the Indians over the Kansas City Royals, 12-5, Friday night. Lee's win streak is the longest by an Indians pitcher since Gaylord Perry won 15 consecutive decisions in 1974. Lee is the first pitcher to have 20 more wins than losses since Oakland's Bob Welch was 27-6 in 1990. Unbeaten since July 11, Lee is 5-0 in five outings against the Royals.

Live Picture Inc., the Internet company whose chairman is former Apple Computer Inc. President John Sculley, said it has raised $22.2 million from Eastman Kodak Co. and several other companies. The closely held Internet imaging company will use the cash infusion to expand its sales and marketing mainly in the U.S. and Japan, President Kathleen Mitchell said. The funding comes as traditional imaging companies such as Kodak are trying to move into the market for digital imaging on the Internet.

This class mixes physics with weightlifting, basic algebra with hauling a heavy toolbox up and down stairs. All the students are women, and child care is offered down the hall. Three nights a week, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has conducted a much-praised program designed to introduce women to one of the great male bastions of city employment--the skilled craft positions at the DWP.

Time Warner Inc. today reported a fourth-quarter loss of $222 million, contrasted with net income of $56 million, or 97 cents a share, in the last quarter of 1988. The publishing giant said the loss reflected the Aug. 1, 1989, acquisition of Warner Communications Inc. and interest payments on the leveraged buyout. The acquisition boosted the company's fourth-quarter revenues to $3.09 billion, contrasted with $1.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 1988.

Fry's Electronics Inc. offered to buy Internet retailer Cyberian Outpost Inc. for $22.2 million or more in cash, saying its proposal is superior to one made by PC Connection Inc. San Jose-based Fry's said in a regulatory filing that it's prepared to pay 70 cents a share for the operator of the Outpost.com Web store. Merrimack, N.H.-based PC Connection agreed in May to buy Cyberian Outpost for 40 cents to 82 cents a share in stock, or as much as $25.9 million.

Claiming their apartments are vermin-infested and filthy, 222 present and former tenants of buildings owned by Beverly Hills physician Milton Avol filed suit Monday asking for repairs, retroactive deductions in rent and $25,000 each in punitive damages.

A modest fund-raising pitch enclosed in more than 1 million Department of Water and Power bills last fall paid off handsomely in contributions to the Los Angeles Public Library, officials said Monday. More than 21,000 DWP customers opened their checkbooks to make donations totaling $222,480, City Librarian Susan Goldberg Kent said in a report to the Library Commission.

For a night, the Milwaukee Brewers were the biggest hit in American League history. Milwaukee set an AL record with 31 hits in Friday night's 22-2 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays, the most in a nine-inning game in the major leagues in 91 years. Jim Gantner's infield single in the ninth broke the previous AL record set by the New York Yankees against the Boston Red Sox on Sept. 28, 1923. "I'm at a loss to explain it," Brewer Manager Phil Garner said.

Night had long turned to early morning, and all that remained of the sellout crowd was a few thousand fans who had been waiting more than three hours to see someone put the puck in the net. As the Washington Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins started the fourth overtime of their Stanley Cup playoff game, only two questions remained: Who would win? And would the Zamboni run out of gas before the players did?

In case anyone has forgotten, the city of Los Angeles and the entire state of California are still reeling from a recession. In 1992, for example, business failures in the state increased by 33% over the previous year, a rise that was nearly four times higher than national figures. In Los Angeles, the situation was even worse, with a 73% increase in business failures between 1991 and 1993.