Archive for Tuesday, December 02, 1997

• Ex-MTA Official Guilty of Mail Fraud

• Public Defenders Reach an Accord With Court Officials By Greg Krikorian

• Officers Involved in Shooting Identified By Chris Chi

• A New Take on L.A. Civic Life

• Party Guests Recovering From Food Poisoning

• Nurses Plan to Picket Over Los Robles Hospital Staffing By Miguel Bustillo

• Red Cross to Offer Classes in 2 Cities By Lisa Fernandez

• Steiner Testifies That He Had Confidence in Walsh By Jean O. Pasco

• School Mourns 3 Killed in Flash Flood By Richard Winton

• Friends of Westwood to Hold Annual Meeting

• Officer Fatally Shoots Driver After Pursuit By Claire Vitucci

• City Council Hires Consultant for Headlands Development Project By Frank Messina

• Reagan Library Plans Holiday Open House By Kate Folmar

• Puppet Show Closes Cultural Series By Liz Seymour, Lisa Addison, and Cathy Werblin

• Redevelopment Chief Headed for San Diego By Hilary E. Macgregor

• City May Hire Firm to Develop Railroad Plan By Debra Cano

• O.C. Looks Liberal in Annual Survey By Nick Anderson

• Church Seeks Donors for HOPE Program By Julio V. Cano

• Obituaries

• Court Denies Pleas for Leniency From 2 of Tay’s Killers By Hope Hamashige

• Scouts Honor Advent of New Center By Lisa Addison

• Prosecutors Seek Retrial in E-Mail Hate Crime Case By Davan Maharaj

• Volunteers Needed to Maintain Park Trails By Frank Messina

• Smart Shuttles Add Hours, Destinations By Sylvia L. Oliande

• TOXIC DISCHARGES

• Free Sandbags Offered for Rain Preparedness By John Canalis

• Police Seek Gunman in Slaying of 2 Men Outside Sylmar Home By Jose Cardenas

• ‘Operation Baja’ to Aid Impoverished in Mexico

• Gunmen Burst Into Home; Resident Hurt in Holdup

• Wise Line on Curbing Emissions

• Veteran School Board Member to Be Honored

• Board Votes to Apply for Science Grant By Liz Seymour, Lisa Addison, and Cathy Werblin

• Service Awards Honor Teachers By Liz Seymour, Lisa Addison, and Cathy Werblin

• Golf Event Raises $65,000 for District By Liz Seymour, Lisa Addison, and Cathy Werblin

• Cook’s Recipe for Integrity Pays Off By Regina Hong

• The National Guard Is Able, but It’s No Terrorism Expert

• Panel Promises Speedup of School Bond Projects By Doug Smith

• Murder Suspect Waives Extradition

• Oil Spill Trial Focuses on Damage Estimates By Scott Martelle

• Suspect Admitted Killing Widow, Prosecutor Says By Scott Hadly

• Dr. Louis Gluck, ICU Pioneer, Dies

• Funds Available for Emergency Programs By Lisa Fernandez

• Retrofit the Guard to a Support Role By M. Thomas Davis

• Arts Center Proposed for Former Library Site

• Teachers Wary of New State Math Standards By Fred Alvarez

• Mining Tax to Fund Study Will Be Decided by Voters

• New Downtown Arena Gets Corporate Sponsor By Beth Shuster

• Anti-Gang Program to Get $211,000 in Federal Funds

• Glendale to Swear In New Chief of Police By Jon Steinman

• Landowners Are Boxed In by Recycler’s Failed Experiment By Richard Warchol

• Skinheads Not Brothers Under the Skin By Scott Harris

• Burglary Suspect Arrested in Store By Geoff Boucher

• City Protests Relocation of County Welfare Office

• Egypt Expert to Talk on Mummification By John Canalis

• Animal Shelter Tie With Pet Store OKd By Sylvia L. Oliande

• Holiday Project Needs Volunteers, Donations By Lisa Addison

• Vibrating Signal Helps Pedestrians See Light By Lisa Addison

• Douglas Dent; Born, Raised on Ventura Ranch

• Charity Seeks Food, Clothing for Needy By John Canalis

• School Board Seeking Back-to-Basics Ideas By Jeff Kass

• Hanging Up Their Guns After 504 Years By Jerry Hicks

• Penalty Case Starts for Man Who Killed Wife By Andrew Blankstein

• City Attorney Requests Increase in Budget

• City Moves Ahead on Water-Rate Increase By Debra Cano

• Brookhurst St. Ramps to Close Temporarily

• Obituaries

• Councilwoman to Be Named Mayor Tonight By John Canalis

• Anti-Dump Crusader Joins Santa Clarita Council Race By Dade Hayes

• Youth Center to Mark Its 20th Anniversary By Darrell Satzman

• Lone Robber Holds Up Oxnard Bank By Veronique De Turenne

• School Board Limits Remarks to 3 Minutes By Mimi Ko Cruz

• Mayor Plans Public Birthday Party Today By Mimi Ko Cruz

• Survivor of Crash Told Driver to Slow By Liz Seymour

• Motions Seek to Limit Ex-Lover’s Testimony By Tracy Wilson

• Council to Pick Mayor, Hear Plan for Housing By Hope Hamashige

• Santa Rides the Rails to Help Needy Kids By Scott Steepleton

• Homeowners to Pay Into Landslide Fund By Susan Deemer

• Plea Bargain Taken in Party Slaying Case By Tracy Wilson

• A ‘Miracle’ Wrought by Irresponsible Medical Acts By Robert Scheer

• The Big Sweep By Boris Yaro

• O.C. Fair Budget Rises but Not Ticket Prices By John Canalis

• City’s Newest Park to Be Open on Interim Basis

• More Quakes Rattle Mammoth

• Creative Outlets By Dade Hayes

• Animated Debate By Larry Gordon

• New Council May Prove Less Divisive By Hilary E. Macgregor

• Tree Lighting Ceremony to Be Held at Promenade

• Driver Shot, Killed After Slow-Speed Police Chase By Claire Vitucci

• New Sheriff’s Academy Is for Community By Dade Hayes

• Motel Gunman Was Ready for War Game With Police By Bonnie Hayes

• Coalition on Alcohol, Drugs to Hold Forum By Mimi Ko Cruz

• Man Arrested in Fatal Shooting in Saticoy By Veronique De Turenne

• Family Can Sue Chain in Girl’s Death By Hope Hamashige

• Longer Hotel Stays Get Council Approval By Cathy Werblin

• County Likely to Settle in Birth-Injury Case By Sharon Bernstein

• CSUN Marks Korean Home-Stay Program By Edward M. Yoon

• Group to Unleash Patrols on Dog Beach By Julio V. Cano

• Middle School Class Leads to Ham License By Edward M. Yoon

• Vigil Held for Woman Imprisoned in Peru

• $15,000 Approved for Police Surveillance By Julio V. Cano

• Mall’s Sprinklers Stop Early Morning Fire By Jose Cardenas

• Alcohol Costs at District Retreats to Be Reimbursed

• FBI Agent Kills Himself After His Arrest By Alan Abrahamson

• Teachers Union Vote Upholds Bilingual Education Support By Doug Smith

• A Friendly Battle for Bragging Lights By Dade Hayes

• Man Killed in Standoff Described as SWAT Expert By Bonnie Hayes

• Jurors Given Different Views of CSUN Protest By Frank B. Williams

• Kaczynski’s Cabin to Be Shipped to Sacramento for Bombing Trial

• Frame of New Courthouse Near LAX Completed

• Lost-Cost Insurance for Flood Losses OKd By Frank Messina

• DeVito Given Title of Mayor for 3rd Time By Nick Green

• One Sacramento Politician With a Pac Rim Vision By Tom Plate

• UCI Exhibit Draws on Japanese Artistic Feats By Lisa Addison

• School Considering Advanced Classes By Lisa Fernandez

• Bruins Do About-Face on McCoy By Tim Kawakami

• THE HOT CORNER By Lisa Dillman

• No Easy Answers for StingRays By Earl Gustkey

• Woodson a Happy Camper

• Chatsworth Boys Topple North Hollywood

• Blake’s Play Pleases Robinson By Lonnie White

• Bradley Restricted to JV Basketball

• STINGRAYS TONIGHT By Earl Gustkey

• Agassi Gets Job Done in Burbank By David Wharton

• Trio Carrying Scoring Load By Tim Kawakami

• It’s Bottoms Up Heading Into Week 15 By T J. Simers

• Santa Ana Joins Bowl-Bound Teams By Steve Kresal

• New Downhill Course Approved for Olympics

• Projected Bowl Lineup

• Shaq’s Return Is Pushed Back By Mark Heisler

• Antoski Likely Out for Season By Elliott Teaford

• FYI

• STATS

• TONIGHT’S GAMES By Rob Fernas and Lon Eubanks

• Task Force: Restore Northridge Sports By Steve Henson

• Not to Mention the Part About How They Fall By Mal Florence

• A Lot of Money for a Sign at a Freeway Interchange By Randy Harvey

• Northridge Panel: Keep All Sports By Steve Henson

• Golden West, Saddleback Lay a Lot on the Line By Steve Kresal

• FAST FACT

• No Bowl, No Practice By Robyn Norwood

• Frerotte to Be Sidelined Rest of Season

• Injuries Are Piling Up for the Jets

• Freshman Need to Step Up By Greg Sandoval

• 51 In a Row, But It’s Getting Much Harder

• THE TIMES’ RANKINGS / Top to Bottom By Helene Elliott

• Deciding Where to Draw the Line By Robyn Norwood and Lisa Dillman

• Holes Filled, but Canyon Remains at U.S. Captain By Helene Elliott

• ALUMNI REPORT

• BOYS

• Indians Trade Williams to Arizona

• TONIGHT’S GAMES By Steve Henson

• Nets Falter Without Cassell

• SOUTHERN SECTION BASKETBALL PREVIEWS By Eric Sondheimer

• BASEBALL

• Abdul-Jabbar Figures NBA Needs a Coach Kareem By Bill Plaschke

• Villanova’s Brian Finneran Wins Top Division I-AA Award

• Duke Makes Big Return to No. 1 Spot

• Seven ACC Teams in Top 25

• Police Investigating Postgame Brawl By Dave Mckibben

• GIRLS

• Downhill Course Finally Approved for the Olympics

• A Numbers Game for Wesley in Carolina Win Over Boston

• Different Pond for Unsigned Kariya By Elliott Teaford

• An Olympian Season Earns LaFontaine Olympic Berth By Helene Elliott

• Mahone Pounds Curry; Bout Is Stopped in Fifth By Dave Mckibben

• Packers Take Care of Viking Business By T J. Simers

• BASEBALL By Jason Reid

• League Streaks Are in Peril Because of Balancing Acts By Dave Desmond

• Murray Quietly Returning to Form By Chris Baker

• Warriors Suspend Sprewell

• New Look Could Help the Comanches Get Over the Hump By Martin Henderson

• Stephane Grappelli; France’s Pioneering Jazz Violinist By Don Heckman

• Infant Mortality Hits Record U.S. Low

• Versace Empire Wins Libel Damages

• SUNSET LEAGUE By Martin Henderson

• ORANGE LEAGUE By Martin Henderson

• Laugh Lines

• Student Opens Fire on Prayer Group, Kills 3 By Stephen Braun and Judy Pasternak

• Yeltsin Puts Off Day of Reckoning on Economy, Making Matters Worse By Carol J. Williams

• Lies, Damned Lies and Good Stories By Kathleen Kelleher

• Modernist Delivers the Unimaginable By Christopher Knight

• U.N.-Trained Force Takes Over Policing of Haiti

• The Lament of David Grossman, a Writer Running Out of Time By David L. Ulin

• Suit Seeking to Stop UC Tobacco Foe Is Dismissed By Henry Weinstein

• The Top 10 By Martin Henderson

• Iraqis Stone U.N. Officials

• Standards Panel Rescinds Choice of Science Team By Richard Lee Colvin

• GARDEN GROVE LEAGUE By Melanie Neff

• Netanyahu Warns Arafat on Statehood By Rebecca Trounson

• OLYMPIC LEAGUE By Melanie Neff

• Bridging the Interval - Ball of the Butterflies Celebrates the Transformation of Domestic-Abuse Victims to Women of Independence By Kathryn Bold

• CENTURY LEAGUE By Martin Henderson

• Basque Leaders Get Prison Terms

• GOP Names 8 to Medicare Reform Panel

• AIDS Activists Swarm Capital Online By Marlene Cimons

• Russians Hold Employee of San Diego Firm as Alleged Spy By Chris Kraul and Carol J. Williams

• GOLDEN WEST LEAGUE By Martin Henderson

• EMPIRE LEAGUE By Martin Henderson

• Boxed In by Former Tenant’s Trash By Richard Warchol

• ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

• Panel Urges Changes in Base Closure Procedures By Paul Richter

• AIDS Patients Make Uneasy Reentry to the Work Force By Bettina Boxall

• Census Bureau Polishes Plan for Hard-to-Count Americans By Faye Fiore

• Dream Time

• Curfews Cited for Drop in Juvenile Crime Rate By Faye Fiore and Jodi Wilgoren

• TAKING A MOMENT

• Justices Hear Shipwreck Ownership Arguments By David G. Savage

• VALLEY NEWSWATCH By Mike Hiserman

• CIA Area Chief Loses Post Over Drug Case Flap By James Risen

• Curfews Cited for Drop in Juvenile Crime Rate By Faye Fiore and Jodi Wilgoren

• Going Beyond the Bake Sale By Nick Anderson

• WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WEAR

• Tell Boss No, Without Actually Saying It By Patricia Kitchen

• Tell Boss No, Without Actually Saying It - And Watch Your Language By Patricia Kitchen

• SMALL SCHOOLS By Melanie Neff

• SOUTH COAST LEAGUE By Martin Henderson

• Study Links Stress, Arterial Blockage

• U.N. Weighs Iraqi Oil Limits

• Disney Gives $25 Million to Downtown Concert Hall By Diane Haithman

• State Endorses Back-to-Basics Math Standards By Richard Lee Colvin

• Global Warming Moves to Front Burner in Japan By Maggie Farley

• FREEWAY LEAGUE By Melanie Neff

• U.S. Makes First Pledge for New Holocaust Fund By William D. Montalbano

• Three Paths, One Goal - Way to the Top Hard for Combs, Davidson, Caine By Martin Henderson

• U.S. to Retry Man in Hate E-Mail Case By Davan Maharaj

• Filters Planned for Internet to Shield Children By Melissa Healy

• ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

• NASA Schedules Second Spacewalk

• PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE By Melanie Neff

• SEA VIEW LEAGUE By Martin Henderson

• Furniture Builder Has a Way With Wood

• Semtech’s Sales Rise 44% in 3rd Quarter By Barbara Murphy

• ACT Networks Receives $2-Million Korean Order By Barbara Murphy

• Consortium Banks On Hewlett-Packard

• Golden State to Buy RedFed in Stock Deal By Yung Kim

• Suit Seeks $1.6 Billion From Auto Insurers By Jesus Sanchez

• Activision Acquires 2 Game Distributors

• Glaxo Halts British Sales of Diabetes Drug

• Group Says Weekend Mall Sales Up 2.8% By George White

• The Nutty Mouse

• Manufacturing Student Interest in Industrial Careers By John O'Dell

• Developer May Build Homes on Hughes Site in Fullerton By E. Scott Reckard

• Varying Costs for ‘Medigap’ Coverage Make Shopping Around a Must By Albert B. Crenshaw

• Health Care Property Investors Buys Several Facilities

• Stocks Zoom on Oil, Asia Moves

• Business Park Benefits From Pent-Up Demand By Leo Smith

• MiniMed Plans to Buy Distributor in Sweden

• Businesses Honored for Community Involvement By Leo Smith

• S. Korea, IMF Wrestling With Details of Bailout By David Holley

• DreamWorks’ Notes Get AAA Rating By James Bates

• Short-Term Treasury Rates Mixed

• AirTouch to Buy Stakes From U.S. Cellular

• Shamrock to Buy $20-Million Mashov Stake

• Hughes Reaches Tentative Deal on Fullerton Site By E. Scott Reckard

• Investment Group Takes 28% Stake in Variflex By Barbara Murphy

• Micronics Opens Sales Office in Shanghai By Barbara Murphy

• GOVERNMENT CONTRACT AWARDS

• Synthonics Virtual Reality Process OKd for U.S. Patent By Barbara Murphy

• Learning by Doing By Helaine Olen

• Spotlight: Kia Motors to Expand U.S. Models From 2 to 7

• EU Tells Partnership to Halt Digital TV Decoder Box Sales

• New Quarters, Expansion for Repo Ranch By John O'Dell

• Full-Price vs. Discount Brokers

• Fluor Flying High–at Least Among Peers By John O'Dell

• National Technical Systems Revenues Set Records

• Camera Platforms Inc. Reports Slight Profit

• In Consolidation Move, GM to Buy Area Dealerships By Barry Stavro and Donald W. Nauss

• Top Agent Talks About Decision to Quit

• Panel Concepts Is Sold

• Sharp Will Build Assembly Plant in Rosarito Beach By Chris Kraul

• Value Peg

• Marriott Wins Bid for Newport Coast Site By E. Scott Reckard

• Universal Exec to Head TV Unit By Marla Matzer

• Oppenheimer Sale By (james S. Granelli)

• Your Muni’s Worth By Russ Wiles

• Stock Market Barometers

• Real Estate Is a Risky Business in Bombay By Ramola Talwar

• National City to Buy First of America Bank

• Computer Sciences Shares Rise on NASA Deal

• Marriott Considers Resort Site Left by Disney By E. Scott Reckard

• It’s December, and That Means … By Tom Petruno

• Power-One to Expand Manufacturing Facilities By Barbara Murphy

• Franklin Telecom Product in Educational Network By Barbara Murphy

• Domestic Market Share

• Lyon’s Suspended Contractors Licenses Returned By James S. Granelli

• Name That Company

• Datum 4th-Quarter Earnings to Fall Short of Expectations

• ‘Made in USA’ Label Rules Will Stand

• Dow Posts 4th-Largest Point Gain

• Top Agent Talks About Decision to Quit

• HNC Buys CompReview

• Los Robles Bancorp to Stock Split as Net Grows By Leo Smith

• PEOPLE

• Job Market Growth Seen in Manpower Inc. Survey By Barbara Murphy

• Synthonics Virtual Reality Process OKd for Patent By Barbara Murphy

• Where There’s Smoke … - There Could Be a Fiery Market for New Smog Test Centers By Susan Abram

• Computer Security Firms to Consolidate By Greg Miller

• Wood-Alternative Seekers Not Just Grasping at Straws By Dustin Solberg

• Japanese Racketeer Pleads Guilty

• U.S. Manufacturing Growth Slows in Nov.

• Are These Albums Approaching These Numbers? By Jerry Crowe

• Freedman Officials Try to Whistle in the Dark By Mike Boehm

• The Artful Science of Photography By William Wilson

• CBS’ Strong November Kills NBC’s 3-Year Grip on Sweeps By Brian Lowry

• Old-Fashioned Country Driven by Fun By Mike Boehm

• ‘Flubber’ Takes Holiday Bounce to Top By Robert W. Welkos

• Recalling a Master of Violin Versatility By Don Heckman

• MORNING REPORT By Shauna Snow

• A Museum of Reflection Has a Quiet Start in Switzerland By Richard Covington

• New Directions, Dead-Ends in ‘Subliminal Fictions’ By William Wilson

• Coronary Bypass - Wilson Sisters Show Off Their New Band’s Tunes in a Concert That Largely Ignores Heart Classics By John Roos

• Agony of the True Believer By Greg Braxton