Archive for Tuesday, December 16, 1997

• Obituaries

• Program’s Web Site Covers the Heart Beat By Lisa Addison

• Holiday Faire Nets $10,000 for Arts By Lisa Addison and John Pope

• The Rediscovery of a City River By Matea Gold

• A Virtual Monopoly on Hotel Development By Cathy Werblin

• Pipe Bomb Discovered in Bank Parking Lot

• Neighbors Protest Baseball Plan By Chris Chi

• Markey Seeks Panel on Arts Plaza Improvement By Miguel Bustillo

• Two Main Streets to Get Traffic-Slowing Devices

• Too Many Jam Sessions

• Grease Ignites Fire That Guts Family’s Apartment By Andy Rose

• Panel OKs Plan to Expand Use of Gang Injunctions

• That Smell at the ATF Is More Than Gunpowder

• Selection of Fire Chief Delayed Until Next Month

• Council to Consider New Recycling Plan By Liz Seymour

• Woman Killed in Head-On Crash By Bonnie Hayes

• Ex-Tree Panel Member Cleared of Ethics Charges

• Rotary Club to Aid Victims of Violence By Kimberly Lisagor

• Unknown Visitor May Be Key to 3 Killings at Pacoima Home By Jose Cardenas

• Neighbor Fined for Illegal Limo Business By Sylvia L. Oliande

• Car Overturns When Driver Dodges Coyote By Veronique De Turenne

• Leader Emerges for Air-Conditioning Work By Doug Smith

• Old Town Project Gets Council OK By Lisa Addison and John Pope

• Humor a Lesson for Taft High Muralists By Sylvia L. Oliande

• School Welcomes Back ‘Hero’ Who Stepped in Front of Car By Mimi Ko Cruz

• The Only Goal Is Presidential Humiliation By Robert Scheer

• City to Take Bids for Library Parking Lot By Hope Hamashige

• New Studios Putting City on the Entertainment Map By Hilary E. Macgregor

• Judge Gives Pep Talk on Dally Trial to Jury Pool By Tracy Wilson

• Churchgoers Help Thwart Suspected Car Burglars

• New Health-Care Center Considered By Richard Warchol

• Group Will Discuss Plan to Form City on Westside

• Bill Lee Has the Job–Sort of

• Lane Closure Planned for Vincent Thomas Bridge

• Ventura City Council Votes to Join New Library System By Hilary E. Macgregor

• Court Gives Flynt OK to Buy Card Club in Gardena By Deborah Belgum

• $30,000 Allocated for Foundation Chief By John Pope

• 4 Sought in $60-Million HUD Fraud By Nicholas Riccardi

• Riding Malls in the Saddle

• City, Founders Society Weigh New Proposal By Debra Cano

• Triangle Square Plans Contest to Aid Schools By John Canalis

• Call It a Day for U.S. Troops in Bosnia By Oliver North

• ArtCity Plan: Stores, Museum and Galleries By Debra Cano

• Shoppers Wrap It Up at the Post Office By Deborah Schoch

• Homeowners Group to Hold Dinner-Dance By Tom Becker

• Report Clears Way for New Golf Clubhouse By Darrell Satzman

• Company Selected for Promenade Work By Lisa Addison and John Pope

• Heat-Seeking Camera Helps Find Victims By Claire Vitucci

• Driver Held After High-Speed Pursuit By Andy Rose

• Activists to Ask Council for More Homeless Shelters

• College Project to Map Crystal Cove’s Features By Lisa Addison

• Golf Course Renamed for Civil Rights Activist

• Schuller Continues to Improve After Minor Heart Attack

• Registration by Phone Due at Golden West By Julio V. Cano

• Cloud Over S. Korea Election

• It’s Not Evil Spirits That Make Teens Kill By Helen Smith

• Work Continues on Towne Center Project By Edward M. Yoon

• High School Senior to Serve on Arts Panel By John Canalis

• LAPD Inspector General Acted in Good Faith, Commission Says By Matt Lait

• Parks Seeks New LAPD Complaint Process By Matt Lait

• Businessman Aaron Lovejoy Is Dead at 58 By Daryl Strickland

• Holiday Sales Dry Up With Mud in Laguna By Lorenza Munoz and Susan Deemer

• And Behind Door No. 3, We Have … the Verdict! By Steve Harvey

• City Panel OKs Hiring More Attorneys for Gang Injunction Unit By Henry Chu

• Supervisors to Vote on Airport Projects By Nick Green

• State Parks Seeking Volunteer Docents By Veronique De Turenne

• Privatization Ends at Courtyard Center By Cathy Werblin

• Stay-at-Home Moms Start O.C. Chapter By Bonnie Hayes

• Red Cross Offers Couple Lifeline After Storm’s Wild Ride By Jerry Hicks

• Woman Pleads Not Guilty in Death of Daughter

• Settlement Looks Near in Months-Long Fight to Fund County Courts By Shelby Grad

• Crime Column Tips the Odds Against Fugitives By Scott Hadly

• Homeless Shelter to Open at Shipyard

• William W. Hewston; Oil Business Owner

• State Takes Over DUI Case Against Judge By Andy Rose

• $44-Million School Bond Goes on April Ballot

• Lost Claus By Alan Abrahamson

• Private School Closes for Germ Cleanup After Flu Outbreak Keeps Dozens of Students Home By Duke Helfand

• Family Continues Search for Kayaker

• 2 Top Schools Chiefs’ Contracts Renewed By Mimi Ko Cruz

• Scholarships Awarded to 6 at Western State By Mimi Ko Cruz

• This Little Piggy Got Evicted By Scott Martelle

• Environmentalists Back Farm Initiative By Hilary E. Macgregor

• Report Pegs Storm Damage at $4 Million By Frank Messina

• Sheriff Probes Stranding of Family By Scott Glover

• Fee Increase Sought for County’s Parks By Nick Green

• 2 Teens Jailed After Stolen Car Crashes By Andy Rose

• UCI Professor to Be Honored By Lisa Addison

• El Toro Could See Air Cargo Trips Before Marine Exit By Shelby Grad

• A Lesson in Diversity By Daniel Yi

• For Your Consideration: My Son, the Director By Scott Harris

• Opportunities for Volunteering By Edward M. Yoon

• Both U.S., Asia Must Take Medicines By Tom Plate

• Downtown Sole Fever By Vanessa Hua

• Teen Tackles Project to Prevent Abductions By Julio V. Cano

• Helpers Sought for Wetlands Cleanup By Julio V. Cano

• Assistant Clerk To Fill Top Job By Lisa Addison and John Pope

• Phone Call May Have Guided Killer of 3 By Jose Cardenas

• Saddleback College Chief Resigns By David Reyes

• Investigation of Rapper’s Slaying Comes Up Empty By Chuck Philips

• Students’ Mock Court Focuses on DUI Cases

• Voters Will Determine Future of Fire Department

• Obituaries

• Deadline Nears for Entries in King Art, Essay Contest

• Caspers Park Restrictions on Kids May End By Frank Messina

• Parent Protests K-5 School Plan By Lisa Fernandez

• Ridgeline Law Violated, Suit Alleges By Miguel Bustillo

• MEN By Ara Najarian

• Youth Gets a (Spring) Fling By Jim Hodges

• Tar Heels Are the New No. 1

• NCAA Loses Supreme Court Bid to Move Tarkanian Suit

• Tennessee Still Unanimous No. 1

• Gopher Band Hits Sour Note in Herky Number By Julie Cart

• It Was Quite a Night for Montana Too By T J. Simers

• Roberson Learns Value of Keeping Herself, Ball Under Control By Chris Foster

• Wisconsin Oshkosh Pounds Chapman

• Matadors Leave Behind Emotion in Road Defeat By Steve Henson

• Overtime Goal Sinks Royal, 1-0

• THEY SAID IT

• NHL: THE TIMES’ RANKINGS: Top to Bottom By Helene Elliott

• MAKING THEIR BENCHMARK By Scott Howard-Cooper

• Third-Ranked Woodbridge Topples No. 1 Santa Ana in Soccer

• Weight Was Behind Her Downfall By Earl Gustkey

• Some Say USC Not Being Fair to Robinson By Robyn Norwood

• Manning Fans Are Angry

• STINGRAYS TONIGHT By Earl Gustkey

• Timetable Is Set for Turner By Greg Sandoval

• O’Sullivan’s Clan Has Eyes on NHL and the Olympics By Helene Elliott

• NUMBERS GAME

• Team Gets Early Rise Out of Kariya By John Weyler

• NEWS FLASH

• BOYS

• For Kings, It’s Oh-Oh–Seven! By Lonnie White

• Official Has High Hopes for Title Game By Steve Kresal

• Rice Back on Menu By T J. Simers

• Baca Within Range of Fullerton Record By Steve Kresal

• Bruin Victory Sweet Revenge

• FOOTBALL

• Task Force Finalizes Northridge Report By Jim Coleman

• NBA Gets Rid of Dunk Contest

• Sonora Tight End Winterswyk Plans to Attend Arizona State

• He’s Got That Fighting Spirit By Ken Denlinger

• Eyes of Texas Are Upon Seifert, Not Donahue By Randy Harvey

• No Smooth Sailing for Race Yachts By Rich Roberts

• Northridge Not Up to Task By Steve Henson

• Redskins Lose Kicker Blanton

• Easy Victories a Welcome Relief By Scott Howard-Cooper

• McCoy Could Play by Next Week By Tim Kawakami

• El Camino Real Girls Win Ugly in Van Nuys Tournament By Mitch Polin

• Usual Cast Leads Bulls to Victory

• In other Van Nuys tournament first-round games:

• He’s Got the Whole Team in His Hands By Bill Plaschke

• They Are Simply Not Fast Enough Off the Mark By Lonnie White

• Two Pitchers Are Selected by Dodgers By Ross Newhan

• Surgery Ends Vaught’s Season By Chris Baker

• One Size Fits All for Drew Bledsoe, Raiders, Vikings … By T J. Simers

• NCAA Loses Supreme Court Bid to Move Tarkanian Suit

• Padres Get Brown for 3 Minor Leaguers

• THE HOT CORNER By Lisa Dillman

• NOW YOU KNOW

• FINAL STATISTICS. RECORDS, STATISTICS AND RANKINGS THROUGH GAMES OF DEC. 13 - Football Statistical Leaders

• Reno Won’t Include President in Casino Investigation By Ronald J. Ostrow

• Forbes Plans to Make Daily Radio Chats

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Mike Chavis

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Brett Baker

• Farrakhan Cuts Short Israeli Trip

• Ford Investing $420 Million for Fuel-Cell-Powered Auto By Donald W. Nauss

• Organic-Food Regulations Are Proposed by USDA By Martha Groves

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - John Minardi

• Four Corruption Charges Against Espy Are Dismissed

• Pint-Sized Punch Lines

• Reformers Attack Anaheim Special Prosecutor’s Tactics By Esther Schrader

• Carson Palmer

• U.S. Drops 1989 Murder Charges Against Mexican Drug Trafficker By Fredric N. Tulsky

• U.S. Plan Addresses Shortage of Organ Donors By Alissa J. Rubin

• Blood Thinner Can Paralyze, FDA Reports

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Jeff Hick

• Clinton to Break Silence, Name Pup

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Rasuli Webster

• Plein-Air Painting

• Sniper’s Bullets Wound 2 Students

• 3 Held in Gang Retaliation That Killed Boy, 7 By Alan Abrahamson

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Corey Chambers-Alston

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Keenan Howry

• Clinton Defies GOP, Names Lee Rights Chief By Jonathan Peterson

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Nick Cappelletti

• Illegal Sterilizations Since ‘92 Reported

• Separate Housing for Recruits Proposed

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Kevin Mitchell

• N.J. Legislature Overrides Late-Term Abortion Veto

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Dylan Bird

• Radio Investing Advisor Surrenders in Fraud Case

• Nanny Is Convicted of Murdering Infant

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Saia Makakaufaki

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Jason Hayward

• Going Bananas Over the Free Food By Kathleen Kelleher

• Terence Green; Journalist Was Real Estate Writer for The Times

• San Clemente’s Richardson Gives an Extra Effort By Paul Mcleod

• Gulf Plane Crash Kills 85; 1 Survives

• Nichols Jury Hears Closing Arguments By Richard A. Serrano

• 1997 Championships

• 12 Days of

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Jake Ashabraner

• Elizabeth ‘Gram’ Knight; Mother of Singer Gladys Knight

• High Court Limits ‘Junk Science’ Claims By David G. Savage

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Mike McNair

• Premiere Packs a Big ‘Punch’ By Mark Ehrman

• Laguna Beach Still Waiting for Shoppers By Lorenza Munoz and Susan Deemer

• Winter Vacation

• ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

• Devolution, Disgust Lure Congress Members to Statehouse Bids By Edwin Chen

• Punch Lines

• Amid Donor Fatigue, Floods Leave Battered Somalis With Little Hope By Ann M. Simmons

• Candle Complement By Kathryn Bold

• Gibson Brings Woodbridge Back From the Bottom By Martin Henderson

• THE SECOND TEAM

• After 5 Years of Secrecy, Pig Is Now Out of the Bag By Scott Martelle

• VALLEY NEWSWATCH

• Emus: The Craze That Didn’t Fly By Jesse Katz

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Nick Gilliam

• Huntington Girl, 17, Killed in Car Crash By Steve Carney

• Iraq Insists Some Sites Are Off Limits to Arms Inspectors

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Joey Boese

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - David Vickers

• O.C. Nurses Felled Tending Spray Victim By Steve Carney

• ‘Jackal’ Blames CIA, Mossad for Killings; New Lawyers Named

• All-League Football Teams

• U.S.-Born Woman Favored for President

• Foster Carries His Weight, and More, for Tustin By Mike Terry

• Albright Wraps Up Trip to Africa By Norman Kempster

• Splashy, to Say the Least By Bill Higgins

• Often Just Parcels Go Home for the Holidays By Héctor Tobar and Valerie Burgher

• Carole Joyner Gourley; Wrote Lyrics to ‘Young Love’

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - DeShaun Foster

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Jarom Fano

• Parking-Space Killing Sends Officer to Prison

• Stubby Kaye; Singer on Stage and Film By Myrna Oliver

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Jared Ritter

• Castro Gives Cubans Christmas Present in Honor of Pope’s Visit

• Children Face Food Crisis, U.N. Says By John-Thor Dahlburg and Craig Turner

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - David Waltzman

• Passage of Time Breaking Down Barriers in Bosnia By Richard Boudreaux

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Lenny Vandermade

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Robert Richardson

• U.S. Signals Readiness for Iran Dialogue By Tyler Marshall

• U.S. to Vaccinate Troops for Anthrax Germ-War Agent By Marlene Cimons

• FIRST-TEAM PROFILES - Carson Palmer

• Repeat Home-Buyer Rate Hits 7-Year High By Jesus Sanchez

• Founding American Isuzu Exec Quits By (john O'Dell)

• Feeding a Frenzy By George White

• Ingram Tax Probe Results in Another Guilty Plea By James S. Granelli

• Fluor Will Consider Shedding Crane Unit By James S. Granelli

• Spotlight: Excite, StarMedia in Latin American Search Venture

• LTC Properties Stock Paying Dividends By Barbara Murphy

• Village and Creative Travel Firms to Merge By Barbara Murphy

• Short-Term Treasury Rates Fall

• AML Communications Wins $1.8 Million Orders By Barbara Murphy

• ALSO

• Boom May Cost Hollywood By James Bates

• Credit Key to View Tech Buyout of Telecom Firm By Leo Smith

• For Imation, Bottom Line Is Environmental as Well as Financial By Leo Smith

• Qwest to Offer 7.5-Cent Phone Rate

• Deal to Create West’s Largest Water Provider

• A Whiff of Tobacco Fungus Crops Up in Connecticut By Trudy Tynan

• O.C. Firm Backed for Work at L.A. Schools By Doug Smith

• A & M Cancels Its Contract With Music Industry Tip Sheet By Chuck Philips

• FCC to Cut Phone Firms’ Share to Wiring Fund

• Small May Be Attractive By Walter Hamilton

• TMM Plans to Publish Virtual Tour of Graceland By Barbara Murphy

• Eltron International Chooses New CFO By Barbara Murphy

• Cisco Bounces Back After Stock Declines

• Chrysler to Keep Making More Trucks Than Cars

• Schaefer Adds CEO Title at WFS By (james S. Granelli)

• It’s Cigar Production With a Cuban Twist By Claro Cortes

• Decision on Intel Acquisition Due in January

• State Expands Shakedown Probe of Labor Inspector By Stuart Silverstein

• Mixed Reaction to Mexico’s New Chief of Central Bank By James F. Smith

• Steel Maker Stokes Up for a Booming Argentina

• Pacific Scientific Target of Hostile Takeover Offer By Barbara Marsh

• Avant Shares Plunge on Suit Prospects

• Dow Rises Out of Rut; Tech Stocks End Mixed

• American Pacific Bank Approves Dividends

• Cable Rates Rising, FCC Survey Finds

• REGIONAL PEOPLE

• ‘Smack’ Album to Get Warning Labels at Target By Marla Matzer

• S. Korea Floats Won; Stocks, Currency Soar By David Holley and Sonni Efron

• Be Careful Boarding Bond Wagon By Walter Hamilton

• Dow Rises Out of Rut; Tech Stocks End Mixed

• Align-Rite Anticipates Dip in Revenue, Profit

• U.S. Bancorp to Buy Piper Jaffray

• Stock Market Barometers

• Karan to License New Lines to Claiborne By Diane Seo

• Oxnard Agency Hopes Guidebook, Web Sites Draw Filmmakers By Barbara Murphy

• Xircom Product Wins Design ‘Best in Show’ By Barbara Murphy

• Ford, Honda Back Electric Charging Stations By John O'Dell

• Chrysler Opens Stand-Alone Service Center By John O'Dell

• Kollmorgen Bids for Pacific Scientific By Barbara Marsh

• THE STATE

• Domestic Market Share

• GOVERNMENT CONTRACT AWARDS

• FTC Approves $40-Billion Merger

• Iwerks Building Giant Oklahoma City Theater

• Microsoft Corp. Appeals Judge’s Browser Ruling

• S. Korea Floats Its Currency; Markets Surge By David Holley and Sonni Efron

• SFX to Acquire Bill Graham Presents

• Fluor Open to Selling Its Crane Division By James S. Granelli

• State’s First AutoNation Gets Tuneup for Irvine Opening By John O'Dell

• Emeritus Protests Sale of ARV Stock

• ACT Networks Gets 2 Satellite Awards By Barbara Murphy

• Large Investors Boost Franklin Telecom By Barbara Murphy

• U.S. Industrial Output Surges 0.8% in Nov.

• Why Pay More? By James F. Peltz

• Transportation Is the Ticket to Gettyng There

• A Usually Reliable Company Disappoints Its ‘Neighbors’ By Laurie Winer

• ‘Archangels’ Sheds Light on the History of Latin America By William Wilson

• The Hidden Talents of a Honk Alumnus Have Emerged From ‘Cave’ - *** WILL BRADY, “Caveman Brain” By Mike Boehm

• MORNING REPORT By Jerry Crowe

• Lords of Acid Soften Their Edge By Sandy Masuo

• ‘Scream 2’ Has December to Remember By Robert W. Welkos

• Dance Workshop Grads to Perform

• Fernandez Mixes Old With the New By Ernesto Lechner

• View From ‘Titanic’: Oscars on Horizon, Profit Hard to See By Patrick Goldstein

• It’s Built. Will they come? By Martin J. Smith

• Selling Off Props to Buoy ‘Titanic’ By Susan King

• Fox Dumps ‘Living Single,’ Brings Back ‘Undercover’ By Greg Braxton

• ‘Mad’s’ Crying Game Artfully Plays Out By Howard Rosenberg

• Rapt in Perfect Packages By Zan Dubin

• Art vs. Gizmos at the Getty By Christopher Knight