Archive for Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Mural Reveals Pre-Classic Maya as a Civilized Society

Cities Rethinking Aid for Homeless

• Elephants’ Elbow Room Is Big Issue By Carla Hall and Steve Hymon

• Iraq Veteran Charged in 2000 Slaying By Andrew Blankstein and David Pierson

• San Bernardino Diocese Tries Priest on Heresy, Schism Charges By Larry B. Stammer

• Cardinal Leo Scheffczyk, 85; Theologian Studied Catholic Doctrine

• Revisions of Mining Law Put On Hold By Janet Wilson and Bettina Boxall

• Oldest Inmate on Death Row Petitions Gov. for Clemency

• Iraqis in U.S. Revel in the Power of the Ballot Box By Susannah Rosenblatt

• Death Penalty Moratorium on the Table By Jordan Rau

• Stephen Hamblett, 71; Was Publisher of Providence Journal in Rhode Island

• Watching the Death of Inmate C29300 By Jenifer Warren

• O.C. Sheriff Dissolving His Youth Charity By Christine Hanley

• James Fyfe, 63; Specialist in Use of Force by Police Testified in LAPD Cases

• GOP Lawmakers Take Gov. to Task Over Appointment By Peter Nicholas

• DWP Workers’ Pay Hike Divides City Hall, Other Employee Unions By Patrick Mcgreevy

• Tenants, Landlord Urged to Negotiate

• Rulings on Police Use of Force to Be on Internet

• Boys, 14 and 17, Killed in Separate Gang Shootings By Richard Winton

• Richard Allan Ferrell, 79; Researched Nuclear, Solid-State Physics

• Identity-Theft Unit Created for D.A.’s Office

• $9 Million Set Aside for Firefighting Needs

• Coalition Seeking 300% Tax Hike for Cigarettes

• Interim County Health Agency Head Named

• Court Clears Way for Work on Border Fence By Tony Perry

• Driver Dies When He’s Impaled by Guardrail

• Laguna Voters Pass Tax Hike By Sara Lin

• Local Officials Pay Tribute to Radio Talk-Show Host By Catherine Saillant

• Motorist Hurt When His Car Hits MTA Orange Line Bus

• Life Goes On By Dana Parsons

• FAA Backs Agreement to Shelve LAX Plan

• 1 Killed, 3 Hurt as Van Plunges Onto Freeway

• A Barbaric End to a Barbaric Life By Steve Lopez

• DWP Board Poised to Expedite Efforts to Reach Green-Power Goal By Patrick Mcgreevy

• O.C. Man Admits Felony Internet Leaking of ‘Star Wars’ Film By Claire Luna

• Plan to Insure Poor Children in O.C. Is OKd By Christian Berthelsen

• Laguna Voters Pass Tax Hike By Sara Lin

• Kurt Singer, 94; Espionage Writer and Biographer Spied on Nazis in World War II By Myrna Oliver

• Board Votes for Less Fat, Salt and Sugar in Menus at L.A. Schools By Erica Hayasaki

• Gang Counselors Find Williams Was Mostly Forgotten By Sandy Banks and Louis Sahagun

• Whooping Cough Cases at 30-Year High in State By Jia-Rui Chong

• Large Funeral Planned for Williams, Friend Says By Maura Dolan

• School Board OKs South L.A. High School Despite Objections By Erika Hayasaki

U.S. Track Stars Barred

• Dodgers Solve Bradley Problem By Tim Brown

• Clippers Don’t Have Much Extra in Loss By Jason Reid

• One Hot ‘Tomato’ By Pete Thomas

• Riley’s Return Is a Real Winner

• Blake Has Scare in Islander Loss

• A Rule Eligible for Review By Diane Pucin

• DePaul Ends Wake Forest’s Home Win Streak

• Fish Report

• Frolov to Face Comrade By Pete Thomas

• City Girls Can Repeat in Tennis By Lauren Peterson

• Anthony Scores 42 to Propel the Nuggets

• Superdome Could Be Ready in ‘06

• Third Time’s the Charm for Norco’s Gerhart By Martin Henderson

• Young Edges Leinart for AP Honors

• Diane Pucin’s Top 25 Rankings By Diane Pucin

• Mathis Never Fulfilled Expectations at Salt Lake By Grahame L. Jones

• South Carolina Starts Fast and Beats No. 14 Minnesota

• Floyd: Close Wins Are ‘Misleading’ By Ben Bolch

• The Best in the Nation Is Also Trojan MVP By Gary Klein

• Magic’s Hill Is Expected to Make Season Debut

• With Long Road Ahead, Every Win Is Meaningful By Mike Bresnahan

• Team to Train, Play in Russia By Jason Reid

• Colts Better Protect Their Quarterback – Or Else By Mike Penner

• It Looks Like a Guy With Time to Spare By Larry Stewart

• It’s a Case of Addition by Subtraction By Bill Plaschke

• Tournament Features Future Teammates By Dan Arritt

• Bruins Still Try to Get Well By Steve Springer

• Lost Advantages Add Up By Eric Stephens

Even faster company

• Leave the parking to them this season By Jeanne Wright

Trading Blunder Raises Concerns About the Tokyo Stock Exchange

• Farmers Take to the Water in WTO Protest By Don Lee

• DirecTV to Settle FTC Charges

• Cigarette Maker Pours It On Strong in Promo By Molly Selvin and Claire Hoffman

• Fed Raises Key Rate Again, Hints Tightening Is Near End By Bill Sing

• MTV to Sell Online but Shuns the IPod By Chris Gaither and Charles Duhigg

• Study Offers L.A. Goals By Bill Sing

• Ameriquest May Refund $295 Million By E. Scott Reckard and Christian Berthelsen

• Retail Sales Increase 0.3% in November as Pump Prices Fall

• Fed Language Soothes Markets By Tom Petruno

• Medicis Cancels Bid for Inamed

• SAG Picks Executive to Lead Hollywood Division By Richard Verrier

• Chemical Rules Clear EU Hurdle

• U.S. Upgrades Probe of Volvo Vehicles

• Financier Buys Wendy’s Stake, Urges Overhaul

• Also

• Google to Hire 600 Workers in Europe

• Best Buy Shares Fall Despite Higher Profit

• Deal for Burlington Defended

• Nut Grower Wins Ruling on Financing Industry Ads By Jerry Hirsch

• Ex-Enron Chief Says He Is Victim of ‘Wave of Terror’

• Measure of Acute Housing Needs Is Static

• Cost of Northrop Satellite System to Grow

• Arena Obesity Drug Shows Early Promise

• HP Issues Upbeat Profit Forecast By Terril Yue Jones

• 180 C-17s Enough, Air Force Says

• SEC Can Overrule NASD, Court Says

• NYSE Wins Dismissal of Suit; ‘Specialists’ Don’t

• PUC May Energize Governor’s Solar Plan By Marc Lifsher

• FCC Member Urges Bill to Curtail Cable Indecency

Throw open the doors

• Dazzling drinks, on the house By Corie Brown

• Trimming the table By Laurie Winer

• Sweets to make them swoon By Susan Latempa

• Feel the warmth By Amy Scattergood

• Presto chango: Italiano! By S. Irene Virbila

• A taste of pho, a dash of urban chic By Susan Latempa

• 2001 Aia Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville By S. Irene Virbila

• Wrapped up in the season By Barbara Hansen

Cowboys, not Kong, are kings of this hill

• HBO, ABC lead pack By Maria Elena Fernandez

• It’s Christmas tradition with a twist By Don Shirley

• ‘Desperate’ times call for comic relief By Elena Howe, Matea Gold, Maria Elena Fernandez

• What’ll happen to weeklies in the new times? By Scott Martelle

• An early Christmas gift By Randy Lewis

• Witnesses to an execution via the small, surreal screen By Paul Brownfield

• ‘Three Burials’ marks a high point By Kevin Thomas

• Finding herself atop a ‘Mountain’ By Susan King

• A big payoff for playing politics By Rachel Abramowitz

• Can ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Move the Heartland? By Robert W. Welkos and Elaine Dutka

• For ‘24,’ a DVD bonus powered by the marketers By Maria Elena Fernandez

• A different way of looking

• The terrorist that lies within By Jason Szep

• ‘The Colt That Didn’t Belong’ By Ruth Kelley

• Hey, the pretty boy can act too By Mary Mcnamara

• Dylan gets a spot on satellite radio By Geoff Boucher

• But where’s the punch line? By Paul Brownfield

• When stars’ ‘Own Words’ are used against them By Robert Lloyd

• Isn’t it too early to be glamorous? By Richard Rushfield

• Movie, TV nominees from Foreign Press

• A parable of life, loss in ‘Finding Home’ By Kevin Thomas

• Universal sees its strategies succeeding By Rachel Abramowitz

• Exhibit envelops a man of letters By Carl Hartman

• With the top five, it’s CBS in the fore By Scott Collins

• McMahon, Williams give benefit poignancy By Steve Hochman

• Basinger in court over custody

• Farrell enters treatment center

• Passion amid the mundane By David L. Ulin

• Jokes & Riddles

• Universal sees its strategies succeeding By Rachel Abramowitz

• Owner to close Dean museum

• Back in the swing politically By Don Heckman

• FINALLY

• Death of a staffer cancels show’s taping

Katrina Blew Away These Schools’ Racial Barriers

• Crew Exhumes Storm Wall Parts in New Orleans By Ralph Vartabedian

• Swede Charged in Plot to Set Up Camp By Sam Howe Verhovek

• No White House Bailout for New Orleans Utility By Scott Gold

• Red Cross Chief Quits; Internal Politics Blamed By Nicole Gaouette

• Bush Admits Drug Plan Can Be Daunting By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

• Minimum Tax Could Apply to Millions More By Joel Havemann

• ‘Cellphone Bandit’ Pleads Guilty in Robbery

• Teams With Air Marshals to Watch Ground Transit

• Ex-Sheriff Gets 24 Years for Helping Dealers

• Online Poker Drove Student to Rob Bank, Lawyer Says By Matt Assad

• Injunction Bars Strike by Transit Workers

• Fight Intensifies Over Renewal of Patriot Act

• Man Charged in Death of Jogger After Body Is Found

• Pentagon May Be Tracking Activists

• Ecoterrorism Case Expands

• Congress Moves to Curb Nation’s Meth Problem By Richard Simon

• Fiber Only One Part of Low Cancer Risk By Jonathan Bor

• U.S. to Begin Mapping Cancerous Tumor Cells By Jonathan D. Rockoff

The myth of the super-predator

• Hate torture? Consider boot camp By Max Boot

• Beneath L.A.’s economy

• Looking for a credible Case

• A below-average audit

• When calamities and politics collide By James Traub

• Elegy for a black antihero

Stifling in Jade Dust

• Oil Blaze Mostly Out; Fire Brigade Criticized

• More ‘Clues’ on CIA Prisons Reported

• Iraqis Grasp the Art of TV Debate, With Gloves On By Louise Roug

• Frustration Boils Over in Sudan Refugee Camp By Edmund Sanders

• Fatal Torture of Inmates Suspected By Borzou Daragahi and Louise Roug

• U.N. Weighs Next Move on Syria By Maggie Farley

• Austria Feels Sense of Betrayal by Native Son By Alissa J. Rubin

• U.S. Navy Helicopter Crashes in Sea; 3 Aboard

• Ex-Cabinet Minister on Trial in Bribery Case

• Pentagon to Seek $100 Billion More for War Costs

• Mechanic Found Guilty of Killing Backpacker

• Village Mob Lynches Man in Revenge

• Army May Pull Back for Hostage Negotiations

• Rice Scolds Holdouts on Iraq Trial By Paul Richter

• Raids by Gunmen Shut Palestinian Election Offices