Archive for Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Some Life Lessons on a Mountain Trail

• Coroner’s Office Has Answer to Deadly Dull Gifts By Steve Harvey

• A Haven for Children in L.A. Closes After 125 Years By Bob Pool

• A Public Goodbye for Williams By Louis Sahagun

• Santa Ana’s Secret: Big Spenders By Jennifer Delson

• Vincent ‘The Chin’ Gigante, 77; Mob Chief Faked Mental Illness in Bid to Avoid Prison By Richard Pyle

• Hunch Leads to Arrest in O.C. Double Killing By H G. Reza

• Enrique Hernandez, 74; LAPD Retiree Created Global Private Security Firm By Jon Thurber

• Red Cross Services Officer Resigns By Hector Becerra

• Schwarzenegger Tells Hometown to Take His Name Off Stadium By Peter Nicholas

• Barry Halper, 66; Avid Collector of Baseball Memorabilia

• Robert Sheckley, 77; Writer Blended Satire, Sci-fi By Valerie J. Nelson

• San Diego City Atty. Fined Over Election Funds By Tony Perry

• Alleged Videotaping for Extortion Described By Andrew Blankstein

• Driver Shortage May Delay L.A. Unified Bus Routes By Joel Rubin

• Jet Returns to LAX for Emergency Landing By Jill Leovy

• Sex Offender Can Leave Mental Hospital, Judge Says

• 2 Teenagers Charged With Conspiracy to Commit Murder

• State to Probe UCI Hospital Suicide By Christian Berthelsen

• Passenger, 14, Dies When Truck Hits Tree

• Keeping Lake Tahoe blue

• Community Panels Vote to Link Up By Patrick Mcgreevy

• Sex Offender Charged in Boy’s Molestation

• Ex-King/Drew Doctor Gets Probation By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber

• Panel Reluctantly OKs LAX Runway Contract By Jennifer Oldham

• Governor Appoints New Communications Director By Peter Nicholas

• More Sites Drop Oral HIV Test By Rong-Gong Lin II and Juliet Chung

• Ex-Animal Services Chief to Appeal By Patrick Mcgreevy

• Robert B. Luce, 83; Publisher of Books and Magazines

• 3 Slayings Bring City’s Total to 88 for Year

• Priest Accused of Sexual Abuse Deported to U.S.

• Fullerton Girl Is Home in O.C.; Mom Still in Mexico By David Haldane

• Riverside County to Borrow Voting Machines, Printers By Susannah Rosenblatt

• Man Is Electrocuted While Decorating Home

• UC Regents to Review Pay for Top Officials By Peter Y. Hong

• Vietnamese Immigrants Give $1 Million to College By Mai Tran

• John Ferguson, 86; Voice of LSU Sports for More Than 40 Years

• Prisons to Curtail Racial Segregation By Jill Leovy