Archive for Thursday, December 22, 2005

Swell Day at Beach With Storm on a Roll

• Can We Blame Sun Poisoning for Some of 2005’s Wacky Items? By Steve Harvey

• 45-Hour Delay: Nonstop Plight By Jennifer Oldham

• Parking Limits Raise Red Flags By Amanda Covarrubias

• CHP Officer Is Killed in Chase By Sam Quinones

• UC Retains Contract for Los Alamos By Ralph Vartabedian and Stuart Silverstein

• 103 Acres Added to Bolsa Chica Reserve By Dan Weikel

• Joseph L. Owades, 86; Created 1st Low-Calorie Beer, Became a Consultant to Microbrewers By Mary Rourke

• Embattled St. Vincent Hospital Replaces CEO By Charles Ornstein

• Violinist, Family Badly Burned in House Fire By Ann M. Simmons

• Slush: the Southland’s Surprise Road Hazard By Lance Pugmire

• Constitutional Ban of Same-Sex Marriage Fails

• Woman at Bus Stop Is Fatally Struck by Car

• Man Convicted of Killing Two Teens in 2004

• T. Edward Hambleton, 94; Co-Founded Phoenix Theater Off-Broadway

• UC Official Acted Improperly, Probe Finds By Peter Y. Hong

• Prison Sentence for O.C. Driver By Mai Tran

• Permit to Merge Landfill Operations Is Denied

• For State’s Aged, Blind, Disabled, a Lump of Coal for Christmas By George Skelton

• Hot Air Balloon Crash Causes Power Outage

• Lyndon Olson Sr., 80; Won High Court Case on ‘One Man, One Vote’

• Crews Set Fire to Prevent Blast By Wendy Thermos

• The Flu Season Hits Early and Hard By Rong-Gong Lin II

• Plan to Split L.A. Unified to Be Offered By Joel Rubin

• Mental Patient an Apparent Suicide By Ashley Powers

• Metrolink to Add Four Runs to Inland-O.C. Route By Daniel Yi

• 25,000 Marines and Sailors to Deploy to Iraq

• Inmate’s Death Ruled a Homicide By Susannah Rosenblatt

• Five Men Killed in Collision By Anna Gorman

• Ex-Animal Services Chief Files Appeal By Patrick Mcgreevy

• Fullerton Shop Owner Dies When His Forklift Tips Over

• Huntington Beach Official Accused of DUI By David Haldane

• L.A. Targets Patient Dumping By Cara Mia Dimassa and Richard Winton

KOBE DIDN’T WILT

• Finley Is Headed North By Mike Digiovanna

• Dodger Makeover Continues By Steve Henson

• Clippers Stay Down and Out By Mike Terry

• Role Players Aid Kings By Chris Foster

• Out of the Blue, USC Defeats Tar Heels By Ben Bolch

• Ohio Prep Star Raises Eyebrows By Dan Arritt

• Wagner Almost Makes It Upsetting Night for UCLA By Steve Springer

• Toledo Dominates by Land and by Air

• Arizona Works Overtime to Win

• Blake Scores in Islander Win

• Middies, Rams Ready for Battle By Tony Perry

• TODAY’S BOWL GAMES By Lonnie White

• Ducks Work Fast in 6-3 Win By Eric Stephens

• California’s Struggles Land It in Las Vegas Bowl By Lonnie White

• Washington Is Planning on Staying By Gary Klein

• NOW YOU KNOW

• Livingston Plays His Way Back By Mike Terry

• 76ers Prevail With 1-2 Punch

• Bryant Says He Could Have Grooved to 80 By Dan Arritt

• Seniors Get Carried Away By Steve Springer

• Crosby Left Off Team Canada’s Roster By Helene Elliott

• Brown Duo Lead Fullerton, 67-59

• Fish Report

• New Mexico Retains Grip With Triple-Overtime Win

• Waiting Is Hardest Part for Brown By Peter Yoon

• Only Bryant Could Get Second-Guessed After 62 By T J. Simers

• Puerta Gets Eight-Year Tennis Ban

• Colts Lead League With 7 Pro Bowl Selections

• Just the Idea of Doing This Sends a Shiver By Grahame L. Jones

• Troy Girls’ Basketball Team Loses to No. 1 Squad in U.S.

Comfort and joy

• On the rocks or straight up By Heidi Siegmund Cuda

• From the ground up By Scott Sandell

• Angel and demon at either hand By Mike Boehm

• It takes a Village – and beyond By Kevin Bronson

• Reinventing, for the big wheels By S. Irene Virbila

• Still cooking after all these years By Charles Perry

• Talent home-grown for the holidays

• Familiar faces, strange land By Susan King

• ‘Nemo’ surfaces on the ice

• Ben Franklin – in his own words By Scott Timberg

• A Los Angeles career, a New York state of mind By Mark Sachs

• In any tongue, sad songs make Lila Downs happy By Richard Cromelin

• The Wiggles will reach Japan By From Associated Press

• BUZZ BANDS By Kevin Bronson

• Delivered from slavery By Michelle Maltais

• Fit for princes, now shared with the public By Terrence Petty

• Latino company gets LATC lease By Don Shirley

• 50 Cent and Carey are going to the wire By Robert Hilburn

• Money: The root of all issues By Teresa Strasser

• English National Opera chief quits

• Let’s do lunch

• Three stabbings at B.I.G. party

• Rediscovered Rembrandt work to be sold

• WEEKEND FORECAST

• Ask the Critic: Christopher Knight By Christopher Knight

• Henson Honor goes to Rowling

L.A. Council Acts to Save Grocery Jobs

• Time Warner Picks President By Meg James

• Ralphs in a Mess of Its Own Making By Michael Hiltzik

• Seagate in Deal to Buy Rival Maxtor By Terril Yue Jones

• Calpine’s Woes May Hit Ratepayers By Marc Lifsher

• UnitedHealth Gets U.S. OK to Buy PacifiCare

• Senate Backs FDIC Changes

• Third-Quarter GDP Revised Downward

• Delphi: Shareholders Unlikely to Get Anything

• FedEx’s Profit Increases 33%, Tops Forecasts

• H&R Block to Settle Refund Loan Suits

• Jurors Clear Boeing in Discrimination Suit

• Southwest Still Plans Midway Expansion

• Ford Completes Sale of Hertz Rental Car Unit

• Acquisitions Help Stocks Post Gains in Session

• IBM Acquisition Plan Sends Micromuse Shares Up 38%

• Founder to Leave Thomas H. Lee

• CarMax Profit Jumps 46% on Strong Sales

• DaimlerChrysler in $94-Million Settlement

• Research in Motion’s Net Income Rises 33%

• Also

• Lilly to Pay $36 Million on Marketing Claims

• DeVry to Sell 20-Acre Campus By Roger Vincent

‘Account of a Visit From St. Nicholas’

• CREATIVITY CORNER

• Jokes & Riddles

Crashed Seaplane Had a Cracked Wing Beam

• U.S. Bid to Transfer Padilla Is Denied

• Senate Says No to Arctic Oil Drilling By Richard Simon and Joel Havemann

• Talk of Plea by Lobbyist Has Hill on Edge By Chuck Neubauer and Janet Hook

• Bush Signs Off on Tax Breaks to Bolster Businesses in Gulf

• 2 New Orleans Police Fired in Beating By Scott Gold

• New Life for Patriot Act Is No Bush Win By Richard B. Schmitt and Mary Curtius

• Police Hunt Escaped Serial Rape Suspect

• Federal Judge Quits Foreign-Intelligence Court By Richard B. Schmitt and Maura Reynolds

• Type 1 Diabetics Can Halve Deadly Risk By Delthia Ricks

• Skeleton Indicates That Woman Died Violently

• Visibility Waiver Cited in Air Crash By Jon Hilkevitch

• Challenger to Sen. Clinton Ends Bid By Errol A. Cockfield Jr.

• Virginia Recount Verifies Win

• Death Sentences Show Decline Nationwide By Henry Weinstein

• Two Baltimore Police Slain; Officer Surrenders

• Columbus Mayor’s Wife Guilty of Drunk Driving

• Shark Attacks Man Off Maui

• Bourbon Street Curfew Lifted

• Puppeteer’s Employee Is Charged With Murder

• New Jersey: Garden of Unpleasant Slogans

L.A.’s high-style high-rise

• Brilliance, by the bough By Lili Singer

• Counting the days By David A. Keeps and Adamo Digregorio

• Sonic boom, from room to room By David Colker

• Tools for learning By David A. Keeps

• A glowing element

• Gold-fashioned way

• Knock on wood By David A. Keeps

• Ho-ho, hack-hack By Chris Erskine

• Firebrand? He’s nuts and he’s after nukes By Jonah Goldberg

• Borderline reality

• LAXmas wishes By Patt Morrison

• College lessons: Genetics, By Joseph H. Cooper

• An intelligent decision

• The man who really brought down LBJ By Max Holland

• Israel’s election hurdles

• By Kerry Madden

Hussein Asserts U.S. Guards Abused Him, Co-Defendants

• In Berlin, a Cultural Wall Sets Turks Apart By Jeffrey Fleishman

• Toxic River Spill in China Again Shuts Off an Area’s Water Supply

• Same-Sex Couples Say ‘I Do’ in Britain By John Daniszewski

• Some Paraguayans Fear U.S. ‘Secret Agenda’ By Patrick J. Mcdonnell

• Fox Turns to Texas PR Firm to Shape Mexico’s Image in U.S. By Sam Enriquez

• U.N.’s Inability to Avert Iraq War ‘Haunts’ Annan By Maggie Farley

• A Glimpse of a City of Dreams By Doug Smith

• More Than 40 Sentenced in Andijon Uprising

• Rumsfeld Tells Troops U.S. Faces Attack If It Pulls Out

• U.S. Asked Germany Not to Free Terrorist

• Israel May Block Palestinian Balloting in East Jerusalem By Ken Ellingwood

• Christmas Gifts Sent to the Space Station

• Hong Kong Lawmakers Nix Overhaul Plan

• Karzai Rival Is Elected Head of Parliament

• Decades Later, Ex-Guest Workers Get Payment

• It Was a Hobby, He Says With a Poker Face

• Iraqi Court Upset Over U.S. Release of Prisoners

• Russia Eases Its Plans to Restrict Foreign NGOs

• Tehran Plans to Stick With Atomic Program

• Population Decreases for First Time as Births Fall