Archive for Friday, October 26, 2007

SOUTHLAND BLAZES: IMAGES OF DISASTER - PICKING UP THE PIECES - Residents give thanks for what survived – each other, a beloved horse, objects picked from ashes. And their memories.

• Fortunately, this mixing up of medical terms was funny, not fatal By Steve Harvey

• Fire threat to homes diminishes By Mitchell L, Sberg, and Tami Abdollah, Maeve Reston

• Senate’s defeat of bill puts students’ dreams on hold By Teresa Watanabe

• Fostering a love of reading

• Bratton is sworn in for second term By Richard Winton

• Yet again, smoke gets in their lives By Peter H. King

• Judy Mazel, 63; wrote controversial bestseller ‘The Beverly Hills Diet’ By Valerie J. Nelson

• Accountants donated to Nunez’s appointee for regulatory panel By Michael Rothfeld

• In San Diego, a tardiness charge By Garrett Therolf and Tony Perry, H G. Reza

• Closed roads, opened centers

• Tribal volunteers tackle blaze By Scott Gold

• Suit seeks to save Cocoanut Grove By Evelyn Larrubia

• Fire creates opening, traps for immigrants By Richard Marosi

• Authorities vow to catch arsonist in O.C. fire By Seema Mehta and Hector Becerra, Tony Barboza

• William Stephenson, 95; designed homes for Reagan, other celebrities

• Nowhere untouched by fires

• Two homes, two couples, two fates By Matt Lait and Scott Glover, Jack Leonard

• Radio relics preserved, then tainted By Bob Pool

• Don Beamsley, 79; big-band pianist and organist for Dodgers

• Battling in backwoods By Paul Pringle

• Poway neighbors fight flames themselves By Robert J. Lopez

• Nursing care patients return By Charles Ornstein

• A holdout and his home still standing By Scott Gold

• Bush to tour fire-ravaged areas today By Mitchell L, Sberg, and Louis Sahagun, Hector Becerra

• How to help fire victims

• ‘I don’t know how long it will take’ By Carla Hall

• Help, equipment for the disabled By Francisco Vara-Orta

• Medflies found in county for first time since 2001 By Eric Bailey

• Spare fare is fine by them By David Kelly

• House survived? Still, beware By Evelyn Larrubia

• DNA-based arrest comes 23 years after O.C. woman’s slaying By Jennifer Delson

• Caring for, or finding, your pet By Francisco Vara-Orta

• Official pushes for L.A. toll lanes By Jeffrey L. Rabin

• Death row inmate, 58, dies of cancer By Michael Rothfeld

• INSIDE

• In Silverado Canyon, a new cliffhanger By Janet Wilson and Mike Anton, Tony Barboza

• Unpaid fares may cost MTA millions By Jeffrey L. Rabin

• PASSINGS

• Air Force spy plane to fly over fire zone By Julian E. Barnes

• San Diego set no enviable standard By Steve Lopez

• $150,000 reward offered in Santiago fire By Seema Mehta and Hector Becerra, Tony Barboza

• INSIDE

• Jury convicts L.A. gang leader of three murders By Greg Krikorian

• State levies fines on nine hospitals By Mary Engel

• Eve Curie Labouisse, 102; daughter, biographer of scientist Marie Curie

• Lottery results