Archive for Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Beauties and big plans in Barstow

• A grim mystery By Scott Glover

• Expected storm prompts flash-flood warnings By Molly Hennessy-Fiske

• Amid the millions, a solitary devotion By Ashraf Khalil

• L.A.’s deep pockets give creatures comfort By Carla Hall

• Stanford professor was organizational behavior pioneer By Jocelyn Y. Stewart

• A JUSTICE AT THE REAGAN LIBRARY

• Documentary maker focused on black issues By Dennis Mclellan

• Orange County supervisors balk at reining in treasurer By Christian Berthelsen

• O.C. woman guilty of molesting 4-year-old girl By Tony Barboza

• Producer helped shape Atlantic Records’ sound By Jon Thurber

• On latimes.com

• State senator gets labor backing By Jack Leonard

• Smoky cockpit forces jet to return to LAX By Jennifer Oldham

• You may not need your appendix, but sometimes you need the Navy By Tony Perry

• L.A. officers’ finances may be scrutinized By Joel Rubin

• In California

• LAX air traffic controllers to seek city panel’s help By Jennifer Oldham

• L.A. Unified chief makes headway on two contentious fronts By Howard Blume and Jason Song

• Producer, wife accused of bribery By Scott Glover

• Plan to allow continued hunting on Santa Rosa Island derailed By Steve Chawkins

• Man gets life in slaying of West Hills couple By Tiffany Hsu

• Fight over L.A. agency official reflects gentrification tensions By , David Zahniser, and Duke Helf

• Mother of four is killed outside home By Paloma Esquivel

• California in Brief / LOS ANGELES COUNTY - Supervisors want say on power plant By Jean-Paul Renaud

• California in Brief / LOS ANGELES - City clerk’s office to oversee voting By Steve Hymon

• Lottery results

• California in Brief / LOS ANGELES - Driver pleads not guilty in 2 deaths By Tiffany Hsu

• California in Brief / LOS ANGELES COUNTY - $250,000 to be paid in boy’s death By Jean-Paul Renaud

• New questions arise in case of overlooked body By Robert J. Lopez and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Rich Connell

• California in Brief / SANTA ANA - Woman convicted of molesting girl, 4 By Tony Barboza

• California in Brief / GARDENA - Report expected on puppy’s demise By Jean-Paul Renaud

• California in Brief / LOS ANGELES - Faulty oven forces plane back to LAX By Jennifer Oldham

• California in Brief / REDONDO BEACH - Leukemia patient, 7, raises $35,000 By Bob Pool

• California in Brief / VISTA - Fire chief is held on DUI charge By Tony Perry

It’s time for some player to inject truth into story

• Rooting out cause of his problems By Kevin Baxter

• Chicago is their kind of town By Mike Bresnahan

• Surgery silences Vitale By Jim Peltz

• Clippers can’t find touch By Jonathan Abrams

• Eventful night for Bryant, Jackson By Mike Bresnahan

• Block talks to Neuheisel By Chris Foster

• Ducks get their say in San Jose By Eric Stephens

• Arizona makes official the line of succession to Olson By Robyn Norwood

• LOWERING THEIR EXPECTATIONS

• Hamilton soccer duo has been pitch perfect By Mike Terry

• Red Wings seem unstoppable By Lonnie White

• Clemens issues a strong denial

• Public, private schools at odds By Eric Sondheimer

• An easy victory for the Bruins By Diane Pucin

• Another lawsuit in Duke lacrosse case By Larry Stewart

• Everyone likes Jaguars this week By Lonnie White

• RESULTS, SCHEDULE

• Scandal snags Florida State

• Ryan is back with sturdy determination By Eric Stephens

• Lingering images of 2007 By Philip Hersh

• Guerrero seems to be in over his head again By T J. Simers

• Thomas considers shake-up

• Austin confirms that he’ll transfer By Ben Bolch

• Neuheisel to get second interview By Chris Foster

• Union signals cooperation By Bill Shaikin and Johanna Neuman

• Davis gets more time, more confidence By Jonathan Abrams

• Charity effort grows for retired players By Greg Johnson

• Morris helps Long Beach State defeat San Francisco

• PRO BOWL TEAMS

• Salmons-led Sacramento surprises Nets

• The Times’ rankings - ROBYN NORWOOD’S RANKINGS AND COMMENTS

• TONIGHT By Peter Yoon;dan Arritt

• Teen on cruise ship gets appendectomy at sea

• THEIR STORIES DON’T END By Addie Morfoot

• CINEMA’S PROSPECTORS By Michael Ordoña

• AWARDS GALORE By Mark Olsen

• PARTIES - GOOD TIMES ROLL

• WHY SHE’S AN ICON By Elizabeth Snead

• NURSING IT INTO A HIT By John Horn

• IN CONTENTION TOM O’NEIL - WORLD OF WORTHY FILMS By Tom O'Neil

• HE PUTS OUT MOB HITS By Patrick Goldstein

• A GRAY DAY IN ROMANIA By Hugh Hart

• HOT HITS

• Clouds over Bali

• THE CORNER QUOTE

• WISE BEYOND HER YEARS By Michael Ordoña

• CONTENDER COUNTDOWN - 4. ‘Gangster’ nod Ridley Scott’s period gangland picture had an up-and-down week: It was excluded from the Broadcast Film Critics mix and earned little love from other national critics. But “American Gangster” turned its fortunes aro

• HOW TO BE TOO GOOD By Mark Salisbury

• HER TIME TO SHINE By Michael Ordoña

• A bad way to lose good cops By Celeste Fremon

• So a fruit fly goes to a bar … By Marlene Zuk

• A world without executions By Louise Arbour

• AFTER THE CREDITS ROLL

• Letters to the editor

• Inside The Times

• For the record

• Batting and bowling amid the shadows By Bruce Wallace

• For the Record

• For the Record

• WHAT’S INSIDE

• Going nowhere fast

• For the Record

• For the Record

• THE ENVELOPE POLL

• THERE HAVE BEEN HONORS

• Just a drop in the bucket

• THE PICKS

• For the Record

• ‘Juno’ road trip

• KEEPING IT MOVING By Michael Mccusker

• Furrowed brows over farm subsidies

• Healthcare remedies

Desperate hours: Stores stay open late

• Cut of ‘Sweeney Todd’ too rich for exhibitor By Josh Friedman

• New Line may get lift from ‘Hobbit’ By Lorenza Munoz

• Fed looks to rein in lenders By Marc Lifsher and Jonathan Peterson

• Cotton subsidy is ruled illegal

• PG&E to get watts from waves By Victoria Kim and Elizabeth Douglass

• Tribune CEO is expected to resign By Michael A. Hiltzik

• Goldman reports record quarter

• Fed outlines stronger lending standards By Jonathan Peterson

• Chevron signs deal in China

• Cash injection pushes up stocks

• FCC passes contentious rule By Jim Puzzanghera

• Newsday, Hoy settle circulation-figure probe

• Europe moves to refinance banks

• Governor delivers message of hope on housing crisis By Lifsher

• U.S. House passes tax relief for struggling homeowners By From Reuters

• latimes.com/business

• Rising costs hurt profit at Darden Restaurants

• TorrentSpy operators held liable

• Palm shares drop on forecast

• Southern California home sales down 43% over last year By Peter Y. Hong

• Guild ponders street protests at Golden Globes By Rachel Abramowitz and Chris Lee

• Facebook settles text-message suit

• Best Buy net income increases 52%

• Bill OKd to spare taxes on forgiven mortgage debt

• Airline descends to a new low: a death fee By Consumer Confidential

• Highlights of Fed mortgage proposal

• In Brief / APPAREL - Cherokee may put itself up for sale

• In Brief / AUTOS - GM offers buyouts to union workers

• Wall Street Roundup - Confidence readings at a 9-year low

• In Brief / COURTS - Deutsche Bank to pay Enron

• In Brief / INTERNATIONAL - Couple held on bribery charges

• Wall Street Roundup - TD Ameritrade raises its forecast

• In Brief / INSURANCE - Allstate fire losses may hit $335 million

• In Brief / TELECOM - Sprint Nextel names chief

• In Brief / HEALTHCARE - Eli Lilly executive to fill CEO post

• In Brief / VIDEO GAMES - Jerry Bruckheimer, Viacom in venture

Dressed to excess

• Pedaling the eco-commute By Throttle Jockey and Susan Carpenter

• 2008 Volvo XC70 AWD

• Better tires, better ‘tude By Ralph Vartabedian

• 2008 iZip Express

Simply spectacular

• A pair of European sophisticates By Jenn Garbee and Donna Deane

• They’ll thank you for sharing By Regina Schrambling

• A new ricer, and a luxurious purée By Leslie Brenner

• Count on Lucques to get it right By S. Irene Virbila

• Eggnog as you’ve never had it By Noelle Carter

• Prime rib with a dash of fa-la-la By Jessica Gelt

• 2005 Domaine Philippe Delesvaux ‘La Montée de l’Epine’ Anjou By S. Irene Virbila

• Currants: Ruby jewels return By Amy Scattergood

• Recipe: Spiced crown pork roast with glazed root vegetables

• Recipe: Clam chowder

• Recipe: Roast pork loin with red currants

• Recipe: Frozen tangerine soufflé

• Recipe: Luxurious potato purée

• Recipe: Seared tuna with Sichuan pepper and soy-mustard sauce

• Recipe: European peasant-style vegetable soup model

• Recipe: Panettone

• Alternative eggnog recipes

• Recipe: Marzipan stollen

• Recipe: Red currant and raspberry granita

• Recipe: Candied orange peel

• Lucques

• Glacé berries, candied peels

• For the record

• Recipe: Heavenly eggnog

No work, no heat, many bills

• Real sounds of a phony By Mikael Wood

• An ugly portrait of Egypt’s street kids By Noha El-Hennawy

• Laughing with the music By Sam Adams

• ‘Puff’ finally gets his happy ending By Lynne Heffley

• History in the remaking By Michael Rubinkam

• QUICK TAKES - Select Grammys are announced By Randy Lewis

• OK, all together now By Robert Lloyd

• This isn’t what the doctors ordered By Tim Rutten

• Strike plucks a political nerve By Jay A. Fern and Ez

• It’s yuletide joy that really rocks By Richard Harrington

• Sounds and parody that are mostly on target By Randy Lewis

• Horoscope: Dec. 19

• Calendar’s Calendar

• ‘Survivor’ job story called ‘misleading’

• QUICK TAKES - Free trips to ‘Atlanta’ offered By Lynne Heffley

• QUICK TAKES - FINALLY

• QUICK TAKES - S.F. Opera goes to the movies

• QUICK TAKES - NBC to air ‘Monk,’ ‘Psych’ By Lynn Smith

• Prime-Time TV Rankings - CBS dominates top 10 shows

• Grandma’s excessive gift giving sign of a problem

• QUICK TAKES - Met acquires Arbus archives

Story of the scarf still waits to be told

• Congress OKs energy bill By Richard Simon

• Campaign battleground shifts to the home front By Peter Wallsten

• Senate passes spending bill By Noam N. Levey

• Taking aim at his rivals over Iraq By Maria L. La Ganga and Scott Martelle

• WASHINGTON, D.C.

• Giuliani faces 9/11 backlash By Stephen Braun

• U.S. to reduce nuclear weapons stockpile By Ralph Vartabedian

• Energy bill highlights

• White House must answer questions over CIA tapes By Richard B. Schmitt and Johanna Neuman

• 42 executions in ‘07 are 13-year low in U.S. By Henry Weinstein

• Nation in Brief / FLORIDA - Judge blocks state voter ID law

• Nation in Brief / COLORADO - Official sees flaws in voting machines

• Nation in Brief / WASHINGTON, D.C. - House to vote on alleviating alternative tax

• This comal made a family By Luis Torres

• Give healthcare a chance

• Seeds of a crisis

• Hope for refugees

• AT LATIMES.COM/OPINION

Conviction in Brazil forest killing voided

• Al Qaeda in North Africa takes new tack amid losses By Sebastian Rotella

• Tarnished populist wins big in S. Africa By Robyn Dixon

• Israeli strikes on Gaza kill more Palestinian militants By Ken Ellingwood and Rushdi Abu Alouf

• World in Brief / UKRAINE - Ex-premier gets second term in office

• Police arrest 4 in secretive Italian mob By Tracy Wilkinson

• Dozens die in Pakistan train derailment

• UKRAINE

• U.N. adopts death penalty moratorium By Maggie Farley

• Australia to tail Japanese whalers

• Pentagon cautiously cites improved security in Iraq By Julian E. Barnes and Peter Spiegel

• Rice makes surprise visit to Iraq By Alex and Ra Zavis

• World in Brief / ARGENTINA - 8 sentenced for rights abuses

• World in Brief / ARUBA - Authorities close Holloway inquiry

• World in Brief / COLOMBIA - Rebels to hand Chavez 3 hostages

• ANC vote highlights bitter party feud By Robyn Dixon