Archive for Thursday, October 25, 2007

Winds favor the firefighters

• Refuge for readers can be risky By John L. Mitchell

• Coulter’s appearance at USC prompts ovations, protests By Rebecca Trounson

• Jordan’s queen takes aim at stereotypes By Carla Hall

• Congregations vows to rebuild fire-consumed Malibu church By K. Connie Kang and Martha Groves

• Southland residents waiting to inhale By Marla Cone

• 1 million fled fires? As the smoke clears, the estimates shrink By Megan Garvey and H G. Reza, Sharon Bernstein

• Crews try backfires to save Live Oak Canyon By Seema Mehta and Mike Anton, Tony Barboza

• Evacuations and closures

• A Halloween sugar bear

• Forest thinning helps spare some homes By Maeve Reston and David Kelly, Louis Sahagun

• Obituaries | PASSINGS - Roderick T. Ryan, 83; got honorary Oscar for his work in film technology

• Sixth-graders put words to worries By Carla Rivera

• A riverside idyll

• Fire crisis plays to the governor’s strengths By Michael Rothfeld

• A dangerous, and coveted, job on the line By Paul Pringle

• 2 killed in crash of runaway rig on PCH

• Fleeing aerial spraying

• Vic Ramos, 77; casting director for noted directors including Coppola By Valerie J. Nelson

• Irving Sorkin, 88; dentist saw Hollywood dream come true as award-winning producer By Dennis Mclellan

• Arson suspect killed, another arrested By Maeve Reston and Hector Becerra

• ‘I hope my house is still there’ By Janet Wilson

• How fire victims can pick up their mail By Mary Engel

• Bratton vows city will be safer By Richard Winton

• Golf courses to reopen, offer rounds as relief By David Mckibben

• Jobs as lifestyle-killers: When growth isn’t free By George Skelton

• Funds keep high-speed rail project alive By Patrick Mcgreevy

• L.A. County offers tax relief to property owners By Evelyn Larrubia

• INSIDE

• Report lauds work of Sheriff’s Dept. monitor By Stuart Pfeifer

• Disaster aid centers to open this week By Jeffrey L. Rabin

• How to help fire victims

• Fire victims can now apply for federal aid

• Port spends $3.1 million to fight lawsuit By David Zahniser

• Disaster status means more federal fire aid By Tami Abdollah and J P. Renaud

• INSIDE

• Ridley-Thomas to run for L.A. County supervisor By Patrick Mcgreevy

• State’s readiness a flash point By Jordan Rau

• Tasting soot and defeat By Ari B. Bloomekatz and Scott Gold

• Weather begins to offer some hope By Mitchell L, Sberg, and Christine Hanley, Janet Wilson

• How firefighters’ wives beat the heat of worry By Dana Parsons

• Anxiety, relief on the way home By Janet Wilson

• Lottery results

• Rug merchant killed in failed robbery By Jill Leovy

• O.C., L.A. County lack a reverse-911 system By , Duke Helf, and Steve Hymon

• IN BRIEF | Los Angeles County | LOS ANGELES - Council backs resolution on Armenian genocide

• No respite in Julian By Joe Mozingo

• 17 indicted in L.A. street gang crackdown By John Spano

• IN BRIEF | Los Angeles County | LOS ANGELES - City denies permit for Elephant Hill developer