Archive for Friday, September 28, 2007

No bones about it, Ice Age fur is found rich in DNA

• NASA ‘time machine’ lifts off By John Johnson Jr.

• Smoking ban eases damage to Irish pipes By Thomas H. Maugh II

The key to a good education is to always have a spare key

• Teen collapses during race, dies By David Kelly

• A real knife (and fork) fight By David Pierson

• Two shootings a mile apart

• Big drop in L.A. homicides By Hector Becerra and Richard Winton

• Grand jury decries empty lockup By Bob Pool

• Death penalty for five murders

• Nature holds its ground at lower Compton Creek By Louis Sahagun

• Dry spell has kept bacteria low at beaches By James Ricci

• William D. Rogers, 80; key advisor to Kissinger helped steer foreign policy By Adam Bernstein

• Obituaries - PASSINGS

• Spector retrial may be in spring By Peter Y. Hong and Henry Weinstein

• PASSINGS

• Football player is critically injured in fistfight at party By Tony Barboza

• Family settles on behalf of daughter By Kurt Streeter

• Robert J. Bruss, 67; real estate expert wrote advice column

• A better – if that’s possible – tax bill

• Large complex in NoHo gets OK By Rong-Gong Lin II and Sharon Bernstein

• Woman’s suit alleges coroner treated dead baby as ‘bio-waste’ By Susannah Rosenblatt and Tami Abdollah

• Valley woman cleans up with big lottery win By Stuart Silverstein

• INSIDE

• State bans home ozone air purifiers By Janet Wilson

• Santa Paula to pay smaller fine under deal By Gregory W. Griggs

• Murder trial opens for L.A. gang leader By John Spano

• Suspect held in Bloomington slaying By David Kelly

• Buena Park robbery leaves one man wounded By David Kelly

• L.A. Unified backs No Child Left Behind By Tina Marie Macias

• Early-morning shootings kill 2 in San Bernardino By David Kelly

• INSIDE

• Garcetti urges easing development red tape By David Zahniser

• Police seek SUV linked to Inglewood double slaying By Tami Abdollah

• Lottery results

NOWHERE TO HIDE

• They’re No. 1 on this list too By Christine Daniels

• This week in motor racing - GEARING UP - What’s new in motor sports heading into this weekend: By Jim Peltz

• You knew it’d be a crazy beginning By Sam Farmer

• HU’S ON FIRST

• Defense is called for not holding By Chris Foster

• In one way, UCLA is dependable By Lonnie White

• It’s a Barry good day for rhymes By Pete Thomas

• Hot on the trail of a new season’s golden glories By Pete Thomas

• Americans race to the early lead

• GAME OF THE DAY - Phillies beat Braves, catch Mets for first

• Young Bernier ready to roll By Lonnie White

• Brazil waltzes easily past U.S. in semifinals By Philip Hersh

• Ducks have enough pieces to repeat By Lonnie White

• Dodgers are not kidding about this By Kevin Baxter

• Rangers could have the stuff to surprise By Eric Stephens

• Steelers enjoying their opening run By David Wharton

• The kids these days, that’s what Dodgers need By Ross Newhan

• Angels look for an edge By Mike Digiovanna

• After this off-season, he needs a pull-it-off season By Bill Plaschke

• A strange thing happens on way to the Ivy League By Eric Sondheimer

• A fast start sends Boise State to victory

• Fish report

• Furcal, Abreu done for season By Kevin Baxter

• Galaxy wins one on road

• RELATED STORIES

• Long Beach Poly boasts six former players in the NFL By Lauren Peterson

• SEASON OPENER

• Mets drop into tie for lead in NL East

• Westhead leaves for Seattle

• Burke embraces honor of his team playing overseas By Chuck Culpepper

• U.S. women go the rout against Jamaica, 115-47 By Lance Pugmire and Larry Stewart

• INSIDE

• Hughes helps Yankees win again, 3-1

• Text messages from press row … By Jerry Crowe

• Pettys are, well, petty in today’s NASCAR By Ed Hinton

• USC REPORT - Rivers is making good on billing By Gary Klein

• AROUND THE MAJORS - Union won’t contest Winters’ suspension

• Just Dash looks like an Easy choice By Bob Mieszerski

• Bengals’ Johnson is not expected to play

• No one breaks away in Chase By Jim Peltz

How to fix healthcare

• Show yourself

• Letters to the editor

• For the record

• For the Record

• All the justice money can buy

• The lessons of Myanmar

• Are voter ID laws the new poll tax? By Daniel P. Tokaji

• For the record

• Columbia’s farce By Rosa Brooks

• For the record

• Changing Republican minds

• Corporate greed and labor abuse

• Traffic and education

• For the Record

In South L.A., hope rises along with concrete, steel

• Warner, NBC cut TV deals By Meg James

• Disney to hang up phone service aimed at families By Dawn C. Chmielewski

• Film could ease ratings stigma By Lorenza Munoz

• New-home sales plummet in August

• KB Home posts loss as demand tumbles By Annette Haddad

• Yahoo will shut down podcast service in effort to lift profit

• Google, Microsoft spar before senators By Jim Puzzanghera

• Corporate ballot proposals ripped By Jonathan Peterson

• Medical implant makers settle probe

• Central banks pour in cash as lending crunch lingers

• New smart phone model buoys Palm

• Corporate propriety yields to free speech By David Lazarus

• Trashed junk bonds making a comeback By Tom Petruno

• Writers Guild pickets TV studio By Richard Verrier

• Plan to cut port air pollution assailed By Ronald D. White

• Wall Street gains despite dismal data

• EU may warn on drugs for anemia

• Edison facing severe penalty By Elizabeth Douglass

• AIG buys 21st Century Insurance

• Play yards recalled after infant death

• In Brief | COURTS - Sites sued over movie postings

• In Brief | THE ECONOMY - 30-, 15-year mortgage rates rise

• Wall Street Roundup - Probe to cost Freddie Mac $50 million

• In Brief | AVIATION - Boeing, Airbus share British order

• In Brief | AVIATION - AMR shareholder pushes for spinoff

• In Brief | PHARMACEUTICALS - Isis buys drug funding entity

• Wall Street Roundup - Morgan Stanley to pay $12.5 million

• In Brief | HEALTHCARE - Wal-Mart adds to $4-drug program

• In Brief | RETAIL - Rite Aid loss widens; shares fall

‘Twelfth’ explored in revival

• Lari Pittman’s fantastic dreams By David Pagel

• Saudi shoot-‘em-up By Kenneth Turan

• Much more than ‘just some old lady’ By Patrick Pacheco

• Jamie T. gets up close and personal By Natalie Nichols

• ‘Game Plan’ is just way too cute By Gene Seymour

• ‘Whip ‘Um’ lets the weirdness roll By David Ng

• He gives Big Bird (and Travolta) their feathers By Ellen Simon

• Dark, smart ‘Brotherhood’ aims for higher viewership By Lynn Smith

• A ‘Trade’ issue that crosses the lines By Kevin Crust

• ‘Hannah’ & her misters By Carina Chocano

• ‘Moonlight’ can’t draw blood from genre clichés By Mary Mcnamara

• ‘Bionic Woman’ shows her strength By Rene Lynch

• ‘Feast’ doesn’t bring enough to the table By Carina Chocano

• War’s forgotten casualty: art By Kenneth Turan

• How capitalism on steroids influences our lives today By Terry Burnham

• Price of fame in ‘Great World’ By Kenneth Turan

• Conflicted, evolving and deadly By Mary Mcnamara

• A look at AIDS’ youngest victims By Kevin Crust, Robert Abele, and Gary Goldstein;

• On latimes.com

• Still kidding after all this time By Susan King

• QUICK TAKES - Scorsese to make film on Harrison By Geoff Boucher

• Wanted: curators for future museum By Jacqueline Trescott

• An observer of modern Britain, and 007 too By Jill Lawless

• In Calendar

• His latest politico role is on YouTube By Tina Daunt

• Boyfriend strikes out with gifts he buys her By Carolyn Hax

• Calendar’s Calendar

• She helps more than herself with EBay sales

• Rascal Flatts keep feel-good formula By Ann Powers

• Rascal Flatts keep feel-good formula By Ann Powers

• Forget depth, just kick up your heels By Randy Lewis

• Celebrities who beat the rap

• QUICK TAKES - Anemic ratings bump ‘Nashville’

• QUICK TAKES - Bandits clean out Coppola offices

• QUICK TAKES - Broadway facing a stagehand snag

• QUICK TAKES - S.F. Opera tries ballpark venue

• QUICK TAKES - FINALLY

• Coleman kicks into action at Royce By Don Heckman

Jury convicts 3 mobsters in decades-old murders

• Execution put off over lethal injection By Henry Weinstein

• Saving the world, one initiative at a time By Robin Abcarian

• Army seeks faster growth By Julian E. Barnes

• Clinton legacy is her blessing and her curse By Peter Wallsten

• Giuliani knocks Clinton over Iran comments By Scott Martelle

• ‘Jena Six’ teenager is freed on bail By Miguel Bustillo

• Jenna Bush dishes on fiance, Dad By Johanna Neuman

• Bush vows to minimize problems with air travel By James Gerstenzang

• Bush allies urge him to sign children’s bill By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

• Senate adds hate-crime measure to war bill By Richard Simon

• Stopgap spending bill goes to Bush

• WASHINGTON, D.C.

• ‘High-value’ detainees can request attorneys

• Government unveils new citizenship test By Nicole Gaouette

• Top GOP contenders skip race-issues debate

• GOP electoral effort founders By Dan Morain

• Test changes

• Nation in Brief / WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bush signs student aid bill into law

• Nation in Brief / CONNECTICUT - Catholic bishops OK Plan B for rape

• Nation in Brief / ARIZONA - Judge says antiwar T-shirts protected

• Can you hear us now?

• Halos and pitchforks

• Hello, Mr. Chips

• The state GOP’s war with itself By John J. Pitney Jr.

• Paris – poet or plagiarist? By Joel Stein

Protests defy lethal crackdown

• 9 civilian deaths in village investigated

• Musharraf ordered to free activists By Laura King

• Security may trump ethnic divide in Iraqi city By Borzou Daragahi

• Soldier describes killing unarmed Iraqi By Ned Parker

• AFGHANISTAN

• World in Brief / AFGHANISTAN - Purported Taliban calls to deny arrest

• World in Brief / MEXICO - Hurricane hits Gulf Coast

• World in Brief / EUROPE - Physicists dispute U.S. shield claims