Today’s Headlines

 
 

Children of Vietnam War servicemen seek U.S. citizenship

California | Local | By My-Thuan Tran | 7:00AM
Randy Tran walked quickly past the majestic domes and marble statues of Capitol Hill, looking for the Cannon House Office building and the people he believed could help him. Read more
 

Sister of boy slain in 1968 by a serial killer plans vigil

California | Local | By Andrew Blankstein and Evelyn Larrubia | 7:00AM
She knows it won’t be easy. Read more
 

Angels cursed because of Moreno’s mistake

California | Local | By Dana Parsons | 7:00AM
What does Angels owner Arte Moreno have in common with a long-dead Broadway producer and a smelly Chicago goat? Read more
 

Dodgers not worried as Phillies play it cool

Sports | By Kevin Baxter | 12:00AM, October 10
PHILADELPHIA – If the Dodgers are worried after losing Game 1 of the National League Championship Series, burning their ace and leaving them needing a win today just to bring the series back to Los Angeles even, they aren’t showing it. Read more
 

Compton Dominguez High’s Jordan Hamilton says he’s going to play for Texas

Sports | 12:00AM, October 10
Jordan Hamilton has been courted by seemingly every powerhouse college basketball program in the nation for quite sometime now, and it appears as if Texas might have ended up as the winner in the sweepstakes for the talented 6-foot-7 senior from Compton Dominguez. Read more
 

Baron Davis looks sharp in his official debut

Sports | By Lisa Dillman | 12:00AM, October 10
FRESNO – All that was missing from a nearly ideal night was a Dodgers win, but baseball fan Baron Davis had to limit himself to events under his control. Read more
 

Gender- bending espionage

Entertainment | 12:00AM, October 10
It’s been two decades since David Henry Hwang’s Tony-winning “M. Butterfly” first hit Broadway. Read more
 

Buffett bio is time well invested

Entertainment | By Zachary Karabell | 12:00AM, October 10
IT IS difficult to imagine better timing for the publication of a Warren Buffett biography, and not just any biography but a nearly 900-page authorized tome. Read more
 

Live: New Kids on the Block

Entertainment | By August Brown | 12:00AM, October 10
Donnie Wahlberg, of the recently reunited boy band juggernaut New Kids on the Block, had some unexpected words of defiance toward the end of his group’s sold-out show at Staples Center on Wednesday. Read more
 

It’s a good life for the ‘Starter Wife’

Entertainment | By Lynn Smith | 12:00AM, October 10
CLEARLY, there are worse jobs than working on a show that sends up Hollywood excess. Read more
 

Film on German terrorists criticized

Entertainment | 12:00AM, October 10
BERLIN – A new film devoted to the violent career of the Red Army Faction has drawn sharp criticism from both the daughter of one of the left-wing German terrorist group’s leaders and the daughter of a prominent victim. Read more
 

To party like a good neighbor

Entertainment | By Charlie Amter | 12:00AM, October 10
For the better part of a decade, downtown L.A. real estate agents have been enticing residents to buy or rent lofts with the promise of real night-life options “coming soon.” Read more
 

The Express’ gets off track

Entertainment | By Mark Olsen | 12:00AM, October 10
At times stirring, inspiring and thoughtful, “The Express” tells the life story of football player Ernie Davis, who in 1961 became the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy. Read more
 

Ember’ is depressing trip underground

Entertainment | By Robert Abele | 12:00AM, October 10
The exasperated rumble of dying machinery – to our pampered ears, the sound of civilization ending – is the aural backdrop of “City of Ember,” a grim fantasy about a cloistered subterranean metropolis that wants to be both a kids’ adventure and a dystopian finger-wag. Read more
 

Oh, how she wishes they’d do the dishes

Entertainment | 12:00AM, October 10
Dear Amy: I recently moved into an apartment with three other girls. Read more
 

The Starter Wife ’

Entertainment | 12:00AM, October 10
The Starter Wife’ Where: USA When: 9 tonight Rating: Not rated Read more
 

They’re on a mission possible

Entertainment | By Greg Braxton | 12:00AM, October 10
Wren T. Brown recalls growing up in the 1960s in a modest South Los Angeles neighborhood off a lively Washington Boulevard corridor, invigorated by popular night spots, such as the Ebony Showcase Theatre, the It Club and the Parisian Room. Read more
 

Slender ‘Body’ of work

Entertainment | By Kenneth Turan | 12:00AM, October 10
Body of Lies” is a film in disguise. Read more
 
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