Archive for Wednesday, April 16, 2008

• Increase in space debris poses risk By John Johnson Jr.

• East L.A. taco truck owners say they’ll stay put By Jean-Paul Renaud

• Orange County Calendar

• Nuñez is pushing change as his legacy By Nancy Vogel

• Death of cat at O.C. jail is being probed By Stuart Pfeifer

• O.C. to install closed-circuit cameras in jail By Christian Berthelsen

• 2 dead in crashes that snarl morning commute By Francisco Vara-Orta and Molly Hennessy-Fiske

• OC Sheriff’s Department fires deputy who revealed grand jury testimony By Christine Hanley

• Runner-up 1 By Ken Martinet

• Writers taking a flier on ‘Birds’ By Steve Lopez

• Pellicano co-defendant loses his bid for a mistrial By Carla Hall

• East L.A. shootings leave 2 men dead By Francisco Vara-Orta

• Renewal in Reseda By Am and A Covarrubias

• Presidential aide wrote key speech for Ford By Jon Thurber

• Living with the white dust from a cement factory By Janet Wilson

• Broken gas line forces evacuation in Glassell Park By Hennessy-Fiske

• Palos Verdes parents drop plans for charter school By Seema Mehta

• Lottery results

• Runner-up 4 By Nick Boone

• Runner-up 3 By Gordon Davis

• State beach trail closed by the Air Force will reopen By Catherine Saillant

• Woman linked to drug activity arrested By Andrew Blankstein and Sam Quinones

• California prisons chief to resign By Michael Rothfeld

• Former O.C. animal shelter supervisor convicted in sex assaults By Mike Anton

• Sticking to their guns By Kate Pretorius

• Seizure is used as defense in killing By Jack Leonard

• 5-car crash squeezes commuters on the 605 in Norwalk By Molly Hennessy-Fiske

• New group aims to end GOP’s frustrations in state By Phil Willon

• Off-duty officer cleared in killing By David Kelly

• In California

• Runner-up 2 By Philip Garrett Panitz

• Federal citizenship agency is keeping longer office hours By H G. Reza

• Bicyclist fatally shot near Mar Vista By Molly Hennessy-Fiske

• ‘Ollie’ Johnston Jr., last of Disney’s ‘Nine Old Men,’ dies By Charles Solomon

• Falling corporate profits gouge a wider hole in California budget By Evan Halper

• See it now: the center of the world By Mike Anton

• Woman charged with murder in offramp shooting By Andrew Blankstein

• Desert monument captures history on stone By Mike Anton

• Fresno student shot dead by police officer By Ap

• Aldous Huxley’s estate is a brave new market listing By Ann Brenoff

• Mexico takes highly ambitious approach to coaching search By Grahame L. Jones

• Bettors become big Celtics fans By Lonnie White

• Matthews helps Angels win 3rd straight game, 7-4 By Mike Digiovanna

• UCLA players ditch practice, upset Neuheisel By Chris Foster

• Garciaparra back; DeWitt to stay too By Ez and Dylan Hern

• Sanchez appears to have won USC quarterback job By Gary Klein

• Anthony ‘sorry’ as police accused

• Wednesday’s TV highlights

• Worst case turns to first By Mike Bresnahan

• Sanchez gets the nod at USC By Gary Klein

• Sharks rally and beat Flames, 3-2

• Williams victorious in Family Circle Cup

• His plan to reach the majors really out there By Eric Sondheimer

• Ueberroth vows ‘clean’ U.S. team By Diane Pucin

• Ducks answer back Stars By Eric Stephens

• Ducks’ Rob Niedermayer out for tonight’s game By Eric Stephens

• Dodgers win it top to bottom By Ez and Dylan Hern

• ANGELS 7, TEXAS 4

• These Lakers made some pretty valuable moves too By T J. Simers

• Tiger Woods has surgery on knee

• The Times’ rankings

• Pistons clinch league’s second-best record

• Hornets beat Clippers, are No. 2 in West

• Players welcome Robinson homage By Mike Digiovanna

• Reserves have eased the strain By Mike Bresnahan

• Tigers make a habit of rallying to win

• Toronto will play host to NFL game

• It adds up to a season no one figured on By Bill Plaschke

• UCLA players decide to ditch By Chris Foster

• The Times’ rankings

• Clippers face more tough times By Jonathan Abrams

• For Kobe and Team USA, operative word is ‘team’ By Helene Elliott

• Some U.S. swimmers switch to high-tech Speedo suit By Lisa Dillman

• Phillies rally, defeat Astros, 4-3

• Daredevil lands in new film By Susan Carpenter

• A macho ride for both sexes? It’s no illusion By Susan Carpenter

• Uptight, outta sight By Dan Neil

• 2009 Nissan GT-R

• By David Lazarus

• Music site debuts with big-name supporters By Michelle Quinn

• By Marc Lifsher

• Hedge funds need greater transparency, groups suggest

• USA-ECONOMY/

• Development effort scores victory By Roger Vincent

• Washington Mutual CEO to be asked to give up chairmanship

• Business briefs

• Northrop’s profit warning sends shares down 6% By Peter Pae

• Airwaves auction fails to achieve major goal By Jim Puzzanghera

• Venezuela OKs 50% tax on oil firms

• Stocks gain in erratic day By Madlen Read

• More execs call their CEOs’ pay excessive

• Intel meets lowered forecasts

• U.S. bankruptcies soared 38 percent in 2007, government says

• J&J sees profit climb 40%; weak dollar helps lift sales

• Delta-Northwest merger to get scrutiny from Congress

• Frozen market’s big chill

• Electric car maker sues designer

• Southern California home prices take another hit By Peter Y. Hong

• Merck’s use of ghostwriters criticized

• Facebook in another dispute with founder’s former classmate

• PUC recommends 3.6% rate increase for Edison By Elizabeth Douglass

• JetBlue’s expansion has rivals scrambling By Peter Pae

• Passover recipe: Flourless chocolate cake (Gateau d’Ariel)

• Recipe: Prune-Armagnac ice cream

• Hong Kong-style coffee shops in Southern California

• Odyssey of a Passover feast By Amy Scattergood

• Passover recipe: Pomegranate braised lamb

• Comfort food with a passport By Linda Burum

• Let’s hear it for rhubarb

• A fruit that’s better than chocolate? By David Lebovitz

• Sushi, via New York By S. Irene Virbila

• Recipe: Earl Grey tea-poached prunes with glazed kumquats

• Passover recipe: Persian chicken soup with chicken dumplings

• Bond Street

• 2005 Alvaro Palacios Les Terrasses Priorat

• Recipe: Prune and chocolate tiramisu

• Passover recipe: Potato and porcini mushroom gnocchi

• Breakdown puts the brakes on relationship

• ‘Runway’s’ final Bravo strut By Matea Gold

• And then, inspiration struck By David Bauder

• Burst of leaks getting slippery By David Sarno

• Acting crazy – a redundant phrase By David Ng

• Neil Diamond says new disc goes ‘deeper’

• The revelations of ‘Parents Weekend’ By Jay A. Fern and Ez

• Calendar’s Calendar

• Beneath the flights of genius By Charles Mcnulty

• Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism

• Horoscope: April 16 By Holiday Mathis

• Letting it all hang out By Chris Lee

• ‘Under One Roof’

• Two visions for two ‘Roof’ versions By Greg Braxton

• Porn on cellphones uncalled for at work

• Wake-up call on the economy By Tim Rutten

• Re-attuning the ears By Mark Swed

• ‘Klüb’

• A sadly uninspired interpretation of Jobim’s music By Don Heckman

• A tight run for the money By Tina Daunt

• Only the laugh track is laughing By Mary Mcnamara

• Cynthia Nixon goes public with breast cancer battle By Ap

• ‘X-Files’ movie title revealed By Ap

• Spears’ restraining order against Lutfi under review By Ap

• Wayne Brady divorce finalized By Ap

• Plastic safety tips

• Clinton losing traction over Obama in Pennsylvania, Indiana By Janet Hook

• Another life away from the campaign By Jill Zuckman

• McCain outlines his tax initiatives By Johanna Neuman

• Chemical in plastic may harm children By Marla Cone

• Cheney need not testify in lawsuit By Deedee Correll

• COLORADO

• Bush to set ‘realistic’ goals to combat global warming By James Gerstenzang

• McCain proposes gas tax suspension By Michael Finnegan

• Gaza fighting kills 19 Palestinians, 3 Israeli soldiers By Ap

• 6 million pounds of trash found on beaches By Ap

• Dollars to doughnuts diagnosis By Albert Fuchs

• Racism’s resonance By David K. Shipler

• Not justice

• Get a new script

• From sea to tap By Peter Maclaggan

• A wellspring of sympathy

• AT LATIMES.COM/OPINION

• Save the murals By Gustavo Arellano

• The state of L.A. By Tim Rutten

• Teach the controversy?

• Zimbabwe strike doesn’t take

• U.S. issues Mexico alert By Deborah Bonello

• Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood members By Jeffrey Fleishman

• Al Qaeda crosses the t’s in ‘terrorist’ By Sebastian Rotella

• 2 Iraq bombings kill more than 50 By Tina Susman

• INDIA

• Americans’ plane stolen in Mexico

• Pope vows to help heal wounds of sex abuse scandal By Tracy Wilkinson and Michael Muskal

• Vladimir Putin takes helm of Russia’s top political party By Megan K. Stack and Sergei L. Loiko

• Pretrial hearing held for Iraq contractor in stabbing

• Britain’s Gordon Brown could use a warm welcome in U.S. By Kim Murphy

• Carter holds talks with Hamas figure

• At least 45 die when bus plunges into canal in western India By Ap

• Berlusconi ‘wants EU to regain global influence’ By From Reuters

• Police arrest 36 people in troubled Zimbabwe By Ap

• India braces as Olympic torch arrives at heart of Tibetan exile community By Ap

• U.S. military releases AP photographer in Iraq By Ap