Archive for Friday, February 08, 2008

• SpaceShuttle

• Biofuel crops might increase carbon emissions

• Disney and hotel workers not talking

• Head of clinics faces charges

• In California

• Mixed outlook on Ventura economy

• The art of the last-minute project

• Even jailbirds glamorize their resumes

• Deny state prison guards a 5% raise, analyst urges

• PASSINGS

• SWAT officer took duty to heart

• Craigslist ad linked to alleged plot to kill rival

• Pastor’s wife co-founded Guideposts

• After defeat, O.C. tollway officials consider new route

• Navy sonar testing ban is extended

• Ad executive broke barriers for women

• DA says child-care facilities were a scam

• Veteran legislator to replace Perata

• Lottery results

• They want this place to stay put

• Editor’s note

• 5 dead after 12-hour standoff at a San Fernando Valley home

• Shooter’s family expresses grief and surprise

• Siege leaves 5 dead, deeply shakes LAPD

• Riley’s hair has nothing on this deal

• Bruins are relentless in victory

• Dean plays by the rules

• AP WOMEN’S TOP 25

• TONIGHT

• RESULTS, SCHEDULE

• Chicago’s 2016 bid clears a hurdle

• Corona Barry ends long layoff

• Security a concern for Fairfax-Westchester

• Clemens, lawmakers begin meetings on steroids

• Santa Anita postpones live racing

• Herbert returns to racing after tragedy

• Wave of common sense crashes on toll road vote

• Not bullish about this weekend

• Bryant, Gasol playing in pain

• Friday’s TV highlights

• Francis says he’ll be back next season

• Cassell denies aggressive bid for a buyout

• RESULTS, SCHEDULE

• Fox isn’t sly about his goals, confidence

• Surprise stars lift Ducks on big stage

• Pedregon begins defense of funny car title

• Beckham, Galaxy get schedule break

• Pacific edges Northridge to force tie atop Big West

• RELATED STORY

• Pahlsson set to play against Rangers

• Kings stop Red Wings

• Sign of times is a bad one for preps

• Stanford easily gets past Oregon

• It’s Shaq’s day in Suns

• O’Neal trade has an effect on all the odds

• Schilling has shoulder injury

• Low scoring’s a breeze at Pebble

• Vagueness causes figure skating scoring problem

• Text messages from press row …

• Trojans use defense to get past Huskies

• Florida Disney park to add ‘Idol’-like attraction

• Where Am I?

• Heights of luxury in Century City

• Hollywood focuses on fast end to long strike

• Moves to her own rhythm

• New publisher, job cuts at Post

• President of MTV resigns

• Europe starts moving toward interest rate cuts

• Seesaw session for stocks

• Merck to pay $671 million to settle fraud cases

• Value of homes rigged, suit says

• Government contractor not entitled to immunity

• Despite critics, ‘Fool’s’ may be golden

• A calm hand at uneasy Yahoo Yahoo chairman has a full plate

• Housing, labor, retail data show a weaker economy

• Shoppers play it cool in January

• Exxon scores win against Venezuelan oil company

• S&P issues list of rating reforms

• Regal theater chain’s profit plunges 21%

• Lenders pledge better updates

• Verizon message service cut off

• Activision unseats chief rival EA

• No Vanity Fair party? Dahling, it just can’t be true

• Extramarital affair hurts everyone involved

• Cartoonist group sees red

• An eccentric struggles to grow up in ‘Billy’

• So, just what did the butler do?

• The renaissance in today’s Hungary

• Will McCain rewrite the books on conservatism?

• At ‘Home’ with clichés

• Boyfriend’s pill-stealing stunt can’t be explained away

• ‘Carnage’ shows how things haven’t changed

• ‘Some Girl(s)’

• Let the bet hedging begin

• ‘Li’l Abner’

• Golden time for reigning queen

• In Calendar

• ‘Abner’ corny but simply a delight

• Horoscope: Feb. 8

• A solitary conversation

• Cream rises to the top

• CNN comes out super in cable ratings race

• A less-is-more tack for crafting a film

• Downward ‘Spiral’

• Dark side of the little black book

• A blues traveler arrives

• Scorsese’s Rolling Stones doc opens Berlin festival

• ‘Carnage’ info

• Fictional foreclosures can illustrate the pain

• Journalism museum to reopen in D.C.

• Murder most foul, in the Zola manner

• In Coldhaven, anything’s possible

• Funny business – onstage and on the road

• They somehow find trouble ‘In Bruges’

• ‘Hairspray’ piled high with Olivier nods

• Data project seeks cultural applicants

• It’s a 91-minute plastic surgery commercial

• WWII spoof is also pointed satire on today’s war

• Living without pretense

• Calendar’s Calendar

• NBC taps another new series

• Gluttony played for savage fun

• Confusion arises over crack cases

• Air Force outlines strategic plan

• Open road for McCain as Romney steps aside

• Romney expected to suspend campaign or withdraw

• Twister-torn areas pick themselves up, dust off

• GEORGIA

• Analysts eat words on McCain

• Kennedy clan endorsements: a house divided

• Congress OKs $168-billion stimulus package

• Dozens held in mob raids in N.Y., Italy

• CLOSING QUOTE

• Donations pour in after Super Tuesday

• Parting thoughts on Super Tuesday

• Romney failed the ‘authentic’ test

• Judge upholds Arizona hiring law

• Zogby poll goofs on California

• 6 killed at city meeting in Missouri

• Chertoff tours tornado-damaged Tennessee

• Go with the floe?

• Reserved gratitude

• Middle class rising

• Lame-duck lesson

• Pave Tower Records, put up a Pinkberry

• The cult of Obama

• Iran has faster centrifuge, diplomats say

• A blog as national conscience

• Diplomats at U.N. say Kosovo to assert independence Feb. 17

• THE MIDDLE EAST

• Ruling partners pressure Maliki

• Rice visits Afghanistan’s dicey Kandahar region

• Courting votes, and death, in Pakistan

• Pakistan arrests 2 in Bhutto slaying

• Sadr tells his followers to honor Iraq cease-fire

• Cleric is cleared for extradition