Archive for Friday, January 18, 2008

• Tarzana wakes to find anti-Semitic graffiti on walls

• Students, UC regents protest proposed budget cuts

• 4 Britney Spears-chasing paparazzi arrested

• Disputed Anaheim parcel sold

• Judge sets aside some restrictions on sonar

• Decorated Maori poet, New Zealand laureate

• O.C. tollway a mistake, Lockyer says

• Death in a desert bunker

• PASSINGS

• Leader of No Guns group gets eight years

• Victim stood on rail, yelled at tiger

• Pioneer of cancer-fighting tactic

• Case for, against Prop. 92

• Hospital sued in alleged dumping of patient

• Kinky the stowaway? Thereby hangs a tail

• Witness to 1969 UCLA shootings speaks at rally

• Lottery results

• Police officer snared in drug case

• Making the job fair for everyone

• Engineer helped advance space travel

• Winds leave hundreds without power

• O.C. raked by fierce winds

• Governor discusses his weapons

• Spare time rocket science

• Much-criticized Selig gets three-year extension

• Browns assistant withdraws name for UCLA position

• Torre slowly meets team

• Chargers have many line-backers

• Dashing through snow, on a two-man machine

• Hem lines lead to punch lines

• RESULTS, SCHEDULE

• Close game could bring a sequel of ‘Hack a Lo’

• Lakers come back to earth

• Chargers swing into brick wall

• Let it snow, let it snow!

• Pepperdine basketball coach quits

• Text messages from press row …

• Riverside King switches to game at Pauley

• Hardy, Lezak take different approaches

• Giguere, Ducks are rising high

• KINGS TONIGHT

• Pressure made Marion Jones’ ‘baggage’ heavier

• AP WOMEN’S TOP 25

• Plans for Mayweather-De La Hoya rematch near completion

• Long shots not falling for Trojans

• Basketball players win appeal at state level

• Ducks have extra presence on road

• Daly’s play has been exemption to the rule

• FBI opens investigation into Tejada’s statements

• Baghdatis’ old confrontation pops up

• Nofishinonafullmoon is back in action

• Garrett to stay with Cowboys

• Cavaliers beat the Spurs this time

• Sun Devils hold off Bears

• Fullerton loses two in a row for first time

• Missing center leaves just an empty feeling

• Bynum doesn’t like waiting game

• AP MEN’S TOP 25

• Deal or no deal? Cassell is discussed

• Instant Action looks to bring some for new connections

• No hype needed for the Westchester-Fairfax matchup

• Face time

• Pepperdine basketball coach quits

• NBA, TBS join on digital rights

• Las Vegas’ new Palazzo opens

• Stocks extend plunge as manufacturing index falls; bond insurers fall amid fears of losses

• latimes.com/business

• MPAA to move into offices vacated by Warner Bros. unit

• Fed chief backs short-term prodding of economy

• U-Haul settles Calif. class action

• N.J. probing Amgen sales practices

• Directors, studios make a deal

• Brokers did well in a bad 2007

• Comcast investor seeks to oust CEO

• Some indexes fall into bear territory

• NYSE’s owner agrees to acquire rival Amex

• Beauty vs. beast at the box office

• Nintendo gets high score in ‘07 game console battle

• Merrill Lynch reports $9.8-billion loss

• More mergers may be on industry’s radar

• Lender offers execs pay to stay

• It’s how, not whom, you call

• Lehman Bros. to cut 1,300 mortgage jobs

• Here’s a sendup with real ‘Teeth’

• ‘Lust’ and ‘Warlords’ vie for Asian Film Awards

• Calendar’s Calendar

• Sad and disturbing chemistry

• What a tangled web Marvel weaves

• Torture history could be a guide

• Brothers live a nightmare in ‘Cassandra’s Dream’

• ‘High School Musical: The Music in You’

• ‘Survivor’s’ first loser enjoys delayed victory

• A twisted tale of power and revenge

• Taking just wacky to whacked-out

• You can’t rush marriage

• Around the world of short films in one day

• Foote’s Texas universe

• Reborn ‘George’ lacks edgy spirit

• Aldrich is such a natural at fakery

• Away from the opera hall

• A short, effective thrill ride

• Buzz at the fest doesn’t promise the rest

• Horoscope: Jan. 18

• Outgrowing his fear of the dark

• Style points for film, TV designers

• Formula fitting

• Keaton’s use of obscenity adds fodder to TV debate

• Acknowledge your grief and move on

• In Calendar

• Our ‘Taxi to the Dark Side’ has a steep fare

• Cracks appear in ‘Idol’s’ fine line

• Thundering Anvil makes some noise

• Less of the bling, more of the sting

• Chelsea’s out talking up Mom

• What’s missing is the sausage-making

• Key Chinese exports

• Surge isn’t the word for this contest

• Coal firm agrees to pay fine

• Candidates decry state of economy

• They were supposed to be president, but they’re over it

• In Nevada, gaming is a high-stakes issue

• Immigration through S.C. voters’ eyes

• A hot-button issue, and then it wasn’t

• Frustration in Marines shooting inquiry

• Lab reproduces cloned human embryo research

• Judge allows special caucuses at 9 Vegas casinos

• FINAL WORDS

• Judge allows Vegas casino precincts

• OREGON

• Evangelicals not on same page

• McCain’s anti-rumor strategy

• A whole new game in Nevada

• In Compton, Clinton invokes King’s legacy

• Lobbyists not ‘running’ his bid

• Corporal told wife Marine killed herself

• White House study found e-mail gone

• WST–SeaLions

• Obama gets backing of Sen. Leahy

• Paying for change

• Tiny car, big threat

• Cue the writers

• U.S. shifts some troops to supervisory role

• Kenya’s outsider keeps fighting for a way in

• Colombian military gains come at a price

• 9 slain in attack on Shiite prayer hall in Pakistan

• Huge shootout rattles Tijuana neighborhood

• A homecoming of great sorrow for Kurds

• Iraq’s Diyala province hit by another suicide attack

• U.N. questions Saudi rules for women

• CIA, Pakistan concur on Bhutto’s killer

• GAZA STRIP

• A debate at Oxford in memory of Bhutto