Archive for Saturday, May 17, 2008

• El Niño might have helped Magellan voyage

• The invasion of the ‘crazy Rasberrys’ By From and Wire Reports

Razor wire added at Mexican border

• Cartoonist at launch of Mad magazine By Dennis Mclellan

• California wine came of age under him Vintner elevated state’s wines By Shawn Hubler

• Los Angeles County to gear up for same-sex marriage licenses By Jean-Paul Renaud

• Several injured as trolley crashes at The Grove shopping center By Joel Rubin

• Replica of wall stirs emotions, memories of war By Hector Becerra

• Suicide attempt disrupts morning train commute in Placentia By Susannah Rosenblatt

• Candidate’s independent donor is Dad By Nancy Vogel

• ‘Now we are happy again’ By Ann M. Simmons

• Wrong-way driver, 2 others die in crash on Interstate 5 in Commerce By Molly Hennessy-Fiske

• O.C. power plant proposal shelved By David Reyes

• A tangled murder mystery By Jill Leovy

• Weather expected to produce more heat records By David Pierson

• Same-sex marriages do not pose threat to society By Dana Parsons

• Trolley loses brakes and crashes at The Grove By Ap

• The truth is … well … half true

• Orange County Calendar

• Same-sex marriage ruling is a boost for San Francisco’s Newsom By John M. Glionna and Lee Romney

• Bob McCord, 69; his Sagebrush Cantina helped boost growth of Calabasas By Valerie J. Nelson

• UC willing to discuss operating King-Harbor hospital By Garrett Therolf

• Soboba tribe members, government officials try to defuse tensions By David Kelly

• Tax rebate exclusions draw controversy By Anna Gorman

• Serenity in the high desert: the Buddhist Meditation Center sinks roots in Adelanto By Louis Sahagun

• Marine found dead in San Clemente is ID’d By Tony Perry

• Southern California girds for record-breaking heat By Robert Lopez

Why the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant is almost unstoppable

• Chivas USA-D.C. United has many angles By Grahame L. Jones

• Alex Stepheson to leave North Carolina

• Lakers prepare for tonight’s Game 6 at Utah By Jonathan Abrams

• Cavaliers able to get even with Celtics

• Sparks start new showtime By Dan Arritt

• Torre has seen this too many times

• Chivas USA tonight

• Pomona Diamond Ranch defeats Santa Monica, 3-2 By Eric Sondheimer

• At least the Utah fans still have Idol to cheer By T J. Simers

• It’s Big Brown and a big gray area in Preakness By Bob Mieszerski

• Giants getting little respect from bettors By Lonnie White

• EASTERN CONF.LAKERS COVERAGE

• Runner Dreamin aims for Kindergarten title Saturday at Los Alamitos By Bob Mieszerski

• Big Brown can put more than horses behind him in Preakness By Bill Dwyre

• LEADERS

• INSIDE

• Figgins’ absence taking toll By Mike Digiovanna and Helene Elliott

• Jazz unable to move forward By Jonathan Abrams

• ANGELS-DODGERS TODAY

• Giants’ owner to step down

• Dixie a good warmup for Preakness By Bob Mieszerski

• Desormeaux not taking crown just yet By Larry Stewart

• Stepheson, former Harvard-Westlake star, granted release from UNC By Eric Sondheimer

• So far, so good, but this is no time for half measures By Bill Plaschke

• RESULTS {Jayson Werth hits three home runs in Phillies’ 10-3 win over Blue Jays}

• Angels’ Saunders beats Dodgers, 4-2 By Mike Digiovanna

• Lakers send Jazz’s dreams crashing By Mark Heisler

• Two stakes scheduled at Hollywood Park By Bob Mieszerski

• Lakers’ great escape By Mike Bresnahan

Chrome, schrome. Truckers are all about mileage now.

• Safeway tries downsizing to better fit local needs By Jerry Hirsch

• GE may pull plug on appliance unit By Thomas S. Mulligan

• Fannie Mae scraps higher down payment requirements

• Tentative labor pact reached for Orange County janitors By Andrea Chang

• Billing issue leaves patients feeling ill By Daniel Costello

• Edison aims to curb greenhouse gases voluntarily By Elizabeth Douglass

• April housing starts rise best since Jan. 2006

• Saudis rebuff Bush’s request for oil production boost By Mark Silva

• California’s unemployment rate holds at 6.2 percent By Marc Lifsher

• Megabus to halt service in L.A. By Andrea Chang

• Shock effect of bad news wears off

Shakira, other Latin American stars sing for their cause – ALAS

• At the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana: China’s terra cotta warriors By Diane Haithman

• Astrological Forecast: May 17 By Holiday Mathis

• Bridge: 5/17

• Roll over, Beethoven By Chris Pasles

• Salary cap for stars? Why not

• Life near a nuclear research lab By Thomas Mcgonigle

• Los Angeles Philharmonic

• ‘Pippin’

• ‘Welcome to Shirley’ by Kelly McMasters

• Judge denies media motion in R. Kelly trial

• Cannes is a tough market for indie films By John Horn

• ‘American Idol’ Taylor Hicks will join cast of Broadway’s ‘Grease’ By Lynne Heffley

• ‘Pippin’ gets street cred By F. Kathleen Foley

• Signs point to imminent Simpson-Wentz wedding By Ap

• Obama lashes out at Bush, McCain over appeasement comments By Nicholas Riccardi and Michael Muskal

• McCain tells NRA members they should fear Obama and Clinton By Michael Muskal

• Volcano sparks smog alert in Hawaii

• Spotted owl recovery plan released

• Massachusetts lives happily with same-sex marriage law By Elizabeth Mehren

• In prison for murder, pulling Vegas strings By William C. Rempel

• In NRA speech, Mike Huckabee makes crack about Barack Obama as target

• FEC standoff ends as nominee Hans von Spakovsky withdraws

• Obama’s wealth has skyrocketed By Dan Morain

• Bush’s food crisis aid package now promotes genetically modified crops By Stephen J. Hedges

• Trying to mend fences with the NRA, McCain attacks Democrats By Noam N. Levey

• California utility may seek federal help for power line

• Missouri lawmakers pass bill against cyber-harassment after MySpace suicide case

• Defenders of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, 4 others ask Guantanamo judge to dismiss charges By Carol J. Williams

• Bush weighs down McCain

• Culture change or culture war?

• Obama’s next challenge

• The white vs. off-white election

• Negotiating isn’t appeasement By J. Peter Scoblic

• China’s old ways shaken by quake By Mark Magnier and Barbara Demick

• China aftershock triggers landslides By Mark Magnier

• Iraq offers amnesty to militants in Mosul By Alex and Ra Zavis

• Myanmar cyclone toll reaches 78,000 By Maggie Farley and Paul Richter

• Bush exchanges views with young Israelis By Richard Boudreaux

• Small hospital in China struggles to cope with crush of quake victims By Ching-Ching Ni

• Russian cult members exit cave

• As cyclone refugees wait, Myanmar refuses aid By Ap

• House speaker Pelosi pays surprise visit to Baghdad By Alexandra Zavis

• In Japan, bread is buttered on neither side By Bruce Wallace

• Belief in aliens doesn’t negate faith in God, Vatican says By Ap

• Belfast puts faith in its 40-year-old ‘peace line’ By Ap