Archive for Saturday, October 04, 2008

• 2008 Ig Nobel Prizes honor research on stripper fertility and Coca-Cola as spermicide By Mark Pratt

• Doctor accused in Congress’ probe By Thomas H. Maugh II and Denise Gellene

• Californians have much higher levels of flame-retardant PBDE in their blood By Thomas H. Maugh II

Arrest made in death of Arthur Carmona

• Wreckage of Steve Fossett’s plane is airlifted from crash site By Jia-Rui Chong

• Highland Park shooting kills teenager, wounds a second By Francisco Vara-Orta

• Nanny accused of dumping children in unlicensed day care By Tami Abdollah

• A pope’s compassion for Jews is on display By and Duke Helf

• Prop. 7 prompts a highly charged debate By Nancy Vogel

• Stan Kann, organist who made vacuum cleaners hum, dies By Jon Thurber

• Suspect barricaded in South Los Angeles home after shooting By Tami Abdollah

• Songs in the key of blue, or red, or maybe green By James Wagner

• L.A. could face $400-million budget deficit, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa warns By Phil Willon

• A Saturday of rain for Southern California By Tami Abdollah

• Proposition 7

• Second house for families of wounded troops opens in San Diego By Tony Perry

• Taking a stand on letting students sit out the SAT By Sandy Banks

• Designer earned wide acclaim for flaunt-it fashion By Mary Rourke

• Foes share a tragic bond By Ben Bolch

• Juror queries begin for trial of former O.C. Sheriff Carona By Stuart Pfeifer

• Newport Beach’s big dreams for City Hall By Susannah Rosenblatt

• Witnesses say they saw a green light just before Metrolink train crashed By Robert J. Lopez and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Rich Connell

• Search continues for two people off San Pedro By Francisco Vara-Orta

• Raised as outcasts, living as refugees, fighting to belong By My-Thuan Tran

• Soldier killed in Vietnam in 1971 is home for burial By Richard C. Paddock

• Shaun Livingston signs with Miami Heat

• Saints’ Ellis has surgery on knee

• FIGHT OR FLIGHT

• Brigham Young stays undefeated

• BAD HABITS

• Teemu Selanne caps off the Ducks’ evening By Dan Arritt

• Chivas USA to play D.C. United

• Bay is giving the Red Sox power, poise By Helene Elliott

• Helio Castroneves pleads not guilty

• Lakers’ Sun Yue, fighting mono, is cleared to practice By Mike Bresnahan

• Kent doesn’t make issue in uneasy role By Bill Plaschke

• The Tide comes in By Chris Dufresne

• Galaxy to play Columbus Crew

• Gina Carano talks about her life, ‘American Gladiators’ and the guys at the gym By Dan Arritt

• Dodgers fans stand by their Manny

• Eddie Brinkman, record-setting shortstop, dies at 66 By From The Associated Press

• Kings’ Teddy Purcell rises in Patrick O’Sullivan’s absence By Dan Arritt

• Anthony Stover commits to UCLA By Diane Pucin

• Scioscia can’t figure it out By Mike Digiovanna

• How the top 25 football teams fared

• Make no bones about it, Al Davis has lost it By Bill Dwyre

• Saito still has his closing job By Ez, Dylan Hern, and Jim Peltz

• Rays put White Sox in 0-2 hole By Josh Robbins

• Kuroda enters a new world By Ez and Dylan Hern

• Nicklaus delivers a shot to FedEx Cup By Thomas Bonk

• Ryan is sent to the minors By Dan Arritt

• Jake Dean takes center stage for Bruins By Chris Foster

• Lights have gone out in Anaheim, and Angels are powerless to stop it By Bill Shaikin

• Another loss for USC and Pac-10 By David Wharton and Gary Klein

• Long Beach Poly leans on its rushing for now By Eric Sondheimer

• Viles leads Edison past Mater Dei

• Livingston gets two-year Heat deal By Lisa Dillman

• It’s a typical night for Matsuzaka By Kevin Baxter

• Ninth title for Slater By Pete Thomas

• Moyer is up to old tricks for Phillies

• Angels are loose before Game 2 By Kevin Baxter

• Steepest job losses in five years reported By Maura Reynolds

• Nonmanufacturing services expand

• Forever 21 submits bid to buy 149 stores from bankrupt Mervyns By Andrea Chang

• Agents seize Nicholas’ jet in drug case

• Market turmoil takes costly toll on video games By Alex Pham

• Stocks advance at open ahead of House vote

• Wells Fargo agrees to acquire Wachovia for $15.1 billion By E. Scott Reckard

• Moskovitz joins the Facebook exodus By Jessica Guynn

• Apple shares fall on false report By Michelle Quinn

• Levi Strauss is slimming its Dockers to revitalize brand

• Historic theater’s revival falters By Roger Vincent

• Mastermind in one of California’s largest real estate scams gets 14 years By Kim Christensen and Diane Wedner

• California is counting on $7 billion in federal funds By Marc Lifsher and Evan Halper

• AIG plans to sell assets to pay debt

• Art Directors Guild absorbs 2 small locals By Richard Verrier

• Yahoo, Google delay ad pact

• Investors, banks shaken up By Walter Hamilton

• Bailout’s tax breaks aid ‘dirty fuels’ By Julie Cart

• Nice bailout. Now what else you got? By Tom Petruno

• Acquittal in McAfee backdating trial

• Big money, big questions By Jim Puzzanghera and Michael A. Hiltzik

• Rural communities get funding for schools, roads By Bettina Boxall

• Wall St. bailout: Daily developments

• Bailout bill, at a glance

• How California members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted on the bailout

Crooked Stilo are on ‘The Other Side of Hip-Hop’

• Hynde’s not one to pretend By R and Y Lewis

• Showing her soft edges By Matthew Debord

• ‘Mentor,’ ‘The Violent Kind’ reviews

• KOST-FM will pair Kristin Cruz with Mark Wallengren By Lee Margulies

• ‘Easy Money’ info

• Coming through loud and clear By Margaret Wappler

• ‘The Wall of America’

• Just your everyday family of loan sharks By Mary Mcnamara

• Aren’t nerves jangled enough? By Robert Lloyd

• ‘Valentine’ info

• ‘Valentine’ gods are, alas, created by mere mortals By Mary Mcnamara

• Land of the free and marginalized By Edward Champion

• Horoscope: Oct. 4 By Holiday Mathis

• ‘Masterpiece Contemporary: The Last Enemy’

• Salonen fires up his final season By Mark Swed

• Obama’s other running mate: a basketball By Peter Nicholas

• Palin says don’t concede

• Clinton rallies the faithful in downtown L.A. By Kate Linthicum

• Viewership was huge

• Biden bids farewell to Iraq-bound son

• FBI rules raise privacy issues

• Where have all the fliers gone? Ask Ike By Michael Graczyk

• NRA ramps up Obama attacks

• Barack Obama and John McCain focus on economy By Michael Muskal

• Verdict reached in O.J. Simpson trial By Ashley Powers

• Palins release their tax returns

• Alaska Supreme Court to hear appeal in trooper case

• Teaching to the marriage test By Meghan Daum

• Pirates of the 21st century By John S. Burnett

• Rejection complex

• Mean St. replaces Main St. By Tim Rutten

• Abandoning the sick

• A triple whammy

• Electing to live like a president By Sam Watters

• The motif mash Eclectic merriment on high By Barbara Thornburg

• The prognosis: It’s time to sell By Ann Brenoff

• I blinked; now the little girl’s college-bound By Chris Erskine

• MORE ONLINE

• Wilton Place history on tour

• Only in Malibu: the $2-million mobile home By Danielle Ayal

• From shabby to stately chic By Martha Groves

• Europe takes aim at CEO bonuses By Sebastian Rotella and Achrene Sicakyuz

• U.S. cops help train Iraqi police officers By Doug Smith and Saif Rasheed

• South Africa ANC at brink of split By Robyn Dixon

• U.S. missile attack reported in Pakistan; at least 21 killed By Laura King and Zulfiqar Ali

• Critic of Chavez faces charges

• Blast kills seven Russian soldiers

• Old dissident sees hope in Myanmar crisis

• Brown’s stock rises in financial crisis By Henry Chu

• Report: North Korean leader watches soccer game By Ap