Candlelight Vigil

Mortally wounded in the back, Officer Ricardo Lizarraga struggled down a narrow stairway, then fell to his knees by his partner's side to return an assailant's fire until he was hit a second time, authorities said Monday. Police gave new details in the killing of Lizarraga as prosecutors Monday charged Kenrick Johnson with murder punishable by execution. Also Monday, two gatherings in the officer's memory drew more than 1,000 mourners.

About 30 friends and neighbors of a man killed by a mountain lion on a wilderness bike trail last week remembered him Sunday with a candlelight vigil in front of the Foothill Ranch apartment complex he'd moved into just three months before. "He was a very sweet guy," Kanishia Lumpkins said of the man affectionately known as the "bike guy" by those who frequently saw him leaving the Paloma Summit Apartment complex in helmet and biking gear. "He was single and didn't have a family here.

More than 100 friends and neighbors of three children shot to death by their father over the weekend gathered Monday for an emotional candlelight vigil at the Buena Park mobile home park where the children lived with their mother. "Oh, my babies, my beautiful babies," Wendy Vernon sobbed in the arms of her pastor. "Not my beautiful babies. I want to touch them. I want to hug them. I want to hold them."

Ojai's third annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration, "A Day On -- Not a Day Off," will be held from noon to 5 p.m. Jan. 20 at Libbey Park. Musicians will perform, and a candlelight vigil will take place at 4:30 p.m. For more information, call 640-9555.

An anti-gay marriage measure on Nevada's ballot for November was branded as "discriminatory" and "hateful" on Saturday night at a candlelight vigil sponsored by opponents of the initiative, Question 2. About 150 people, some holding placards reading "Support All Families--Vote No on 2," gathered on the steps of the Washoe County Courthouse to urge defeat of Question 2.

Public gatherings are planned throughout the region to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Among those planned in Orange County: Today Garden Grove: Crystal Cathedral, 12141 Lewis St. Services at 9:30 and 11 a.m. dedicated to the victims and heroes. Video presentation and unfurling of a giant flag. Islamic Society of Orange County, 9752 E. 13th St., 5 p.m. Interfaith community prayer vigil in remembrance of victims and their families.

And you thought rockers didn't care: On Sept. 11, the Viper Room will hold a rock 'n' roll candlelight vigil, with performances by Loaded and an all-star band featuring Guns N' Roses' Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum. Proceeds go to the West Hollywood Emergency Fund. Rock on....Don't miss Andy Dick & the Bitches of the Century tonight at the Key Club. We know he won't ....

Rui Satamura's high school yearbooks evoke bitter memories--of being called a "Jap" and spending two years in an Arizona internment camp. She once had two sets of yearbooks. She kept the pair created for students at camp but tossed out the ones from Los Angeles High School, symbolically banishing the pain. Now, since the Sept.

Across Asia, thousands of people gathered to mourn the victims of the attacks in the United States. At a service in Singapore, they sang "Amazing Grace" and held candles in the sweltering tropical dusk. Leaders from Singapore's nine major religious groups led the crowd of about 15,000. In Bangkok, Thailand, nearly 2,000 Buddhist monks chanted prayers for victims and for the cessation of further violence.