Coma

Robin Gibb has awoken from a nearly two-week-long coma as the former Bee Gees star continues to surprise in his battle with colorectal cancer.  As The Times reported about a week ago, Gibb was hospitalized -- gravely ill with pneumonia and in a coma -- with his wife, children and brother Barry Gibb standing vigil at his bedside.  But on Sunday, his family was celebrating. An update on Gibb's Facebook page detailed the latest developments, saying: "The remarkable Robin Gibb has confounded" his doctors "with his indomitable fighting spirit and remarkable physical endurance.

Sometimes bigger is better when buying art by committee. At this year's Collectors Committee weekend, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art bought $2.5 million worth of artwork to add to its permanent collection, including two larger-than-life works: a 60-foot-long Robert Rauschenberg screenprint that shows a collage of newspaper articles from 1970, bought for $775,000; and a nearly 10-foot-tall elevator surround that Louis Sullivan designed around...

A San Francisco Giants fan who was kicked and beaten by two attackers in a Dodger Stadium parking lot had to be returned to a medically induced coma over the weekend and is expected to remain unconscious for at least another week, hospital officials said Monday. Surgeons at County-USC Medical Center on Friday reduced Bryan Stow's coma-inducing medication, allowing the 42-year-old father of two to regain consciousness for the first time since the March 31 assault left him with a fractured skull and brain damage.

Robin Gibb has awoken from a nearly two-week-long coma as the former Bee Gees star continues to surprise in his battle with colorectal cancer.  As The Times reported about a week ago, Gibb was hospitalized -- gravely ill with pneumonia and in a coma -- with his wife, children and brother Barry Gibb standing vigil at his bedside.  But on Sunday, his family was celebrating. An update on Gibb's Facebook page detailed the latest developments, saying: "The remarkable Robin Gibb has confounded" his doctors "with his indomitable fighting spirit and remarkable physical endurance.

A 19-month-old boy trapped in a car under water for 20 to 25 minutes came out of a coma and was able to respond to questions today by nodding or shaking his head, a hospital spokesman said. "It's really surprising how he is coming around," Washoe Medical Center spokesman Jack Bulavsky said in describing the responses of Stephen Edmonds, who remains in critical condition at the hospital in Reno 40 miles north of here.

Andrew Castillo, a senior fullback at San Gabriel Gabrielino High, remained in a coma Sunday night after suffering a head injury Friday night against Burbank. Castillo was in critical condition at Providence Holy Cross Hospital in Mission Hills after surgery Sunday to remove a blood clot on the left side of his brain, said Gary Goodson, superintendent of the San Gabriel Unified School District. A similar surgery was performed Friday after Castillo was admitted to the hospital.

A woman died on Monday at the age of 30 after spending 27 years of her life in a coma, hospital officials said. They said Patricia Dalloz-Furet went into a coma in 1961 after undergoing a minor operation in a hospital near this southeastern city. She never recovered consciousness.

A 12-year-old girl was beaten into a coma by a group of girls and women after she kissed the boyfriend of another girl on a dare, Baltimore police said. Three adult women and two teenage girls have been charged in the beating of Nicole Townes, who remains in a coma more than a week after the beating, which lasted at least 30 minutes, at a Feb. 28 party.

A 30-year-old man who evaded police for six years was sentenced Tuesday to 21 years in state prison for beating a Marine into a coma. A San Fernando jury convicted Luie Alejandro Quezada in July of multiple assault and weapons charges. Deputy Dist. Atty. Lou Holtz Jr. said Quezada and his friends crashed a party in Canoga Park in September 1996 and began fighting with Joffrey Ramos and four of his fellow Marines.

The jogger who was severely beaten and raped by a gang of youths in Central Park has awakened from her coma, though she remains delirious, doctors said today. Doctors at Metropolitan Hospital said the 28-year-old woman was able to talk in a whisper to relatives and staff members, raise two fingers when asked and read large signs. Though she has little facial expression, she has smiled, they said. "She has been emerging gradually over the last couple of days or three days," said Dr. Robert S. Kurtz.

Each weekday, when classes are done and the last bell sounds at Dorsey High , Jeremiah Allison steels himself. He folds his lean frame into a weathered SUV and drives three miles to a convalescent home in South Los Angeles. Slowly, somberly, sneakers sliding softly against the linoleum floor, he enters room 214. "Hi, Mom," he says, voice hushed. "Mom?" Time slows. Jeremiah, 17, holds her hands and kisses her cheeks. He tells her about his day, speaks of the prom and the future, of his college scholarship and how good it will be to live far from the troubled neighborhood where she raised him. Tugging his black baseball cap to shield his watery eyes, he flips through Bible verses on his cellphone and reads to her. "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you....

The Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday asked a federal bankruptcy judge to reject all claims for damages filed by San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow over his severe beating in a Dodger Stadium parking lot on Opening Day of the 2011 season. Attorneys for the team and its owner, Frank McCourt, argued that none of the entities in the baseball club's corporate structure have any liability for the March 31 assault that left Stow in a coma for months. Stow sued the Dodgers in May, alleging negligence and poor security arrangements at the ballpark.

MUSIC Just because the Smiths broke up in 1987 doesn't mean the curtain has to drop. Thanks to the band's premiere tribute act Sweet & Tender Hooligans, which has been paying homage to Morrissey's pioneering indie-pop outfit for nearly 20 years, you can still hear songs like "Girlfriend in a Coma" and "This Charming Man" live. House of Blues, 1530 S. Disneyland Drive, Anaheim. 8 p.m. Fri. $19.50. http://www.houseofblues.com.

John Wooden: "You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you. " Joseph Frazier is in a coma. Joseph, 28, was a standout basketball player at Pasadena Muir High and Cal State Northridge before working last year as an assistant coach at Calabasas High. A hit-and-run driver, who has yet to be caught, knocked him off his motorcycle Aug. 25. Joseph was wearing a helmet, but when he arrived at Northridge Hospital he was non-responsive, doctors saying his head injuries were so severe nothing could be done.

Every day, she talks to her son. Doctors give him little chance, the public no longer pays much attention, but nearly every day for more than a month, the mother arrives at the cramped ICU room at County-USC Medical Center to talk to her comatose son. He is Bryan Stow, the San Francisco Giants fan who suffered a serious brain injury when he was attacked in the Dodger Stadium parking lot on opening day. She is Ann Stow, and she wants...

A San Francisco Giants fan who was kicked and beaten by two attackers in a Dodger Stadium parking lot had to be returned to a medically induced coma over the weekend and is expected to remain unconscious for at least another week, hospital officials said Monday. Surgeons at County-USC Medical Center on Friday reduced Bryan Stow's coma-inducing medication, allowing the 42-year-old father of two to regain consciousness for the first time since the March 31 assault left him with a fractured skull and brain damage.

Clyde (Butch) Lindley, a two-year NASCAR sportsman and 1984 champion of the All-Pro Circuit, died after being in a five-year coma resulting from a racing accident. He was 43. Lindley, who never regained consciousness after the April 13, 1985 crash at DeSoto Speedway in Bradenton, Fla., died of natural causes Wednesday at the Greer Lutheran Health Center. The crash severed Lindley's brain stem, and he underwent treatments without success at a facility for comatose patients in Richmond, Va.

A Sherman Oaks woman, in a coma allegedly caused by a fight with her boyfriend, was taken before a San Fernando Superior Court jury in a wheelchair Tuesday over the objections of the defense attorney. The boyfriend, Alan Jay Mitnick, 43, of Sherman Oaks, is on trial on one count of battery with the "special allegation" of serious bodily injury. Both the prosecutor and defense attorney agreed it was highly unusual for a crime victim in such a condition to go before a jury.

For a long time, for all the heroes and the heroics, the Koufaxes and Garveys and hobbled home run trots, the experience of going to a Los Angeles Dodgers game was largely about beating traffic. Fans arrived late, left early and -- at least in the eyes of rivals -- didn't seem terribly concerned with what happened in the intervening hours. But over time, being a Dodgers fan became an almost tribal identity to some. That helped to rebuild a fervent base of support for the team -- and brought an unsettling pattern of fan abuse and boorish behavior that hit another low last week when a Giants fan was severely beaten on opening day. The violence left even the truest blue Dodgers fans saying something has to change.

"Unknown" is a nifty international thriller of the "what if?" variety. What if you came out of a coma after a car accident to find that no one knew you? Or, even worse, that someone had pilfered your identity, and everyone you thought you knew, especially your wife, insisted that that other person was you. Now an ordinary individual might have trouble in that situation, but "Unknown" doesn't have anyone average as the beleaguered biologist Martin Harris ? it has Liam Neeson, the star of "Taken" and one of the most naturally forceful actors on the contemporary scene.