Father And Daughter

Alice Ozma's father read to her every night before bed for 3,218 days straight. "The Streak," as Ozma and her father, Jim Brozina, called it, began when Ozma was in fourth grade and didn't stop until the day she moved into her college dormitory when she was 18 years old. This significant, deeply odd, sometimes-embarrassing, often-inspiring accomplishment is chronicled by 23-year-old Ozma in a new memoir, "The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We...

We all marveled at the hideous thing, trying not to gasp through our regulators. It was black, striped and about the size of a bass, fins fanning out in all directions. Scuba divers see a lot of weird-looking things but appreciate them all the same. But our dive masters told us that there were bounties on these lionfish, ugly creatures that destroy reef-cleaning fish populations. No one knows where they came from or how many threaten Curaçao's marine park. I had come to this small Caribbean island, 35 miles off Venezuela, in June with my father, Matt, a small-business owner.

A 10-year-old girl was killed Saturday in Newport Beach when the convertible roadster her father was driving struck a center divider and flipped over, authorities said. Yvette Riley of Corona del Mar was pronounced dead about 2:50 p.m. at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, said Joseph Luckey, Orange County's supervising deputy coroner. Her injured father, David Riley, 41, was taken to the same hospital. The two were driving together around 2 p.m.

Alice Ozma's father read to her every night before bed for 3,218 days straight. "The Streak," as Ozma and her father, Jim Brozina, called it, began when Ozma was in fourth grade and didn't stop until the day she moved into her college dormitory when she was 18 years old. This significant, deeply odd, sometimes-embarrassing, often-inspiring accomplishment is chronicled by 23-year-old Ozma in a new memoir, "The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We...

A man shot his 360-pound daughter to put an end to her mounting medical bills but brought her to a hospital two hours later when she didn't die, police said today. Anna Kwiatkowski, 34, was in serious condition at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor. The victim's father, Valentine, 78, and her sister, Carol, 43, were arraigned on attempted murder charges. Bail was set at $50,000. The victim, who suffered from obesity and asthma, was shot twice in the head at close range with a .

Five months after seven family members died in a motor-home explosion during a trip to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, the La Puente father and teen-age daughter who survived are slowing coming to grips with their physical and emotional scars. "I guess it's getting easier," said Rosie Garcia, 14, who was critically burned in the accident. "Most of the time I feel sad in the afternoon. My dad always tells me, 'Oh I wish I could see them one more time.'

A Valencia father and daughter missing overnight on snow-covered Mt. Pinos survived by burning their tobaggan for warmth and were found safe Tuesday, authorities said. John Racz, 48, and his daughter, Catlyn, 10, were found about 1 p.m. by a Ventura County Sheriff's Department rescue helicopter, said a spokesman for the Kern County Sheriff's Department, which had also been searching for the two since they were reported missing about 8 p.m. Monday.

A 31-year-old woman shot her father to death Friday in their Woodland Hills photocopying store and then killed herself with the same gun, police said. Aref Orfalea, 60, of Tarzana was pronounced dead at the scene from a single gunshot wound through the back. His daughter, Leslie, of Woodland Hills, shot herself in the head and died a short time later at Northridge Hospital, Los Angeles Police Detective Joe Diglio said.

Rene Auberjonois says he no longer feels so fatherly while watching his daughter, Tessa, follow in his distinguished footsteps. Instead, he feels like a professional colleague, free to analyze, critique and enjoy a fellow actor's performance without turning into "a nervous wreck." Auberjonois won a 1970 Tony Award for supporting actor opposite Katharine Hepburn in the musical "Coco." He's most widely recognized for playing Clayton Endicott III on "Benson" and Odo on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."

An 81-year-old man, whose son had won an eviction order against him, waited until Orange County marshals arrived this morning before leaving the house he once owned. A judge had ordered Luis Vaca Gallardo and his daughter, Lucille, 42, to vacate the house in the city of Orange by 12:01 a.m. today. But deputies found the father and daughter still home at 6:30 a.m.

For my daughter, Sophie, it was like finding the goose that laid the golden egg. "Today was a Fairytale," Taylor Swift was singing from the stage at Staples Center, and Sophie, age 11, was singing every word along with her, waving a colored light stick back and forth above her head. Her grin was electric, her attention sharply focused; she wasn't missing anything. For the last year or so, Sophie has been a Taylor Swift obsessive ("I am Taylor's No. 1 fan!" read the sign she brought to the concert with us)

For 20 years, Claire Denis has been among France's foremost filmmakers with her acute yet subtle observations of the ebbs and flows within relationships. Her perception and understanding seem to grow only richer over the years, and her newest film, "35 Shots of Rum," is surely one of her finest -- and thereby one of the best films of the year. With the greatest of ease and assurance, she catches us up in the lives of Lionel (Alex Descas), a long-widowed African immigrant, and his beautiful daughter, Josephine (Mati Diop)

Police continued their investigation Friday into the fatal shooting of a man and his 8-year-old daughter in their Hollywood home. The Los Angeles County coroner's office identified the victims as Khachik Safaryan, 43, and his daughter Lusine. Safaryan's 15-year-old daughter found the bodies when she came home from school, said Officer Ana Aguirre of the Los Angeles Police Department. There was no evidence of forced entry into the apartment in the 1200 block of Tamarind Avenue, south of Sunset Boulevard in the Little Armenia neighborhood, police said.

A student at a Christian liberal arts college on Friday was the third young man to be charged in connection with the May killings of two members of an Anaheim Hills family and the near-fatal bludgeoning of a third. Charles Anthony Murphy Jr., 22, of Mission Hills faces two counts of murder and one of attempted murder.

Two men pleaded not guilty Friday to slaying the father and sister of a former girlfriend of one of them and the severe beating of her mother at the family's Anaheim Hills home in May. Iftekhar Murtaza, 22, of Van Nuys, and Vitaliy Krasnoperov, 21, of West Hollywood, are charged with two counts of murder and one of attempted murder in the May 21 deaths of Jayprakash and Karishma Dhanak, the father and older sister of Shayona Dhanak, an 18-year-old UC Irvine student who had dated Murtaza.

Two days short of Halloween, a 19-year-old Aliso Viejo man wearing a paintball mask and dark cape terrorized his neighborhood Saturday morning by gunning down a woman and her father in their home and taking aim at others before committing suicide, authorities said. "He looked like he could have been going out for Halloween ... like Darth Vader," Lt.

It seems odd at first that the Vanguard Theatre Ensemble is doing an early Neil Simon play. Its fare, as reflected in the troupe's name, is generally more esoteric and adventuresome. This is the first Simon they've done. On second thought, perhaps it's not such a strange choice. "I Ought to Be in Pictures," from 1980, was one of the first plays to hint at a writer more serious than the one known for sitcom plays such as "The Odd Couple" and "Barefoot in the Park."

About 40 years ago, Ira Townsend paid a surprise visit to his daughter, Patsy, at boarding school. The World War II pilot asked her if she might like to learn to fly, and attached one condition: "Let's not tell Mom." Thus began a shared passion. Look above the gentle hills of central New Hampshire and you will see them many mornings at dawn, and again just before sunset. That's Patsy, 56, in the pilot's seat and Ira, 85, hanging out the open doorway, snapping pictures.

President Bush, whose father and grandfather preceded him in attending Yale University, said Friday that he opposed special treatment in college admission for children of alumni, just as he opposed special treatment for racial and ethnic minorities. In a question-and-answer session with minority journalists, Bush said he favored programs that increased diversity in the student body, but was against quotas for minority groups, as well as so-called legacy admissions.