Krca Television Station

Billboards advertising Spanish-language newscasts on KRCA-TV Channel 62 that struck a nerve with opponents of illegal immigration are being changed in an effort to resolve the controversy, the station's owners said Wednesday. "Those billboards were never intended to stir up hatred," said Lenard Liberman, executive vice president of Burbank-based Liberman Broadcasting. He said the decision to change the signs "had to do with the virulent opposition, which included phone threats.

Some people will do anything for a green card. Take Ariana De La Luz, who swallowed 38 grams of live tequila worms, or Diego Di Giovanni, who managed to trap a slippery pig drenched in butter, or Michael Couto, who jumped six times from one 18-wheeler traveling 60 mph to another in pursuit of six tiny green flags.

A Spanish-language reality series on Los Angeles station KRCA-TV, Channel 62, is kicking up harsh criticism from legal advocates and at least three members of Congress, who say it exploits and possibly endangers immigrants. But station managers vowed Thursday that the show will go on.