NEWS
July 26, 1990 | BOB DROGIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
For Hong Kong residents desperate to flee before China takes over in 1997, the Federal Republic of Corterra sounded perfect. The tiny Pacific island nation was described as lying between Tahiti and Hawaii, with 80,000 citizens who enjoy democratic government, a British-style legal system and no income tax. Best of all, a newspaper ad here boasted, passports are bargain-priced at only $16,000. Three local businessmen quickly paid the $5,000 application fee. Then they discovered the catch.
NEWS
April 17, 1999 | JANET WILSON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
When U.N. Security Council members emerged hours late from a closed-door meeting this week, the press corps was hungry for fresh news of Kosovo's refugees. "What took so long?" one reporter demanded of the first diplomat to emerge. "We had a very thorough briefing on Angola," he responded a trifle testily. "This is not a second-class problem compared to Kosovo, you know." But experts and humanitarian workers say the truth is that the 1.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 29, 2008 | Howard Blume, Times Staff Writer
For years, Johnson Community Day School has been the second, third or last chance for students kicked out of other middle and high schools. And many have thrived in a setting with small classes, counseling and close supervision to overcome truancy, drug use or brushes with the law. But now Johnson itself is being booted. Next month, the school must vacate its longtime South Los Angeles campus, pushing students already on the edge of failure into a cross-town commute.
NEWS
October 14, 1994 | TINA DAUNT and TINA NGUYEN, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Determined to make Downtown Los Angeles friendlier to business, the Riordan Administration has launched a plan to shuttle homeless people to an urban campground on a fenced lot in the city's core industrial area. The mayor's proposal, which has come under heated attack by some homeless advocates, calls for turning a vacant city block in the eastern part of Downtown into a homeless drop-in center, where up to 800 people could take showers and sleep on a lawn.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 11, 2004 | Jeff Gottlieb, Times Staff Writer
The neon "Open" sign that blazed at party time has come down from the second-floor balcony. Newport Beach's most boisterous celebrity resident, the one with the multiple body piercing, multiple tattoos and multiple hair colors, is leaving town. Dennis Rodman -- who bought his pinkish-brown, two-story Seashore Drive home in 1996 for $825,000 -- put it on the market for $3.8 million and sold it for cash to an Arizona developer in two days, said Christopher Parr, his real estate agent.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 3, 2006 | Maura Dolan, Times Staff Writer
The California Supreme Court on Thursday shifted the balance in fights between divorced parents with a ruling that eases the way for a parent with custody -- usually the mother -- to move away over her former mate's objections. Anthony Yana, a divorced father from San Luis Obispo County, tried to prevent his ex-wife from moving to Nevada with their 12-year-old son, Cameron. The ex-wife, Nicole Brown, who had full custody of the child, had remarried and her new husband had a job in Las Vegas.