Tours

Birds do it, bees do it, even wildebeests and zebus do it. And during the "Valentine's Day Sex Tour" at Santa Ana Zoo today, visitors will learn exactly how animals court and mate in a captive setting. Wild stuff? Well, the event is for adults only, but zoo curator Connie Sweet said she wouldn't go so far as to slap an R-rating on the tour.

THE burly, young marketer in the crisp white shirt rose to speak, and 20 seated passengers leaned forward to catch his every word. Grinning broadly, Alex Godoy described the house just outside the tinted window.

Las Vegas, a city forged on gambling, booze and flesh, has been strangely reluctant -- and perhaps a little nervous -- to make money off its mob roots.

Glendale will celebrate Public Power Week, beginning Sunday, with an open house through Oct. 10 at the city-owned Grayson Plant, 634 Bekins Way. The public is invited to view the plant between 8:30 a.

Leopold Engleitner toiled in three Nazi concentration camps for refusing to renounce his faith as a Jehovah's Witness. In the decades after the war, he tried to tell his tale but rarely found an audience.

THE first time we leave the van for anything other than gas, food or sleep is in a field in western South Dakota. We are maybe 100 miles from the geographic center of the United States, which looks and feels a lot like the middle of nowhere.