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d43909cea4a1b69db028e34abce650a9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-me-gibbs12-story.html | Georgia Gibbs, 87; top pop singer and star of ‘Hit Parade’ | Georgia Gibbs, 87; top pop singer and star of ‘Hit Parade’
Georgia Gibbs, a versatile singer who starred on radio and television’s popular “Hit Parade” in the 1950s, performed with the big bands of Tommy Dorsey and Artie Shaw and was perhaps best known for the song “Kiss of Fire,” has died. She was 87.
Gibbs died Satur... |
16891485172cedce4b9a192940981cf7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-me-raceway12-story.html | Ranchers hope to block auto racing complex | Ranchers hope to block auto racing complex
When he’s not busy branding his cattle or herding them across a lazy country road to pasture, Martin Machado gazes forlornly at the vast swath of farmland cater-corner to his spread. He sees a future he dreads.
That 1,200-acre expanse of almond trees and row crops is poised to... |
1eb7981287d4673864d0e679c912ea6a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-me-rbriefs12.1-story.html | Deputies call off search for missing hiker, 56 | Deputies call off search for missing hiker, 56
The search for a 56-year-old man missing for nearly a week has been called off, authorities said Monday.
David Boone, a father of four and a golf club designer whose clients include pros Ernie Els and Fred Couples, is believed to have gone hiking in the foothills near his ... |
b1429c3cbf39f7ba9c113d286f668ebd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-na-church12-story.html | Church abuse claims settled | Church abuse claims settled
About 150 people who say they were sexually abused by priests in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, Ore., have settled their claims, two judges mediating the matter said Monday.
The full amount of the agreement will not be announced until next week, when the archdiocese is to outlin... |
cbd190120132734b4e6845419345dff3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-oe-stein12-story.html | It’s only dirty in Indonesia | It’s only dirty in Indonesia
I DO NOT have any official role within the Indonesian judicial system. But I do feel like I can provide an important advisory service in the trial of Erwin Arnada, editor of the new Indonesian edition of Playboy, who faces up to 32 months in prison for putting out a magazine with indecent p... |
7b8c00d3643c0f1c667f0d215a2d2aa5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-sp-dwyre12-story.html | There is life after pro golf’s Q-school | There is life after pro golf’s Q-school
This is the week of the Tiger Woods Target World Challenge. Southern California gets to watch 16 of the world’s finest pro golfers in this elite event at Sherwood Country Club.
Tom Byrum is a pro golfer. He has played on the tour for 21 years and has won $6.2 million, $3 million ... |
2d3db2f7e895c30fe8411dbd852a61dc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-sp-fbcrep12-story.html | Tulane hires former UCLA coach Toledo | Tulane hires former UCLA coach Toledo
Former UCLA coach Bob Toledo is taking over at Tulane, a school desperate to rejuvenate its fan base in a city that will be rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina for years.
“I was one of those people from far, far away watching when disaster struck,” said Toledo, currently New Mexico’s... |
ddee5bd47a6ecd83477b85e2339bf703 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-sp-newswire12-story.html | Lowly Blues hire Murray as coach | Lowly Blues hire Murray as coach
The St. Louis Blues, last in the NHL standings again despite a change in ownership and several player upgrades, fired coach Mike Kitchen on Monday night and replaced him with former Kings coach Andy Murray.
Blues President John Davidson told the Associated Press that Murray received a l... |
c1cce03315602f580af44180a65ec0d8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-sp-plaschke12-story.html | Fans’ bliss is starting to wear off | Fans’ bliss is starting to wear off
Less than three months into its first full season of existence, Clipper Nation has already rolled out a new national anthem.
It debuted Monday, four minutes into the Clippers’ showdown with the San Antonio Spurs.
It was short, but reeked.
“Boooooo.”
Everyone wondered when this wonder... |
0a2495f94ad4a51dfa73d22c11b0d1c7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-sp-uscrep12-story.html | Trojans defense ranks among the nation’s best | Trojans defense ranks among the nation’s best
USC completed a 20-point second-half comeback during its 74-65 victory over George Washington on Saturday with 58 second-half points -- and seemingly as many defensive stops.
The Trojans’ hallmark has been a defense that has compensated for deficiencies in rebounding and ba... |
ea25c07619e3688fc22c29481eb346a8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-ed-miller13-story.html | Sticky fingers | Sticky fingers
GARY MILLER, you make a grown man cry.
Using your congressional staff, and your official letterhead, to score some tickets to see the Rolling Stones? That’s a violation of federal law and leaves us, frankly, shattered.
According to a Dec. 12 story in The Times, citing records provided by former staff, th... |
66b59521b4659e9eea936db06ec58b33 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-en-double13-story.html | Messiah complexities | Messiah complexities
THE baby will fix everything. If it’s worked for millions of squabbling couples, why not for all of humanity? That’s the premise -- well, roughly -- of two, maybe three, new movies out just in time for Christmas with different perspectives on the Messiah story.
“The Nativity Story,” Catherine Hardw... |
d6ceb2d3a108b8a83b5c7ac7d246a5a8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-en-q-ablunt13-story.html | ‘Devil’s’ assistant | ‘Devil’s’ assistant
ACTRESS Emily Blunt had her breakout role in last year’s British film “My Summer of Love,” but this past summer the love was super-sized. As Meryl Streep’s high-strung minion in “The Devil Wears Prada,” Blunt delighted critics and audiences alike with her arch one-liners and eye shadow for miles. Th... |
0fd34632a43f87db6aeca38fea655f1a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-et-niptuck13-story.html | ‘Nip/Tuck’ will implant itself here | ‘Nip/Tuck’ will implant itself here
Goodbye, South Beach. Hello, Beverly Hills.
McNamara-Troy, the debauched plastic surgeons of “Nip/Tuck,” have hung up their Miami shingle and traded up (or so they think) for the reconstructive mecca of the famous ZIP Code 90210.
In last night’s fourth-season finale of FX’s series, C... |
57eda946a9414ec1984ef54e5346fda1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-fg-afghan13-story.html | Suicide bomber kills 8 in Afghanistan | Suicide bomber kills 8 in Afghanistan
A Taliban suicide bomber killed eight people inside an Afghan provincial governor’s compound Tuesday, officials said, and President Hamid Karzai accused neighboring Pakistan of being the Taliban’s “boss.”
The bomb, which went off in a parking lot, did not injure Helmand Gov. Mohamm... |
10333a30a2ee1c96206279c95e0e963c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-fg-briefs13.3-story.html | Smuggling attempt is a Tootsie Flop | Smuggling attempt is a Tootsie Flop
Spanish police foiled an attempt to smuggle cocaine into the country inside lollipops, a regional government official said.
Gang members in Colombia packed the drug into 55 lollipops and sent them by airmail via Madrid’s Barajas International Airport, Vicente Ripa Gonzalez, governor ... |
00e8bbd36eb2b413827d0dbc01163b88 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-fg-noir13-story.html | Dark end to a hunt for love | Dark end to a hunt for love
IT WAS a dream of love, and a dread of loneliness, that drew Raymond James Merrill from his comfortable home in suburban San Francisco to this industrial city in southern Brazil.
Dumped by his girlfriend and approaching his 56th birthday, Merrill was aching for companionship. A “Latin single... |
6d54890219d0ff379f7ea75b0c2433e3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-fg-workers13-story.html | DESPERATE, JOBLESS AND IN HARM’S WAY IN IRAQ | DESPERATE, JOBLESS AND IN HARM’S WAY IN IRAQ
Workers know a trip to the square could mean death, and still they go.
Every day, laborers crowd downtown Tayaran Square, the scene of nine bombings in the last three years, according to Iraq’s Interior Ministry. But with unemployment as high as 60%, families survive on the ... |
8a575ed690ac8fce381f06295a7349d8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-fi-briefs13.1-story.html | Toys R Us posts profit on sale of 38 stores | Toys R Us posts profit on sale of 38 stores
Toys R Us Inc. posted third-quarter net income of $29 million, buoyed by proceeds from the sale of stores.
The company recorded a net loss of $126 million a year earlier. Sales rose 17% to $2.52 billion, Wayne, N.J.-based Toys R Us said.
Toys R Us gained $109 million after se... |
28b28b08f593e3f51a1108a2989f7b52 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-fi-briefs13.3-story.html | Skype to charge annual fee to call U.S., Canada | Skype to charge annual fee to call U.S., Canada
Skype is introducing a $30 annual subscription to make unlimited calls with the Internet-based telephone service to any regular or mobile phone number within the United States and Canada.
The new calling plan comes as Skype phases out a promotion launched in May allowing ... |
7904ef870e5db8ab4407fa953eee3647 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-fi-briefs13.5-story.html | Northrop, Aluminum Chambered in Navy bid | Northrop, Aluminum Chambered in Navy bid
Northrop Grumman Corp., the world’s largest warship builder, teamed with Aluminum Chambered Boats Inc. to bid for a new U.S. Navy vessel to be used for missions up rivers in areas such as Iraq.
Aluminum Chambered Boats would design the craft, and Century City-based Northrop woul... |
194fb7594e9983b28ea47e2908a7e503 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-fi-crime13-story.html | U.S. eases its tactics on suspect firms | U.S. eases its tactics on suspect firms
Federal prosecutors are backing away from some of the aggressive tactics they have employed against corporate crime amid growing criticism that their methods have trampled on the rights of white-collar defendants.
Prosecutors will largely refrain from demanding that companies ref... |
e8cb2fb7336a852f9d7a40e5bfbbcb52 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-fi-markets13-story.html | Investors show interest rate concerns | Investors show interest rate concerns
Stocks pulled back Tuesday, finishing slightly lower as investors grappled with an economic assessment by the Federal Reserve that warned yet again of inflation risks and reported a substantial slowing of the housing sector.
The statement, which accompanied the Fed’s widely expecte... |
afacccd0a1d7edf2bebb68f8b79297da | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-fi-sixflags13-story.html | Six Flags says it will keep Magic Mountain rolling | Six Flags says it will keep Magic Mountain rolling
Magic Mountain will remain a theme park -- not converted into a housing development or retail complex -- if Six Flags Inc. Chief Executive Mark Shapiro has anything to do with it.
Shapiro told investors Tuesday that the company expected to decide by the end of the year... |
ada1ef510d5105b5630b8cb7c6b90998 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-fi-smallbiz13-story.html | Two ways to get phone tax refund | Two ways to get phone tax refund
The federal government has finally hung up the telephone excise tax on long-distance calls, and small-business owners are in line to receive a large chunk of the estimated $10 billion in refunds and interest due from the Internal Revenue Service.
To claim the refund, you have to calcula... |
9dcf337c88f237cc9aaf1d6180f6d4ec | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-fo-journal13-story.html | One, two, three ... reveal! | One, two, three ... reveal!
PLATTER service, side-table service, service with a kiss -- well, sort of. You get more kinds of service than there are cuts of Wagyu beef at Wolfgang Puck’s Cut in Beverly Hills.
Platter service (sometimes called French service) would be when the waiter brings a dish of, say, the creamed ch... |
c3dc1dbe9b9207d7d64cc27456f26e04 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-hy-neil13-story.html | Do I look phat? | Do I look phat?
IF you could get BMW’s engineers and development specialists out of the office and into a hospitable Biergarten -- and really, how hard could that be? -- I’m convinced they’d tell you, after a few aquarium-size beers, that the X5 is not zee ideal zolution to the problem of a cargo-friendly all-wheel-dri... |
1bd79ac7dbb2b07161ca425a48774a9c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-hy-wheels13-story.html | A crash and a rush of responses | A crash and a rush of responses
High horsepower and diverse opinion exist in abundance on the issue of motorcycle safety, including from those who ride bikes, share the road with motorcycles, operate racing tracks and enforce the law.
An outpouring of e-mails from readers followed a column I wrote two weeks ago about a... |
afc3b57891eeb6f0ff40d026fc9551d3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-le-wednesdaay13.3-story.html | Crimes and punishments | Crimes and punishments
Re “A prison of our own making,” Current, Dec. 10
Californians can see that “get tough on crime,” if it means only longer sentences, is a cure worse than the disease. So, in 2000, we passed Proposition 36 for drug rehab by a large majority. Voters need to learn that “felony” nowadays means some p... |
770d52102c112118c900a0ec577d31a2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-le-wednesdaay13.4-story.html | Little faith that Bush can reach out | Little faith that Bush can reach out
Re “Like Churchill, Bush needs a war cabinet,” Opinion, Dec. 12
Mike Murphy states that Winston Churchill “knew that successful war-waging and partisanship cannot coexist.” Murphy recommends that President Bush draw Democrats into the decision-making process.
Churchill did more than... |
918a4ffb54a32b0826de7521e9f89b70 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-le-wednesdaay13.6-story.html | A good view of a problem | A good view of a problem
Re “Through the glass, darkly,” Opinion, Dec. 11
Karin Klein raised a good question: What are state or federal regulations on tinted windshields and windows? Doesn’t justification for this “blacked-out privacy glass” fade when it hinders law enforcement by reducing the chances of observing ille... |
80295b41992b8d0536824fbf9616f768 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-me-badges13-story.html | Nunez wants use of badges probed | Nunez wants use of badges probed
Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez is calling for an inquiry into at least one lawmaker’s practice of distributing official-looking badges to supporters and contributors.
Although Nunez did not name any lawmaker, he issued a sharply worded letter aimed at Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally (D-Compto... |
69e5e1f6b3daa97261ccfc4bfa23151d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-me-baker13-story.html | Ex-priest to face more charges, prosecutor says | Ex-priest to face more charges, prosecutor says
Prosecutors announced Tuesday that they intend to seek additional molestation charges against defrocked priest Michael Stephen Baker on behalf of a second alleged victim.
Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. Atty. Mark Beaart said he would file an amended complaint next week a... |
ea8ecf666c1e918ee7d59945fbc4cca4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-me-briefs13.5-story.html | $1,000 offered to groups for LAPD recruiting help | $1,000 offered to groups for LAPD recruiting help
Struggling to recruit police officers, the City Council agreed Tuesday to offer $1,000 to nonprofit groups and neighborhood councils that refer candidates who graduate from the Police Academy.
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202459a989721822394f2109daee5f75 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-me-culver13-story.html | Officer is again under scrutiny in wife’s death | Officer is again under scrutiny in wife’s death
Culver City police officer Harvey Bailey returned home from his office early on Christmas Eve 1992 to find his wife strangled and bludgeoned to death in the bedroom of their South Los Angeles bungalow.
Not long after, the police sergeant and two-time officer of the year b... |
911e155044b6a5e0ee957ba2d216bbd9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-me-flu13-story.html | State ranks low in health disaster readiness | State ranks low in health disaster readiness
California is among the states least prepared for a deadly pandemic flu or other health disaster, according to a national report card released Tuesday by a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization.
Forty-six states ranked higher than California, which the report said wo... |
2c382f9aaab9e6375c4e5b639fcea066 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-me-freeway13-story.html | Residents resigned to $1-billion 5 Freeway expansion | Residents resigned to $1-billion 5 Freeway expansion
Rosalind Gonzales has lived in her Norwalk house 30 years, raising her two now-adult sons there. She told state officials Tuesday that she’s not ready to move -- even though her home might have to be demolished to make room for an expanded Santa Ana Freeway.
“I don’t... |
5bd12262a836525355d867c80595478b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-me-pellicano13-story.html | Pellicano co-defendant pleads guilty to felonies | Pellicano co-defendant pleads guilty to felonies
The federal investigation of Anthony Pellicano took a surprising turn Tuesday when one of his co-defendants pleaded guilty to using the former private eye to wiretap a Beverly Hills businessman six years ago.
In an appearance before U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer, D... |
c337197be4e50c1f12cf0b8bbd1b5f37 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-me-shafer13-story.html | Raymond P. Shafer, 89; governor left finances in disarray | Raymond P. Shafer, 89; governor left finances in disarray
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Raymond P. Shafer, a Republican who oversaw tax increases to finance social programs and later pushed for federal decriminalization of personal marijuana use, died Tuesday. He was 89.
As governor from 1967 to 1971, Shafer led an overhaul... |
51df158c79966c72d933fa60c6004c05 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-na-briefs13.6-story.html | Teen fatally shoots himself at school | Teen fatally shoots himself at school
An 11th-grader despondent that his parents might curtail his after-school activities because of poor grades took a rifle to school in Erdenheim and killed himself between classes in a hallway, authorities said.
The youth had no intention of hurting anyone else in the shooting at Sp... |
d335bd49a20f048a8c5f7dc3aa0b0a1a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-na-jefferson13-story.html | Jefferson won’t rejoin key panel | Jefferson won’t rejoin key panel
House Democrats, insistent that they will hold lawmakers to higher standards, decided Tuesday that Rep. William J. Jefferson would not return to an influential committee until a federal corruption investigation involving him was completed.
Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi said the Democratic ... |
965ff4f0c921f265c2c78a4c4b80f230 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-na-kucinich13-story.html | Kucinich enters ’08 race for president | Kucinich enters ’08 race for president
Democratic Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich launched his second bid for president Tuesday, a longshot candidacy fueled by his frustration with his party’s failed effort to end the Iraq war.
“I am not going to stand by and watch thousands more of our brave, young men and women killed in Ira... |
41105524e8fa07b2374fa75f4124dbfc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-na-pancreas13-story.html | Gene linked to hereditary pancreatic cancer is found | Gene linked to hereditary pancreatic cancer is found
Scientists have discovered a gene that is strongly implicated in hereditary pancreatic cancer and say it ultimately might serve as a target for screening and early diagnosis of a malignancy that long has been diagnosed in a late and untreatable stage.
Dr. Teri Brentn... |
23a74f68de5711b48ab57262dc0e4fad | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-sci-titan13-story.html | ‘Titan’s Sierra Nevada’ discovered | ‘Titan’s Sierra Nevada’ discovered
The Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has found a mile-high mountain range on the giant moon Titan, scientists said Tuesday.
The range, in the moon’s southern hemisphere, is nearly 100 miles long. It is the tallest range on Titan found by Cassini, which has been investigating the Sat... |
f533fc0111ce65f392c6648c17199e20 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-sp-allamerica13-story.html | Jarrett and Medlock earn honors | Jarrett and Medlock earn honors
UCLA kicker Justin Medlock, USC receiver Dwayne Jarrett and former Long Beach Poly High standout DeSean Jackson each doubled up on All-America teams announced Tuesday.
Medlock, a senior who made 26 of 30 field goals and all 26 point-after kicks, was a first-team selection by the Associat... |
5a8f58ec1181e680a54dce3b873c45d0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-sp-bbnotes13-story.html | Dodgers decide to keep Hendrickson, Beimel | Dodgers decide to keep Hendrickson, Beimel
The Dodgers retained left-handed pitchers Mark Hendrickson and Joe Beimel by offering them arbitration by Tuesday night’s deadline, and cut ties with injured outfielder Jayson Werth and reserve catcher Toby Hall by declining to make offers.
Also, right-handed reliever Franquel... |
1f28877c6ccc5cc11993f8afab530a23 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-sp-norwoodranks13-story.html | The Times’ rankings | The Times’ rankings
Robyn Norwood’s rankings and comments:
*--* Rk. Team (Rec.) Comment 1 UCLA (8-0) Tough D, but better shore up 60% free-throw shooting by March. 2 NORTH CAROLINA (7-1) Tar Heels should skate through rest of December. 3 OHIO ST. (8-1) Left-handed practice while right wrist was hurt makes Oden better. ... |
a74b7e7d99d87388e02e09fd5dff0a84 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-sp-sondcol13-story.html | UCLA-bound Love is already rocking the house | UCLA-bound Love is already rocking the house
Kevin Love is like a rock star headlining a cross-country tour, except it’s what he can do with a basketball and not a guitar that has fans shrieking in envy.
Love, a 6-foot-9 1/2 center from Lake Oswego, Ore., is coming to Los Angeles on Friday night, playing Compton Centen... |
6a0db5784671cc2efbff0e3cac12cdaf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-sp-ucirvine13-story.html | Irvine loses big lead and game | Irvine loses big lead and game
Klayton Korver had 20 points and seven rebounds, and Drake overcame an 18-point deficit in the second half Tuesday, beating UC Irvine, 76-73.
Ajay Calvin added 16 points and nine rebounds, and Nick Grant scored 14 for Drake (6-2), which went on a 19-4 run late in the second half to secure... |
2893121cbce6489831ef0e76aa04fff9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-ed-women14-story.html | One job at a time | One job at a time
TODAY IS GRADUATION DAY at an oil refinery in Wilmington. After an innovative, yearlong training course, 30 people will accomplish a rare feat of economic acrobatics: They’ll jump from poverty into jobs that start at $70,000 a year, running the complex equipment that makes gasoline, diesel and jet fue... |
140635e8bbc9756d8e98db9b9a12229b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-fg-gaza14-story.html | Palestinian premier ends tour after judge is slain | Palestinian premier ends tour after judge is slain
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh cut short a visit abroad Wednesday after gunmen killed a judge in his Hamas movement on the fourth consecutive day of factional violence in the Gaza Strip.
The fighting among Palestinians came as Israeli soldiers fata... |
33669d841c77c2237f1014d07c0a24fc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-fi-boeing14-story.html | Information on Boeing workers, retirees stolen | Information on Boeing workers, retirees stolen
A Boeing Co. laptop computer containing the names and Social Security numbers of 382,000 employees and retirees has been stolen, putting them at risk for identity theft and credit card fraud.
The theft, which was confirmed Tuesday, was the third such incident at Boeing in ... |
45cfb0c6c0289247f8fbfef0e7f630f1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-fi-sec14-story.html | SEC moves to make rules ‘easy to apply’ for firms | SEC moves to make rules ‘easy to apply’ for firms
Responding to a chorus of complaints, regulators Wednesday moved to give companies more leeway in complying with financial reporting rules imposed by 2002’s Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform law.
The 5-0 vote by the Securities and Exchange Commission was one in a series o... |
aea2d7375dc8a964192adf1b1159ccbf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-fi-uschina14-story.html | U.S.-China talks to look at trade tensions | U.S.-China talks to look at trade tensions
A high-powered team of U.S. officials arrived Wednesday in Beijing to push China to further open its markets and fight piracy, but analysts questioned whether the Asian trading giant could grant major concessions.
Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., accompanied by Federal... |
294738089e5d0d73e81ec86a1b6023a9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-fi-wrap14.2-story.html | Money market assets hit record $2.333 trillion | Money market assets hit record $2.333 trillion
U.S. money market mutual fund assets rose to a record $2.333 trillion as yields near five-year highs attract investors, according to the Money Fund Report.
Total assets increased $21.3 billion in the seven days that ended Tuesday, the Westborough, Mass.-based newsletter sa... |
f69942439d4ce290606b3b4104f66fb6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-le-thursday14.3-story.html | Weighing the detainees’ case | Weighing the detainees’ case
Re “Ex-detainees seek right to sue Rumsfeld,” Dec. 9
The Times quotes Deputy Assistant Atty. Gen. C. Frederick Beckner III as arguing to U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan that allowing suits by victims of torture and genocide would have the effect of disrupting and “potentially chilling” ... |
d52172efc22379c06687b5a5d376fca4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-me-boyle14-story.html | Peter Boyle, 71; father on ‘Raymond’ | Peter Boyle, 71; father on ‘Raymond’
Peter Boyle, who made an indelible mark in comedy by donning a top hat and tails and performing “Puttin’ on the Ritz” as the hulking monster in Mel Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein” and later gained his most enduring fame as the scrappy father on the popular sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymo... |
3cc2a5e25bc2f7ef215d5a4425c7d144 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-me-iebriefs14.3-story.html | Memorial service is set for helicopter crew | Memorial service is set for helicopter crew
A public memorial service this weekend will honor the crew of the Mercy Helicopter that crashed Sunday night near the summit of Cajon Pass. The crew was returning from dropping a patient off at Loma Linda University Medical Center.
The service will start at 11 a.m. Saturday a... |
5a6ca157c48cf61cae06f0f2e3befbe1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-me-lbhate14-story.html | Two beating victims might not testify | Two beating victims might not testify
The prosecutor in the trial of 10 black youths accused of beating three white women in Long Beach on Halloween night said Wednesday that she would rest her case this week without calling two of the victims to the stand.
The move could mean the prosecution of the nine girls and one ... |
188ee02b33855544bbc68e62f2ffc0c1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-me-ocbriefs14-story.html | Reward posted for killers of Santa Ana man, 34 | Reward posted for killers of Santa Ana man, 34
Authorities announced a $5,000 reward Wednesday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the people responsible for the death of a man killed on his way to work.
Jose Garcia, 34, of Santa Ana was in the 300 block of West Taft Avenue about 1:30 a.m. Nov. 13 w... |
22f9b044b72adb692505e25759a4d609 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-me-wiggan14-story.html | Phone records tie ex-SBC employee to Pellicano | Phone records tie ex-SBC employee to Pellicano
Federal authorities disclosed new evidence Wednesday that shows numerous phone calls were made from the office of indicted private investigator Anthony Pellicano to that of a former SBC employee, Joann Wiggan.
Two months ago, Wiggan, 52, of Burbank was acquitted on four of... |
cb6071f8779194a480d46b6caf48120d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-na-briefs14.1-story.html | Troopers allowed to detain migrants | Troopers allowed to detain migrants
Gov. Mitt Romney signed an agreement in Boston that allows state troopers to detain illegal immigrants they encounter over the course of their normal duties.
Under the terms of the agreement, made with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, an initial group of 30 troope... |
6883213a06f664c30629762d692f5b6e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-na-briefs14.3-story.html | Jack Kevorkian to be paroled | Jack Kevorkian to be paroled
After more than eight years behind bars for murder, an ailing Jack Kevorkian will be paroled in June on a promise not to help anyone else commit suicide, prison officials said in Lansing.
Corrections Department spokesman Russ Marlan said the parole board took the 78-year-old Kevorkian’s dec... |
48ef8e677ba44fc156f02533d38375ad | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-na-cheney14-story.html | Cheney visit ruling appealed | Cheney visit ruling appealed
The Bush administration asked an appeals court Wednesday to overrule a federal judge and allow the White House to keep secret any records of visitors to Vice President Dick Cheney’s residence and office.
To make the visitor records public would be an “unprecedented intrusion into the daily ... |
9ec3ee8204e2072c46cb7ab86bbd14cb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-na-ducks14-story.html | Large die-off of ducks has Idaho officials baffled | Large die-off of ducks has Idaho officials baffled
At least 2,000 mallard ducks have died within a few days in a remote area of southern Idaho, a development that confounded state wildlife officials Wednesday.
Only mallards are affected -- not other duck species or crows, eagles, magpies or geese.
“Quite honestly, we d... |
f98e058ae2164137dafecac83fefad8c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-na-duke14-story.html | DNA results in rape case withheld | DNA results in rape case withheld
A private lab used by prosecutors in the Duke University lacrosse rape case failed to disclose that it had found DNA from unidentified males in samples taken from the accuser’s body and underwear, according to a defense motion filed Wednesday.
The DNA did not match samples taken from t... |
fa22dfdf5e6881a623d25d85aad895f6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-na-prezpoll14-story.html | VOTERS FAVOR McCAIN OVER CLINTON IN ’08 | VOTERS FAVOR McCAIN OVER CLINTON IN ’08
Democrats have an overwhelmingly favorable view of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, but she would be soundly beaten if she ran for president against Republican Sen. John McCain now, a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
Underscoring the New York Democrat’s potential vulne... |
aa73c246f7826d85c1701dcf068f7be7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-sp-bbnotes14-story.html | Dodgers raise ticket prices | Dodgers raise ticket prices
After a season that featured a playoff appearance and record ticket sales, the Dodgers have significantly raised the price of most of their season tickets.
Although the Dodgers froze prices in five of 21 categories, they hiked the cost of other seats from $1 to $15 per ticket, translating to... |
0aa3c0fca06eb361d846e94b114df1ad | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-sp-lakerep14-story.html | Injuries will begin to test new depth | Injuries will begin to test new depth
The injury bug can wreck any NBA roster, but the big names on the Lakers managed to avoid it last season: Lamar Odom sat out only two games and Kobe Bryant didn’t miss any because of injuries, a nearly flawless escape by NBA standards.
But the Lakers aren’t as fortunate 22 games in... |
b8959c513909040d13ef545f9361cfc9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-sp-nba14-story.html | Suns hold off the Heat for 12th win in a row | Suns hold off the Heat for 12th win in a row
After squandering most of a 25-point lead, the Phoenix Suns restored order to win their 12th in a row, 99-89, Wednesday night over the Dwyane Wade-less Heat at Miami.
Playing without Wade (oral surgery) and Shaquille O’Neal (knee), the Heat trailed, 88-63, with 9:52 left bef... |
0dd762a741f17feb6e6f4d9f9b48046f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-sp-simers14-story.html | Santa, er, Lasorda, brings cheer to kids in hospital | Santa, er, Lasorda, brings cheer to kids in hospital
Robert is 13, lying on his back in a room on the third floor of Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA. He’s a victim of “bad luck,” his doctor says, the only explanation mankind apparently can come up with to explain his lymphoma.
He is dealing with the most intense dos... |
9f9bf22c1c6942c351e9353f573e0415 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-sp-uscrep14-story.html | Pruitt could be eligible for game | Pruitt could be eligible for game
The biggest assist at USC today could be delivered by a group of teachers.
Gabe Pruitt said Wednesday night that his teachers told him he had attained the grades necessary to regain his academic eligibility, but it was unclear whether the scores from the junior guard’s final exams woul... |
3d6969829d59a7485c2d9d40ad4a4d68 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-wk--letters14.2-story.html | Traumatic, but rib-tickling too | Traumatic, but rib-tickling too
OK, I admit it -- a newspaper column has to be really funny to make me laugh out loud [“The New Dating-World Disorder,” Dec. 7].
As a nice, normal guy with, alas, way too much experience dating traumatized thirtysomething women, I was in hysterics over Samantha Bonar’s piece. Well done!
... |
54922931e7f57a98e145ce5f80a037f9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-wk--letters14.4-story.html | A weekend with Tyrese | A weekend with Tyrese
In your Favorite Weekend report about Tyrese [Dec. 7], he states, “On Saturday morning, the first thing I’ll want to do is eat. I love home-cooked meals, so I’d probably have a lady friend cook something for me.” I hope all the women of Los Angeles are reading their Times and leave Tyrese alone wi... |
95c87cf9f9ef65181156eda99cc1ae62 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-wk-cover14-story.html | It’s not just for work | It’s not just for work
IT’S happy hour at funky Bar 107 in downtown Los Angeles. “Johnny Hit and Run Pauline” by the iconic punk band X plays on the stereo as bartender Felicia Cox, her chest and arms covered in intricate tattoos, pours stiff vodka tonics for several members of the burgeoning inner-city hip set. A home... |
26f912bf123727ccf735bad6aa05bdcd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-wk-dine14-story.html | Downtown finds | Downtown finds
Like many SoCal neighborhoods, downtown L.A. has been blessed with a spate of restaurant openings these last few months.
Cakewalk
Debra King opened this modest cafe and bakery just east of the 1st Street bridge this summer. She does some terrific cookies and cakes, including a chocolate layer cake that h... |
7701f73b37d0884deb4be93af2cdc99e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-wk-forecast14-story.html | WEEKEND FORECAST | WEEKEND FORECAST
TODAY
MUSIC
Bach for the holidays
Canadian Baroque specialist Bernard Labadie leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic and La Chapelle de Quebec in a holiday-themed Bach program at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Labadie will conduct Bach’s Magnificat, composed in 1723 for Christmas, in the original version that i... |
50bc60a92a011b8e40026bd6698dc2e3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-wk-gallery14-story.html | He brings the back street to the forefront | He brings the back street to the forefront
IN a series of essays titled “Memories of a Dog,” Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama writes of revisiting significant places in his life to better understand his memories of them. Photographs, he notes, are “the history of memory.”
Indeed, many of Moriyama’s photographs coul... |
b299ec9c4c6cb8d51b41a41c3ff44970 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-wk-quick14.3-story.html | FINALLY | FINALLY
On the Web: Mozart enthusiasts, students and scholars can now access the immortal composer’s entire catalog through a free online database with some 24,000 pages. The database -- available at dme.mozarteum.at-- also contains more than 8,000 pages of critical commentary published since 1954, said Ulrich Leisinge... |
84c3b3a25d066b700a3d78ea974153ed | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-et-german15-story.html | Play it again, Steve | Play it again, Steve
The first scene of Steven Soderbergh’s “The Good German,” which is set in Berlin at the end of World War II, instantly calls to mind Roberto Rossellini’s “Germany Year Zero.” The last scene is a dead ringer for “Casablanca.” Book-ended between the neo-realist beginning and the iconic ending is a fi... |
0a2bef4120c7cf2015650257a82f2007 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-et-quick15.2-story.html | A special Oscar to go to Lansing | A special Oscar to go to Lansing
Sherry Lansing, the former chairwoman of Paramount Motion Picture Group, was named Thursday to receive a special Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony Feb. 25.
Lansing, 62, will be given the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in recognition of her work on behalf of numerous causes, includi... |
fe9b3fa70c4547b33daf3eb6ac04b198 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-et-sunshine15-story.html | ‘Sunshine,’ but still a dark cloud | ‘Sunshine,’ but still a dark cloud
THE good news for the producers of “Little Miss Sunshine”: With its Golden Globe nomination for best comedy, the movie’s Oscar chances keep building. The bad news: At least two of its producers can’t enjoy any Academy Awards glory. And in the no-news-yet department: “The Departed’s” f... |
b9e959d4639934f0270ebcdeca98b0cf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-fi-briefs15.5-story.html | Lionel wins reversal of trade secrets verdict | Lionel wins reversal of trade secrets verdict
Lionel, a maker of model trains for more than 100 years, won reversal of a $40.8-million trade secrets verdict that had sent the company into bankruptcy.
A Detroit jury in June 2004 found that Chesterfield, Mich.-based Lionel had misappropriated designs from its rival, clos... |
36ca903eb8e5c3ec260e9fc42e9ed21f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-fi-calbriefs15.1-story.html | Also | Also
Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes music sales rose 84% in the first nine months of 2006 from a year earlier, according to a report from ComScore Networks Inc.
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2f3cbc3d5ce3eda9091391d655479a7b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-fi-cbs15-story.html | CBS plans to restart namesake music label | CBS plans to restart namesake music label
CBS Corp. plans to revive CBS Records -- a vestige of the glory days of the now-troubled music industry -- with an eye toward the Internet age.
In contrast to the lavish excesses of the music business of the 1970s and 1980s, the new incarnation of CBS Records, to be unveiled to... |
7cc18746e22649a50a2ee0307739692e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-fi-econ15-story.html | Claims for jobless benefits slide as import prices rise | Claims for jobless benefits slide as import prices rise
The number of U.S. workers seeking initial jobless benefits fell 20,000 last week and import prices rose last month despite a drop in oil prices, suggesting a resilient economy still facing inflation risks.
The sharper-than-expected drop in first-time claims for u... |
a2e7fc9d96294912712b74d791283661 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-fi-quik15-story.html | Quiksilver’s quarterly profit nearly doubles | Quiksilver’s quarterly profit nearly doubles
Quiksilver Inc., a maker of surf-inspired apparel, said Thursday that quarterly earnings nearly doubled as revenue exceeded forecasts on strong sales of its Rossignol ski products.
Profits were in line with a lowered forecast the Huntington Beach-based company gave this year... |
05d31b5c4dcd204b1bd3136c324fcdc0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-fi-wrap15.1-story.html | Hanmi Bank parent to buy insurance agencies | Hanmi Bank parent to buy insurance agencies
The holding company for Hanmi Bank in Los Angeles said Thursday that it would acquire two Garden Grove-based insurance agencies that, like the bank, have a largely Korean American clientele.
Hanmi Financial Corp. didn’t disclose purchase terms for Chun Ha Insurance Services a... |
e1167d928771d1eb748406d3b7326b36 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-le-friday15.5-story.html | Justices’ reversal of 9th Circuit ruling | Justices’ reversal of 9th Circuit ruling
Re “Victim-photo ruling is reversed,” Dec. 12
I was happy to read that the Supreme Court overturned the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in the murder trial of Matthew Musladin. How the 9th Circuit determined that wearing buttons with pictures of a murdered love one v... |
c21754a3249f2bdab4c23c9f50641d33 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-me-briefs15.2-story.html | New owner of hotel to reinstate 12 fired workers | New owner of hotel to reinstate 12 fired workers
Twelve union activists who lost their jobs this week when a new company bought the Sheraton Four Points hotel near LAX will be rehired, officials said.
The dozen are being reinstated under a deal brokered with the hotel by officials including Assembly Speaker Fabian Nune... |
e1b38adfccabb277b1c5fed699295daf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-me-lbhate15-story.html | Judge bars evidence in Long Beach hate crime trial | Judge bars evidence in Long Beach hate crime trial
In a closed hearing, a judge in the trial of 10 black juveniles charged with attacking three white women in Long Beach on Halloween barred evidence Thursday that one of the minors -- a 16-year-old black girl -- had blood on her pants that was DNA-matched to one of the ... |
c25de05038dbd8c598c71248890adaea | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-me-marry15-story.html | Take your wife’s name? That’ll cost you -- so ACLU steps in | Take your wife’s name? That’ll cost you -- so ACLU steps in
Long before they got engaged on a ridge in the Grand Tetons, they had talked about the future and children and names -- specifically their own surnames. She loved hers. He wanted to shed his.
Diana Bijon asked her boyfriend if he would take her last name if th... |
15b191abe864bd35774e4413d8baa885 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-me-roadrage15-story.html | Road rage suspect comes in | Road rage suspect comes in
Twelve-year-old Gabriel Garcia was an innocent passenger riding down Interstate 15 on Monday afternoon when a sudden lane change led to a 60-mph shouting match, a brief chase and finally gunfire that left him grievously wounded.
On Thursday, the San Bernardino man accused of being involved in... |
31f9e3ed3f70642587e54e80fc4deafb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-me-samurai15-story.html | Sword-wielding intruder is arrested in O.C. | Sword-wielding intruder is arrested in O.C.
Robin Ricketts said she awoke early Thursday to strange noises coming from her home office. When she went downstairs to check things out, she happened upon a strung-out burglar gathering her computer, printer, fax and other electronics and wielding an 18 1/2-inch samurai swor... |
3842cc768025d2157ba09b75c2817c6c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-me-tortilla15-story.html | A hunger to see the holy | A hunger to see the holy
THE wonder, believers said, appeared in a chunk of chocolate.
A worker arriving at a Fountain Valley candy factory saw it in a sugary glob at the mixing vat’s spout: an amazing likeness of the Virgin Mary standing in prayer.
“It’s absolutely a miracle,” said Jacinto Santacruz, a 26-year-old Rom... |
a679e5ce0b0f70ec4f25fe1f6c8dbfa5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-na-briefs15.2-story.html | Polygamist leader pleads not guilty | Polygamist leader pleads not guilty
A polygamist church leader accused of forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry and have sex with an older cousin pleaded not guilty in state district court in St. George to two counts of rape by accomplice.
Warren Jeffs, 51, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latte... |
e10a959a620cdf2296628c6c719906c9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-na-disabled15-story.html | Senate looks out for its own | Senate looks out for its own
Carter Glass was the dean of the U.S. Senate and chairman of its Appropriations Committee when he became incapacitated with heart trouble in the 1940s. The octogenarian was absent from the Capitol for four full years, unable to answer a roll call on the Senate floor, cut off from all visito... |
753684534cffdebb64b225ee366b65b1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-oe-tokofsky15-story.html | A civics lesson for L.A.'s mayor | A civics lesson for L.A.'s mayor
NEARLY 20 YEARS AGO, my students from John Marshall High won the U.S. Academic Decathlon -- a first for a California public school. I was a third-year teacher, recently out of UC Berkeley with a degree in American history, and I was proud to coach the diverse immigrant children who best... |
b45481e34d9861ccddb3927c37af5b7d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-sci-stardust15-story.html | NASA’s Stardust uncovers new twists to comet theory | NASA’s Stardust uncovers new twists to comet theory
Comets, the lonely wanderers credited with seeding Earth with the ingredients for life, are proving to be far more complex than anyone thought, containing a “zoo” of materials including some that may predate the sun, scientists reported Thursday.
And enough mixing was... |
993231ac191c7f407f847f9f4e449fc0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-15-sp-golf15-story.html | Daly still married to the game | Daly still married to the game
Going by the logos on his shirt, John Daly has six endorsement deals, which means they outnumber his ex-wives by two, but that’s not where he is focusing right now.
It’s all about the bad back that hurt him for weeks, not to mention the broken little finger on his right hand that sideline... |
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