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North Korea releases South Korean fishing boat - 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - Pyongyang had said the craft and its crew of seven illegally entered its territorial waters. The release coincides with a request for emergency aid.
North Korea on Tuesday released a captive South Korean fishing boat as officials in Seoul considered a request from Pyongyang for emergency storm aid — gestures experts say may signal an easing of tensions on the divided Korean peninsula.
British phone-hacking scandal comes to Downing Street as Cameron aide likely ... - 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - Police also want to interview a former tabloid reporter who has said that the aide and former editor, Andy Coulson, knew of alleged efforts to hack cellphones belonging to celebs, politicians and aides to the royal family.
Scotland Yard said Tuesday that it expected to question a top aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron in a growing scandal over a tabloid newspaper's alleged efforts to hack the cellphones of celebrities, politicians and aides to members of the monarchy.
Pakistan bombing kills at least 14 - 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - As the government struggles to cope with the summer's devastating floods, militants continue a string of attacks that have killed at least 102 people.
A powerful suicide bomb blast Tuesday tore through a police compound in the northwestern Pakistani town of Kohat, killing at least 14 people, the latest in a string of attacks carried out by Islamic militants as the government and security forces are struggling to cope with this summer's catastrophic floods.
2 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq - 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - Nine are injured as they come under fire from a man in an Iraqi army uniform. The troops were part of a security detail for a U.S. commander meeting with Iraqi officers in Salahuddin province.
Two American soldiers were killed and nine were injured Tuesday when a man wearing an Iraqi army uniform opened fire on them in an Iraqi commando compound in the province of Salahuddin, an attack that highlighted the danger U.S. troops continue to face in Iraq despite the formal end of combat operations announced by President Obama last week.
French strike over plan to raise retirement age - 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - More than a million take to the streets to protest the move, which Sarkozy says is needed to reduce the country's deficit.
More than 1 million people went on strike and into the streets of France on Tuesday to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's proposal to raise the legal retirement age.
Reaction to proposed Koran burning doesn't faze Florida church 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - A plea from Gen. David H. Petraeus, who fears that burning the Muslim holy book could provoke violence, is rebuffed. But Pastor Terry Jones hints that he may reconsider the Saturday event.
The pastor of a tiny, fringe evangelical church in Florida on Tuesday rebuffed a plea for restraint from Gen. David H. Petraeus, who warned that a plan to burn the Muslim holy book could provoke violence against American troops and citizens overseas.
L.A. Unified delays first day of school year 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - The schools traditionally open their doors the day after Labor Day. But budget cuts, unpaid furloughs for teachers and other employees, and Jewish High Holy Days have pushed things back to Sept. 13.
Welcome to the first day of school — not.
Memo to Jerry Brown: Tell it like it is 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - The cagey political veteran needs to do more than toss out stock cliches and vague feel-good statements in his run for governor. He needs to tell people why they need to vote for him.
My alarm went off at 6:45 a.m. on Labor Day, but I was already awake. I didn't want to miss a minute of Jerry Brown's big event. His campaign staff was promising a "significant announcement," and Brown himself was going to be at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles to make it.
Irvine's Hoag Hospital works to bridge cultural barriers 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - Serving a community with many immigrants, the facility is offering such amenities as feng-shui patient rooms, translation services and sensitivity training of its staff.
The nurse just thought she was bringing a refreshing dessert — a Popsicle — to a new mother. She didn't expect the grandmother, shocked, to stop her and intercept the treat.
Pot shop owners appeal to City Council for help 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - After 75% of registered stores are disqualified, a small group of sellers and patients rallies at City Hall.
Incensed by the city's determination that just a quarter of the registered Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensaries are qualified to remain open, about 80 operators and advocates held a subdued rally Tuesday and then trooped into City Hall to demand that the council intervene.
Global warming bill a lose-lose issue for GOP candidates 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina have wavered on Proposition 23, trying to appease their conservative base without alienating independent voters. Fiorina finally came out in favor of it last week.
A November ballot measure that would rescind California's landmark global warming bill until unemployment drops significantly has become an albatross for the Republican candidates for governor and U.S. Senate.
Deputy who arrested Mel Gibson in 2006 sues Sheriff's Department 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - James Mee alleges he was the target of department retaliation because he resisted superiors' requests to remove mention of the actor's anti-Semitic slurs from his initial arrest report.
The deputy who arrested Mel Gibson in 2006 for drunk driving sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on Tuesday, alleging that it retaliated against him because he resisted requests from superiors to remove the actor's anti-Semitic slurs from an initial arrest report.
Former Bell mayor steps down from charity that does work for the city 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - George Cole headed the Steelworkers Oldtimers Foundation. The group received funds from Bell for services to senior citizens yet filed sworn reports with the state that it had received no such money.
Under fire for failing to properly disclose government contracts, former Bell Mayor George Cole has stepped down, at least temporarily, as chief executive of the Steelworkers Oldtimers Foundation, a charity that does work for Bell and other cities, the group's representatives said Tuesday.
Activist raises profile of Bell's Lebanese community 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - The enclave in the overwhelmingly Latino city has kept mostly to itself. But Ali Saleh, who ran for council last year, is now a leader in the group demanding reforms after the salary scandal.
As TV trucks repeatedly filled the parking lot and the angry crowds grew at City Hall after the salary scandal exploded in Bell, an unlikely figure stepped forward in the small, working-class city.
Protesters, LAPD clash as chief defends shooting 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - Police disperse crowd near Westlake site where officer shot a day laborer to death. At least 22 people are arrested.
As Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck defended the fatal shooting of a day laborer and officials called for calm, protesters and officers clashed Tuesday night in Westlake near the site of the incident.
Dried-up tax credits cause slowdown in L.A. film and TV production 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - Work on movies drops 9% in the last 10 weeks, while TV shoots fall about 1%. Commercials are the one bright spot, rising 23%.
Like the sputtering national economy, Los Angeles' movie and television production economy is sending out mixed signals.
Downtown L.A. condo developer takes on investors, FDIC 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - Hassan Astani, who began the project in 2004, hopes to open the 30-story Concerto near Staples Center before he runs out of money. But a group of investors in charge of Astani's loan has other plans.
The last decade's great condominium construction boom is over in downtown Los Angeles — with the exception of one battered builder still crawling toward the finish line.
Health Net is cleared by state to raise premiums 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - The rate hikes for 38,000 individual policyholders will average 16%. Regulators are still reviewing Aetna's plan to increase its premiums an average of 19% for 65,000 policyholders.
A California health insurer got the green light Tuesday to raise premiums an average of 16% for 38,000 policyholders who buy insurance on their own.
Businesses like Obama tax write-off plan but want to keep Bush tax cuts too 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - Economists and business groups see President Obama's proposal as giving a modest boost to the economy, not as having the major effect that would come from ending the uncertainty about the soon-to-expire tax cuts.
The business community likes President Obama's proposal to accelerate tax write-offs for companies buying equipment and other big-ticket items. But it is clamoring for more — extension of all of the soon-expiring Bush-era tax cuts.
Defending Prop. 8 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - California's top public lawyer and its chief executive have an obligation to defend the laws of the state whether they like them or not, and that includes Proposition 8.
We don't like Proposition 8, and neither does California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown or Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. But there's a difference between opinion journalists and the state's constitutional officers. California's top public lawyer and its chief executive have an obligation to defend the laws of the state whether they like them or not — and that should include the ban on same-sex marriage.
Fundraising, with limits 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - SB 330, which the governor should sign, would rein in some of the abuses by private 'auxiliaries' that raise money for California public colleges and universities.
In an understandable quest to make up for budget cuts, California public colleges and universities have developed new fundraising methods, including the establishment of foundations known as "auxiliaries" that function as arms of the schools but that legally exist outside of them. That fiction has allowed schools to raise money through the auxiliaries without being subject to the rules that govern public institutions, including the requirement that they disclose information covered by the Public Records Act. This has fostered secrecy, which in turn has bred abuse. Thankfully, the Legislature has passed a bill to correct it, and the governor now has the opportunity to sign it. He should.
Leave Lisker alone 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - The state may seek to return him to prison over late paperwork. But justice demands that he remain free.
One way or another, the legal apparatus of California seems determined to get Bruce Lisker. The pursuit continues despite the fact that his murder conviction — for which he spent 26 years in prison — was overturned last year when a federal judge concluded that the original case against him was based on sloppy police work, incompetent representation by his attorney and "false evidence."
FDA warns green tea makers against health claims 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - Canada Dry and Lipton drinks are both described in misleading terms, the agency contends in part of an ongoing clampdown on labels.
The Food and Drug Administration has warned producers of two popular brands of green tea drinks not to make unauthorized nutrient claims, continuing its clampdown on misleading food labeling.
U.S. smoking rate hasn't changed, CDC says 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - One in five Americans lights up regularly. If all states had prevention programs like those in California and Utah, 5 million fewer people would be smoking, the agency says.
After 40 years of continual declines, the smoking rate in the United States has stabilized for the last five years, with one in every five Americans still lighting up regularly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.
I was an 'anchor baby' 8 Sep 2010 at 3:00am - Merely having a baby on American soil doesn't doesn't give foreign parents a foothold, as 14th Amendment opponents often imply.
I was an "anchor baby." According to family lore, the day I was born at Hibbing Memorial Hospital in Minnesota in the early 1960s was also the day my parents received their deportation papers. They had come to America from war-torn Korea on student visas that had run out. Laws at the time prohibited most Asians from immigrating, so they were told to leave, even with three American children.
Angels double up in pain in 6-1 loss to Cleveland 8 Sep 2010 at 2:18am - They ground into two double plays, two runners are caught stealing and they have two missed scoring chances, adding up to another loss at home to a struggling team.
The meek shall inherit the Earth, or at least a sliver of land in Anaheim known as Angel Stadium.
Padres' Mat Latos dominates Dodgers in 2-1 win 8 Sep 2010 at 2:11am - Right-hander strikes out a career-high 10 batters over seven innings to keep San Diego atop the National League West.
The Dodgers' clubhouse was silent, so much so that the humming of a stationary bicycle in an adjacent room was audible. About the only other sounds that could be heard came from the showers.
Dodgers are stuck on a train to Dullsville 8 Sep 2010 at 2:00am - Even the announcers have lost it (no, not Vin Scully) as the team looks for answers.
Even the announcers have lost it (no, not Vin Scully) as the team looks for answers.
Shocking pink, but not a shocking win for Venus Williams 8 Sep 2010 at 1:21am - Wearing one of her favorite outfits, Williams defeats French Open champion Francesca Schiavone to reach U.S. Open semifinals.
Wearing one of her favorite outfits, Williams defeats French Open champion Francesca Schiavone to reach U.S. Open semifinals.
USC freshman Dillon Baxter has a lot to learn, but he's ready to get started 8 Sep 2010 at 1:04am - Baxter, a running back billed as one of the nation's top recruits, was suspended and stayed home for the Trojans' season opener at Hawaii. Saturday night at the Coliseum, he'll debut against Virginia, the first step in what he and Coach Lane Kiffin expect to be a stellar career.
USC tailback Dillon Baxter won't be calm when he enters Saturday's game against Virginia.
For Alaska's restive right, it's Joe Miller time 8 Sep 2010 at 12:28am - A Yale-educated lawyer and former tank commander on track for the U.S. Senate is saying extreme things, even by frontier standards.
For campaign volunteer Amy Walker, the Republican U.S. Senate race in Alaska never was about money, so it didn't matter that Sen. Lisa Murkowski outspent her man several times over. Joe Miller, the 43-year-old Fairbanks lawyer who wrested the nomination from the influential incumbent, would show up in people's living rooms, she said, share a cup of coffee, and walk away with 20 votes.
Helene Elliott: Michelle Kwan is a class act all the way 7 Sep 2010 at 11:57pm - She is in program at Tufts working on second career in foreign service or politics. But she hasn't left figure skating entirely, showing grace and elegance in promoting 'All That Skate L.A.' show.
When her peers at the Fletcher School of International Relations at Tufts University would ask Michelle Kwan what she does outside the classroom, she'd say she used to be a figure skater. If they pressed her for details she had a standard response.
UCLA quarterback Kevin Prince misses some of practice because of sore shoulder 7 Sep 2010 at 11:44pm - He sits out at the end, having aggravated the shoulder he first hurt last season against USC. He is expected to play in the Pacific 10 Conference opener against Stanford.
UCLA quarterback Kevin Prince has aggravated the shoulder he originally injured against USC last season, prompting coaches to keep him on the sideline for the final minutes of practice Tuesday.
Reggie Bush, give back that Heisman 7 Sep 2010 at 11:30pm - It would be the right thing to do, but don't expect it to happen from a player (and an era) with that sense of entitlement.
It would be the right thing to do, but don't expect it to happen from a player (and an era) with that sense of entitlement.
It's no surprise as Tiger Woods makes Ryder Cup team 7 Sep 2010 at 11:25pm - Corey Pavin also selects rookie Rickie Fowler, along with major winners Zach Johnson and Stewart Cink.
Tiger Woods turned out to be the easy selection. Nor did U.S. Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin shake the tree very much by inviting former major champions Stewart Cink and Zach Johnson to Wales.
As UCLA's middle linebacker, Patrick Larimore sees the big picture 7 Sep 2010 at 10:22pm - The 6-foot-3, 250-pound sophomore is strong in both body and mind, as befits the physical and intellectual requirements of his demanding position — the 'quarterback' of the defense.
There are certain stereotypes about the makeup of linebackers, and at first glance UCLA's Patrick Larimore seems to fit the blueprint.
Border Patrol is grappling with misconduct cases in its ranks 7 Sep 2010 at 10:17pm - In the last 18 months, five Border Patrol agents have been accused or convicted of sex crimes or assaults. The latest case involved the alleged assault of a suspected drug smuggler.
One by one, Border Patrol agents took the witness stand in the federal courthouse here last week to testify against a fellow officer, their faces creased with anguish.
California regulators seek up to $9.9 billion in fines from PacifiCare 7 Sep 2010 at 10:16pm - The health insurer violated state law nearly 1 million times from 2006 to 2008 after it was bought by UnitedHealth Group, the Department of Insurance says.
California regulators are seeking fines of up to $9.9 billion from health insurer PacifiCare over allegations that it repeatedly mismanaged medical claims, lost thousands of patient documents, failed to pay doctors what they were owed and ignored calls to fix the problems.
Electrodes translate brain waves into words 7 Sep 2010 at 9:42pm - The Utah study reported in the Journal of Neuroengineering shows promise for helping severely paralyzed patients communicate. A grid of microelectrodes was placed directly on a patient's brain.
In a first step toward helping severely paralyzed people communicate more easily, Utah researchers have shown that it is possible to translate recorded brain waves into words, using a grid of electrodes placed directly on the brain.
Hewlett-Packard sues to keep former CEO from going to Oracle 7 Sep 2010 at 9:17pm - HP's lawsuit says Mark V. Hurd could leak company secrets to Oracle and his employment there would violate noncompete clauses.
Intensifying an increasingly bitter feud between two technology heavyweights, Hewlett-Packard Co. went to court Tuesday to try to prevent its former chief executive, Mark V. Hurd, from taking a top post with Silicon Valley rival Oracle Corp.
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