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Today's Headlines | Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Today's Headlines
Lee Min-bok sends fliers drifting across the border in hopes of enlightening his former countrymen. Despite an anti-propaganda pact, he's not alone.
Recently released survey results suggest that suburban communities have continued to integrate, with significant increases in the Asian and Latino populations.
Facing a potentially divisive battle with the school board, Superintendent David Brewer agrees to leave and insists the strife is not racially motivated. His severance is estimated at $500,000.
The Chicago company, which owns the L.A. Times and KTLA-TV Channel 5, will stop making interest payments on nearly $13 billion in debt as it tries to restructure its loans, CEO Sam Zell says.
Five members of the security contractor are accused of killing 14 people in a Baghdad square last year. A sixth guard cooperates with authorities and pleads guilty to lesser charges.
TV host is said to take early slot after yielding 'Tonight,' changing the rules of prime time.
California/Local
For 55 years, he was known to the world at large only as HM or Henry M., the survivor of brain surgery that went catastrophically wrong, leaving him with a form of amnesia that prevented him from collecting any new memories and living in a pre-1953 world.
Stand behind the curtain of bamboo just outside the paddock of the last, lone elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo and you'll hear the daylong drumbeat of running feet.
LOS ANGELES
Car-to-car shooting leaves woman deadIn a rare joint session of the Assembly and Senate, officials depict the dismal consequences if Democrats and Republicans fail to address the state's projected $28-billion budget gap -- and soon.
Arts and Entertainment
The exhibition provides a fuller, deeper and more provocative look at the Los Angeles-based artist's work.
Patricia Cornwell returns to form in 'Scarpetta' and funds real-life science.
National
At Republic Windows and Doors, the standoff between workers, the company and the bank has become a symbol of the divide between rescue plans for Wall Street and Main Street.
Changes in social standing such as falling below the poverty line or going to jail made people more likely to be perceived as black and less likely to be seen as white, researchers say.
Five alleged Sept. 11 plotters offer to plead guilty, then three decline. One pledges loyalty to Bin Laden.
World
In a new report, Mark Fitzpatrick argues for accepting some aspects of Iran's nuclear program, such as enrichment, in order to maintain access for inspectors and help prevent development of a bomb.
It's unclear whether Pakistani officials detained the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai attacks, Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, during a raid Sunday.
The wins are a big boost for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Congress Party, which many thought would be trounced after the recent deadly attacks in Mumbai.
Business
With Chinese demand -- and prices -- plunging, reclaimed cardboard that is normally exported by the ton stacks up in Southland warehouses.
The measure calls for $15 billion in emergency funding, with oversight from a presidentially appointed monitor.
Markets are buoyed by prospects of Obama's plans for infrastructure spending.
In the last week, pump prices have dropped an average of 11.2 cents nationally and 15 cents in California.
Sports
Ariza's arrival in a trade with Orlando a year ago caused concern among some Lakers about team chemistry. He's allayed those fears, and then some.
The final ballots of some coaches' poll voters are revealing. Also strange, self-serving and, more often than not, funny.
The program has long been successful, but now, for the first time, every Monarchs starter is bound for a major-college program.
Opinion
As the new president scopes out the White House, O.J. will be checking out his new prison cell.
A Times Op-Ed writer stubbornly dismissed evidence that shows an important artifact from the Holy Land may not be a hoax.
The outgoing LAUSD superintendent showed signs of succumbing to pressures within a year of his taking the job.
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