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At the Ronald Reagan State Office Building, anger and dismay greet the governor's plan to impose the federal minimum wage until a budget is signed. 'There's just no way,' a legal secretary says.
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Claims for unemployment benefits climb. Also, sales of previously owned homes fall in June. >>
Wildlife has returned to Rush Creek years after L.A. was ordered to reduce water diversions. The comeback has a way to go, though. Why aren't the trout bigger? >>
About 200,000 would get the federal minimum wage, then receive back pay after a spending plan was enacted. But the state controller vows not to sign the order, and the matter could end up in court. >>
PORTS
'Offpeak' cargo operations, adopted in 2005 to ease traffic jams, already account for 40% of freight movements. >>
The agency offers its ideas to improve the troublesome 405-101 interchange, but admits it has no money allocated for the project. >>
Legislation focuses on bonuses for canceling or limiting a patient's coverage. >>
The city is also pushing mass transit and staggering workers' hours in its efforts to fight smog and ease traffic congestion. >>
Regions around Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, Albuquerque and Salt Lake City need federal help to cope with rapid changes and skirt California's pitfalls, a think tank concludes. >>
Fish in Lake Michigan are found to have viral hemorrhagic septicemia, known as 'fish Ebola,' weeks after the virus was discovered in Wisconsin and Ohio, leading to fears of major fish kills. >>
The controversy over Erwin Chemerinsky has not hindered the institution, as some predicted. The 'dream team' faculty has been praised by legal experts and educators. >>
Small rise from May brings the gauge to a nearly five-year high. The Los Angeles area has suffered substantial losses since a year earlier. >>
Fremantle disputes WGA claims about working conditions and says not all of its shows use writers. >>
What began as one man's hobby in 1984 has grown to a club that creates and distributes the right-size nesting box so the species can thrive. >>
Undocumented college students endure hardships over their status, then see an uncertain future. >>
Sick days
U.S. employees are making do with fewer days or none at all as companies reduce the benefit. Lawmakers are stepping in. >>
At LAX and elsewhere, workers who check in luggage for travelers have seen their incomes fall by as much as 50% in the last several years. 'People aren't as happy at work,' one said. >>
Removing just a few vehicles can clear jammed lanes, but motorists cling to routine. >>
Part Two: BRAKE LIGHT BLUES
When approving developments, local officials have sidestepped laws meant to limit the effects on traffic. >>
YOUR WHEELS
How cameras can help traffic flow; automated cars show potential. >>
Applicants from 14 states and three countries are on the list of candidates. Supervisors invite the public's opinion at a May 6 meeting. >>
COLUMN ONE
With the inflation rate at 100,000%, educators simply can't afford to teach. They are fleeing to take menial, but better-paying jobs -- leaving students behind. >>
Free 'South Park' episodes; Facebook nabs Google exec, again >>
COLUMN ONE
To support her family, an undocumented worker gathers recyclables from street-side containers. 'I do it out of necessity,' she says.
Audio photo gallery | >> Advocates urge a judge to appoint a receiver to take over a system they say remains broken despite long-standing promises to fix it. >>
COLUMN ONE
Australia's wild horses are being shot to preserve the environment. One woman is determined to save them. >>
L.A. County supervisors examine sites after three civil suits, alleging poor conditions and mistreatment, are filed. >>
Gratuity jars beckon on every counter, but customers decide who deserves a little extra >>
Poor management, software failures and breakdowns in training led to a yearlong crisis at L.A. Unified. >>
Robert Skotheim agreed to take the post to get the liberal arts school through a tough time after a quick succession of leaders. >>
Tribune's handbook urges workers to ask questions, but a staffer who pipes up gets an earful >>
Kathleen Driscoll, the executive director of the former state Senate leader's foundation, details alleged unwanted advances in her Superior Court complaint. >>
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
The offensive mind that helped USC win two national titles, fired by the Tennessee Titans this month, agrees to come work for new Bruins Coach Rick Neuheisel. >>
FOOTBALL
Offensive coordinator spent three seasons in the NFL and now will take time to evaluate. >>
If they can win a huge federal grant, Los Angeles County transportation officials said Tuesday that rush-hour toll lanes could become a reality on three local freeways by spring 2009. >>
Economic contraction probably has already taken hold in some states, including California, analysts say. >>
Michael S. Carona has been on a 60-day paid leave of absence to prepare for his defense since being charged with corruption. >>
Mark Ridley-Thomas says he will introduce a bill that will set the stage for examining the commission's future and possibly give USC a greater role. >>
One of the state's largest health insurers set goals and paid bonuses based in part on how many individual policyholders were dropped and how much money was saved. >>
Substandard staffing, grounded aircraft and fewer reserve crews delayed efforts to quash the Santiago blaze. >>
A walkout on Thursday will put thousands of others' paychecks at risk. The timing is especially bad this year. >>
Despite, or perhaps because of, Southern California's wildfires, an L.A. department recruitment seminar draws plenty of applicants. >>
Agency employees, not reporters, asked questions at the event. Homeland Security calls the lapse 'offensive and inexcusable.' >>
COLUMN ONE
Longtime residents of the Hawaiian island have found a focus for their resentment of nonstop development and tourism. >>
Justices rebuff a quest for services in a library, along with a Catholic group's effort to avoid paying for employees' birth control. >>
Mirthala Salinas, a former fill-in anchor on KVEA-TV Channel 52, is being sent to Riverside as a general assignment reporter. >>
A $317-million project to fix the freeway bottleneck by adding two connector ramps and widening roads will be done in six months. >>
Chernof's job -- to save King-Harbor -- gets a new focus as the last patients are removed. >>
The final section of the 210 Freeway is now open, easing travel from the Inland Empire to the Los Angeles area. >>
BOB SIPCHEN / SCHOOL ME
Six weeks ago the Los Angeles Unified School District switched on a $95-million computerized system for paying the district's 48,000 teachers and other employees. The soft sproing heard from Pacoima to Palms was the sound of Southern California coming unglued. >>
More companies are allowing time for sports and personal tasks to help boost morale. >>
Santa Monica has a new plan to stop a breeding frenzy among the rodents in Palisades Park. >>
NATION IN BRIEF / PENNSYLVANIA
Fire swept through a house in southwestern Pennsylvania, killing six young children and a woman. The young victims were four girls who ranged in age from 5 to 10, and two boys ages 2 and 3. Authorities said the woman was the mother of three of the children. >>
BOB SIPCHEN / SCHOOL ME
The Mayor Who Wants to Save the Children pranced onto the stage with Chuck Berry blasting: "Up in the mornin' and out to school / the teacher is teachin' the Golden Rule." >>
BOB SIPCHEN / SCHOOL ME
The high-stakes head-butting that that will rock Superior Court Judge Dzintra Janavs' courtroom Friday promises plenty of entertainment for fans of arcane constitutional argumentation. >>
THE SPREAD
Southern California's development model has its critics, but it's rooted in a powerful idea. As the world adopts our rampant growth, we are reassessing our civic structure. >>
THE WHEELS
Freeways changed the region forever and created a blueprint for suburban life throughout the nation. >>
THE NEW DEAL
Computer models can test a quake's effects on your house. The result could change your rates or threaten your policy. >>
The controversial Foothill South route proposed through a state park would not greatly ease congestion on Interstate 5, according to new figures. >>
A national regulator finds problems at San Francisco, L.A. and San Diego hospitals. Some face possible sanctions. >>
BOB SIPCHEN | SCHOOL ME
Last week, the school board forced Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa into a shotgun marriage with a former vice admiral. The question now is, who'll wear the pants? >>
BOB SIPCHEN / SCHOOL ME
Someone should write lyrics for the melancholy operetta that's been unfolding as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa attempts to wrest control of Los Angeles' public schools from the district's entrenched Board of Education. >>
With King/Drew's failure of a final federal inspection, some say it might be time for a private firm to take over the embattled facility. >>
CARS / 125 YEARS / COMMEMORATIVE EDITION / ROAD MAP
In 1924, a single volume of just 70 pages outlined the Los Angeles that we know today. >>
As L.A. County's top cop for seven years, Lee Baca has endeared himself to his base and alienated detractors with his offbeat style of policing. >>
The HMO would not authorize some patients to receive organs from outside its new program. >>
Paola Ordaz is feeling lost in America. >>
Millions working abroad help their nation get by, but not prosper. It's a life of lonely, risky sacrifice. >>
The world's immigrant workers send home billions of dollars a year, eclipsing all government aid. The funds, arriving in trickles, ease poverty and drive growth. >>
American workers at all levels are vulnerable to outsourcing, experts say, posing a challenge to the assumption that more schooling is the answer. >>
The high school dropout problem is "the new civil rights issue of our time," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa declared Wednesday in a speech that drew a line from the efforts to desegregate the South a half-century ago to today's struggles over the performance of Los Angeles students, who are predominantly Latino. >>
UFW: A BROKEN CONTRACT
The union-related philanthropies enrich one another, operating like a family business. >>
UFW: A BROKEN CONTRACT
The movement built by Cesar Chavez has failed to expand on its early successes organizing rural laborers. As their plight is used to attract donations that benefit others, services for those in the fi >>
Will steelhead ever return to local streams? Conservationists believe so, as they scour pools and search for ways to bring the endangered gamefish back. >>
WILDLIFE
The elusive gator may actually be helping Lake Machado. >>
THE NEW DEAL
Debra Potter made a good living selling disability coverage. But like many working Americans, she learned the hard way that federal law now favors insurers. >>
Frustrated over recent deaths at King/Drew, supervisors order the agency's leader to move his office to the hospital and increase oversight. >>
Supervisors talk of breaking ties with the university that trains its doctors. Yaroslavsky asks, 'Can this hospital survive?' >>
Wildlife trackers often work on the edge of the unknown, pitting their experience against the instinctive caginess of an animal, but success sometimes depends on a lucky break. >>
WILDLIFE
Awarding bison management to Native American tribes hits an outsourcing nerve. >>
BRIEFS
The apparent disappearance of tigers from one of their last remaining Asian enclaves has fueled a growing conservation scandal in India. >>
CRUISE NEWS
Pollution controls vary from state to state. A new rule here keeps discharges at least three miles from shoreline. >>
WILDLIFE
Montana governor's bold bison plan angers hunters and rights' groups alike. >>
Majestic trumpeter swans and their mighty appetites are straining one Idaho region. And no one knows better how to change their ways than Kent Clegg, a farmer and conservationist. >>
SOLUTIONS
County board must give up its control of King/Drew, experts say. Some also suggest rooting out incompetent workers, linking with a different medical school, even closing for a time to regroup. >>
YOUTH BEAT
Student travel agencies help with the necessary documents and offer support services in foreign countries. >>
ENVIRONMENT
Residents want to blast pesky elk out of their Rocky Mountain community. >>
Part 2
For a public hospital, King/Drew is flush. But it spends millions on employees' odd injury claims, lavish doctor pay and workers who don't show up. >>
A consultant group would run the hospital for at least a year and review each department. >>
WILDLIFE
Exiled bruins do go home again. The cure for the persistent? Tough trash cans. >>
ENVIRONMENT
Debate surges over artificial watering holes: Do they do more harm than good? >>
LIVING ON PENNIES / PART 1
What is it like to live on less than a dollar a day? Hundreds of millions in sub-Saharan Africa know. Their work is an endless cycle of bartering, hawking and scrounging to get by until tomorrow. >>
State and local agencies face a growing burden as workers are called up for duty. Some hire replacements, while others cut services. >>
Assessing danger is an essential skill in chancy sports like whitewater kayaking. The problem is we're lousy at it. Or so say the research guys in the white lab coats. Do you? >>
THE OUTDOORS DIGEST
Utah environmentalists are suing the BLM for failing to protect wild lands form vehicles. >>
No one's sure of its benefits, but anger management is increasingly recommended -- or ordered -- for those who can't control their rage. >>
Third of three parts
Wal-Mart plans to open 40 of its nonunion Supercenters in California. Labor is fighting the expected onslaught, but the big retailer rarely concedes defeat. >>
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