2006's Greatest 'Hits' @ latimes.com


From crashed Ferraris to Girls Gone Wild, latimes.com viewers indirectly voted with their mice for the year's top-viewed ten stories:

So Speedy, So Exclusive, So Expensive, So Totaled
By Bob Pool
It was a SigAlert made for Malibu. A red Ferrari Enzo — one of only 400 ever made and worth more than $1 million — broke apart when it crested a hill on the PCH going 120 mph and slammed into a power pole.
February 22, 2006

Mystery fuels huge popularity of web's Lonelygirl15
By Richard Rushfield and Claire Hoffman
The videos are a hit on YouTube, but some wonder if the teen's posts are real or a marketing ploy.
September 8, 2006

Boxing's tallest and heaviest champion ever
By Kim Murphy
Valuev is a hero in Russia, controversy or no controversy.

Joe Francis: 'Baby, give me a kiss'
By Claire Hoffman
The man behind the "Girls Gone Wild" soft-porn empire lets Claire Hoffman into his world, for better or worse
August 6, 2006

Baby is sent through X-ray machine at LAX
By Jennifer Oldham
A woman places her month-old grandson in a bin for carry-on items. Doctors later determine he did not get a dangerous dose of radiation.
December 20, 2006

Sirius shock: pirates hit Howard Stern Show
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., which liberated radio shock jock Howard Stern from the federal decency standards that he felt had shackled him, is finding that freedom's just another word for $500 million to lose.

Warriors and wusses
COLUMN
By JOEL STEIN
I don't support our troops. This is a particularly difficult opinion to have, especially if you are the kind of person who likes to put bumper stickers on his car.
January 24, 2006

Extradition Sought in Man's Death
By Tony Perry
San Diego prosecutors request the return of a Marine sergeant's wife arrested in Florida on suspicion of poisoning her husband.
January 4, 2006

Trying to corral Stern's lost herd
By Martin Miller
Only a fraction of the audience followed the shock jock to satellite. Stations wonder where millions of ears went.
April 11, 2006