In Focus: Staff Photos from June 29 - July 5

Firefighter Tai Rogers carries a chain saw as he heads back to his truck after cutting fire breaks along California 1 near Big Sur, where about 200 people along a sparsely populated, 20-mile stretch of coast south of town were ordered to evacuate.  (Robert Durell / Los Angeles Times)

Airline passengers wait outside Terminal 3 at Los Angeles International Airport after a man walked up to officers on the upper-level roadway and said he had a bomb. Officials who examined a black bag carried by the suspect said it contained only junk. Several flights were delayed and passengers were kept outside terminals while the incident was investigated.  (Richard Hartog / Los Angeles Times)

An unidentified man gives flowers to paparazzi in Malibu in a gesture of calm. Chatter on the Web about a “grudge match” between surfers and paparazzi had worried law enforcement after a brawl between the two groups a week earlier. A dozen photographers shooting actor Matthew McConaughey surfing had squared off with a group of young men who ordered them off the beach at Little Dume. A second fight broke out the next day when paparazzi returned to shoot McConaughey.  (Annie Wells / Los Angeles Times)

Angels second baseman Howie Hendrick is taken out by Oakland’s Jack Hannahan to avert a possible eighth-inning double play. The Angels went on to win the game 7-4 over the Athletics, increasing their lead in the American League West to 5 1/2 games.  (Alex Gallardo / Los Angeles Times)

California Highway Patrol Officer Joe Zizi tickets a motorist he says he saw pressing a cellphone to his ear on the first day of a new state law requiring drivers to use hands-free devices to make cellphone calls.. “The early anecdotal information we’re hearing is that, for the most part, we’re noticing a lot more headsets and Bluetooths out there,” says CHP spokesman Tom Marshall.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

Revisiting the West Hollywood neighborhood that was his home in the early 2000s, novelist Salman Rushdie pauses at the Kings Road Cafe. He wrote “Shalimar the Clown” while living on Kings Road. Visiting L.A. to promote his new novel, “The Enchantress of Florence,” Rushdie enjoys relative anonymity here. No paparazzi hordes, as he encounters elsewhere. “You know, they want Lindsay Lohan -- they don’t want me,” he says.  (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)

Visitors take a trolley car that runs through Americana at Brand in Glendale, passing an ad for a clothing store coming soon to the $400-million retail and residential development, which takes up four city blocks. In addition to shops and restaurants, four distinct rental apartment buildings -- almost like anchor stores -- offer floor plans ranging from lofts at $2,060 to town houses (topping $5,000). In all, there are 238 apartments. The Americana also boasts 100 condos, starting at $700,000 and reaching as high as $2 million.  (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)

LaDonna Davis breaks down as she and her husband, St. James Davis, talk to reporters about their 42-year-old chimpanzee, Moe, who apparently disappeared from his habitat at Jungle Exotics in Devore into San Bernardino County’s mountains. The 125-pound, 3-foot-tall animal had been raised in captivity since he was said to have been rescued from Tanzanian poachers in 1967.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)