In focus: Staff photos from July 20 - July 26
A diver flips through the air in the synchronized competition at the 2008 Kaiser Permanente National Diving Championships in Pasadena. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
A chick peeks out while waiting for food in the nesting area at the Bolsa Chica wetlands. Biologists expect more changes at the rejuvenated tidal basin, and they expect that as many as 60 species of fish will settle there. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
A woman is escorted from an apartment complex in Inglewood, where police shot and killed postal worker Kevin Wicks after responding to a domestic disturbance call. Authorities said Wicks raised a handgun at officers. (Benjiman Reed / Los Angeles Times)
Outdoor instructor Becky Clough and Geoffrey McQuilkin, executive director of the Mono Lake Committee, canoe near the tufa formations at Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierra. (Don Kelsen / Los Angeles Times)
Heather Suarez applies makeup as she waits in line at the Otay Mesa border crossing in Tijuana during her two-hour drive to work in San Diego. Her husband must wait until 2016 to apply to reenter the United States, so Suarez lives in Mexico to keep her family together. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Zawadi Gyasi, 8, removes curlers from her hair with the help of her mother, Queen Goddess, owner of a hair salon on Degnan Boulevard in the village shopping district of
City Hall is reflected in the glass panels of the
Angels shortstop
Kathleen Hamilton, president of Save Our Southwest Hills, opposes a proposed hard rock quarry near Temecula, saying it would seriously threaten the Santa Margarita River and wildlife. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Spray from the new fountain at the Port of