In Focus: Staff photos from Oct. 19 to Oct. 25
USC’s Daniel Harper, left, DaJohn Harris, Kyle Moore, Stanley Havili and Patrick Turner march out to the field before a game at Washington State in Pullman. The Trojans still covet a spot in the BCS national title game but must dig out from under an early loss to Oregon State. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Six years ago, a vaccine designed specifically for musician Kevin Carlberg, shown with his daughter, helped him beat back an aggressive type of brain cancer. Carlberg received a personalized type of medical care at UCLA, where doctors created a vaccine from his tumor. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
The twin domes of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Ascension in an early-morning view from Unalaska Island toward Dutch Harbor, America’s largest seafood port and the only natural deep-water port in the Aleutian Islands. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
A mother and daughter, both unidentified, embrace as they leave Vasquez High in Acton, where freshman Jeremiah Lasater committed suicide. Lasater, who was on the junior varsity football team, shot himself on the campus in northern Los Angeles County. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
An alleged Mongols gang member is escorted by a federal officer. A crackdown on the gang this week involved more than 1,000 federal agents and police in Southern California, Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, Washington and Ohio. It capped a three-year undercover investigation in which agents infiltrated the gang. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
The city broke ground on a $2.5-million renovation plan for this barren field at MacArthur Park, which will be off-limits to soccer players for eight months while artificial turf, lights and picnic tables are added. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
An island fox born in captivity on Santa Rosa Island awaits its release into the wild as biologists marked the culmination of a breeding program that started years ago. The rare foxes were nearing extinction -- the species joined the endangered list in 1994 -- but now there are more than 100 in the wild. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
At Skyline Church in La Mesa in San Diego County, the Rev. Lou Engle, center, leads a group in prayer. Engle started “houses of prayer” in cities across the country. The plan was to “call young adults into a lifestyle of radical prayer, fasting and holiness.” (Robert Lachman / Los Angeles Times)
UCLA tight end Ryan Moya is taken down after a catch during the decisive 11-play, 87-yard drive that led the Bruins to a 23-20 victory over Stanford on Saturday. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
A worker leaves a flag at the site of a reservoir project 30 miles east of El Centro on Tuesday. The $172.2-million reservoir will be built to ease drought along All-America Canal to capture water that would otherwise go to Mexico. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)