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May 18, 2010
Sports
The fallout from favored Sweet Catomine’s fifth-place finish in Saturday’s Santa Anita Derby reached seismic proportions Monday when the filly’s trainer was fired and her owner, Marty Wygod, was accused by the California Horse Racing Board of secretly transporting the horse to a clinic five days before the race.
April 12, 2005
A Kentucky dentist allegedly killed thoroughbred racehorses so owners could collect insurance money, the FBI said Monday.
Feb. 27, 1990
Books
Southern California Rating: FICTION 1 P IS FOR PERIL by Sue Grafton (Putnam: $26.95) Kinsey Millhone is hired to find a missing doctor with skeletons in the closet at work and a dysfunctional family at home.
July 15, 2001
World & Nation
President Kim Young Sam’s order to pry open a financial system designed to conceal corruption and tax evasion--his most controversial reform yet--has proved a political success but may cost South Korea 1% of its gross national product this year.
Oct. 16, 1993
California
Identity-concealing face masks and potential weapons such as sticks, baseball bats and pepper spray could be outlawed at public gatherings under a new ordinance approved in Carlsbad, a response to the recent passionate political protests across the nation.
June 26, 2018
Movies
Nineteenth-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, an English merchant’s son who immigrated to the United States at age 21, is famous for three things: his own bizarre spelling of his name, his sensational acquittal for the murder of his wife’s lover, and his blurry but indisputable photographic proof that Occident, former California Gov.
Aug. 13, 1992
Furor grows over O.C. sheriff’s effort to revoke concealed-weapons permits
Feb. 11, 2009
Entertainment & Arts
Given the way our culture has made a fetish of multi-tasking, it’s no wonder that Maya Lin has become a household name.
Oct. 29, 1999
Food
Food critic Laura Reiley has decided to finally show her face after 27 years of near-anonymity.
Jan. 30, 2018