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The lawsuit seeks to stop gang members from engaging in criminal and nuisance activities in areas of northeast Los Angeles, Glendale, and Sunland and Tujunga.
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The Spanish-language broadcaster posts a $2.9-billion third-quarter loss after writing down assets. >>
France: Alleged ETA leader held / Peru: Man held with grenades / Brazil: Trader tries suicide at exchange / Australia: Navy gets 2-month holiday / South Africa: Teen pleads guilty to shootings >>
The alleged pyramid schemes have sparked disturbances in 12 states. Police are closing financial firms' offices and making arrests. >>
The lawsuit could imperil the Internet entrepreneur's bid to buy the Chicago Cubs. >>
Ricardo Salinas Pliego, who controls a chain of Latin American electronics stores and TV Azteca, owned 47.2 million shares of the bankrupt company as of Nov. 14. >>
The oil giant says it already cleaned up its share of the mess in the Amazon region, but peasant farmers continue to suffer. >>
Gabriella's Place in the Pico-Union district had to close three years ago because of rain damage. The surrounding immigrant community is celebrating its return in a new space. >>
India: Tibetan exiles seek new ideas on dealing with China / Australia: Nonlethal whale research planned / Congo: Rebel leader agrees to U.N. peace talks / Mexico: 4 Scuba divers die during aqueduct m >>
Few regions of the U.S. are immune to drug-trafficking organizations that have left a trail of death, kidnappings and other crimes. >>
Tiny funerary figures fascinate in their depictions of everyday life in the ancient Yucatán world. They were unearthed at Jaina, a Maya island of the dead. >>
The country is experiencing a wave of violence but here are a few relatively safe destinations: Mexico City, Puebla, Veracruz, Playa del Carmen and Puerto Escondido. >>
Gaza Strip: Border closure depletes food supplies / Somalia: Rebels take another port town / Iran: State TV says spies detained / Mexico: 1,500 protest Tijuana violence >>
ATLANTA >>
Aerial spraying is still the preferred method of coca eradication but the use of manual laborers is expanding. Many take the dangerous job because of good wages; some have more personal reasons. >>
President Dmitry Medvedev is to visit Venezuela, where President Hugo Chavez has been cultivating stronger military and economic relations with Russia. Stops in Brazil and Cuba are also planned. >>
El Coyote Mexican Cafe came under fire after a manager gave $100 to the campaign to ban same-sex marriage. Employees make an online donation of $500 to an advocacy group challenging the ban. >>
Russia: Longer term for president approved / Brazil: Report cites police corruption / Colombia: Finance official resigns / Uruguay: Abortion law vetoed / Belarus: Lukashenko considers missiles >>
The turbulent wake of a large passenger jet probably caused the crash that killed the nation's second-highest official and 13 other people, a preliminary government inquiry says. >>
SCREENING ROOM
Other events include Bel Air and Chicano film festivals, and Kenneth Anger at REDCAT. >>
The Colombian rocker takes top honors, including record of the year for 'Me Enamora' and album of the year for 'La Vida ... Es Un Ratico.' Kany Garcia of Puerto Rico takes best new artist. >>
The president wants to help a key U.S. ally, and getting a proposed deal through Congress is important to his legacy, analysts say. >>
Soldiers and officers convicted or implicated in the deaths of six priests in 1989 are free under a controversial amnesty law. Victims' relatives and rights groups turn to Spain's courts. >>
COLUMN ONE
The Barbie store in Argentina is the only one of its kind, though not for long. Feminists may groan, but little girls still can't get enough of the impossibly proportioned doll. >>
MEXICO UNDER SIEGE
The mayor still pushes his seaside city as a cut-rate paradise. 'Tourists are not targeted,' he says. But violence linked to the drug war has made it a harder sell. >>
About 300,000 college-educated legal immigrants in the state, and 1.3 million nationwide, are unemployed or working in low-level jobs because their credentials aren't recognized here, a study finds. >>
Congo: Cholera spreads to town / Taiwan: Ex-president's arrest expected / Somalia: Gunmen kidnap 2 nuns in Kenya / Britain: Extremist preacher Abu Qatada faces hearing / Mexico: U.S. unveils consulate >>
President Felipe Calderon picks Fernando Gomez Mont, a criminal lawyer, to replace Juan Camilo Mourino, who died in a plane crash last week. >>
Damaris Amesquita fled the country earlier this year after she was charged with bigamy and insurance fraud. >>
Obama probably won't be meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro any time soon. But some still hope for change. >>
Haiti: Protesters rush site of collapsed school / Cuba: Hurricane destroys hundreds of homes / Guatemala: 15 found dead in burned-out bus / Britain: Queen helps honor war dead >>
A TIME OF TRANSITION
Some believe Latinos can help change the state from red to blue. >>
MEXICO UNDER SIEGE
Fearing that they won't be safe visiting relatives south of the border, many are forsaking family traditions and staying in the U.S. >>
Rescuers pulled four children alive Saturday from the rubble of a three-story school that collapsed on hundreds of students and teachers, killing at least 88 people. >>
From Europe to Asia, Mexico to the Mideast, the realities on the ground will prove far more complex than the promises of the campaign. >>
SCIENCE BRIEFING
Researchers say the amphibian, found in the polluted canals of Mexico's Lake Xochimilco, could disappear in five years. >>
Mexico: Army seizes weapons / Philippines: Militants free nurse / Britain: Blinded pilot lands safely / Venezuela: Chavez records rebel song >>
UPDATE: Haiti's president says the death toll now stands at 58 from the collapse of a three-story school. >>
Mexico detained a former senior police official Friday on suspicion of aiding drug traffickers, as well as an alleged founder of a vicious gang of drug cartel hit men. >>
FOOTBALL
The sport is no longer foreign to Mexico, where the NFL says it has 20 million fans, which is more fans than any country other than the U.S. >>
Ontario police piece together a trail of evidence in woman's disappearance that leads south of the border, where her boyfriend finds that hiding out isn't as easy as it used to be. >>
The government sees nothing nefarious in the crash that killed Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño and 13 others, but Mexicans are convinced foul play was involved. The investigation continues. >>
FOOTBALL IN MEXICO
A few things you should know about the progression of American football in Mexico. >>
FOOTBALL IN MEXICO
But as Mexican football gets more sophisticated about its training and conditioning, those arguments won't hold much longer. >>
U.S. experts join the inquiry into the crash Tuesday of a small plane into rush-hour traffic in Mexico City. The death toll is raised to 14 people. >>
This actor woos women and countries. He learned how in the theater. After roles in 'Che' and 'Weeds,' he returns to the stage in the Geffen's 'By the Waters of Babylon.' >>
The commander is the highest-ranking official to lose his job over a controversy involving the alleged practice of inflating guerrilla body counts by killing civilians. >>
Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño, right-hand man to President Felipe Calderon, was among eight people on board who died when the aircraft went down in Mexico City. >>
The former slugger pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of bringing performance enhancing drugs into the U.S. from Mexico. >>
South America: U.S. convicts Venezuelan in cash cover-up / Cuba: Al Qaeda man convicted in second Guantanamo trial / Mexico: Abductors kill 5-year-old with acid injection / Syria: U.S. school shut >>
MEXICO UNDER SIEGE
One of the killings occurs in Mexico state, where 12 officers have been killed in five days, apparently by gangs seeking a foothold in areas near the capital. >>
A kidnapped boy's grandfather and a cohort stole millions from Mexican drug dealers, officials say. >>
COLUMN ONE
Many who come to the U.S. from El Salvador and elsewhere say it's easier to adopt the language habits and customs of L.A.'s largest Latino population. Others fiercely stick to their own traditions. >>
MEXICO UNDER SIEGE
Sightings, real or not, of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman are reported often, and the kingpin always manages to stay one step ahead of Mexican and U.S. law officials. >>
Pakistan: Afghan finance official's brother is kidnapped / Mexico: 11 police officers killed / Iran: Official accused of bribery is dismissed / Congo: U.N. to send aid convoy / Zambia: Banda sworn in >>
TICKET TO TREATMENT
Improving quality and bargain prices are luring U.S. patients to developing countries for increasingly sophisticated procedures. >>
Maria Reyes, 86, is eager to cast her first ballot in the nation that gave her family a new start. >>
Bolivian President Evo Morales accuses the DEA employees of spying and helping criminals to attack authorities. >>
MEXICO
Mexico: Police official quits over aide's alleged drug links / Russia: Police accused of burning man to death / Guyana: New Yorker survives two days in river >>
IT'S ALL RELATIVE
A top advisor to Barack Obama on Saturday shrugged off the potential impact of a report that one of the Democratic nominee's Kenyan aunts is an illegal immigrant living in Boston. >>
BUSINESS BRIEFING
INTERNATIONALMexico economy grows >>DISPATCH FROM MEXICO CITY
A recent raid in Mexico City turns up a menagerie filled with big cats and a monkey, another case of an alleged cartel boss collecting rare exotic species. >>
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