RIGHT TURN: It was no laughing matter:...

RIGHT TURN: It was no laughing matter: Last year, colleagues of “Home Improvement” star Tim Allen forgot to nominate him for an Emmy. So on Wednesday, Walt Disney Television President Dean Valentine personally delivered Allen’s entry form . . . by driving Allen’s “Home Improvement” hot rod to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in North Hollywood.

CHASING TAILS: While the trail may be cold for the dog-killing cougar terrorizing La Crescenta, the tracker hunting the cat helped state officials kill another cougar Wednesday . . . in Fillmore (B6). The 130-pound cat attacked a dog in a Ventura County back yard. The tracker’s dogs then chased it up a tree, where the animal was shot. Said one state official: “We’re letting the tracker take a day off because he’s pooped.”

MODEL CITIZEN: It’s no secret that Ed Lange, above, likes to shed his clothes. But now he’s shed an old image too. . . . For 25 years, he battled neighbors to keep his nudist retreat, Elysium Institute, in Topanga. Now, Lange, once a gadfly, has been named Citizen of the Year by the Topanga Chamber of Commerce (B1).

ILLEGAL ACTION: House Speaker Newt Gingrich has set a June deadline for a handful of San Fernando Valley congressmen to help outline a crackdown on illegal immigration (B4). . . . Gingrich’s new task force on immigration reform, which includes three local congressmen, has prompted Democrats and Republicans to volunteer solutions to the problem.

END OF AN ERA: Calabasas-based Lockheed Corp. is no more. . . . The merger of Lockheed and Martin Marietta Corp. into the nation’s largest defense contractor has created a new name (Lockheed Martin Corp.), a new headquarters (Bethesda, Md.) and new worries about layoffs (D1). . . . The merger may cost at least 25,000 jobs.