For the record - Feb. 3, 2013

Khanh Nguyen: In the Jan. 27 California section, the obituary of Khanh Nguyen, a South Vietnamese general who briefly gained control of the nation’s government, included a photograph that was identified by the Associated Press as showing Nguyen but actually showed another, unidentified, man. Nguyen’s photo appears at right.

Child abuse case: An article in the Feb. 1 Section A about Palmdale mother Ingrid Brewer, charged in the torture of her children, said that a social worker was assessing Brewer’s application for adoption when she reported that the children appeared stiff in the mother’s presence. The social worker reported the children’s behavior after they had been adopted.

Sentencing commission: In the Jan. 27 Section A, an article about Internet activists hacking into the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s website described it as a Department of Justice site. The commission is not part of the Department of Justice; it is an independent agency in the judicial branch of government.