WILLIE DAVIS REMEMBERED Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Sports LETTERMAN HARASSER PLEADS GUILTY, GETS SIX MONTHS IN JAIL A veteran CBS News producer whose actions caused late-night host David Letterman to admit publicly that he had had sexual liaisons with members of his staff pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted grand larceny and will go to jail for six months. Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Business JAPANESE AND SOUTH KOREANS SCRAMBLE FOR LITHIUM AS DEMAND FOR METAL INTENSIFIES Japan and South Korea are competing hard for international lithium reserves to feed a growing demand for the metal for use in batteries for mobile phones, laptops and, increasingly, plug-in vehicles, according to an article in the subscription-based Source: Green Car Advisor - 09/03/2010 Category: Cars Ecocars HARRY SMITH COLONOSCOPY TO AIR ON `EARLY SHOW' "The Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith is scheduled to have a colonoscopy Wednesday, with live reports planned as he undergoes the procedure at a New York hospital. Source: Washington Post - 09/03/2010 Category: Health FEATURED ADVERTISER Source: Washington Post - 09/03/2010 Category: Health SWIMMING POOL LANES ETIQUETTE Appropriately clad in a Speedo, swim cap and nose plugs, Bob Axelrod told me a story. Source: Washington Post - 09/03/2010 Category: Health A FEW SETBACKS AND CHANGES IN ROUTINE TO LOSE 10 POUNDS Me Minus 10 got off to a rocky start two weeks ago: No sooner had I pledged to lose 10 pounds than I got, first, a GI-tract malady and then a wicked head cold (both now resolved). Neither helped me mentally or physically. Nor did learning, upon purchase o Source: Washington Post - 09/03/2010 Category: Health EAT, DRINK AND BE HEALTHY: LETTERS ABOUT ME MINUS 10 Two things I've learned since launching my Me Minus 10 campaign to lose 10 pounds before I turn 50 in December: Many people want to lose 10 pounds -- and many would like to have cartoon images made of themselves! I've received tons of great feedback; here Source: Washington Post - 09/03/2010 Category: Health FEATURED ADVERTISER Source: Washington Post - 09/03/2010 Category: Politics MASSA UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY GROPING MALE STAFFERS Former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) has been under investigation for allegations that he groped multiple male staffers working in his office, according to three sources familiar with the probe. Source: Washington Post - 09/03/2010 Category: Politics VATICAN ON DEFENSE AS SEX SCANDALS BUILD The Vatican said Tuesday that local churches had ?acted swiftly and decisively? to address the growing child sex abuse scandal in Europe. Source: New York Times - 09/03/2010 Category: World STUDY: WOMEN WHO DRINK MODERATELY TEND TO GAIN LESS WEIGHT IN MIDLIFE Women who abstained put on more pounds than those who had a drink or two per day. But researchers warn against an alcohol diet.
Women who drink moderate amounts of Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Health GOVERNOR VETOES $4-BILLION PACKAGE OF BUDGET CUTS Schwarzenegger and fellow Republicans had criticized the bill as a parlor trick because it would make cuts to a budget that the Legislature hasn't passed yet.
Gov. Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Politics LEGISLATORS OK EXEMPTIONS TO FURLOUGHS FOR STATE WORKERS Gov. Schwarzenegger is expected to veto measure that affects employees paid with federal funds or license and usage fees.
California legislators voted Monday to exe Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Politics OBAMA ADDS FIRE TO HEALTHCARE DEBATE The president makes an impassioned plea to voters to call legislators and demand they do 'the right thing' and pass a bill rather than focus on the political repercussions.
Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Politics STATE SEN. ROY ASHBURN SAYS HE'S HOMOSEXUAL Days after his DUI arrest, the Republican lawmaker makes the declaration to a Bakersfield radio host. Critics accuse him of hypocrisy. He says his past votes simply reflect his constituents' wishes.
Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Politics 9TH CIRCUIT CANDIDATE'S CAREER MARKED BY RAPID ASCENT, WIDE-RANGING ROLES Berkeley professor Goodwin Liu, son of immigrants, would be youngest judge on the appeals court. He clerked for Ruth Bader Ginsburg and worked in government offices during the Clinton administration.
Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Politics 'COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE' BY KARL ROVE A curiously empty memoir of what went on in George W. Bush's White House by the former president's political strategist.
Karl Rove is a true believer, as the subtit Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Politics U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GROWS INTO A POLITICAL FORCE A swelling tide of money could put the business group in a better position to sway elections.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is building a large-scale grass-roots pol Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Politics NASCAR CHOOSES NOT TO SUSPEND CARL EDWARDS AFTER WRECK WITH BRAD KESELOWSKI IN ATLANTA Edwards is placed on probation for the next three races after he appeared to intentionally hit Keselowski. Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Sports HIDEKI MATSUI TO MAKE EXHIBITION DEBUT FOR ANGELS TODAY Former New York Yankees star will play in Angels' exhibition game against San Diego. Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Sports ANGELS CHRIS PETTIT TO UNDERGO SHOULDER SURGERY AND IS OUT FOR YEAR Outfielder's hopes of making the roster will have to wait another year. Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Sports WITH CORY WADE STILL HURTING, QUESTIONS STILL LINGERING FOR DODGERS Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Sports FREDRIK MODIN SAVORS KINGS' 6-0 WIN OVER COLUMBUS He has a goal and an assist as L.A. rides a four-goal first period to a victory over his former Blue Jackets teammates.
When the Kings acquired forward Fredrik Modi Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Sports FORMER DODGER WILLIE DAVIS FOUND DEAD IN BURBANK HOME Center fielder played 13 seasons for the Dodgers. He was 69. Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Sports CHILEAN EARTHQUAKE MOVED ENTIRE CITY 10 FEET, RESEARCHERS SAY GPS measurements show the city of Concepcion shifted to the west. The magnitude 8.8 quake also moved the capital of Santiago about 11 inches west-southwest.
The mas Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Environment BUSH INTERIOR SECRETARY DISCUSSES TRANSFORMATION TO ENTHUSIASTIC ENVIRONMENTALIST Lynn Scarlett led the department after the resignation of Gale Norton.
In 2000, Lynn Scarlett left the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank, to serve eight y Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Environment ANOTHER WATER PROJECT COULD DIVIDE THE STATE San Joaquin Valley farmers hope for $3.3-billion dam and reservoir at Temperance Flat, but they need help paying for it.
Harvey Bailey was 11 when Friant Dam starte Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: Environment PAKISTAN SAYS U.S.-BORN SUSPECT IN CUSTODY IS NOT GADAHN Officials say the operative held in Karachi is not Al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn wanted on U.S. treason charges, but another man, from Pennsylvania. U.S. officials say they haven't heard of him.
Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: World SUICIDE CAR BOMBER STRIKES PAKISTANI COUNTER-TERRORISM OFFICES The Lahore attack destroys a building housing investigators who interrogate key suspects. About 80 are wounded in the first such strike in Punjab province this year.
Source: Los Angeles Times - 09/03/2010 Category: World
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