Daily Breeze back issues from April 2003:
MARTHA STEWART
Apr 01, 2003; ... TV personality lost pay in 2002 From news services NEW YORK _ Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., a media andhousewares company, said Chief Executive Martha Stewart's 2002 payfell 19 percent to $2.2 million from last year. Stewart, the founder of the New York-based ...
US Airways turns around
Apr 01, 2003 ... By The Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. _ US Airways emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcyMonday, wrapping up a swift eight-month return to financialaccountability just as the war with Iraq threatens to devastate theairline industry. Airline spokesman David Castelveter said the ...
Restructuring to cost Xerox $115 million
Apr 01, 2003 ... By Dow Jones News WASHINGTON _ Nearing the end of a lengthy restructuring, XeroxCorp. will book $115 million in restructuring charges in 2003, mostlyto account for pension settlements for workers who have left thecompany, according to a regulatory filing Monday. The company ...
Defense contractors to gain from war
Apr 01, 2003; ... By Bloomberg News WASHINGTON _ Raytheon Co., Lockheed Martin Corp., AlliantTechsystems Inc. and other defense contractors will benefit from $3.7billion in U.S. military spending to replace missiles, bombs andbullets consumed in the war against Iraq. President Bush's request ...
American, unions agree on cutbacks
Apr 01, 2003; ... TRAVEL: Pilots, flight attendants and mechanics reach tentative agreementin effort to avoid bankruptcy. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK _ American Airlines took a huge step toward preventingbankruptcy Monday by reaching tentative cost-cutting agreements withthree key ...
TOP LOCAL
Apr 01, 2003 ... Northrop, NASA team win award From news services The Northrop Grumman and NASA engineering team that worked on theAqua Earth-observing satellite won the National Space Club's 2003Nelson P. Jackson Aerospace Award. The satellite was developed and built at what was then ...
Boeing seeks Navy satellite pact
Apr 01, 2003; ... AEROSPACE: El Segundo-based unit partners with Lockheed Martin to developnext military system. y By Muhammed El-Hasan U.S. troops in Iraq are linked to bases in Kuwait and Qatarthrough a constellation of satellites made by Boeing. When thosesatellites are ready to be ...
Employer needs resources to find diverse staff
Apr 01, 2003; ... Question: All of the managers at our company recently had toattend a meeting presented by upper management and human resources.The topic of the meeting was the lack of ethnic diversity within theemployee base. Although our bosses didn't give us any sort of quotas,they did urge that we ...
It's a dirty job, but he'll do it
Apr 01, 2003; ... CARS: Auto-motivated Hawthorne man comes right to your garage door foroil changes and other services. y By Muhammed El-Hasan Brian White refers to his business as the mobile pit stop. White,or his assistant, drive to homes and businesses to change a ...
Wife's mood swings taking toll on husband
Apr 01, 2003 ... Dear Annie: My wife, "Carla," is starting to go through menopause. Since then,I cannot say or do anything right. We've been married for 26 years. Although we still sleep in thesame bed, sexual relations are a thing of the past. One minute she'shot, the next she's cold _ both ...
Horoscope
Apr 01, 2003 ... Forecast for today: The new moon in Aries is impossible to pleasewith any action that doesn't happen right now. You may as well goforward with a healthy dose of entitlement, since anyone who feelsundeserving is going to have trouble holding on to any kind of goodluck. Venus in Pisces may ...
Best of L.M. Boyd
Apr 01, 2003; ... [] Q. Is cotton heavier than water? A. Must be. A cotton ball won't stay afloat. [] Nevada's rivers flow to the sand but not to the sea. [] "Streets of Laredo" didn't start out as cowboy. It was takenfrom an old song about a dying British soldier. [] Eyes of a ...
Today in History
Apr 01, 2003 ... By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, April 1, the 91st day of 2003. There are 274days left in the year. This is April Fool's Day. On this date: In 1853, Cincinnati, Ohio, became the first U.S. city to pay itsfirefighters a regular salary. In 1918, the Royal ...
Flag-waving fox winning the cable news wars
Apr 01, 2003; ... COX NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK _ The newsroom at Fox News Channel used to be a Sam Goodyand still has that generic retail look _ only crammed full of people,files and computers. Executives work out of small offices with old furniture. Carpetingin the studios is frayed. Compared ...
Prime-Time Highlights
Apr 01, 2003; ... "Three Stooges 75th Anniversary," 8 p.m., Channel 4: The enduringslapstick geniuses, the Three Stooges, have been cracking upaudiences for 75 years. NBC celebrates this milestone with WoodyHarrelson ("Cheers") as host of the hour. He comes up with a few not-so-funny slapstick moments of ...
Children ages 10 to 16 now need doctor's note to join Weight Watchers
Apr 01, 2003; ... COX NEWS SERVICE At a time when the number of overweight children is soaring,Weight Watchers is tightening their access to its program. Last month, the weight management program began requiring adoctor's note and a weight goal before enrolling children aged 10 to16. The ...
(Lifestyle B1 rail teasers)
Apr 01, 2003; ... Know your arts It was 101 years ago this week that the firstAmerican theater designed specifically for showing movies opened. TheLos Angeles venue, housed in a circus tent, was called The ElectricTheater. Chart toppers "Get Rich or Die Tryin' " by 50 Cent remains at thetop of the ...
'All About Eve' not too bumpy of a reading
Apr 01, 2003; ... THEATER CRITIC There were times when Sunday's star-studded benefit reading ofJoseph Mankiewicz's screenplay for "All About Eve" felt like amidnight visit to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." In fact, thatsweet transvestite from Transylvania, Tim Curry, was part of thecast, sinking ...
CHANGING Channels | Stephen J. Cannell parlays TV success into fufilling dream of writing novels
Apr 01, 2003; ... DAILY BREEZE If you've watched any television over the last 30-something years,you probably know Stephen J. Cannell. Creator of such shows as "The Rockford Files," "21 Jump Street,""Hunter," and "The A-Team," Cannell first made a name for himself inHollywood in the 1960s. He ...
curtainsup! | PERFORMING ARTS IN THE SOUTH BAY
Apr 01, 2003; ... [] BLUES IN THE NIGHT: One of America's earliest cultural artforms will be updated and celebrated when traditional down-home bluesguitar player Bernie Pearl hosts his second anniversary acousticalblues jam, from 8 to 11:30 p.m. tonight at Sacred Grounds CoffeeHouse, 399 W. Sixth St., ...
Las Primeras gets wrapped up in the nostalgia of quilts
Apr 01, 2003; ... With whimsical names such as "Butterfly at the Crossroads" and"Goose in the Pond," quilts conjure up a nostalgia for gentler,simpler times _ when in towns across America, women would meetweekly for quilting bees to share sewing skills, scraps of fabric andnews of the ...
9-11 victims, kin want blame made public
Apr 01, 2003; ... INVESTIGATION: Commission is urged to find those who failed the nation but not tocreate scapegoats. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK _ A commission created by President Bush to investigatethe Sept. 11 attacks opened a two-day hearing Monday with testimonyfrom survivors ...
WINTER MARCH
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Police seek to arrest wife of Milosevic in slaying
Apr 01, 2003; ... CRIME: Reportedly hiding in Russia, Markovic says she had nothing to dowith death of husband's political rival. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro _ Police sought an internationalarrest warrant Monday for Slobodan Milosevic's wife, alleging ...
Ruling to make cervical cancer virus testing more common
Apr 01, 2003; ... THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON _ Millions more women may soon be tested for the virusthat causes most cases of cervical cancer, after a government rulingMonday that allows testing for the virus to become part of everyregular Pap smear for women over age 30. Women will have ...
KENTUCKY
Apr 01, 2003 ... Priest admits guilt in sex abuse case From news services LOUISVILLE _ As his victims sat behind him in the courtroom, aretired Roman Catholic priest pleaded guilty Monday to sexuallyabusing 21 children. "I remember these children very well," the Rev. Louis E ....
Cuban plane hijacker fails to reach U.S.
Apr 01, 2003; ... CHARGES: Island nation blames U.S. policy and lax treatment of six suspectsin an earlier case for latest act of air piracy. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA _ A man claiming to be armed with two grenades tried tohijack a passenger plane from Cuba's small Isle of Youth to ...
POLICE LOG | TORRANCE & CARSON
Apr 01, 2003; ... DAILY BREEZE Carson Robbery: 1. 1:35 a.m. March 21, 500 block of Carson Plaza. 2. 8:40 p.m. March 21, 400 block of East Javelin Street. 3. 9:35 a.m. March 23, 1300 block of East Carson Street. 4. 10:11 p.m. March 24, 23600 block of Moneta ...
College diving coach is held on child molestation charge
Apr 01, 2003 ... By The Associated Press SANTA CLARA _ San Jose State University's women's diving coach wasarrested Monday on suspicion of child molestation, police said. William Boos was arrested at 2:30 p.m. by Santa Clara police andwas being held on $250,000 ...
Scientists ask for help in tracking butterflies
Apr 01, 2003 ... By The Associated Press SAN LUIS OBISPO _ Biologists want the public's help in watchingfor thousands of monarch butterflies bearing tiny tags that mayreveal the mystery of where the colorful insects spend their summers. Biologists tagged more than 20,000 monarchs between ...
Cardinal Mahony fights access to church records
Apr 01, 2003; ... ARCHDIOCESE: Lawyers say revealing papers related to abuse allegations willbreak confidentiality. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cardinal Roger Mahony said last year he wanted everything relatedto clerical sex abuse in his Roman Catholic Archdiocese of LosAngeles "out, open and ...
L.A. janitors stage union rally for Chavez Day
Apr 01, 2003; ... LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS Gov. Gray Davis, Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn and Cardinal RogerMahony turned out Monday to support a janitors union rally as part ofcelebrations of the Cesar Chavez state holiday. The janitors, members of Service Employees International Union,Local ...
David S. Gray | Knute "Arnie" Hanson | Lawrence A. Hope | Joe T. (Joe Brown) Lauro | Myrtle Lee Potts | Ethel W. Shults | Rosa Traini
Apr 01, 2003; ... \STLnobit1\STLdnot Gray, David S. Of Lomita passed away March 30,2003 at the age of 77. Born in California on July 5, 1925. David wasa member of the Marine Clerks Association, and had been a reporterfor the Wilmington Press Journal and The San Pedro News Pilot. He waspreceded in death by ...
Jeter won Emmy for work on TV's 'Evening Shade'
Apr 01, 2003; ... THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Michael Jeter, the slight character actor who won a supportingactor Emmy as a shrimpy assistant football coach on CBS'"EveningShade" and was known on "Sesame Street" as The Other Mr. Noodle, hasdied, his publicist said Monday. He was 50. Jeter's body was ...
ASK US | Q: Trauma center
Apr 01, 2003; ... DAILY BREEZE Q: Trauma center On Page A6 of the March 26 edition of the Daily Breeze, I'mconcerned about the gang-related shooting on Hawthorne Boulevard and115th Street. It bothers me that they did not take the young man whowas shot to Robert F. Kennedy Medical Center, ...
Suspect won't be extradited
Apr 01, 2003; ... CRIME: Mexico refuses to turn over man to U.S. authorities in decade-oldCarson slayings. y By Denise Nix A man suspected of a triple homicide in Carson more than 10 yearsago is being held in Mexico City, but officials there have refused toextradite him. Selman ...
Bird owners say state is killing some pets unnecessarily
Apr 01, 2003; ... THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bird owners have asked a court to stop the state from slaughteringbirds kept as pets or for show without substantiating that they areat risk of infection by exotic Newcastle disease, which threatensCalifornia's poultry industry. In a Los Angeles Superior ...
County may pay $975,000 in police dog-bite lawsuits
Apr 01, 2003; ... COPLEY NEWS SERVICE The county Board of Supervisors will be asked today to pay$975,000 to seven men who filed civil-rights lawsuits after they werebitten by Sheriff's Department police dogs. Each of the men _ including one who lives in the Harbor Area _ wasbeing sought for ...
Carter pens historical novel
Apr 01, 2003; ... From news services NEW YORK _ He's a former president of the United States, a NobelPeace Prize winner and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Now addsomething new to Jimmy Carter's resume: novelist. The Hornet's Nest, a historical novel set in the South during theRevolutionary ...
Iraq war shows 'Goliath' gets no cheers
Apr 01, 2003; ... America is the big guy. Iraq is the small guy. Because of that, nomatter what we do, certain perceptions will never change. So even though America, the big guy, has an army of volunteers,while Iraq, the small guy, pulls men from their homes and threatensto kill their loved ones if ...
Some highs and lows on the road to Baghdad
Apr 01, 2003 ... I never made it higher than corporal, but it doesn't take amilitary genius to figure out the strategy when you have airsupremacy: Break the back of the enemy's armor and its infantrybefore your big ground assault. A month's bombing worked in the 1991Persian Gulf War, and a couple of ...
Safety paramount in LAXT issue
Apr 01, 2003; ... The politics of the Los Angeles Export Terminal (or LAXT, the cokeand coal facility on Terminal Island) by the various groups debatingtheir agendas would have us, the residents of the Harbor Area, choosebetween their business and investment options _ just a simplebusiness ...
Reporters shouldn't aid enemy
Apr 01, 2003 ... n By Dan K. Thomasson There is something terribly unsettling about a war in which theenemy's point of view is regularly trumpeted to the world by newsorganizations of the opposing nations. But that seems to be exactlywhat is happening in the war with Iraq. Reporters from U.S ....
Speak Up
Apr 01, 2003; ... It has been weeks since we have spoken, I know her heart is closeto broken. _ MATTHEW KOPPI, Army sergeant. Koppi was one of two American soldiers who ...
Other Views | Moynihan mixed both wit, wisdom
Apr 01, 2003; ... Moynihan mixed both wit, wisdom Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who died last week at 76, was more than apolitician to those who knew him best. The New York Democrat, whoserved four terms in the Senate from 1977 to 2001, was anintellectual, a wit, a charmer, an iconoclast and a prophet on ...
Bicyclists a danger to pedestrians
Apr 01, 2003; ... I feel I must respond to John Horvath's recent letter criticizingthe Hawthorne City Council's decision to "crack down" on bicyclists,for it was I who addressed the council members asking for their help. Although I can sympathize with Horvath's complaint of no bikelanes, it still ...
Texas anti-sodomy law unconstitutional
Apr 01, 2003; ... It seems incredible in 2003 that 13 states still have anti-sodomylaws, and four of them have anti-homosexual laws, but it is a fact. The Supreme Court heard arguments last week from one of thosestates, Texas, in defense of its law. The Texas law, which criminalizes sexual ...
U.N. help needed after war
Apr 01, 2003 ... At issue: Should the United Nations be invited to play aleadership role in helping post-war Iraq make the transition todemocracy? Nearly everyone expects the American-led coalition to defeat theregime of Saddam Hussein on the battlefield. But winning the peaceafter the fighting ...
TELL US | Question of the Week
Apr 01, 2003; ... Our Question of the Week is still open for your responses. Pleasecall (310-543-6691) or e-mail (tellus@dailybreeze.com) your thoughts.We'll publish your answers here in Tell Us later in the week. This week's question: "Do you believe the United States' wareffort against Iraq is ...
Smallpox compensation bill defeated
Apr 01, 2003; ... VACCINATION: Measure to cover health workers who suffer ill effects loses amiddebate on size of payouts. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON _ A Republican-crafted bill compensating people injuredor killed by the smallpox vaccine was defeated in the House on Mondayamid ...
Fire that started in dryer causes heavy damage to home in Torrance
Apr 01, 2003; ... From staff reports A Torrance woman was burned and her home suffered $250,000 indamage Monday when a fire started in her dryer. Eighteen firefighters doused the 9:10 a.m. blaze in the 1700 blockof Santa Fe Avenue in about 50 minutes, but not before the housesustained major ...
SUPPORT FROM THE SOUTH BAY | Army Tactical Operations Centers (TOCs)
Apr 01, 2003; ... DAILY BREEZE This is one in a series of snapshots of war-related weapons orequipment designed and/or built by South Bay firms. Army Tactical Operations Centers (TOCs) [] Local work: Northrop Grumman Mission Systems in RanchoDominguez designs the Army Tactical ...
U.N.'s Iraq aid arrives
Apr 01, 2003; ... RELIEF: Military and civilian agencies are not coordinating efforts tohelp the Iraqi people. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AMMAN, Jordan _ The first wartime U.N. humanitarian aid, a fewtruckloads of food and water, trickled across Iraq's borders fromTurkey and Kuwait, U.N ....
Forces report finding Iraq, al-Qaida link
Apr 01, 2003; ... EVIDENCE: Compound of militant Islamic group contained list of names ofsuspected militants in U.S. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BIYARE, Iraq _ A U.S.-led assault on a compound controlled by anextremist Islamic group turned up a list of names of suspectedmilitants living in ...
Residents quarantined in effort to isolate virus
Apr 01, 2003; ... THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONG KONG _ Health officials sealed off an apartment building andquarantined all 240 residents Monday after reporting an alarming jumpin new cases of a mystery flulike disease. More than 600 people in this city are believed to have thedangerous ...
2 children in Toronto have flulike mystery ailment
Apr 01, 2003 ... By The Associated Press TORONTO _ At least two children are believed to be ill with theflulike mystery illness that has created a health emergency here,health authorities said Monday. The Hospital for Sick Children confirmed that it is treating twoprobable and three suspected ...
MEXICO
Apr 01, 2003 ... President Fox's finances questioned From news services MEXICO CITY _ Auditors scrutinizing President Vicente Fox's firstyear in office have detected close to $3 billion in financialirregularities, according to a report presented before Congress onMonday. Arturo ...
SAN PEDRO
Apr 01, 2003; ... 'Spring Fling' is set for Saturday From staff reports Egg decorating and a scavenger hunt will be on tap at 11 a.m.Saturday at a public "Spring Fling" celebration at the Cabrillo BeachBathhouse, 3800 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro. Pictures with Peter Rabbit also ...
MANHATTAN BEACH
Apr 01, 2003; ... Fund-raising may save teachers' jobs From staff reports Manhattan Beach teachers who were laid off could get their jobsback Wednesday night, when the school board is expected to rescindpink slips in light of a massive community fund-raising drive. The Coalition, a ...
TORRANCE
Apr 01, 2003; ... DUI task force educates students From staff reports The South Bay Driving Under the Influence task force will conducta spring break alcohol awareness program for El Camino Collegestudents Wednesday. The program from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the library lawn ...
An Edgy performance
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Rehab hospital's closure looms
Apr 01, 2003; ... L.A. COUNTY: Rancho Los Amigos, which treats brain and spinal injuries, can'tstay open as a nonprofit without public funding until at least 2004. COPLEY NEWS SERVICE Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center cannot survive onits own as a nonprofit entity, and one ...
3 years later, Carson mixed-use project is still waiting to catch on
Apr 01, 2003; ... y By Eddie North-Hager The Villaggio hasn't been the prime example of mixed-useddevelopment that Carson leaders were looking for when they pumpednearly $10 million into the apartment-retail project three years ago. But there is hope even after Cafe Villaggio, an ...
Cultural defense doesn't sway court
Apr 01, 2003; ... SOUTH BAY: Judges uphold sentence of convicted killer, rejecting an appealbased on his Japanese ancestry. y By Denise Nix Growing up in a strict Japanese family left a South Bay manunprepared to handle threats and demands for money by a woman he meton a dating ...
CSU donor continues tradition of giving
Apr 01, 2003; ... EDUCATION: Katherine B. Loker continues longtime affiliation with theDominguez Hills campus and gives school its largest donation ever. y By Renee Moilanen The student union at California State University, Dominguez Hillsis poised to get a major face-lift thanks to ...