Good morning -- here's what's happening 4.25.08
Landing in the hospital ER these days is dicey enough, but if you need a specialist for that shattered bone or mangled eye, you'll also need a special kind of luck. Why are specialty docs of all kinds abandoning the ER in droves? Mary Engel has answers.
Can restaurants and shopping really stop Dodgers fans from leaving after the seventh inning stretch? The McCourts are betting $500 million on it. Our architecture critic, Christopher Hawthorne, takes a look at the grand plan.
A disgraced cop, a computer whiz and a former Vegas businessman --Anthony Pellicano couldn't have done his dirty work without them, prosecutors say. Yes, the Pellicano trial is still happening and Carla Hall is still there.
Some energetic finger-pointing during the debate last night as L.A. County supervisor candidates Bernard C. Parks and Mark Ridley-Thomas faced off. (Did so! Did not! Did! Didn't!) Well, it was actually a bit more complicated than that, as Jean-Paul Renaud and Rich Connell explain in their story.
Crabby about the economy? You're not alone. Reuters via L.A. Times.
Speaking of which, Rick Caruso's whiz-bang mall in Glendale seems out of step with reality, Roger Vincent says.
Get those airplane jokes ready -- the 747 area code is on a holding pattern over the 818. ETA -- and an overlay -- is next year. That's right, Valley residents will have to dial an area code just to call next door. Jennifer Oldham shares the news.
A swarm of earthquakes has been shaking Reno since April 15 -- at least three a day. Yesterday, a 4.2 rattled downtown, the biggest one yet. Associated Press via L.A. Times.
Did you miss the news from Chile and Iraq and Nepal yesterday? Our photo editors to the rescue, with the day in pictures.
-- Veronique de Turenne
Illustration: Los Angeles Dodgers
Photo: Associated Press
