Good morning -- here's what's happening 10.02.08

So that's what it feels like -- Dodgers win their first playoff game in four years, which makes two they've won in the last 20.

(And the Angels lost.)

Since we've been talking about it here ever since the nation's financial sector hit the skids, here's the latest: The Senate passed the newest version of the bailout bill. It was three pages when first proposed, totaled 110 pages when the House held its nose and said no thanks, and now weighs in at 450 pages.

Did you feel that? A 4.0 earthquake shook up San Bernardino County early this morning. No damage reports yet.

No one's very happy with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who vetoed more than one-third of the bills on his desk. (More about that a bit later.)

Close to 140 workers will be laid off by the L.A. parks department. What does that mean for safety in Griffith Park? And, as we head into the heart of fire season, what about firebugs?

Yes, those are missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett's belongings, cash and airplane wreckage in the rugged clefts and folds of the Inyo National Forest.

Here's the kind of story generally served up in a "Law & Order" franchise -- an L.A. sheriff's deputy, enraged when he learned his wife was leaving him for a younger man, allegedly went off the deep end and imprisoned and sexually tortured the pair for hours, until the wife managed to escape with her kids.

A security guard has been killed in what looks to be an attempted robbery of a medical marijuana clinic.

House Peters Jr., the actor who played Mr. Clean, has died.

-- Veronique de Turenne

Photo credits: Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times (Dodgers); Discovery Channel / LMNO Productions (Fossett)