Signs have been placed near the doors to Reliant Arena: No Drugs, No Gambling, No Alcohol, No Sex.Houston police and the Harris County sheriff's department have dozens of officers at the arena complex although evacuees complain that they are not taken seriously when they report crimes such as theft or harassment.Carolyn Scantlebury, an official with the task force organized by the Harris County Housing Authority, said she is not surprised that the remaining evacuees are upset.They are going through a kind of grieving process, she said, after the damage done to their lives by Katrina.The evacuees are moving from "shock to confusion to anger," she said. Virgil's Root Beer, poured on tap at Mani's Bakery in Los Angeles, tastes like the ingredients it's made with: anise, vanilla, clove, wintergreen, sweet birch, nutmeg, pimento berry oil, balsam oil and cassia oil.You can sample American classics such as Moxie -- a gentian root-flavored elixir -- along with imports and local brands at the Refresher soda stall in the Original Farmers Market in Los Angeles. A still-unpublished study by researchers at the Marilyn and Gordon Macklin Intergenerational Institute in Findlay, Ohio, compared 100 3- and 4-year-old preschoolers who had been in intergenerational day care for at least a year, with 100 preschoolers in typical day care. A group of Salem schoolgirls, some as young as 12, are being questioned about whether they exchanged sex for methamphetamines, and one has admitted to the swap, police said.The girls under investigation attend Waldo Middle School, officials said. The Spallinos will have to pack light because their new car has less than a third of the trunk space of a typical car.But the biggest difference is in the fuel tank.

The Yankees remained half a game behind Cleveland in the wild-card race.Cleveland 4, Minnesota 2 -- The surging Indians retained the wild-card lead, beating Johan Santana for the first time behind six strong innings from Jake Westbrook (14-14) at Cleveland. In the Midwest, June housing starts rose 3%, but permits fell 1.6%.The Mortgage Bankers Assn. A Times review found that the mayor's office intervened in 2003 to help negotiate a more favorable contract for one of the companies.On Friday, after a 10-minute debate, the council rejected Villaraigosa's motion to take control of the contracts on a 6-5 vote, four short of the required 10-vote supermajority.The mayor's supporters argued that it was not necessary to wrest control of the issue from the Airport Commission. Russell said he expected the Fed later this year to consider rate cuts, but because last week's consumer and producer price indexes showed inflation rising, "it's a little early for us to hope for this specific event," he said.Worries over the flagging housing market, particularly the sub-prime mortgage industry, have been dragging down stocks over the last month.But investors got some reassurance Tuesday from a Commerce Department report that construction of new homes rose by 9% in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.525 million units, higher than the expected 1.450 million.

For virtually all other diseases and disorders, whatever happened to a man, it was thought, also happened to a woman.As it turns out, the biological truth is vastly different. SUPPORTERS OF MAYOR Antonio Villaraigosa's flawed attempt to acquire a say in how Los Angeles schools are run tend to give one of two reasons. On election night, FoxNews.com will feature an election tracker that will allow viewers to monitor specific races on a customized Web page, with updated results every two minutes.For its part, MSNBC plans to devote all of its daytime programming to politics this week. The National Retail Federation estimates 62% of Americans will buy valentines this year, making it the third-most popular holiday for greeting cards after Christmas and Father's Day.For every Hallmark card that lands on a store shelf, the company has scoured sales figures, conducted research and studied trends to make sure it belongs there."They aren't just spit out of a machine," said Paul Barker, vice president of Hallmark's creative unit.

He'd always come out and want to throw the ball."When I first got there, I'd say, 'Why do I have to go out there and play catch with this guy?' Guys would say, 'You'd better do it He runs the show, man.' And he did.". It's the animal.' "After Allen died, Williams worked as a law enforcement officer in Florida for a few years but continued to do alligator shows."I gave up police work because I wanted to do what I really loved," he said. attorney in Little Rock, Ark., said he was pushed aside to make room for Timothy Griffin, a Republican operative for chief White House political advisor Karl Rove.Cummins also charged that the administration had continued to hound the prosecutors. Airline passengers typically get to see films about a month after they're in theaters and usually before they come to DVD.At British Airways, "Content that is culturally or politically provocative will be avoided," said Dee Brady, BA's entertainment and media manager, although BA did show "The Queen," which doesn't portray Queen Elizabeth in an altogether flattering light ("It was a British movie ... The Lakers are 3-2 on the trip, which concludes Sunday in Cleveland.*Lakers guard-forward Maurice Evans returns to face the team he asked to leave last summer.Evans was acquired from the Detroit Pistons in a draft-day deal after his agent requested a trade because of a dip in Evans' playing time in the playoffs. signed a letter a few years ago urging applicants to ignore the rankings, while the schools continued to send their data to the magazine.The influence of the rankings isn't always a bad thing. He also failed French, after spending a semester sitting on the floor because the classroom was overcrowded.Jonathan spent one week trying to persuade his counselor to let him re-take French -- a week in which he didn't go to class The counselor wanted to place him in graphic arts instead Many of his friends faced similar challenges.

The ban was expanded in 1985 to include most of the rest of U.S. JUDGING by the fifth novel to feature the battered but unbowed paparazzo-on-parole Nina Zero, Robert Eversz's highly original noirish series has come to a conclusion of sorts.A decade ago in "Shooting Elvis," her initial stroll down L.A.'s meaner streets, Nina recalled that she was once Mary Alice Baker, a "good girl" from a dysfunctional family, leading a repressed life of quiet desperation as a baby photographer. Today, they cater primarily to large and super-large organizations, whether legal -- Murdoch's News Corp. Night manager Mohammed Sayed, 28, said customers were inside when they heard an explosion. Of the 528 bodies recovered from identifiable addresses in city neighborhoods, 230 came from areas that had household incomes above the citywide median of $27,133. It's borderline slanderous," Scofield said.In 2003, another key Lewis aide, Letitia White, became a lobbyist for Lowery."It's the wicked revolving door," said Naomi Seligman Steiner, investigator for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a government watchdog backed by liberal groups that has questioned the relationship between Lewis and Lowery.Lewis was among several members of Congress who came under scrutiny after the Cunningham corruption case erupted last summer.