8 of congestive heart failure at Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton, Fla., said her son, Gordon Zacks. NEW YORK Ever since Tino Martinez returned to New York, the cheers haven’t stopped.Every move made by the beloved first baseman in his first week in pinstripes after three years away has been greeted with an ovation worthy of October.From his first steps out of the dugout on opening day to the diving grab as a defensive replacement later that night to his first home run — a fifth-inning solo shot Wednesday that required a curtain call — Yankees fans can’t get enough of Martinez, an integral member of four World Series title teams in his six years in New York.”Tino’s always been one of the fan favorites,” shortstop Derek Jeter said. I figured if he and Fiona, 5, couldn’t quite grasp the importance of the events that occurred on the 6,000 acres of the Gettysburg National Military Park, they could run around, climb cannons and have swordfights, just as my brother and I did when we were growing up.I feared that Gettysburg would have been tarted up since I last visited, but it seemed unchanged. Although some treatments are by now well accepted, such as the use of bone marrow stem cells to treat leukemia, others remain highly experimental.Jim Pitts, a 52-year-old Colorado resident with a congenital form of cirrhosis, had been told by leading experts that previous attempts to treat cirrhosis with stem cells had failed. For close to a year, the union had supplied most of the money and muscle behind the anti-Schwarzenegger effort. If you watched UCLA quarterback Ben Olson last week almost five years after he last started a game, you probably were wondering how long before he’d turn pro.After watching Olson against Rice on Saturday, maybe there’s a ways to go.”I’ve got to play a lot better,” Olson said.A blitzing Rice team made it tougher this time.”We had some protection issues this week,” UCLA Coach Karl Dorrell said “Ben made a couple of mistakes, a couple of fumbles It was a tough win.

And New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller signaled waning support for the reporter he had recently hailed as a 1st Amendment champion, sending a note to his staff Friday that questioned Miller’s truthfulness.A few remain solidly with her, including the California First Amendment Coalition, which chastised journalists for abandoning a woman who went to jail for 85 days to protect a confidential source (vice presidential Chief of Staff I Lewis “Scooter” Libby). His head could have used more traction the other night when a ball bounced off it and went back up through the rim, which disallowed the basket.Left holding the cake: William “the Refrigerator” Perry was no match for 135-pound Richard Leferve in a birthday cake eating contest in New York this week. In so doing, it hung in Poutsma’s face, who was sitting next to him.Poutsma pushed the hand away, prompting Rocco to tell Poutsma not to touch him and to invoke “the district’s penchant for what he called bullying, thuggery and illegal acts.”Heeding the recess, Poutsma left the boardroom and didn’t return. Mary Bono (R-Palm Springs) acknowledged that she had a stake in seeing XM pay distribution fees, saying she could afford college for her son this fall only because of royalties from the songs of her late husband, Sonny.During the hearing, Bono said she had just programmed one of the XM devices to record every song by Elvis Presley played over the next 30 days.”You’re saying this is not a download, I’m saying it is,” she told Parsons “I don’t want to see you profit … Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an official there, called it “the end of one skirmish in the ongoing war to delegitimize the Jewish state.”Times staff writers Janet Stobart in London and Laura King in Jerusalem contributed to this report.. The recently refurbished and expanded lodge in Groveland is about a mile from the Hetch Hetchy entrance to the park’s less-visited northwestern corner.What we lost in proximity to Yosemite Valley — the hub of park activity — we made up by joining bicycling and fly-fishing excursions led by Evergreen’s guides.

An Army sergeant awarded a Purple Heart after he was wounded in Iraq said in an interview that he would like to remain in the military as an openly gay soldier, but he acknowledged that he will probably be discharged under the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.Sgt. Brandon Walsh and his family moved to town from the Twin Cities, and being new in town, it wasn’t easy to fit in at this swanky ZIP Code. 18, Carolina at New Orleans: It’s December, so Jim Haslett must be fighting to keep his job.* Dec. Alberto Vilar and Gary Tanaka, co-founders of Amerindo Investment Advisors, defrauded at least seven investors in addition to Lily Cates, mother of actress Phoebe Cates, the Securities and Exchange Commission said.In court papers filed Thursday in New York, the SEC says Vilar, 65, and Tanaka, 62, stole from the investors, who include an 80-year-old New York woman with diabetes, a Vilar friend who died of cancer in 2003 and a woman who says she is a former girlfriend of Vilar.The SEC says the two men, who face criminal charges that they stole $5 million from Cates, illegally shifted money between investors’ accounts and within a web of companies they controlled, beginning as early as 1999. Twenty candidates beat the clock Monday by filing paperwork to run in an Oct 4 special primary election to replace Rep. Tonsich said that he received no special treatment from the Hahn administration.Tonsich told Villaraigosa privately a week ago that he planned to resign, the new mayor said.”What’s important is that we are going to start with a fresh and new commission leadership,” Villaraigosa said. The journey along Sunset Boulevard toward the Elysian Park entrance consumed more than an hour for the last five westbound blocks, but inching along allowed time to soak in the surroundings.There was the Vic the Brick billboard, covered with graffiti — that is also known as artistic improvement.