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The
genetic signature of canine slobber on a bait bag of chicken scraps and
a fuzzy photograph snapped by a motion-sensitive camera north of
Yosemite National Park have confirmed the existence of a supposedly
extinct red fox, the U.S. Forest Service announced this week.

“The last known sighting of a Sierra Nevada red fox in the Sonora
Pass area was sometime in the 1920s,” said Mike Crawley, Bridgeport
District ranger. “Needless to say, we are quite surprised and excited
by this find.”

Federal wildlife technicians Emily Crowe and Julien Pellegrini were
checking hundreds of photographs when they came across an over-exposed
image taken at 2:17 a.m. on Aug. 11 of what appeared to be the rare red
fox with a characteristic white-tipped tail trying to get at the bait
bag dangling from a tree.

The Sierra Nevada red fox (vulpes vulpes necator) lives at high
elevations, eating small mammals and birds. They have a reddish-colored
head, back, and sides; black backs of the ears; black "socks" on their
feet, and a white-tipped tail.

However, the only known population of the Sierra Nevada red fox is a
group of roughly 20 animals clinging to survival in the Lassen Peak
region, about 150 miles to the north.

Read the full story at Greenspace, The Times' environmental blog.

–Louis Sahagun

Photo: Sierra Nevada red fox in Lassen Peak region/Keith Slausen, US Forest Service

His fiercely confrontational cartoons made him one of the leading political provocateurs of the second half of the 20th century and helped push the Times to national prominence.

His fiercely confrontational cartoons made him one of the leading political provocateurs of the second half of the 20th century and helped push the Times to national prominence.

Firefighters were gaining the upper hand Saturday night on a 10-acre fire in Yorba Linda that initially threatened homes but is now controlled, according to Orange County Fire Authority Captain Greg McKeown.

The fire was reported at about 7:50 p.m. in a residential neighborhood in the hills of Yorba Linda bordering Chino Hills State Park.

Initially, about 100 firefighters fought the blaze, but as of 9:50 p.m., the blaze had calmed and about 40 firefighters had been released.

The cause of the fire was still under investigation.

–Jessica Garrison

Like their New York counterparts, local thespians will have a chance to populate the show’s supporting parts.

Like their New York counterparts, local thespians will have a chance to populate the show’s supporting parts.

Dozens of $20 bills lay like confetti on a Santa Ana street Friday when a 55-year-old man was killed during a robbery after he won several thousand dollars at a Hawaiian Gardens casino.

Santa Ana police were alerted to the Andres Place killing about 5:30 a.m. by a woman screaming for help.

Arriving officers discovered a man laying in the street, having apparently been run over by an assailant.

Santa Ana Police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said the victim had won several thousand dollars early Friday morning at the casino.

His killer followed him in another vehicle from the gambling establishment to Santa Ana, where he cut him off, according to Bertagna.

Bertagna said the suspect and victim had an altercation on the street, and the 55-year-old man fled on foot only to be hit by the killer’s vehicle.

The traumatized woman had accompanied the victim to the casino but was apparently unhurt in the attack.

At the scene Friday, officers recovered a knife and picked up dozens of $20 bills that spilled out onto the pavement.

— Richard Winton

Photo: A police investigator picks up $20 bills scattered on the 100 block of South Andres Place in Santa Ana on Friday. Police believe the money was dropped during an apparent follow-home robbery of a man who had won several thousand dollars at casino in Hawaiian Gardens on Thursday. The man was fatally run down by the driver, and the suspect is still at large. Credit: Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times

On Tuesday, the nimble Brit began his final two-week stint as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s principal guest conductor at the Hollywood Bowl.

On Tuesday, the nimble Brit began his final two-week stint as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s principal guest conductor at the Hollywood Bowl.

The Los Angeles Police Department has identified the owner of a trunk containing the remains of two babies and have made contact with that person's relatives.

LAPD detectives are expected to release further details in the case later Thursday.

The trunk, which was opened by two women clearing out an apartment's basement in the Westlake district last month, contained postcards, clothing, photographs and books — along with two leather doctor's satchels. Each of the satchels held the body of a baby, swaddled in newspaper from the 1930s.

The photographs and the clothing, including a flapper-style dress, suggest that the woman who owned the trunk was petite, with fair skin and brown hair, detectives said. Some of the postcards were sent from San Francisco and others from Canada.

Detectives have been looking for links to Janet M. Barrie, who lived at the Glen-Donald apartment building in 1948, 1950 and 1954, according to voter registration records.

She was born in Scotland in 1901 and immigrated to Canada and then the United States, according to immigration paperwork from the 1940s.

On one immigration form, Barrie wrote that she was 5 foot 1, with fair skin and brown hair. On the form, she said she had lived in Los Angeles and Chicago between 1925 and 1941. U.S. census records show that in 1930 Barrie was living in a boardinghouse near MacArthur Park and was working as a private nurse.

Her work as a nurse could be significant because detectives say there was a bundle of blank medical test forms in the trunk.

— Kate Linthicum