Front page: Los Angeles Times | Sunday, August 10, 2014

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Obama sees no quick fix in Iraq

Michael A. Memoli, Kathleen Hennessey and David S. Cloud, write, "President Obama warned that the effort to help Iraqi forces deny a safe haven to 'barbaric terrorists' and help rescue thousands of trapped religious refugees wouldn't be a short-term mission." Read the story

Iraqi Yazidis describe flight from Islamic State militants

Patrick McDonnell, who covers the Middle East for the Times, details the journey of the minority Yazidi sect in Iraq and their six-day odyssey through mountain and desert. Read the story

LAPD misclassified nearly 1,200 serious violent crimes as minor offenses

Ben Poston and Joel Rubin, who cover law enforcement accountability issues, write that total aggravated assaults in a particular 12-month period would have been almost 14% higher than the official figure if crimes had been classified correctly. Read the story

How to build the tallest tower in the West on shaky ground

Thomas Curwen, who reports on record-breaking feats of construction in L.A., writes, "Munro is heading eight stories down to assess the stability of a building site. She needs to know whether the soil will support a skyscraper that will one day be the tallest west of Chicago and the tallest in the world on such seismically sensitive ground." Read the story