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A pedestrian is killed and the bus driver and 20 students are hospitalized after a sports car allegedly runs a red light. Three teenage boys triggered chaos in a Boyle Heights neighborhood Monday afternoon when their car ran a red light, killed a pedestrian and upended a school bus, injuring the driver and 20 Roosevelt High School students, authorities said. Two of the teenagers were arrested after they were chased down and apprehended by a construction workers, California Highway Patrol Officer Miguel Luevano said. A third youth was arrested after arriving at an area hospital later in the evening, seeking medical treatment. The students, who were returning to campus, suffered non-life-threatening injuries when the school bus overturned and slid onto the plaza at the entrance to the Metro Gold Line Soto Station, Luevano said. Authorities are weighing criminal homicide charges in the 3:22 p.m. collision at East 1st Street and Soto Avenue, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said. The ...

SOFTWARE IMPERIUM Microsoft's soon to be former chief software architect has fired a few parting words of warning at the Vole. Writing in his blog, Ray Ozzie said that when he first showed up at the outfit five years ago he wrote The Internet Services Disruption in order to kick off a major change management process across the company. Ozzie apparently wrote that every five years the IT industry experiences what appears to be an inflection point that results in great turbulence and change. He said that Microsoft managed the last five years quite well - apparently overlooking Windows Vista entirely - and is in a good position for the next five. But he warned that changes are coming again and this time they threaten the PC centric view of the universe that has made Microsoft piles of dosh. He admitted that some competitors' products and their rapid advancement by coming up with new ideas have been quite noteworthy. "Their execution has surpassed our own in mobile experience...

It was bound to happen: Tiger Woods hooked up with someone who actually had the sense to write a tell-all. High class escort Lucinda Jolie (no relation to Angelina, we're sure) says she and the high living golfer met up a dozen or so times over two years, reports The Daily Mail. In the book, to be released around Thanksgiving (and the one-year anniversary of his downward spiral), Jolie dishes that she blames wife Elin for his cheating, and that Tiger had an addiction to sleeping pills, among other shockers. LOVE'S IN THE AIR Jennifer Love Hewitt is back out there -- UsWeekly reports the actress is dating actor/director Alex Beh. How do they know? Because the new couple went public over the weekend, participating in a marathon together. How...romantic. Not sure if we believe this one, but Life & Style has pegged Taylor Swift, 20, and older man Jake Gyllenhaal, 29, as the new It couple. Guess she's done with John Mayer. The two were spotted at a Saturday Night Live taping...

Copiapo, Chile (CNN) -- Chilean President Sebastian Pinera says he is looking forward to the imminent rescue of the 33 miners trapped for more than two months nearly half a mile below ground. Officials have said rescue crews willbegin Wednesday -- and perhaps even earlier -- pulling the men to safety. "Ihope that by tomorrow [Tuesday] or Wednesday, the miners will not only be able to see sunlight, but embrace their wives and girlfriends, parents, mothers and children," Pinera told CNN en Espanol on Monday. Planning to watch the rescue? Share your reaction Pinera, who is expected at the mine site for the rescue, spoke in Quito, Ecuador. "We have been with the miners since the accident and will remain with them once they are rescued," he said. The president added the miners' reintegration into society will likely be difficult as they must build new lives and will face the added pressures that come from global media attention. Chilean Mining Minister Laurence Golbo...

China ? China's notorious one-child policy may be coming to an end. Why? The male-female ratio in China is said to be 119 males to 100 females. The other problem is the aging population will lack caregivers. With one married couple left to take care of four aging parents, the pressure is great. Jonathan Brooks, President of Bibles for China--a ministry of Voice of China and Asia, says this is old news. "The people of China seem kind of surprised that we would be asking about it because to them it was old news. What we see as a new policy in China, that you can have more than one child. People generally -- especially in Christian circles -- don't realize that this is really old news, that the policy has changed." While some news reports suggest the one-child policy has only been changed in certain provinces, Brooks is seeing change in China. He says the church is just one example. "We're seeing a great awakening in China, and what we're hearing is there i...

In early September, we reported that flooding in southern Mexico had affected several Compassion International child development centers. According to Compassion, things have not gotten much better. In our previous reports, the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz had been affected. Currently these two states are still dealing with the effects of heavy rains and flooding, and two new neighboring states have been added to the list. The states of Chiapas and Tabasco are still too far under water for damages to be properly assessed. It looks as though this process may take a while since, Compassion reports, the water has not yet begun to drain. Food, water and other necessities have been requested in these states. In the meantime, health risks are quickly mounting. Large amounts of water not only threaten with mosquitoes, parasites, and disease, but now with predators as well. Crocodiles and snakes have been seen in the water, posing an immediate threat to the safety of anyone not y...

President Barack Obama's top economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, plans to leave the White House at the end of the year, a move that comes as the administration struggles to show an anxious public it's making progress on the economy. While administration officials Tuesday quickly sought to paint the announcement as an expected development, Summers' departure shakes up an economic team that has been under fire for its handling of the recovery. It's also a team already in transition following the recent departures of other high-profile Obama advisers. In a statement, the president said he is grateful for Summers' service during a time of "great peril for our country." "While we have much work ahead to repair the damage done by the recession, we are on a better path thanks in no small measure to Larry's wise counsel," Obama said. Summers will return to Harvard University, a move a senior administration official said was always part o...