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Indonesians flee as volcano erupts again An Indonesian volcano that had been dormant for more than four centuries erupted for the second day in a row Monday, spewing white clouds of smoke and ash more than 2,000 yards into the air, officials and witnesses said. Gunmen kill Mexican mayor, wound daughter Marco Antonio Leal Garcia is the second mayor assassinated in two weeks in the area, which has become a battleground between the Gulf and Zetas cartels. Gunmen killed the mayor of a town in the drug-plagued Mexican border state of Tamaulipas on Sunday in a region where suspected cartel hitmen recently massacred 72 migrants, the government said. 2010 Emmy Awards: A night for new comedies, old dramas First-timer 'Modern Family' wins, but 'Mad Men's' streak extends to three years. There was a lot of new comedy but not much new drama at the 62nd annual prime-time Emmy Awards on Sunday night. Dodgers hit the eject button on Manny Ramirez The formerly beloved, now out-of-favor slugger will be shipped to the Chicago White Sox in a waiver deal Monday, according to multiple sources. In his last official act as a Dodger, he is kicked out while pinch-hitting Sunday against Rockies — after seeing only one pitch. Manny Ramirez saw one pitch in his sixth-inning pinch-hit appearance during the Dodgers' 10-5 loss to the Colorado Rockies on Sunday. Brown's low-key campaign confounds pundits who urged him to spend more Political analysts who wanted the Democrat to press Meg Whitman hard now express admiration for his ability to stay even in the polls. Democrat Jerry Brown is running for governor, but voters in California might not know it. Since winning the primary in June, he has spent almost nothing, has rarely appeared on the campaign trail and has yet to air a single ad against Republican rival Meg Whitman. Leopard sharks give a thrill at Mother's Beach The area tends to attract some every year, but this summer there are more of them and they're sticking around longer, much to most spectators' enjoyment. Dorsal fins flashed Sunday as a large school of leopard sharks prowled the sandy shoals a few feet off Mother's Beach, on a prime stretch of Marina del Rey coastline. Anton Geesink dies at 76; Olympic gold medalist popularized judo He stunned Japan by becoming the first Westerner to win the world judo championship in 1961 in Paris. He won the gold in 1964 in Tokyo. Anton Geesink, who helped make judo a universally popular sport by winning a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, has died. He was 76. Obama, in New Orleans, promises to 'fight alongside' Gulf Coast In New Orleans, the president talks Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill, pointing up post-Katrina aid improvements and work on shoring up levees. Five years after Hurricane Katrina, President Obama recommitted the nation to repairing the Gulf Coast as the region's fragile recovery hangs in balance and his popularity sags after the BP oil spill. May the best economic policy win Voters now have two competing economic theories to choose from: Obama's Keynesian stimulus and Boehner's seemingly pre-Keynesian Republicanism. Republicans are on a roll. No gold stars for successful L.A. teachers L.A. Unified has hundreds of excellent instructors. But no one asks them their secrets to success, and most of the time no one praises them. Often their principals don't even know who they are. It's a Wednesday morning, and Zenaida Tan is warming her students up with a little exercise in 'Monster Math.'