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In Focus: Staff photos from March 8 to March14

Angel Howard, who is now carrying a French couple's baby, prepares with her children, from left, Maria, Anthony, Izaac, Ezekiel and Tacina, in May for a video chat with their father, Brian, who was deployed in Iraq. Surrogacy is a natural fit for military wives, with their solid support networks, premium medical care and strong dispositions. For some it's easy money; for others it's a way to help unlucky couples.

Angel Howard, who is now carrying a French couple’s baby, prepares with her children, from left, Maria, Anthony, Izaac, Ezekiel and Tacina, in May for a video chat with their father, Brian, who was deployed in Iraq. Surrogacy is a natural fit for military wives, with their solid support networks, premium medical care and strong dispositions. For some it’s easy money; for others it’s a way to help unlucky couples.  (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)

In Focus: Family Services

Family Services supervisor Wendy Luke drives in the South L.A. area to probe an allegation that a mother has abandoned her infant with her former boyfriend’s parents. She had a possible address for the mother.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

In Focus: Mt. Waterman

A skier flies past snow-covered trees, enjoying the combination of fresh snow and sunshine at Mt. Waterman in mid-February.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

In Focus: Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program

Dr. Bill Releford gets a trim from Donte Kelly. Releford, a podiatrist, started the Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program in L.A. in 2007. The program, which started in 30 Los Angeles area barbershops, is now nationwide.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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In Focus: Border fence

Having just stepped through a gap in the border fence from Mexico’s Sonora state, Jose Jesus Ramirez, 21, left, and Jose Hernandez, 22, scan for surveillance cameras. They decided not to risk dashing through the dry Colorado River bottom in the background until nighttime.  (Don Barletti / Los Angeles Times)

In Focus: Little Lake

Chuck Brill, a commercial real estate broker from Palos Verdes who is a member of the Little Lake Ranch hunting club in Inyo County, loves to take a boat out at sunrise with his yellow lab, Stitch. Although hunting season is over, the dog accompanies Brill on rowboats during the three-month hunting season on Little Lake.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

In Focus: Basketball

DeAngelo Casto, left, of Washington State and Frantz Dorsainvil of Oregon vie for control of the ball in the first round of the Pac-10 basketball tournament.  (Alex Gallardo / Los Angeles Times)

In Focus: Tibetans in Los Angeles

Tsewang Dakpa joins about 100 others as they march from Los Angeles City Hall to the Chinese Consulate to mark the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising by Tibetans against Chinese rule that led to the Dalai Lama being forced into exile.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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In Focus: Ferrari split in two

Newport Beach firefighters stabilize the front of a Ferrari so they can remove the body of mixed martial arts pioneer Charles “Mask” Lewis. Lewis’ car had collided with a Porsche and struck a utility pole on Jamboree Road. The impact tore the vehicle in half.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

In Focus: Sayre fire flag

L.A. officials and others are reflected in a frame containing a U.S. flag that was saved during November’s Sayre fire, which destroyed 487 residences at the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar. Officials met there to announce that federal and state agencies will provide $1.5 million to remove the debris. The flag will be returned to the mobile home park after it is rebuilt.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

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