WEST HILLS - Beverly J. Gilmore has taken the reins of West HillsHospital, where it was announced Tuesday that she has become the newpresident and chief executive officer.
Gilmore, with more than 20 years of experience in the health careindustry, will replace Jim Sherman, who left to become president andCEO of Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks. Mostrecently the head of Sutter Solano Medical Center in Vallejo,Gilmore will oversee ongoing work to expand the emergency andintensive-care departments.
Yahoo music deal pleases investors
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. is buying online jukebox providerMusicmatch Inc. for $160 million in a deal designed to broaden theInternet giant's appeal to the growing audience of consumers who buysongs off the Web.
The all-cash acquisition, announced Tuesday, gives Sunnyvale-based Yahoo a major drawing card as it competes against AppleComputer Inc., RealNetworks Inc. and Napster in the rapidly growingfield of digital music management.
Strike, debt hurt parent of Ralphs
CINCINNATI - The Kroger Co., one of the nation's largestoperators of supermarkets, reported Tuesday that its second-quarterearnings fell by almost $50 million from a year ago, hurt by debtcharges and the Southern California strike against its Ralphs chain.
For the quarter that ended Aug. 14, the company's earnings pershare, 19 cents, fell short of the 27 cents projected by industryanalysts surveyed by Thomson First Call.
Judge allows suit against oil giant
A human rights lawsuit brought against Unocal Corp. over allegedatrocities that occurred during a 1990s pipeline project in Myanmarcan proceed before a jury, a Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday.
The lawsuit alleges that Myanmar soldiers forced male villagersto become slave laborers on the $1.2 billion Yadana pipelineproject, in which El Segundo-based Unocal was a minority partner. Italso alleged that soldiers murdered a baby, raped women and girlsand forced people out of their homes to make way for the project.
Superior Court Judge Victoria Gerrard Chaney in her rulingrejected Unocal's arguments that the case should be dismissedfollowing her earlier ruling that focused on corporate liabilityissues.
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