Election results: In an election results chart in the Nov. 6 California section, State Senate District 18 was described as including Inyo, Kern and Tulare counties. The district is in Los Angeles County.

Africans in Russia: In the Nov. 2 Section A, an article about hostility against African blacks in Russia said that there had been 177 reported acts of violence against blacks in Russia since 2010, according to the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis. There were actually 177 reported violent acts against blacks since 2008, SOVA officials say, six of which ended in death.

Jerry Lee Lewis: In the Nov. 4 Calendar section, a profile of Jerry Lee Lewis and a review of new albums by Lewis and Pat Boone both referred to a musician credited on Lewis' album as "the late" Doyle Bramhall. In fact, the musician was Doyle Bramhall II, Bramhall's son.

Pasadena Playhouse: In the Nov. 4 Calendar section, an article about Pasadena Playhouse associate artistic director Seema Sueko misstated where she received her undergraduate degree. She graduated from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., not the University of Washington Tacoma.

AMC-DirecTV: In the Nov. 4 Business section, an article about a contract dispute between AMC and DirecTV referred to the network as AMC Entertainment Holdings. The corporate name is AMC Networks Inc.

Whittier development: An article in the Nov. 2 California section about a project planned for the site of the former Fred C. Nelles Youth Correctional Facility said that the developer, Brookfield Residential Properties, purchased the property from the state three years ago for $42.5 million. The company struck a deal at that time with the state, but the sale is not expected to become final until 2015.

Downtown speak-easy: An article in the Oct. 31 Section A about a long-forgotten Prohibition-era speak-easy in the basement of the Rosslyn Hotel annex said that according to the Los Angeles Conservancy, the Rosslyn annex had not yet been added to the National Register of Historic Places. After publication, the conservancy said that, in fact, the annex was listed in August 2013.

Denis Johnson: An article in the Nov. 2 Arts & Books section about novelist Denis Johnson said that the title of his 2000 novel was "The Name at the End of the World." The title is "The Name of the World."

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Governor's race: An article in the Nov. 2 California section about campaign events in the California governor's race said August Schuckman was Gov. Jerry Brown's maternal great-grandfather. Schuckman was his paternal great-grandfather.

Lucy: An article in the Nov. 1 California section about the 1974 discovery of Lucy, the partial skeleton of an ape-like creature, misidentified Lucy's species as Australopithecus africanus. The species is Australopithecus afarensis.

Inglewood superintendent: An article on the Inglewood School District in the Oct. 26 California section incorrectly stated that former Superintendent La Tanya Kirk-Carter was fired. Kirk-Carter was not fired; she left the school district voluntarily in June after reaching a negotiated agreement with the district. The article stated that Kirk-Carter left after the extent of the district's financial problems was discovered. The financial problems were already known and existed before she was named superintendent. The article also stated that during Kirk-Carter's tenure the district depleted its reserve funds, was operating at a $17.7-million deficit and had spent nearly half of its $55 million in emergency funds. In fact, according to the California Department of Education, the district had no reserves, ended the 2013-14 fiscal year with a deficit of $11.9 million and spent $10 million of its $29 million in emergency funds.

L.A. County supervisors: In the Oct. 31 Section A, an ...