For the record - Aug. 28, 2010

Congressional races: An article in Monday’s LATExtra section about targeted congressional races in California said Republican challenger David Harmer was ahead of Rep. Jerry McNerney (D- Pleasanton) in fundraising, $1.8 million to nearly $1.7 million. However, the source of those figures, the Federal Election Commission website, included fundraising from Harmer’s unsuccessful special-election race in a different congressional district last year. For the current race, he had raised about $783,000 by the end of the last campaign reporting period earlier this summer.

Martin Dannenberg obituary: The obituary in Friday’s LATExtra section of former Army Sgt. Martin Ernest Dannenberg, who discovered a copy of the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws in Germany in 1945, failed to include in the list of surviving family members his daughter, Betsy Dannenberg Frahm.

Tropical retreat: An Aug. 21 Home section article on a Bali-style house in Santa Monica was accompanied by a short article offering shopping tips that misidentified homeowner and designer Lorri Kline as Lisa Kline.

McChrystal farewell: An article in the LATExtra section July 24 about the retirement ceremony for Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal described the site, Ft. McNair, as adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery. Ft. McNair is in the District of Columbia and Arlington is in Virginia, across the Potomac River.

Mexicali earthquake: An article in Section A on July 2 about how the Mexicali earthquake on Easter Sunday placed more pressure on at least two Southern California fault lines said the Whittier fault produced the deadly 1987 Whittier Narrows quake. In fact, seismologists believe the 1987 earthquake was caused by the Puente Hills thrust fault.