Wednesday morning headlines

H-P indictments: Everyone is all over the remarks made by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer that investigators have "sufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against individuals inside Hewlett-Packard as well as outside the company." Those charges could be filed as early as next week. Lockyer, who broke the news on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer - not exactly the place you would expect big news to be broken - wouldn't offer details. There are private eyes who could be implicated - folks who actually accessed the phone records - but there's also Patricia Dunn, who had authorized the snooping and yesterday stepped down as company chairwoman. Interestingly, Dunn is supposed to stay on as a board member, although if her involvement in this mess deepens, it's hard to imagine she'll stay on for very long. LAT NYT

Minimum wage signing: Quite a bit of coverage on the governor signing legislation to boost the state's minimum wage to $8 an hour, highest in the nation. Using a South Los Angeles mercado as a backdrop probably didn't hurt. Schwarzenegger had worked out a compromize on the bill with Assembly Democrats, so Tuesday's bill-signing was more of a photo op for him and Assembly Speaker Nunez. Oh, and Assemblywoman Sally Lieber. She authored the bill.

Lions Gate news: The very successful independent is looking for a partner to build a studio in the Albuquerque suburb of Rio Rancho. New Mexico has been going after studios with all kinds of incentives (Lions Gate received $45-million in interest-free loans to produce a TV series). Meanwhile, the Santa Monica-based company (it still has some operations in Vancouver) has been battling to take over Chatsworth-based Image Entertainment Inc., a DVD distributor. Image has turned down Lion's Gate's $4 a share offer. And there are plans for a new horror TV channel in a few weeks. The Globe and Mail has the story.

Juicy track: Lots of pomp in New York with Fashion Week, but the WSJ (subscription required) has a centerpiece about the success of Pacoima-based Juicy, which made its mark with $200 tracksuits worn by the likes of Cameron Diaz, but has moved on to become the fastest-growing label in Liz Claiborne's portfolio. Annual sales are more than $300 million. Juicy expects to have 40 stand-alone stores by the end of next year.

Del Amo overhauled: The Torrance mega-mall opens a 285,000-square-foot Lifestyle Wing on Thursday that will have Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters Eddie Bauer, P.F. Chang's China Bistro and a Cohiba Cigar Lounge. Lifestyle centers are all the rage in the shopping center world, offering places to eat and be entertained in between buying clothes and other stuff. There's also an an 18-screen cineplex opening on Sept. 22.

ESPN scores: The first game of ESPN Monday Night Football drew 9.2 million households, making it the second-biggest audience for a cable show ever. (Tops on the list, weirdly, is 1993's Ross Perot-Al Gore debate on NAFTA.) The large numbers for the Minnesota-Washington opening game dropped off a bit for the nightcap between San Diego and Oakland - a game that started close to 11 back east. The NFL is talking about more Monday doubleheaders next season, good news for Disney-owned ESPN.

Surprising stance: Bruce Gordon, the president of the NAACP, said the latest gimmick on CBS's "Survivor" - separating contestants by race - was a bad idea, but he added that the outraged reactions had gotten out of hand. Gordon happens to be a member of the CBS Corp. board, which I'm sure has nothing to do with his position. The new season debuts Thursday.

Lonely girl confessions: At last she's been identified! The young woman who plays lonelygirl15 on YouTube is Jessica Rose, a graduate of the New York Film School and now an acting student in L.A.. The masterminds of the lonelygirl15 hoax - how else do you describe the deception? - are two filmmakers and a software engineer, all from the Bay Area. The NYT and many, many others have all the details.

C what's hip: Also known as CWH, it's a two-minute commercial - dubbed a mini-magazine show- that will be seen on the CW network, beginning next week. The new network expects to run about a dozen of these "wraps" this season, with the idea being to mix advertising and entertainment. Advertisers are mixed on the idea. WSJ has the story.

Tracking by Avery: Pasadena-based Avery Dennison Corp. is licensing its tracking system - the technology that allows everything from crates to transit passes to be monitored. This is the tiny device that's somehow attached to a label.