Front page: Los Angeles Times | Sunday, November 9, 2014

Scroll down for a larger view

At L.A. County cemetery, unclaimed dead await a final resting place

Graphics and data journalist Jon Schleuss writes, "Until The Times digitized the handwritten record of the unclaimed dead of 2011 to create a searchable database, only those people whose cases were handled by the coroner — about a third — could be found online." Read the story

Aging nuclear arsenal grows ever more costly

Ralph Vartabedian, national correspondent, and W.J. Hennigan, who covers the Pentagon and national security issues, write that the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile has shrunk by 85% since its Cold War peak, but the Energy Department is spending nine times more on each weapon that remains. Read the story

As Germany celebrates Berlin Wall's demise, harsh realities lurk

Steven Zeitchik, who did a journalistic tour of duty in Berlin, and Carol J. Williams, senior international affairs reporter, write that as Europe turns its gaze to the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, political alliances have frayed, economies are struggling, and the specter of a resurgent Russia has set the former Soviet satellites of the Eastern Bloc on edge. Read the story

Freed by North Korea, Americans Bae and Miller return to U.S.

Washington reporter Lisa Mascaro writes that the two men arrived at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, near Tacoma, Wash., accompanied by James R. Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence. Sending the nation's top intelligence official on a secret mission to North Korea was highly unusual. Read the story

Maurice Greenberg puts U.S. handling of AIG bailout on trial

Dean Starkman, who covers Wall Street, writes, "In an obscure courthouse here, normally the domain of aggrieved government contractors and Native American tribes, the billionaire financier is leading a crusade against the government's handling of the financial crisis that seems as unlikely as it does brazen." Read the story