- The nuisance next door
- GI, Afghan Killed in Battle With Gunmen
- 2005 Reasons to Get Along
- Peru Rebels Take 10 Police Hostage
- Democrats Split Again Over Party's Agenda
- Texas Defense Leaves Its Mark
- Las Vegas Freeway Project Triggers Environmental Challenge
- Benson Shakes Early Pain
- It's not relative
- Bull Markets Were in Abundance in '04
- Out of the blue
- How to Pick an Orange?
- Smoky Hangover on New Year's Day
- Purpose joined with talent
- Medical School Grooms Country Doctors
- New board can reverse association's unwanted rules
- Mississippi Abortion Clinic Stands Alone
- A life of drama in comics
- Lynx Rebound in Colorado
- Palmdale Pops Up on Fliers' Radar
- While at Graceland, all shook up
- Galaxy of Glass
- Societies' five fear factors
- Is Chicken Little Always Wrong?
- From George W. to George W.
- Viacom in Talks to Fill Top Studio Job
- UCLA Is Already on Run
- Stewart Is a Big Shot Producer
- McCann's Mojave Is Up for First Start Since May
- Just How Lewd Is Campus Life?
- 3 Killed in New Year's Holiday Traffic Accidents in L.A. County
- Decrepit District Is Tough to Demolish
- In the kingdom of the clown
- Pasadena Sets Up Miami Nicely for ABC
- He's taken to plotting
- Into the stratosphere
- Where Appearances Are Big, Many Made a Scene
- Read the fine print before booking on overseas websites
- South Asia travel picture in flux
- Congratulations! You're About to Fail
- Death of the Secret Ballot
- The Boys of Indian Summer
- Rix Puts It Together to Lift Florida State
- A Marshall Plan for South Asia
- The (quirky) object's the thing for a fresh crop of sculptors
- He's being touted in good company
- 2004 Certainly Kept Fans' Hearts Aflutter
- Better Think Again, BCS
- TOP STORIES -- Dec. 26-31
- DISCOVERIES
- The passions of George Sand
- Troop Costs Take Bigger Bite Out of Defense-Contract Pie
- All about him
- Voices of Experience
- America Dribbles While Latvia Scores
- America's Endless Culture Wars
- Firewood Sales Hot and Pricey This Winter
- Aid for quake and tsunami victims
- Desperation Marks Haiti's 201st Anniversary of Independence
- Army Staff Sgt. Robert Johnson, 23, Seaside; Killed in Mess Tent Blast
- A Choice Between Finding the Dead, Seeking Survival
- Golden Years Have More Glow in Golden State
- He Will Root, Root, Root for the Home Field
- Seeking the Smiling Face of Nevada's Nuclear Heyday
- Getty's saving graces
- Douglas offers freedom to change
- It Was No Holiday for Cal
- Drake, Wright to Play for USC
- Ideas weren't sound
- BESTSELLERS - PAPERBACKS
- His Life as a Dog
- TOURS & CRUISES
- Taking it easy on the sleepy Mississippi
- Teen Who Survived Rabies Leaves Hospital
- On the move: two actors (and a cello)
- Testing the Waters Often Slow, Inexact
- A Good Verb Dragooned
- Iowa's Final Play Sours Saban's Send-Off
- Man Found Dead on Porch Is Identified
- Kidd Has Last Word for the Nets
- Helping Them Tune In With Song, Dance
- China's great leap upward
- Ohio Decides to Fight Back
- More Israelis Make Do With Less
- Storms Give Ski Resorts a Lift
- Tsunami Aid Efforts Gain Momentum
- It Was No Picnic for This Father and Son
- InterLiga Opens Tonight With Four Mexican Teams
- Risky Business
- 16 Killed in Colombia; Rebels Suspected
- Julius Axelrod, 92; Shared Nobel Prize for Findings on Brain Cells
- Restored 'Legong' offers a look at Bali in the '30s
- Finding soul in country
- This Source Is Relatively Sure of Leinart's Return
- Exit Exam Flimflam
- Mother Fights Schools on Cable TV
- Hornets Have Been Stung by Pile of Losses
- A Fiery Abbas Gets a Lift From Militants
- Argentine Nightclub Death Toll Rises to 186
- City's Woes Carry Into 2005
- Argentines Brew Tea for Two -- or More
- Online comics strip away the scary part of science
- Probes Appear to Clear Facility
- Jet Diverts to Oakland With Fuel Problems
- Now You Know
- Petrino to Stay at Louisville
- His Supreme Court Wins Won't Benefit 'Victims'
- A Model for Patriotic Dissent Found in Russia
- Praise for 'ugly, lovely' Swansea
- Hip-Hop Culture
- Not all skiers are headed downhill
- Joint Port Agency Urged
- Workers Asked to Volunteer
- Trying to improve upon nature
- It's No Laughing Matter
- CIA Chief's Silence
- A call for criticism
- Battling for the Soul of the Republican Party
- A Picture of Rumsfeld
- 'Education in Jihad' Stirs Some Thinking
- Triumph of a 'Trumpetiste'
- The look, the voice
- Book of excuses
- New Strategies for Bringing Back the Draft
- A place to reflect in Chicago
- Stakes Are Huge at Calder
- Rehnquist Sees Threat to Judiciary
- Asian TV station gives back
- Stock Sales by Insiders Jump 20% in 2004
- New Laws for the New Year
- Rain on Pasadena's Parade? Not Likely
- Partly Stormy Forecast for O.C. in 2005
- Wall St. Posts Second Straight Up Year in '04
- Teen Suicide and Feelings of Failure
- Though They Can't Wed, Gays May Now Divorce
- Memories of 1964 Tsunami Are Still Vivid
- Army Program Allows for More Healing at Home
- Gov. to Call for Special Session
- A 5-Day Journey Amid Death and Devastation
- State Suffers Third Ski Resort Fatality of Season
- Justice Department Gets Tougher on Use of Torture
- Mars Rover Examines Heat Shield
- Bishop Amat Wins Ayala Tournament
- Snare and Share Alike
- QUOTEBOOK
- The Times' All-Star Girls' Cross-Country Team
- Rose Bowl Matchups
- Illinois (14-0) Simply Too Tough for Cincinnati
- Big Victory for a Young Rider
- Premier Suffers Minor Injuries in Attack
- Allawi Warns About Rebel Infiltrations
- TODAY'S BOWL GAMES
- No. 2 Duke Routs Auburn
- Clippers Are Only Half Right in Loss
- Fans Can Lift Relief Effort
- Magazine Toasts Unabashed Alcoholism
- NASA Rules Out Danger From New Asteroid
- Judge Blocks Cap on Chinese Textile Imports
- EPA Takes Pest Killer Diazinon Off the Shelves
- Curry Pigment May Help in Treating Alzheimer's
- Diabetes Pain Drug Is OKd
- Sudan, Southern Rebels a Step Closer to Ending 21-Year War
- Yanukovich Steps Down as Premier
- Candy's Less-Empty Calories
- Journal Sends Prozac Documents to FDA
- Delphi Financial Suspends 2 Employees
- Also
- Arrests of Former Justice Officials Sought
- Magazine Dishes Details on Royal Finances
- Celebrants Pause to Mourn Tsunami Victims
- Diesel Rule a Catch-22 for Trucking Industry
- Gene Defect Tied to Autism in Small Number of Cases
- Botox Technique Found to Relieve Migraines
- $20 Million Buys You This Kind of Privacy
- Walgreen Overcharges, Reimburses Customers
- Economy Touted in Year-End Speech
- Hokies Ready for Vick's Return
- It's Been a Command Performance by Kobe
- Right Whale Untangled and Freed
- Williams Refuses to Go Down-and-Out
- W. Boyett, 77; Veteran Stage, Television Actor
- First Start, Great Finish
- PLAYOFF SCENARIOS
- A sculptor, and his work, torn apart
- Wal-Mart Lawsuit May Grow
- Turkish Currency Is One in a Million
- China Draws In Foreign Retailers
- A Capital Location for Studios
- JPL's Latest Space Probe Goes to Colorado Blvd.
- Jumping to Conclusions Can Wear You Out
- U.S. Deports Algerian Man
- U.S. Tornado Reports Reach Record in 2004
- Here's a New Year's Menu That Seems Warmed Over
- A Perfect Urban Legend?
- Travelers on Disrupted Flights Can Call Hotline
- 18-Year-Old Survives After Falling Six Stories
- On the Radio: 'Body, Body'
- Man Shoots and Kills Officer, Takes Own Life
- Parliament Extends Troop Mandate in Iraq
- 6 From Southland to Join U.S. Efforts in Sri Lanka
- Quartet tries to serve it up right
- Bob Ferguson, 64;Former All-American Fullback at Ohio State
- Looks like 'blog' won't be defenestrated, after all
- A Weapon in the LAPD's Arsenal: Talking
- Laguna Beach Schools Trying to Focus on the Whole Child
- No. 13 Washington Defeats California
- Steelers' Bettis Will Not Play Against the Bills
- TODAY'S GAME
- The look of royalty
- Wishful Thinking
- Magnum's Foot Provides an Edge
- Not Your Ordinary Game
- Jaric Could Be Out at Least Four Weeks With Fracture
- Simply mad about pantomime
- Donations Large and Small Climb by the Hour
- Families Take In Orphans
- Breakthrough Season for Corona's Escobar
- Schembechler Revisits Strategy
- Edwards Excels at Being No. 1
- UCLA Zones Out in Defeat
- A life lived without regret
- Peter Davison, 76; Poet and Atlantic Monthly Editor for 3 Decades
- Europe Subdued on New Year's Eve
- 1-2 Punch
- Sprinter Grimes Is Suspended for Two Years
- Anaheim Man Slashes Siblings, Police Say
- NOW YOU KNOW
- Cooper Is a Winner in His Nugget Debut
- The year's 10 tunes that made you want to turn up the volume
- Bush Boosts U.S. Aid Tenfold
- Yukos Accuses Rosneft of 'Illegal Seizure'
- Exits Were Locked at Argentine Club Where a Fire Killed 175
- Does Communion Cup Runneth Over With Germs?
- Battered Sri Lanka Sees Hope for Peace
- He Was Born to Take Field for the Trojans
- Practice Session Is a Splashing Success
- With Win, Miami Settles for State Bragging Rights
- Hollins Finds Himself Buried on the Bench
- Kremlin-Owned Firm Closes Yukos Purchase
- Trojans Not a Final 4:24 Team
- Violent Crime Is Down 14% in L.A.
- Barricaded Fullerton Man, Police Trade Fire
- Sooners Plan to Spread Responsibility for Bush
- Louisville Hangs On, 44-40
- Colombia Extradites Leftist Guerrilla Leader to U.S.
- Ken Burkhart, 88; Umpire Noted for Disputed Call
- Hybrids' Shift to a New Lane Stalls
- A mixologist's spirited how-to
- A Local Disaster
- The week ahead in Orange County
- Minnesota Runs Over Alabama
- Did Brown Take Bloom Off Pasadena Game?
- Murrieta in the Spotlight
- A Couple of Thoughts on Trojan Basketball
- Delving Into Bush's Social Security Plan
- President's Policies Carry a Cruel Price
- You've Got to Love Dodgers and Angels
- A Different Life: Cary Grant as George Bailey?
- Guantanamo's Prisoners of War
- 'Lolita' Isn't Hustler
- Animal Abusers Hide Behind the Kosher Label
- Talk Isn't Cheap When It Comes to NFL
- Split vote on Susan Sontag
- Laker Fans Not Seeing Much Ho-Ho-Hope
- Unneeded 'Wonder Drugs'
- No justice?
- Less than indie
- Death Raises Questions About a Parent's Duty
- Write That Down in Your Henry Calendar
- Fan Works Overtime for a Better NFL Game
- Christianity and the Classroom
- NFL Not the Same Since the Day of the Jaguar