- PASSINGS: Alfred Hrdlicka
- Artist Richard Wright pulls upset to win Britain's Turner Prize
- Boys' basketball: Crespi opens with 91-71 victory
- It's official: Air Jordan 11 Retro Space Jams to drop Dec. 23rd
- Michael Vick returns to Atlanta to boos, leaves with 2 TDs and cheers
- Football: Fua recovering from concussion
- Petro Zillia wheels out a recession solution: rent-a-frock
- Football: Shaquille Richardson picks UCLA
- Philip Hersh: My favorite passport stamp in 25 years of globetrotting -- Iran
- Dodgers: No plans to decrease payroll; Torre could have future in front office
- Masa Takayama brings Bar Masa and Shaboo to Las Vegas
- Bolivia: Unofficial returns show President Evo Morales easily winning reelection
- The Tenenbaum case and fair use: a tantalizing what-if
- Boxee unveils Web TV box and revamped software in bid to take over the living room
- It's not easy being green: Pet frogs are blamed for salmonella outbreak
- 'Afghan Star': a striking documentary look at the country we're trying to save
- Nemo, Chihuahua that survived Riverside irrigation-canal dumping, has a new home
- The Film Department is trying to pay debts and transform its business with public stock offering
- Brad Penny to join Cards' deck
- Sampler Platter: Bacon Christmas tree postcards, L.A.'s best vegan Reuben, microwave with a brain
- Opinion: An opportunity missed to apply 'fair use' to file sharing
- Opinion: NPR, like Obama's White House, has concerns about Fox News and its Mara Liasson appearing there
- Do these genes make me look fat?
- Sylmar: Parrish Reed, 17
- Is it time for a new approach to the Ducks' goalie rotation?
- Food Truck News: Yum Yum Bowls, Umami truck, Grill 'Em All, the Sweets Truck roll out
- Downtown: Sonya Tauanuu, 26
- Marvel Studios' David Maisel to step down after Disney deal
- Some mystery behind decline in breast cancer
- Too much emphasis on holiday stress can be stressful
- Opinion: In defense of monogamy
- In defense of monogamy
- Football: Two classy programs set to battle
- Pico-Union: Humberto Rodriguez-Varon, 51
- Jason Bay and Hideki Matsui are options for Angels' offense
- Gasoline prices hold steady
- Zhu Zhu pet hamster a dangerous toy? No more than your next holiday fad
- Star sightings: Taylor Swift, Taylor Lautner, Josh Brolin, Selena Gomez, Camp Freddy
- Opinion from Atul Gawande; news on health reform
- Football: Neuheisel gives pep talk to championship teams
- Opinion: Unemployed? Underemployed? Try this faux game show to win a welfare check
- Rhode Island design college's turmoil echoes 2008 upheaval at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design
- Homicides: Dec. 1 - Dec. 7
- Mushing: Not a recession-proof career. Iditarod sled dog race feels the economic pinch
- Clippers' Marcus Camby anticipating Allen Iverson's return to 76ers tonight
- Datebook: Events, exhibits, classes for the week ahead
- Burton unveils its Olympic U.S. snowboard team uniform for 2010
- City Section approves new playoff format for basketball
- Alan Parsons remembers Eric Woolfson
- Oprah picks not one, but two new presidents for her Harpo Productions
- Ballet review: 'The Nutcracker' from Los Angeles Ballet
- Van Nuys wins appeal and won't be in West Valley League
- Opinion: Ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleads financial woes to the court; but what about $15G's for plastic surgery?
- Santa Muerte (Holy Death) worship in Los Angeles looking somewhat different than in Mexico
- NBC Universal's Jeff Zucker says company has not done good job with network and he likes his new Comcast bosses
- UCLA football: Brian Price named Pac-10 defensive player of year
- A look into Facebook's judicial system
- Eddie Vedder gets engaged, then reminds Springsteen he's awesome
- Your recipe for the day: Hot chocolate
- News Corp.'s Chase Carey is getting ready for battle with cable, satellite operators
- A cluster of health problems in a tiny San Joaquin Valley community
- Who needs a Chihuahua? Fashion for your favorite foliage
- Reconsidering antiepileptic medications as a treatment for bipolar disorder
- Angels scout Ric Wilson interviews with Padres
- Abortion debate begins as part of Senate healthcare bill
- Mets may be pursuing Angels' Rivera
- Dodgers President Dennis Mannion increases portfolio
- 'Dexter': John Lithgow talks about life as the Trinity Killer
- STD screening should start early
- 'How I Met Your Mother': Barney Stinson's notable quotables
- Kings' morning skate: Scuderi and Moller are in, Drewiske and Harrold are out
- For depression, changing personality with a pill might work best
- Fusion Garage unveils the Joo Joo touch screen tablet
- 'Tiger Woods' apologizes some more on Saturday Night Live
- Attention, French dip lovers
- Fitness goes high-tech with these gadgets
- Fusion Garage fires back at TechCrunch's Arrington, alleging broken promises
- Gonzo but not forgotten: Johnny Depp's wearable homage to Hunter S. Thompson
- 'How I Met Your Mother': 'Big shake-ups' are in store, says executive producer Carter Bays
- Your morning adorable: Amur leopard cub debuts in German zoo
- The Coffee Talkie is the unique tech gift of the season -- just one problem
- Sarah Palin meets the enemy -- we mean, cracks jokes and sings -- at winter Gridiron dinner
- Bond giant Pimco will launch actively managed stock funds, and hires Kashkari
- Boost for City of Industry stadium plan?
- Safety commission reviewing safety concerns about Zhu Zhu robotic hamster toys
- Tim Donaghy tells his story on 60 Minutes
- Holiday survival guide: tips for good regifting, lush wrangling, party dodging and more
- Al Pacino returns to Shakespeare's 'Merchant of Venice'
- Football: Site for Oaks Christian-Serra to be decided
- LEBANON: Government policy statement on Hezbollah's arms irks Washington
- 2009 Holiday Geek-Gift Guide, Part 3: The best presents for Trekkies, Jedi knights and fanboys
- 'Eat My Blog' raises $3,000 for L.A. Foodbank
- Yankees send Bruney to Washington
- Late arrivals slow winter meetings
- Consumer Confidential: Robot hamsters, consumer debt, Sesame Street
- Obama weighs use of TARP funds for deficit, jobs
- David Mamet's 'Race' on Broadway: What did the critics think?
- Baseball: West Ranch wins tournament
- Adam Lambert to perform on Fox's 'So You Think You Can Dance' finale
- Sales alert: Stella McCartney discounts through Christmas Eve
- Give a book Tuesday, get a buck off a classic French dip
- Notre Dame's Jimmy Clausen says he's turning pro
- Top stories: China buffs its image; Apple buys LaLa; video game actors gripe
- Opinion: White House gatecrashers? So yesterday
- Court to hear case of Christian student group that refused to admit gays
- Sarah Palin's stock rising, poll says
- Tiger Woods' 'mistress' list hits double digits (Trangressions R Us, Part 3)
- Ryan Getzlaf gets a freebie, Ducks still lose
- Opinion: Carly and me -- BFFs!
- These holiday toys aren't for sale
- Monday's question: Other than Alabama, Texas and Florida, which two teams are happiest and unhappiest with their bowl pairing?
- Gold drops sharply for second day in a row
- Michelle Rodriguez says 'Avatar' was 'like working on 'Star Wars' -- the first one'
- Copenhagen climate treaty talks open with appeals for action
- Opinion: Tiger Woods' top 10 tips for President Obama's game -- er, that would be his golf game
- UCLA basketball: A no-zone layer against Kansas
- Spray-painted duck illustrates how stupid some fans can be
- Monster Mash: Villazon to return in March; French museum strike waning; 'Altar Boyz' closing
- Opinion: Has U.S. intelligence lost track of Osama bin Laden?
- Pentagon orders 16,000 troops to Afghanistan
- Apple buys Lala, but what for?
- 'The Amazing Race': Luck be a lady
- Dodgers: Don Mattingly sighting
- Tiny terrariums at Flora Grubb Gardens bring the outside in
- Toronto's Jarrett Jack ties shoe during live action
- 'Brothers & Sisters': The wedding that wasn't
- Freedom of Information: Open, closed
- AnnaLynne McCord is delighted and disgusted -- which rocks our 'Nip/Tuck' world
- Gene Autry, Marvin Miller fail to win entry to Baseball Hall of Fame
- Diane Sawyer confirms this is her last week on "GMA"
- EGYPT: Mystery looms over crash of ferries
- Monday's poll: Should the Dodgers trade Juan Pierre?
- President Obama, Bruce Springsteen, Robert DeNiro and more
- Senate resumes healthcare overhaul debate
- The Morning Fix: 'Blind Side' rushes to top. Liguori makes Discovery! How important is NBC itself to Comcast (not very). Oscar campaigns getting cheap.
- Early Bird: Bouchon Beverly Hills
- Opinion: How Pearl Harbor changed the U.S. 68 years ago today and what the president told a shocked nation
- Boys' basketball: L.A. Price is team to watch
- New glow-in-the-dark bedding: a parent's guarantee against bad dreams (or alien abduction)
- Winter meetings: Dodgers will shop Juan Pierre
- Snowy start to baseball winter meetings
- Spinning the Barnes Foundation's controversial plan to move
- Yellow Bird Project: Rock T-shirts for a good cause
- White House Pushing H1N1 Shot
- Dispatch: 'My son’s death was senseless and selfish'
- IRAN: Video footage of Tehran protests surfaces
- Deja vu at money manager TCW: Another ugly divorce
- Michael Hiltzik: The lure of the (green) road
- Opinion: Obama's Afghan exit plan transitions to 'transition'
- Steve Meltzer dies at 56; puppeteer opened center in Santa Monica
- Autism therapies can get undeserved credit
- Paula Hawkins dies at 82; Senator backed family issues but bucked women's caucus
- PASSINGS: Warren Vanderschuit, Eva Szorenyi, Eric Woolfson, Robert Kendall, Vyacheslav Tikhonov
- Pros' picks: Best fitness devices
- Video game voice actors worry they're getting shortchanged
- Four autism treatments that worry physicians
- Live: Airborne Toxic Event at Walt Disney Concert Hall
- One side effect of an illness can be a loss of friends
- Latisse lash lengthener has its fans and detractors
- 'The Talented Miss Highsmith' by Joan Schenkar
- Autism: Kids put at risk
- What to do now that the COBRA subsidy is ending
- Autism: Kids put at risk
- Generic meds, pharmacists and how they affect patients
- Bruins' bowl chances come down to Army-Navy
- Iraq lawmakers approve election law
- A 29-0 run carries Cavaliers past Bucks, 101-86
- USC beats UCLA for water polo title
- Cal State budget cuts; recycling centers being closed; the options in Afghanistan
- Outside groups shatter spending record in L.A. City Council race
- China turns to Madison Avenue for an image makeover
- Chicago man accused in Mumbai terror attacks
- U.S. sees homegrown Muslim extremism as rising threat
- Mike Reid went from game plans to song sheets
- Assembly Democrats go public with battle over next speaker
- When Islamist foreign policies hurt Muslims
- Pumping up the color at O.C. Great Park
- Farmers Insurance to lay off 200 by end of year
- Stem the flow of blood diamonds from Zimbabwe
- On shaky ground with alternative treatments to autism
- Weekend box-office results
- Roadrunners lose big at Oregon State, 74-39
- Women's AP top 25 results for Sunday
- Christine Essel for L.A.'s 2nd District City Council seat
- Secret Service cites 91 gate-crashers since 1980
- Lakers great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar encouraged by Andrew Bynum's progress
- Obama finalizes 'endangerment finding' on global warming
- Students, security forces face off in Tehran
- PROFILE: The Rev. Canon Mary D. Glasspool
- Victims' rights works both ways
- Copenhagen climate talks will hinge on economics
- Athan Atsales' two-minute drill
- L.A. Episcopal diocese's selection of lesbian bishop draws sharp Anglican rebuke
- Dodgers' shortage of arms could be cause for alarm
- Knicks end Nets' win 'streak' -- at one
- Jim Furyk has a big finish at Sherwood
- Lakers are a glare to the Suns
- Alabama No. 1 in BCS standings
- EARLY BIRD: Bouchon Beverly Hills
- Marines find arms caches in Taliban region
- Kennedy Center Honors unite D.C. for a night
- PASSINGS: Warren Vanderschuit, Eva Szorenyi, Eric Woolfson, Robert Kendall, Vyacheslav Tikhonov
- Battle for Diedrich Coffee heats up
- Robert Gates says Afghanistan withdrawal will be gradual
- PASSINGS: Eric Woolfson, Warren Vanderschuit, Eva Szorenyi, Robert Kendall, Vyacheslav Tikhonov
- A Lakers burst finishes the Suns
- Top 25 boys' basketball rankings
- Men's AP top 25 results for Sunday
- In defense of monogamy
- Pros' picks: Best fitness devices
- Four autism treatments that worry physicians
- Autism therapies can get undeserved credit
- Santa Muerte in L.A.: A gentler vision of 'Holy Death'
- Acne Medication Requires Persistence
- Acne medication requires persistence
- One side effect of an illness can be a loss of friends
- Colts keep winning, regular as clockwork
- Plug-in hybrids have miles to go for widespread use
- Rotation is key to success for Angels
- Bowl games announced
- Mercedes to sponsor AEG arena in China
- Live: Airborne Toxic Event at Walt Disney Concert Hall
- PROFILE: The Rev. Canon Diane M. Jardine Bruce
- Improbable rallies by New Orleans and Oakland accent the day
- Democrats would do right to do right by Abel Maldonado
- Ted Haggard returns to the pulpit in Colorado
- Monday's TV Talk Shows: 'Tavis Smiley' welcomes Rev. Jesse Jackson
- Summer football practices showed signs of what was to come
- L.A. shines at Mexican book fair
- Not your usual seasonal sounds
- Horoscope: Dec. 7
- Canned juices and Alzheimer's disease: Are they linked?
- Los Angeles warily awaits rain
- Indonesia bans film about 1975 killings
- The fight's back in John McCain
- Paula Hawkins dies at 82; Senator backed family issues but bucked women's caucus
- One-sided chest strengthener on a roller
- Bouchon Beverly Hills info
- Pharmacists have the right medicine
- Ravens are giving it a wild-card chase
- Monday's TV Highlights: 'Alice' concludes on Syfy
- Senate healthcare talks pick up pace
- Up next for the Kings: Monday against Calgary
- Ducks come up short again in shootout
- $10 million is smuggled out of Afghanistan daily, official says
- Obama finalizes 'endangerment finding' on global warming
- Icy conditions close Grapevine as Southland braces for cold and snow
- 'The Talented Miss Highsmith' by Joan Schenkar
- 1st of 3 rainstorms hit Southland; Interstate 5 is closed through the Grapevine
- Humanists launch a godless holiday campaign
- Video game voice actors worry they're getting shortchanged
- If trainers could choose just one gadget
- The BCS system worked as well as it could
- L.A. council members want city attorney to resolve probe of Michael Jackson memorial
- Charlie Weis' comments on USC's Pete Carroll stir up a Web storm
- Chelation based on faulty premise
- Climate talks need unity of purpose, not sniping
- Party video turns up on YouTube, and Mom's mad
- Bengals...23 Lions...13
- One-Sided Chest Strengthener On A Roller
- Come on, it's just acne
- Questionable autism approaches
- All the lonely people
- UCLA puts up a fight but ends up with a loss
- What to do now that the COBRA subsidy is ending
- 'Blind Side' makes her a fan again
- California lottery results
- Alabama and Texas to meet in BCS title game
- Alabama atop Harris poll
- 'Blind Side' hits No. 1 as 'Up in the Air' soars
- PASSINGS: Alfred Hrdlicka
- A theory for toddlers' turbo-charged learning style
- Trojans headed to the Emerald Bowl
- Improved TARP forecast could mean $200 billion to help create jobs
- Internal breakup at TCW gets ugly
- Lottery results
- Pearl Harbor mini-submarine mystery solved?
- Latisse lash lengthener has its fans and detractors
- Steve Meltzer dies at 56; puppeteer opened center in Santa Monica
- PHOTOS: Storm arrives in Southland
- Getting serious about Hollywood, Discovery taps Peter Liguori as chief operating officer
- 'Californication': Playing nice
- Boys' basketball: New rankings
- 'Dexter': 'Hello, Dexter Morgan'
- Bailout cost estimate is shrinking
- Monday's TV Highlights: 'Alice' concludes on SyFy
- Monday's TV Talk Shows: 'Tavis Smiley' welcomes Rev. Jesse Jackson
- Former UCLA track coach Bob Larsen wins major award
- Theater review: David Mamet's 'Race' on Broadway
- Football: Colton running back picks Oregon
- Lakers vs. Suns: Lakers win ... again
- Opera review: 'Barber of Seville' at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
- USC football: A fan's look back at the Arizona game
- UCLA football: Bruins could land in EagleBank Bowl
- Music Review: John Adams goes for ecstasy in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's West Coast, Left Coast festival
- Girls' basketball: The Mater Dei Hoops Classic begins Monday
- TCW bond fund managers quit after firm ousts investment chief
- Jim Furyk shoots 67 to win Tiger Woods' tournament
- UCLA basketball: Bruins trail No. 1 Kansas at halftime
- 'Alice' goes down the rabbit hole tonight on SyFy