- Children's Books 2009: With a reluctant young reader, the grosser the better
- Military deaths
- Servite avenges loss to Edison to win Pac-5 title
- Casino group wants to set up Internet poker sites and share revenue with cash-strapped state
- Ray Bradbury's '2116' debuts at long last
- The great retreat
- Spots to see, skip in Vancouver, Whistler
- With Joey Greco of 'Cheaters'
- It's a first for the Kings
- Pakistan looks at militant as key to Americans' journey
- A Tudor estate in Hancock Park
- Foreclosure is harshest way to collect delinquent homeowner's dues
- The best of Word Play in 2009
- Ski resorts upgrade and refine to attract vacationers
- Homes in Burbank for less than $600,000
- Readers recommend: Langass Lodge in Scotland
- A holiday book list for the fashion-minded
- War casualties
- Landon Donovan possibly considering winter loan to Everton
- New Orleans latest NFL franchise to make U-turn
- What Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth have to say
- Magical memories of growing up in Palm Springs
- Men's AP top 25 results for Saturday
- Bloggers share their tips for frugal living
- 'Folly -- The View From Nowhere' info
- GALLERIES
- Maury Yeston knew he could count on 'Nine'
- For Esa-Pekka Salonen, it's been 'a tough year'
- Vitali Klitschko defeats Kevin Johnson by unanimous decision
- Southern California storms begin to subside
- 'Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children' by Conn Iggulden
- Architectural follies at MOCA Pacific Design Center
- Debating the state of the Los Angeles theater scene
- 'The Complete Fairy Tales' by Charles Perrault
- Beauty gifts sure to be on her holiday wish list
- Hunger in California
- Jason Bay rejects latest Red Sox offer
- Women's AP top 25 results for Saturday
- Warning signs are missed by social workers, and two children die at home
- 2 unions vie for the right to represent airport screeners
- Use an inheritance wisely
- Gifts that actually might make the trip
- Bill Moyers: a thoughtful voice amid the din
- Wisconsin lawmakers wave flag for bacterium
- Cuba detains U.S. contractor handing out electronics
- USC's Stafon Johnson reportedly intends to turn pro
- Loyola Marymount wins at Notre Dame
- Gillette phasing out its advertising with Woods
- Sarah Ferguson produces, and protects, 'The Young Victoria'
- Oscar contenders look a lot like last year's
- It's like Sam Bowie experience for Trail Blazers
- Fighting a preexisting condition: greed
- Indonesian village's environmental dilemma weighs on the world
- Beauty gifts sure to be on her holiday wish list
- Ski resorts upgrade and refine to attract vacationers
- Listing details: 336 S. Hudson Ave., Los Angeles
- Mike Dunleavy won't confirm report of trade offers for Marcus Camby
- When California denies a murderer parole, should it need a reason?
- Crenshaw defeats Narbonne for L.A. City title, 34-14
- Frank talk with Lady Gaga
- Holiday style gift guide, A to Z
- Setting sail for Europe
- Sea lions saved by Chicago aquarium
- Children's books 2009: It's all good! says Jon Scieszka
- Eagles' Reid has staying power
- Alabama's Mark Ingram wins Heisman Trophy
- L.A. Latinos celebrate a patron saint and a culture
- Lost dream restored to Japanese American family
- Obama doctrine emerges in Oslo speech
- 'The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics' by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly
- Stocking stuffers with style
- Consumer Briefing
- 8 arrested in attack on home of UC Berkeley chancellor
- A look at the Senate's healthcare compromise
- More favorite Vancouver restaurants
- L.A. airport agency re-interviews candidates for supervisor position
- Eco books for kids: Saving the planet, one book at a time
- Vancouver's smorgasbord of cuisines
- A hand made for aggressive play
- Break bad shopping habits to avoid a debt hangover
- Sunday's TV Highlights: Season finales of 'Californification' and 'Dexter' on Showtime
- Horoscope for Dec. 13
- The underlying mystery of 'The Headless Woman'
- Stuff that stocking with style
- A younger Ann Taylor
- Stargazing party planned in Costa Rica
- With time and help, a mom may learn to conquer anger
- An ill wind may be blowing in Chicago for Coach Vinny Del Negro
- Houston elects first openly gay mayor
- For the record - Dec. 13, 2009
- For the record - Dec. 13, 2009
- MOVIES - Dec. 13, 2009
- Football: What now?
- Football: Fox Sports West releases statement on Servite-Edison broadcast
- Sunday's poll: When will Tiger Woods return to the PGA Tour?
- Opinion: From Proposition 8 to Maine and John Perez to Annise Parker, it's an uneven year for gay politics
- Football: Servite is Pac-5 champion
- Football: Servite gets another touchdown
- Pacquiao promoter: Dallas' $25-million offer isn't final
- Boys' basketball: Game ends on shattered backboard
- Football: Edison gets on the scoreboard
- Football: Edison nearly misses opportunity
- Football: Edison misses 45-yard field goal
- Football: Rain affects Prime Ticket broadcast for Servite-Edison game
- 'Avatar' weekend roundup and fearless predictions
- Football: Servite leading 10-0 in third quarter
- Football: Edison opens second half with three-and-out
- Football: Some halftime stats for Servite & Edison to consider
- Opinion: Houston picks conservative Annise Parker as mayor, first lesbian to head a major American city
- Football: Servite has 3-0 halftime lead
- Boys' basketball: L.A. University wins fifth in last six games
- Football: Servite is getting its kicks
- Football: Third time is not the charm
- Football: Servite's second field goal attempt is no good
- Football: Early signs not good for Edison
- Football: Weather dictating its course in Servite-Edison game
- Sunday's TV Highlights: Season finales of 'Californification' and 'Dexter' on Showtime
- Timothy Bradley beats Lamont Peterson by decision
- Football: Crenshaw celebrates being 14-0
- Football: Anaheim Servite & Edison preparing for wet field conditions
- Terry Murray: Kings will miss Wayne Simmonds
- Boys' basketball: Harvard-Westlake wins
- REVIEW: 'Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin' by Pierre Assouline
- Lakers vs. Jazz in-game report
- UCLA football: Does Temple of doom await Bruins in bowl?
- Football: Crenshaw is City Section champion
- Football: Crenshaw makes fourth-down stop
- Football: Davis gets second touchdown run
- Reader photo of the day: Oggie the dog has a mud bath
- Football: Thomas has big run for Crenshaw
- Football: Crenshaw starting to pull away
- Football: Narbonne gets fumble recovery
- UCLA basketball: Halftime report
- Clippers' Baron Davis misses Saturday's practice
- Football: Crenshaw holds 21-7 halftime lead
- Football: Crenshaw takes 21-7 lead
- Football: Crenshaw takes 14-7 lead
- Football: Narbonne ties it up, 7-7
- Football: Narbonne makes fourth-down stop
- Football: Hall gets interception for Crenshaw
- Football: Crenshaw leads 7-0 after first quarter
- Football: Douglas gets interception for Narbonne
- Football: Controversial call goes against Narbonne
- Football: Crenshaw scores on first drive
- Football: Small-time atmosphere at City final
- Kings' Wayne Simmonds to be out 'for a while' because of lower-body injury
- UCLA football: Forbath earns another All-American honor
- Football: Crenshaw's Garrett is dressed for success
- Opinion: Sunday shows: Romney, Romer, Warner, Gregg
- Gifts for Cooks: Panettone for Christmas
- Football: The scene is set for City Division I final
- Esa-Pekka Salonen moves on, not so smoothly
- Mexico City authorities free a dozen more slave workers
- Source: Dallas Cowboys owner offers $25 million for Mayweather-Pacquiao
- China loves the end of the world: '2012' on track to be highest-grossing U.S. film ever there
- Santa Clarita farmers market: almonds, Princess raisins, citrus and more
- Great health gift books are in the eye of the beholder. What's in your eye?
- 'Knitting with Dog Hair' and other unfortunate book titles
- Women in NASCAR
- Boys' basketball: Friday's scores
- Girls' basketball: Friday's scores
- 'Dollhouse' double: 'Meet Jane Doe/A Love Supreme,' and the awesome Alpha
- Football: Oceanside could be headed to bowl game
- MOCA's monumental folly at Pacific Design Center*
- Football: A changing of the guard in Westlake Village
- Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: Date night at UNICEF
- What's in the water?
- CB Richard Ellis to market $2 billion in state buildings
- Andrea Bocelli returns to Southern California in time for the holidays
- Gifts for Cooks: Movie and a dinner
- Herceptin therapy should start during chemotherapy, study says
- Tree of the Week: Hybrid chitalpa, available in two varieties
- From the Archives: Hugh Hefner's life pushing boundaries started with comics
- Opinion: Weekly remarks: Obama vows more financial regulations; GOP sees national energy tax in his plans
- Westlake quarterbacks Nick Isham & Justin Moore share emotional experience
- Boys' basketball: Palisades defeats Cleveland
- Christmas Tree Lane continues to glow in Altadena
- 'Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin' by Pierre Assouline
- PASSINGS: Rose Kaufman, Herbert J. Miller Jr., Robert Allan Crane, Edmund Lindop
- Alejandro R. Ruiz Sr. dies at 85; WWII vet received the Medal of Honor
- Rob Schneider's on the move
- From the Archives: Henrik Fisker: Moving, rapidly, into the future
- Universal Pictures asks producers to trim costs
- Is this Lakers team the NBA's best ever? Not by a three-pointer
- Dodgers cry foul over Jeff Fuller's Taiwan trip
- 'Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin' by Pierre Assouline
- Men's AP top 25 results for Friday
- Long Beach development chief put on paid leave
- Chaparral beats top-seeded Vista Murrieta for title
- Mayor heads for an urban climate summit
- Suns hold off the Magic, 106-103
- Jury sides with Larry Flynt over use of his name
- Designers give folding chairs unique touch
- Massive financial reform passes House
- U.S. signals new sanctions against Iran
- Joel Rosario ties track record for winners
- Horoscope: Dec. 12
- The Christmas tree rental
- Weekend Talk Shows: President Obama is interviewed on '60 Minutes'
- Tonight's Southland college basketball schedule
- Tiger Woods admits infidelity, announces break from golf
- Rep. Maxine Waters gets message across on economic, minority issues
- Battle in L.A.'s bond world
- Eco-friendly driveway
- Authorities investigating shooting death of attorney examine 2005 case
- Arizona sheriff ups the ante against his foes
- Fourth quarter crucial in Clippers' games
- Unical Aviation moving to a bigger space in City of Industry
- Country singer Toby Keith pulls for 'our team'
- Henrik Fisker's cars roar into the future
- National Briefing
- Virginia mosque grapples with young members' arrest in Pakistan
- Rockets hand 76ers their 12th straight loss, 96-91
- Up next for Lakers: Saturday at Utah
- California students underutilize School Breakfast Program
- Judge rules against landmark 2003 state water pact
- Previews of prep football championship games
- Maywood City Council rebuffs ex-colleague Calderon
- Peewee daffodils: The coquette of the garden
- Up next for the Ducks: Saturday at Columbus
- Servite quarterback Cody Fajardo's reality exceeds his dreams
- Metrolink's chief executive takes a demotion
- America's eco-friendly Christmas tree
- Field will be dampened, but what about Trojans' spirits?
- The overhaul bill's goals at a glance
- Antiwar movement fighting burnout and awkwardness
- ICE agents arrest 286 in crackdown on criminal immigrants in California
- 'Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin'
- Women's AP top 25 results for Friday
- Holiday hooch and December daze
- NHL regrets having suspended Ducks owner Henry Samueli
- Rob Schneider's on the move
- The business of Facebook
- FirstFed Financial CEO Babette Heimbuch to resign
- Tiger Woods' path to redemption has been blazed by many who preceded him
- Alejandro R. Ruiz Sr. dies at 85; WWII vet received the Medal of Honor
- NBC Universal renews deal with production firm BermanBraun
- Up next for USC: Dec. 19 vs. Tennessee
- Tips on updating homes
- Foes of California's gay-marriage ban lose federal appeal
- Luxury shoppers still spending, but shelling out less
- 90 vehicles stranded on muddy Angeles Crest Highway
- Skateboarders at Watts Towers
- Saturday's TV Highlights:
- Live: Morrissey at the Gibson Amphitheatre
- Fresh takes
- Letters: They saw it coming at USC
- State speeds up payments to 121,000 long-term jobless Californians
- Christmas Tree Lane continues to glow in Altadena
- Surgeon/cop straddles two worlds of violence
- Being frugal is back in fashion
- The silliness of Climategate
- Slain police officer is laid to rest in hometown
- Bungalow gets modern makeover inside
- Boxer Andre Ward lets his fists do the talking
- Little shop of horrible hours
- Jazz can't get any worse
- Pedro Almodovar's 'Broken Embraces' gets personal
- Crenshaw High offensive linemen stand together
- A major decision for Tiger Woods
- Kurt Rambis sees the other side
- PASSINGS: Rose Kaufman, Herbert J. Miller Jr., Robert Allan Crane, Edmund Lindop
- Lakers' Luke Walton returns to action -- as a radio commentator
- Business Briefing
- Bobbie Kirkhart: Atheists United's chief nonbeliever
- Top U.N. official in Afghanistan to leave
- Businesspeople join the ranks of climate treaty proponents
- Hugh Hefner's life is a cartoon
- 'The People Speak'
- Logging illogic
- UCLA faces Mississippi State in Wooden Classic
- A night to remember a child lost forever
- Lamont Peterson tries to go from the streets to a title
- Pakistani leader Zardari is on shaky ground
- Gardena Serra defeats Westlake Village Oaks Christian, 42-41
- 5 new Christmas tales on cable neatly tied up with a bow
- Humanists and the holidays; tours of L.A. gang spots; healthcare and 'alternative' treatments
- Up next for Kings: Saturday vs. Dallas
- Science Briefing
- Retail sales increase for start of the holiday season
- The Tide has turned, and Alabama fans are feeling feisty
- India's 29th state could lead to many more
- 'The People Speak'
- May all your Christmases be . . . purple
- Stanley Chais target of federal criminal investigation
- A bad bioweapons decision
- Polanski film gets distributor in U.S.
- Germany shows government role is key to thriving solar industry
- Wolski nets winner in shootout to help Colorado beat Tampa Bay, 2-1
- Greek mythology makes movie and TV comeback
- Lakers win 11th in row, but Kobe Bryant breaks a finger
- Rain in the Southland
- For the record - Dec. 12, 2009
- USC basketball: Trojans top Bengals, face No. 9 Tennessee next
- Boys' basketball: Loyola defeats Bishop Montgomery
- La Mirada rallies to take Southern Division title
- Football: Friday's final scores
- Final: Gardena Serra 42, Oaks Christian 41
- Opinion: Surprising Sarah Palin shows up on Conan O'Brien's show, wreaks revenge on William Shatner
- Malcolm Jones scores first in OT