- Mexican drug lord on Forbes list of richest, with $1 billion
- U.K.'s Barbican to be transformed by Venezuela's maestro, Dudamel
- Appiphilia: iPhone finally gets an American Idol app
- Papelbon calls Manny Ramirez 'a cancer'
- Ethnicity matters in detecting steroid use
- Ramirez to debut as Dodgers' designated hitter
- Baseball: Mater Dei-Capistrano Valley showdown set
- Madoff
- Softball: Banning coach is fired
- Softball: Wednesday scores
- Opinion: Iraqi who threw shoe at Bush gets 3 years in jail, leaves courtroom smiling
- Your morning adorable: Buddy the Surf Dog
- Around the Web 3.12.09: Robo-gardeners, Google Voice and Hulu friends
- Opinion: Feds now target Ruth Madoff, who claims $70 million hers to keep
- Ease accounting rules for banks? Let's look a little closer
- Spring pickings, and an invitation
- Baseball: Wednesday's scores
- Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines
- Big second half propels Stanford past Oregon State in Pac-10 tourney
- 'Twilight' fans, beware: The third film just got a LOT creepier
- Lamborghini dealer to plead guilty to wire fraud
- Survey finds most women in L.A. County jail are repeat offenders
- Criminal complaint filed against carpet cleaner
- California insurance regulators add another obstacle for parents of autistic children
- L.A. County studying how others bill for detained youths
- Inyo planners OK pumping of aquifer
- Irvine-based Fisker will run its plug-in on Canadian batteries
- Creating a fantasy world for 'Phoebe in Wonderland'
- Washington State has zero problem with Oregon
- Opinion: After 148 years Abraham Lincoln's watch gives up a secret even he didn't know
- SYRIA: Damascus getting courted from all sides
- KB Home to offer Disney-themed rooms in new homes
- Opinion: As Mexico's drug wars rage, Obama lowers U.S. drug czar's job
- Perata lawyer alleges improper conduct in new federal probe
- Civic Center park takes shape in L.A.
- California panel urges 'immediate action' to protect from rising sea levels
- Opinion: At jet speed, Pentagon averts comment on Pelosi plane pranks
- Fisker picks Advanced Lithium Power to make batteries
- Plan could lead to reopening of King hospital
- So much is couched there
- Rashomon justice
- An open debate on Israel
- Fixing foster care in California
- Crash of speeding Ferrari kills mixed martial arts figure Charles Lewis
- 'Joseph P. Kennedy Presents' by Cari Beauchamp
- John Waters inflicts his taste on the world
- Diane Keaton puts out another 'for sale' sign
- L.A.'s Westside -- trouble in paradise
- Leon Howell dies at 73; author and essayist was last editor of Christianity and Crisis
- A Bush 'truth commission': the pros and cons
- Chef Mark Peel sells Windsor Square home for $3.25 million
- Jack White's newest stripe
- On Twitter, mindcasting is the new lifecasting
- Lawmakers introduce biogenerics bill
- Pakistan bans protests in political crackdown
- Wade's 32 carries Heat past Celtics
- Lamar Odom expresses displeasure with NBA suspension
- Federal job discrimination complaints hit record
- Bristol Palin, fiance call off engagement
- Israel isn't off-limits
- Bryant is true to his word
- So much is couched there
- Narrow defeat for wilderness preservation
- UCLA Film & Television Archive Festival of Preservation returns
- China exports plummet a record 25.7% in February
- Obama and Europe are having their first spat, over money
- No benefit to motorists in a 'hot fuel' fix, state panel says
- No. 2 Federer shows he counts
- Alabama gunman recalled as 'friendly with everyone'
- Northridge weathers storms
- Jack White's latest stripe
- Icahn, lions gate: it's war
- Manny Ramirez will make his spring debut Thursday
- My identity theft crisis
- Washington State advances
- Madoff investors await his plea
- Syracuse advances to face Connecticut
- Hawks' films flew (unless they fell)
- A-list stars push for new attempt at SAG contract
- Deleting the paper from mail
- Stocks fluctuate as trading resumes after rally
- Afghan journalist once held by U.S. is killed
- Northern Ireland stands united despite killings
- 'Mask' dies in Ferrari crash
- There's trouble, even in paradise
- Venezuela gets past the U.S., 5-3
- When push comes to shove for the Lakers
- Salute to the Warners
- U.S.-Somali youths aren't seen as big risk
- Margaret Hamburg said to be Obama's pick to head the FDA
- USC has clear path to NCAAs
- Brown opts out of awards
- Breaking into snow business
- At this fish market, some tourists stink
- Akognon's 37 points lead Fullerton to victory
- 'Psycho'
- Six Flags at risk for a bankruptcy filing
- Man dies from eating wild fungi
- Despite gun laws, Germany not immune to school shootings
- Tariq Aziz guilty in 1992 killing of Iraqi merchants
- Students from outside Beverly Hills can remain in city schools
- Carlyle gets some support
- Dodgers should go after Martinez
- 'The Jester'
- Chairman of ailing Continental Bank
- Sea encounter prompts vow
- Author was the last editor of Christianity and Crisis
- They're well-versed in hard times
- Rashomon justice
- The Kennedy who tamed Tinseltown
- Obama vows tougher financial regulations while pressing nations on stimulus
- Coleman vs. Franken winds down in court
- Fairfax, Westchester meet again, with lots at stake
- Lindsey Vonn becomes the first American woman to win the World Cup overall title twice
- Candace Parker could be the next big thing
- Texas or bust
- Obama outlines his goals for earmark reform
- Profiting from, and solving, the crisis
- UCLA goes into Pac-10 tournament as avengers
- U2 album's hard landing
- 'Grand' isn't the word for it
- Freddie Mac seeks $30.8 billion in aid after fourth-quarter loss
- Obama says NASA is off course
- All the Manny words of Ramirez
- Kevin Jepsen looks forward to big league role
- Hunger pangs
- John Waters inflicts his taste on the world
- Big L.A. landlord in dire straits
- Activist was 'the father of joint custody'
- Fixing foster care
- Low-level ozone exposure found to be lethal over time
- Trip was a shattering experience
- UCLA, USC will have to play in
- Plan could lead to reopening of King-Harbor Medical Center
- Even the rich got poorer in 2008
- Progress and potential
- WORLD BRIEFING / GERMANY
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / NORTHRIDGE
- Call for justice
- WORLD BRIEFING / EGYPT
- Judging policy
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / WEST COVINA
- RESULTS
- FOREIGN EXCHANGE
- NATIONAL BRIEFING / MINNESOTA
- WEB SCOUT
- Stepping up on human rights
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / OXNARD
- NATIONAL BRIEFING / WASHINGTON, D.C.
- ...
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / ANAHEIM
- Barking out orders
- BUSINESS BRIEFING / TECHNOLOGY
- NATIONAL BRIEFING / PENNSYLVANIA
- NATIONAL BRIEFING / WASHINGTON, D.C.
- Giant Robot store closing in Silver Lake
- Racetrack's future unfolds
- IDOL TRACKER: Results
- PASSINGS / Ernest Trova
- BUSINESS BRIEFING / COURTS
- Today's games
- Costly trips are not OK
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES
- BUSINESS BRIEFING / INTERNET
- WORLD BRIEFING / AUSTRALIA
- BUSINESS BRIEFING / RETAIL
- BUSINESS BRIEFING / ENVIRONMENT
- BUSINESS BRIEFING / TECHNOLOGY
- On Twitter, mindcasting is the new lifecasting
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / SANTA MARIA
- PASSINGS / Anna Manahan
- WORLD BRIEFING / KYRGYZSTAN
- NATIONAL BRIEFING / NEW YORK
- PASSINGS / Flemming Flindt
- Today's other games
- Tribune Co.'s Zell questioned by feds
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- Greenspan again finds the Fed blameless in housing bubble
- 'The Chopping Block': 'I don't want to do this anymore'
- L.A. Times writers take a stab at the Pac-10 bracket
- San Francisco Zoo's baby gorilla gets a name: Hasani
- Gray wolf to lose federal endangered species protection in most of U.S.
- "America's Next Top Model": Makeovers -- "Keep it cute or put it on mute"
- Lakers get visit from Horry
- World's billionaire club falls 30%, Forbes says in annual tally
- PASSINGS
- Collison Continues to Recover
- Report: Love briefly seduced to agency by ex-Duke star
- HBO apologizes for, defends controversial 'Big Love' episode
- David G. Taylor dies at 79; chairman of foundering Continental Illinois Bank in '80s
- James Cook dies at 85; fathers' rights advocate helped write joint custody law
- On Our Blogs: Fishing limits, Alaskan predators and rising sea levels
- Tom Hanks helps jump-start back-channel actor contract talks
- IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN: 'Good medicine, bad places'
- Obama reportedly nominates NYC's Hamburg to FDA post
- 'Diggnation' co-hosts talk online video, Twitter on 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon'
- Brock Lesnar-Frank Mir fight postponed from UFC 98
- Opinion: Earmark this! They ain't gonna end, as Obama (and McCain) well know
- Stop 'vilifying' executives, JPMorgan's CEO pleads
- Baseball: Newbury Park improves to 3-0
- L.A. Phil and London's Barbican strike a deal
- PFW: Karl Lagerfeld sticks to the Chanel playbook
- Best 'Star Trek' ever?
- Oregon State coach has edge in any bench-clearing brawl
- Ken Shamrock suspended for steroids
- Stanford's Kenny Brown has his senior moments
- UCLA, USC have slight edge, Cal coach says
- WebClawer: Monkey kills owner with coconut, rats fix mouse problem in India, octopus fails at crabbing
- Lakers start Powell
- Pastry lover's itinerary
- Baseball: Father isn't always right
- Yoga and wine -- the ultimate fusion?
- Track: Notre Dame has a freshman standout
- Geffen Playhouse drops a musical, gains a play
- On Twitter, mindcasting is the new lifecasting
- Andrew Kamenetzky: Manny Ramirez, Casey Blake bobbleheads alert
- Vonn looks for new hills to conquer
- Tapout founder Charles 'Mask' Lewis dies in Ferrari crash
- Day in the life of Rachael Flatt. Whew.
- U2's 'Horizon' sales bring band back to Earth
- Opinion: Your Joe Biden quip of the day, in front of the new drug czar
- FPA funds' Rodriguez plans to take a leave from the firm
- Westside resources
- RapeLay: Sleazier than any Hollywood horror film?
- For stocks, the lack of a selling swarm counts as a win
- D-Town Burger Bar opens in downtown L.A.
- Sampler Platter: Cupcake burgers, waffles and catfish
- 2010 Olympic track's unlucky Curve 13 gives sledders a 50-50 chance
- Chaya downtown opening early next week to general public
- Do you smoke? Exercise? Use a cellphone?
- Opinion: Obama sends the wrong message to Congress
- Another (not Lance, not Levi) American cyclist wins
- States put their home financing operations in the deep freeze
- Santino the stone-throwing chimp isn't the only ape who plans ahead
- Recession Busters: Cost of Luau's Recession Punch dips along with Dow
- He brought 'One Shining Moment' to NCAA
- This week's L.A. Times recipes
- Media uproar over Endeavor-William Morris merger talks
- Washington's Jon Brockman gets revenge on heckler
- Screening for early ovarian cancer has improved
- Congress to wilderness planners: Not so fast ...
- Party's in full swing at Saluté -- but is it enough?
- Memorial service for Charles "Mask" Lewis Jr.
- Lindsey Vonn captures downhill title, overall World Cup title
- Belbin and Agosto ready for testing
- Belbin and Agosto ready for testing
- 'Twilight' turning darker? Horror director may take over vamp franchise
- Source: TapouT founder 'Mask' killed in Newport Beach crash
- How many books do you read at once?
- The not-so-thirsty tamarisk
- You won't hear about Maximilians on Twitter -- but it's still a find
- Kimberly Ovitz trunk show at Satine
- 'The City': Breaking up is easy to do (when you have it on tape)
- The 'hidden homeless'
- NBC's Tom Brokaw hits the road in search of American characters
- Boys' basketball: Taft's Taylor ready for King challenge
- Capital punishment statistics
- Opinion: In Wednesday's Letters to the editor
- By the classic measure, a 'depression' still seems far off
- FIRST LOOK: 'The Unwrittten' from Vertigo
- Kelvim Escobar, Mike Napoli making progress recovering from injuries
- Baseball: Lots of upsets in tournament play
- Opinion: Trouble in paradise: Democratic House leaders cool to Obama's earmark reform -- read full text here
- The challenge: Eating on a tight budget
- Greenpeace energy report projects cheap, clean power -- and more jobs
- ISRAEL: First rocket-free play center
- Hostages' stories fill bookshelves in Colombia
- Opinion: In today's pages: Budgets, Bashir and research-bashers
- Your morning adorable: Baby Basset hound
- Brazil sets up women's ministry
- Around the Web 3.11.09: A smaller iPod Shuffle, targeted Google ads, supersized banner ads
- Builders struggle to compete with foreclosures
- Marco Pierre White: Food world's first 'rock star'
- Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines
- Softball: Tuesday scores
- SAUDI ARABIA: Elderly woman to be lashed for mingling with men
- Jim Cramer is firing back at Jon Stewart
- Opinion: Ron Paul defends earmarks, says anti-pork McCain is just grandstanding
- Baseball: Tuesday's scores
- Giant Robot Silverlake's closing sale
- Sun archives: Aubrey Huff
- UCLA defined by simple question: hot or not?
- Carrying someone else's dream
- Live-in caretaker charged with financial elder abuse, fraud and forgery
- Finances of charity run by SEIU official scrutinized
- Couple's attempt to do the right thing brings more grief
- Kent Twitchell's "lost" mural of Michael Jackson to go public
- Opinion: Stocks rise; Obama orders nation to eat, dress the same today: Leno
- Batman and Superman fight to the death!
- LAX may not meet deadline for federal safety standards, report says