- Gas prices jump in California, nationwide
- Soros sees economic stimulus measures 'starting to work'
- Hot Property: 'Dawson's Creek' actor lists Studio City home for sale
- McG will be in Santa Monica on Tuesday for 'Terminator' preview and Q&A
- 'Star Trek' hits mother lode: almost $3 million above estimate
- The gym world may not be so fit: Crunch files for Chapter 11
- Walk this way: A new approach to cardiac rehab
- More details on H1N1, courtesy of Science
- Viewers doing a 180 on Anderson Cooper's '360'
- Promoter: Boxing commission ills cost fighter $1,000
- Pope Benedict XVI in Israel
- Critics Notebook: Chamber music steps outside the concert hall
- Golf: Servite's Cantlay fires eight-under 64
- Junk food and schools: Readers respond
- Opinion: Wanda Sykes sees the humor of 9/11; White House not
- Trying to keep its momentum, Ford plans a stock offering
- BottleRock Downtown: Sneak Peek
- Nate Silver takes score on Americans' changing driving habits
- Dining in the dark
- Football: Watson, Bennett get scholarship offers
- Opinion: In today's pages: California break-down, Long Beach build-up, plus the pope, the flu and the court
- Swimming: Division IV preliminaries moved
- Top 10 vintage Batman toys, for your inner Boy Wonder
- Girls' lacrosse: Cate advances to championship
- Frank Gehry gets more love from 'The Simpsons'
- Boys' basketball: St. Anthony hires Morrison
- EW on Adam Lambert: Does it matter whether or not he's gay?
- Football: Interest in San Clemente's Rettig heating up
- Ask Alana: Advice for a downturn
- FTC accuses lender of overcharging Latinos
- The Heidi Chronicles, Chapter 39: A star makeover from Artist Knox
- ISRAEL: Pope meets Holocaust survivors
- Oprah Winfrey in hot water with animal activists over KFC coupons
- Your morning adorable: Rabbit vs. pumpkin
- Salonen withdraws from N.Y. concerts, citing back problems*
- Orange County foreclosures: down but far from out
- Sears to offer 10% off discounts to seniors Tuesday
- Dan Baum's smart Twitter move
- Los Angeles BBQ Festival: Smoke in your eyes and yummy in your tummy
- Microsoft set to sell first long-term bonds
- 'Jon & Kate' is running late
- Store openings: The Colleagues expands the practice
- Boys' basketball: Avery is leaving Crespi for boarding school
- Opinion: Gays to Obama: Pick one of us for Supreme Court
- Sumatran orangutan Karta escapes her enclosure at Australia's Adelaide Zoo
- The Morning Fix: CW hurting, Hulu causing headaches, upfront will be downfront
- Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines
- Around the Web 5.11.09: 'Star Trek' gadgets, Hulu backlash, Craigslist pig pile
- Baseball: San Bernardino coach is facing sanctions
- HOUSTON 99 LAKERS 87
- Bonnie and Clyde: Romeo and Juliet with guns
- Opinion: Michael Steele's first 100 days as RNC chairman: oh brother
- Mexico's Museum of Drugs
- 'Brothers & Sisters': What happens in Mexico
- Opinion: Here We Go Again, Again
- Little attention paid to race for 2 seats on L.A. Community College board
- Random snacking takes bite out of freelancer's goals
- Daily Debate: Worst weekend no-show -- Manny or the Lakers?
- Opinion: Biden's Syracuse grad speech: 'Not the usual malarkey,' the H-word, Obama's dumb dog
- Leonard Nimoy: One more 'Trek' as the logical Spock
- Opinion: Report: John Edwards' aides had plotted to sabotage his campaign over affair
- Opinion: Documentaries, DVDs and Hollywood
- Documentarians, DVDs and the MPAA
- Venetia Phair dies at 90; as a girl, she named Pluto
- Folic acid is important, but take care not to overdo it
- Stephen Bruton dies at 60; Texas musician played with Kris Kristofferson, T Bone Burnett
- PASSINGS
- Folic acid might be losing its sheen
- A trip to Mexico's Museum of Drugs
- Khandi Alexander's home sells for $2.75 million
- One more trek as Spock
- A spirited adieu for a retiring ballerina
- E.G. Daily lists Hollywood Hills-area home at $2,499,999
- 'The Way Home' by George Pelecanos
- Farrah Fawcett: 'Under a microscope' and holding onto hope
- Stephen Bruton, 60; Texas musician played with Kris Kristofferson, T Bone Burnett
- Into the wrong hands
- more calories (than expected) + less exercise (than planned) = trouble
- Village Roadshow pays back Warner Bros. debt
- Wall Street puts retail activity front and center
- Double by Rasmus lifts the Cardinals
- Tie extends Galaxy streak
- Owner says Dodgers will thrive despite Manny Ramirez scandal
- The choice: Her life or her unborn child's?
- Let Long Beach build
- Redemption, and the journey to get there
- A trip to Mexico City's Museum of Drugs
- A bitter pill
- Do the math, lose weight
- Young first-time candidate roils race
- Angels complete sweep of the Royals
- Smith, Marta share spotlight in tie
- Apatow's film going a long way for laughs
- For Steele, it's 100 days and counting
- Quake activism quieted by China
- Hulu's tug of war with TV
- Pope encourages Christians in Middle East to persevere
- Where peafowl don't run afoul
- One more trek as the logical Spock
- New darling of Silver Lake
- Cheney sides with Limbaugh
- Figuring out the flu
- Pope Benedict XVI heads for Israel
- Johnny Damon's homer lifts Yankees
- Sorting out Weiss' donations
- Failure should be an option
- Latino voters -- jilted
- Griffey's home run leads the Mariners
- It's 'Big Baby' carriage as Celtics even series
- Lakers should be red-faced; instead they're seeing red
- As a girl, she suggested Pluto as planet's name
- Event planner gets lost in the work crunch
- States want erotic ads off Craigslist
- Santa Barbara's tweet music
- Defending Dawn Johnsen
- Bruins stay alive with win
- Baseball top 25 rankings
- Tennis' Gasquet tests positive for cocaine
- A vow to cut healthcare spending
- Buzzwords: Rephrasing Obama's lexicon
- Pakistanis stream from valley after curfew is lifted
- Stenson dominates final round to win
- Spirited adieu for retiring ballerina
- When it comes to this game, they get what they give
- Weekly roundup of the top five in each category:
- Last captured SLA member freed from prison
- Golf analyst apologizes to Pelosi, Reid for joke
- Vitamin, spice fight allergies
- 'Star Trek' boldly beams up $72.5 million in opening weekend
- Newest citizens reshape politics
- Pope brings a message of cooperation to Holy Land
- Odom injury an added cause for concern
- UCLA aims to raise funds for Pauley
- Diamondbacks outlast Nationals, 10-8
- No hiding her illness
- Folic acid might be losing sheen
- BRUSH CLEARING BLAMED FOR FIRE
- In Colorado, coyote protectors clash with a hired gun
- Torre on Manny: He's still beat up over this thing
- That lifestyle change could save you dollars
- On-the-go move
- Texting pioneer was a man of letters
- SEIU may be linked to ultimatum on withholding stimulus funds
- A new threat in Iraq: recession
- Turning California around
- Shields supports own case
- There's sweet uplift for the spirit
- Boy playing with toy gun is shot by sheriff's deputy
- Demand more from school, parents urged
- Jacob Zuma seeks to reassure with Cabinet picks
- Brothers have their act together
- The way forward
- Helm plays key role for Red Wings
- Taking part in a left-swing conspiracy
- Gatherings of the tribes
- Homecoming for some evacuees, heartbreak for others
- Listless play puts Ducks in a hole
- All-in-one bikes that rock 'n' roll
- WHAT WAS THAT?
- Mini E leases put electricity in air
- Filly makes move toward Preakness
- Better intelligence is needed after troops exit, Pelosi says
- Obama gets his digs in at correspondents' dinner
- OPERA REVIEW
- WORLD BRIEFING / AFGHANISTAN
- Picking apart a labored logic
- MUSIC REVIEW
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES
- Doctors and the dying
- WORLD BRIEFING / INDONESIA
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / ELYSIAN PARK
- PASSINGS / Evgenios Spatharis
- ART REVIEW
- WORLD BRIEFING / RUSSIA
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / SAUSALITO
- WORLD BRIEFING / CHINA
- Confidentially speaking
- PASSINGS / Linda Dangcil
- NATIONAL BRIEFING / WEST VIRGINIA
- Home sweet kindling
- WORLD BRIEFING / SOMALIA
- MUSIC REVIEW
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / CORONA
- NATIONAL BRIEFING / AND FINALLY . . .
- NATIONAL BRIEFING / ILLINOIS
- NATIONAL BRIEFING / FLORIDA
- A meal for mothers on their day
- For the Record - May 11, 2009
- From the Archives: One more trek as the logical Spock
- Lawyers seek reduced sentence for journalist jailed in Iran
- Sri Lankan army, Tamil Tigers trade blame over deadly attack
- 'Breaking Bad': Men
- Craft Beer Fest L.A. was hopping
- Leonard Nimoy: 'Star Trek' fans can be scary
- Baseball: West Ranch shortstop commits to UC Irvine
- New baseball rankings
- Review: Jacaranda concludes tribute to Messiaen in Santa Monica
- Baseball: Rutherford throws perfect game for Arcadia
- NFL flag football coming to Compton
- Opinion: So this Obama guy walks into a banquet and...(Media Laughter/Applause)
- Review: Long Beach Opera in the hull of the Queen Mary
- Baseball: Bishop Amat has one-two pitching punch
- Boys' basketball: It's Fairfax vs. Taft in spring basketball
- Boys' basketball: O'Connor could make college choice this week
- Tina LeBlanc's farewell to ballet
- Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic and Pacific Symphony on same wavelength
- Who should head the U.S. probe of the financial meltdown?
- Rockets 99, Lakers 87
- Baseball: Trouble for Burbank baseball program
- Being on the bubble is real TV suspense
- Opinion: Sykes blasts Limbaugh, defends Michelle Obama's right to bare arms
- ABC picks up its first drama for fall, 'Flash Forward'
- Social Status: Parry Gripp crafts catchy pop songs for silly YouTube videos
- JORDAN: Bedouins, prophets and a pope
- Ursula K. Le Guin's lasting appeal
- Huddleston wins first Late Model race of season at Irwindale
- EGYPT: State-owned media hail Obama's upcoming visit
- Softball: Saturday scores
- Baseball: Saturday scores
- 'Star Trek': Where no illustrator has gone before
- JORDAN: The Pope's Sunday homily
- Ballot measures
- 32nd Congressional District
- Corona man held in stabbing deaths of his 2 daughters
- Los Angeles Community College District
- Weiss and Trutanich find some common ground
- Voter guide information
- With Trutanich, San Pedro docks are home to a contender
- Three compete for California Senate seat in 26th District
- Schwarzenegger needs a boost, but his chances recede with the economy
- An insider and outsider contend for seat
- Who's that guy behind the wheel at the Huntington?
- HBO's 'Alzheimer's Project' series explores the disease
- Maria Shriver finds a community in 'The Alzheimer's Project'
- 'Dirty Dancing,' the mega-hit musical
- Ursula K. Le Guin's work still resonates with readers
- Board president should not also be legal counsel
- 'Go Down Together' by Jeff Guinn and 'Bonnie and Clyde' by Paul Schneider
- Demonstration on how to 'Pack Light, Pack Right'
- A socialite's world is Exhibit A
- 'The Last Olympian'
- Performances
- 'Finding Oz' by Evan I. Schwartz, 'Cheek by Jowl' by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Los Angeles Times bestsellers for May 10, 2009
- Accused of sexual abuse, but back in the classroom
- Female conductors crack the glass podium
- Sleuths in their youth
- Historic Avenel Cooperative project in Silver Lake has corner unit for sale
- Vegan wants ILVTOFU on license plate. 2BAD, state says.
- 'A Drifting Life' by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, translated from the Japanese by Taro Nettleton, edited, designed and lettered by Adrian Tomine
- Los Angeles Times bestsellers for May 10, 2009
- New FICO site helps borrowers seeking loan modifications
- Steve Gideon dies at 52; singer-actor starred in first gay version of 'Marry Me a Little'
- Book calendar
- A room of her own
- 'La Sylphide'
- 'Seven Tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds'; 'A Sandhills Ballad'
- 'Wanting: A Novel' by Richard Flanagan
- Schwarzenegger needs a boost, but his chances recede with the economy
- Military deaths
- Los Angeles Ballet works hard to reach the premier
- These exams also put teachers to the test
- 'The Protest Singer' by Alec Wilkinson
- For Christian enclave in Jordan, tribal lands are sacred
- Court decision targets mystery closing fees
- Army Pvt. Benjamin B. Tollefson, 22, Concord, Calif.; killed in mortar attack in Iraq
- 'Dirty Dancing'
- Round two for 'Brothers Bloom'
- UNDERRATEDOVERRATED
- Cracking the glass podium
- Soldier dies of injuries in mortar attack in Iraq
- Memos shed light on CIA use of sleep deprivation
- Trolley crash prompts ban on phones
- Shutout is special for Dodgers' Eric Stults
- Dodgers coaches at the ready in Manny Ramirez's absence
- Lack of outrage at Manny Ramirez shows scrambled priorities
- Playoffs in '09? He's no cowardly Lion
- A guide for sellers
- Laid back and loving it
- Send her to the 'spa'
- Flying the 'elite' skies
- A singer for the people
- Suns remove interim tag from Alvin Gentry's title
- Working hard to get to the premier
- Public debate over 'public option' for healthcare
- Shooting suspect's body found
- Wright, Kerr capitalize as Ochoa falters
- Lakers' task is not so tall
- How to get the best price when selling your jewelry
- TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY: PHILLIES AT PHILADELPHIA FRIDAY THROUGH MAY 17: FLORIDA MARLINS AT MIAMI
- A lightweight netbook can ease the load
- Colorado says 2BAD to ILVTOFU
- Houston's Ron Artest will play in Game 4 against the Lakers
- Not so quiet on the northern front
- Bad to the bone
- Steve Gideon, 52; singer-actor starred in first gay version of 'Marry Me a Little'
- Volunteers clean up L.A. River
- Illness, not injury, reason for Getzlaf's low minutes
- Malkin's goal lifts Penguins in OT