- 'Life as We Know It' had an unlikely conception
- FIFA examining 13 technology systems to help with goal-line decisions
- Your recipe for the day: Quesadillas stuffed with mushrooms and goat cheese
- One year ago: Marian L. Gore
- For now, no more wolves for Arizona
- Football: A little guy inspires Crespi
- 'Rubicon' recap: Of Cato and Caesar
- Baseball: USC is building up commitments
- 'Amazing Race’: A win for Connor and Jonathan, and a song for Phil (video)
- There's a new brunch destination: K2 in Silver Lake
- Joan Sutherland, opera singer, dies at 83
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: Rachel Weisz to front for L'Oreal. Victoria Beckham takes second place in Britain. And Katy Perry might be thinking about shoes.
- Question of the day: Has the NFL overstepped its bounds by investigating Brett Favre’s alleged indiscretions?
- Monster Mash: Domingo and Dudamel share the stage; Joan Sutherland passes away
- 'Hereafter' premiere
- First Take: Meg Whitman's and Carly Fiorina's different paths. Gloria Allred hits 'Saturday Night Live.'
- Football: Westlake linebackers are coming through
- Wall Street Roundup: Unemployment Nobel. Complaining about Basel.
- Whitman maid controversy hits 'SNL'
- Your Stylist: Are you ever 'too old' to be rocking long hair?
- Football: Clay Matthews is building fan base
- Opinion: Joe Biden update: As VP, he qualifies for another whole day in Pennsylvania
- Football: City Section rankings by one person
- Football: Palm Desert lineman off to good start
- Video: Target-date retirement funds may be riskier than you think
- Morning Fix: 'Social Network' still doing lots of friending at box office. CBS on a roll. CNN pleads for patience. PBS says it won't abandon L.A.
- The Dodgers are a team left without a true star
- Pro Portfolio: Calm and collected in Santa Monica
- Times Past: The Key-jector
- 'Eastbound and Down' recap: Kenny Powers jumps on the love roller coaster
- Opinion: Strangely enough for a Democrat in 2010, Obama's in a pretty good political position right now
- Datebook: Events, exhibits, classes for the week ahead
- Opinion: North Korea parties likes it's 1934
- Cost concerns weakened Forest Service's assault on Station fire, study says
- Solomon Burke dies; singer's voice was as big as his soul
- Where the L.A. jobs are (or should be)
- Hwang Jang-yop dies at 87; highest-ranking North Korean official to defect
- Ring the kettle bell. School's back in.
- Undocumented workers: essential but unwanted
- Got a bad case of airport doldrums? Hope for a flash mob
- Phillies try to put to rest worries about long layoff
- Those late-night TV shows and Internet sessions really are making you fat, researchers say
- People's Pharmacy: New approaches might help daughter's migraines
- PBS vows L.A. will get full slate of programs once KCET goes independent
- Israel's Cabinet approves controversial loyalty oath
- Hewlett-Packard defends new CEO Leo Apotheker, criticizes predecessor Mark Hurd
- Amazing no more
- My Turn: She'll never be a chia pet
- Trying out indigenous languages
- Hwang Jang-yop dies at 87; highest-ranking North Korean official to defect
- Movie review: 'Carlos'
- Movie review: 'Carlos'
- Review: ElecTRONica dance party enlivens sleepy Disney California Adventure
- NASCAR needs a Chase that includes Kyle Busch
- Dodgers ticket prices to go up — and down
- Healthy Skeptic: Is hair analysis a brush with quackery?
- Films & programs: Tanzania
- 'Honeymooners' night at UCLA's Billy Wilder Theater
- Giants rally to defeat Braves, 3-2, in Game 3
- Forbidding cellphone calls on airplanes might protect sanity more than safety
- Calpers cuts ties with Pacific Corporate Group in fund overhaul
- UCLA football team is expected to suspend at least three starters
- Carrie Fisher did cocaine on 'Empire' set
- Taliban border haven in U.S. sights
- Olive View treated ill babies despite staff shortages, report says
- Giants' youth prevails over Braves' wisdom in National League division series clincher
- Helene Elliott's NHL rankings
- Gymboree agrees to $1.8-billion buyout
- Monday's TV highlights
- Republicans counter Democratic accusations on fundraising
- Palm Springs: A room and all that jazz at La Quinta Resort & Club
- A dopey measure on marijuana
- Hearing set to begin into Ft. Hood shootings
- An estimated 100,000 turn out for L.A.'s inaugural CicLAvia event
- TV review: 'God in America' on KCET
- Solomon Burke dies; singer's voice was as big as his soul
- Health experts monitoring trapped miners in Chile brace for unexpected ailments
- Benefits of diagnostic radiation outweigh the dangers
- Investors' patience for Yahoo chief may be running thin
- Cal State L.A. festival celebrates Latino authors
- Cost concerns weakened Forest Service's assault on Station fire, study says
- For the Giants, 'torture' can feel pretty good
- USC football recruiters haven't been doing enough legwork
- Ducks fall to the Blues, 5-1
- Gallup poll continues to give Republicans a big edge among likely voters
- K2 info
- Rookies are busting out all over in the NHL
- Fighting the Station fire
- Scam Watch: 'Penny auctions' often no bargain
- China allows Nobel Peace Prize laureate to meet wife
- Small businesses, prepare for elder-care emergencies
- Different views on threat of radon
- The M.D.: When anger reaches the danger zone
- 'Carlos' info
- A city with a lot of pull
- Researchers find there may be a link between jaundice in full-term newborns and autism
- Trying to understand our chemical exposure
- Happening Monday: Banksy @ The New Beverly, Teenage Fanclub and more
- Tactics split state's top two GOP contenders
- Company Town: 'The Social Network' wins most popular again at box office
- Rays try to figure how to beat Rangers' Cliff Lee
- Lakers' Derek Fisher comes back from break ready to do it again
- Business economists cut national growth forecast
- Quarterbacks are at the center of much of the attention
- Giants eliminate Braves in NLDS, sending Bobby Cox into retirement
- Slow start for 'Funny Story'
- Thousands of complaints filed over Afghan elections
- Horoscope: Oct. 11
- Scene Setter: K2 in Silver Lake
- Obama, Biden stump for Florida Senate candidate Meek
- Last-hired, first-fired teachers; the Middle East peace process; the responsibilites of voters
- Watching over welfare
- First patient receives treatment in Geron Corp.'s embryonic stem-cell clinical trial
- Len Elmore's iHoops job is no layup
- Lebanon, neighbors brace for Ahmadinejad visit
- AgJOBS could plant the seed
- Phillies sweep Reds, look to next obstacle
- 'The Honeymooners, 1952-54' info
- California spent nearly half a billion on college freshmen who later dropped out, study finds
- PBS vows L.A. will get full slate of programs once KCET goes independent
- Sections of the 405 Freeway in the Sepulveda Pass will be closed for construction
- Siblings of autistic children may have some autism-related traits, study says
- West Virginia's Joe Manchin fires a gun in new ad
- New public umbilical cord bank opens while debate continues over public vs. private banking
- Plácido Domingo, Gustavo Dudamel together for the first time
- Hallmark Channels ousts exec as Martha Stewart block fails to shine
- Victor Ortiz to get another chance at title bout
- NFL stadium could be site for World Cup
- Both sides focus on Anna Nicole Smith's fame in drug trial's closing arguments
- Health Sense: Flawed pain science blurs question of he felt, she felt
- Where the L.A. jobs are (or should be)
- Smile, UCLA fans . . . then maybe the joke won't be on you
- Does chocolate milk help athletes?
- The effects of long work hours on medical residents
- 'It's Kind of a Funny Story' off to slow start
- Pakistan reopens border crossing to NATO trucks
- Wall Street's main focus will be on Fed, not corporate earnings
- North Korean crowds greet father and son Kims with a roar of enthusiasm
- Exercise may be a remedy for 'fat' genes, at least for Americans
- Lane Kiffin isn't fooled by Cal's loss to Nevada
- GOP has a shot at taking Oregon governorship
- Good Form: Straddle split
- Whitman declines to comment about slur
- For the record - Oct. 11, 2010
- 'Boardwalk Empire' recap: Who's real and who's fakin' it.
- 'Amazing Race' recap: Look at those yaks!
- Kangaroo rats: barrier to development or species worth saving?
- 'Dexter' recap: 'Dexter will'
- Trapped miners in Chile now arguing over who gets rescued last
- Monday's TV Highlights: 'Arthur' on PBS
- Monday's Talk Shows
- Kings burned in Calgary again
- Opinion: Obama notes passing of Albertina Walker, queen of gospel
- Fiorina courts voters at Iranian-American Jewish gathering
- Good day for Stewart, Johnson; bad day for Roush Fenway Racing
- Boxer highlights endorsement by VFW PAC
- Live review: Maroon 5 at the Greek Theatre
- Anze Kopitar gives a nod to the past and a jersey to Charlie Simmer
- Whitman calls "whore" comment a slur, refuses further comment
- 'SNL' gleefully defends Zuckerberg, pokes fun at Facebook
- Sacramento's Crocker Art Museum expansion opens
- NASCAR Sprint Cup: Tony Stewart wins the Pepsi Max 400 at Auto Club Speedway
- Orlando Cabrera back in the lineup for desperate Reds
- Theater review: 'I Loved Lucy' at Laguna Playhouse
- Will Ferrell, Jane Fonda host and toast the Hammer Museum's 'Gala in the Garden'
- Google is testing self-driving cars
- Hunting down the greenest lunchbox
- 'Despicable Me' leading the pack in foreign box office
- Temptation never looked so good
- Remembering Solomon Burke: The genius and effect of 'Cry to Me'
- Lose weight with fake food?
- A 125-pound athlete who's in demand
- 10 entertainment lists for 10-10-10
- IRAN: Officials reject rebel group's claim of kidnapping nuclear scientist
- 10/10/10: Ten cultural masterpieces for the decaphilic
- 10/10/10: The 10 best 'Best of' books of 2010
- 10/10/10: Celebrity scandals from a spicy year so far
- 10/10/10: TV's top 10 moments of the first 10 months of 2010
- 10/10/10: The 10 best movies of 2010 (so far) that you might have missed
- We now take a break in this storm surrounding the Dodgers to present a ray of sunshine
- 10/10/10: Ten great songs about drinking (and five others about sobering up)
- Placido Domingo greets fans at outdoor screening of 'Il Postino'
- Dance review: 'Traditions Engaged' Festival of Classical Indian Dance and Music at REDCAT
- Football: Let the Trinity League guessing game begin
- Ohio State is new No. 1 in USA Today coaches' poll
- Box office: 'The Social Network' on top again as 'Life as We Know It,' 'Secretariat' come up lame
- Lady Gaga's former manager auctioning off early demos, recalls 'painfully shy' star
- From the Archives: Kamala Harris is a different kind of prosecutor
- Football: The Times' top 25
- Boys' basketball: UCLA's Howland is hosting coaching clinic
- One year ago: Carol Tomlinson-Keasey
- Your weekly ScamWatch
- Opinion: Sharron Angle, on second thought, changes her mind on some things
- Tanner Foust wins Formula Drift season finale at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale
- George Washington, in war and peace
- Book Review: 'Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution' by Sara Marcus
- Scene & Heard: Salons by the Shore benefits MOCA
- Book review: 'If Trouble Don't Kill Me' by Ralph Berrier Jr.
- Book review: 'Great House' by Nicole Krauss
- 'Trash' worth treasuring
- Elton John & Leon Russell: Keyboard colleagues
- William W. 'Bill' Norton dies at 85; screenwriter became gunrunner
- Earthquake experts see the 'Big One' getting bigger
- Book review: 'Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk' by David Sedaris Bringing animal spirit to humor
- Book Review: 'Fall of Giants' by Ken Follett
- Words & Ideas
- Scouring Paris for the latest
- 10 family-friendly places to visit in the West
- Readers recommendations: The Cottages Motel in New Zealand
- Real estate veterans face off in assessor's race
- Brazilian Blowout might be dangerous to your health
- Out-Hollywooding Hollywood is paying off in South Korea
- Listing details: 2335 N. Park Blvd., Santa Ana
- 7 statewide offices are in play in addition to the governor's race
- Meg Whitman's immigration stand; The Times' endorsement of Barbara Boxer; a budget deal that helps one rich California family
- 10 grand old hotels in the U.S.
- Harry Reid-Sharron Angle race gets even uglier in Nevada
- The Movable Buffet: Palms' Matador at 21 fest highlights an alternative turn
- Letters: Readers sound off over Brazil visas
- Other candidates for governor
- U.S. energy policy: It's complicated
- There are subplots galore in Jets, Vikings matchup
- Lakers say they have ample time to shape up
- Poker: There's a sucker at every table
- 10 favorite bicycle rides in the West
- Competitive House races in California draw national attention
- Tim Wallach to be on Dodgers' coaching staff
- Kidnapped British aid worker dies during rescue attempt in Afghanistan
- Prosecutors will not appeal ruling in embassy bombing case
- Overrated / Underrated
- 'The Man From Nowhere' info
- Third-party candidates for Senate seat
- A hot quarter for stocks
- FOREIGN BRIEFING
- Travel news from around the world
- Chinese media stay resolutely silent on Nobel winner
- $152-million makeover proposed for Rose Bowl
- New digs for Stephens' kangaroo rats
- The Times' high school football rankings
- Evan Longoria lifts Rays over Rangers, 5-2
- Conspiracy theories abound after strange rankings
- Second-place finisher Clint Bowyer sees plenty of obstacles
- 10 places for 10 bucks and under
- Betterment.com brings index funds to the masses
- Iran acknowledges Western spies got inside its nuclear program
- NFL two-minute drill
- U.S. Senate candidates share little common ground
- L.A. Fashion Week events
- Target-date retirement funds may be riskier than you think
- Not your typical California election
- A sweet start for Kings after playoffs' bitter end
- An ugly, temporary answer to California's intractable budget problems
- In Iraq, political negotiation is a blood sport
- GOP has a shot at taking Oregon governorship
- Phillies clinch series with 2-0 victory over Reds
- Army Sgt. Ryan J. Hopkins, 21, Livermore; dies of injuries in motor pool accident
- Tony Stewart wins NASCAR Sprint Cup race in a rare thriller at Fontana
- Raiders dump Chargers into familiar territory
- Third-party candidates for other offices
- Dozens of local measures seek to raise money for services, facilities
- Accounting for her success
- Homes on the market
- Religious skeptics disagree on how aggressively to challenge the devout
- William W. 'Bill' Norton dies at 85; screenwriter became gunrunner
- Elton John & Leon Russell: Keyboard colleagues
- Michael Mann back in the TV saddle
- 10 must-see places that are less than a decade old
- Governor candidates court the center
- A mariachi's journey is the ballad of a lifetime
- Scene & Heard: Salons by the Shore benefits MOCA
- In Haiti, a father's lessons withstand the earthquake
- War casualties
- Book review: 'George Washington's America' by Barnet Schecter
- Actors and Roles: Michael Mann counts the stars
- Roy Blount Jr.: An expert Marx man
- Smart List: 'Carlos,' 'The Tudors' and 'Jackass 3D'
- Book Review: 'Fall of Giants' by Ken Follett
- A one-man wrecking crew for tax evasions
- Santa Fe, N.M., information
- The Monitor: TeenNick's 'Gigantic'
- All four Board of Equalization seats are contested
- Writing a new chapter for an old Torah
- Words & Ideas
- For bond investors, a good time for a reality check
- Earthquake experts see the 'Big One' getting bigger
- Some House Democrats may hold ground against Republican wave
- The Actor's Craft: Hilary Swank was born to play real-life roles
- Tom Niedenfuer remembers but doesn't dwell on fateful pitches
- Chess: Ukraine strikes gold in Russia
- 10 great hikes of the West
- Scouring Paris for the latest
- Fannie-Freddie add-on fees put damper on refis
- Top 10 places to indulge
- Kings still aren't able to win at Calgary
- Bruins' loss is especially painful for the defense
- On view: 'China Modern: Designing Popular Culture 1910-1970'
- Buying a home? Don't get hung up on mere details
- Candidates in heated races for Southland Assembly, Senate seats
- Keeping Putin up to date
- Daytona Beach info