- Opinion: Medicare and campaign ads, courtesy of Karl Rove
- Actress Kim Novak undergoing breast cancer treatment
- Football: Chaminade is cleanest 6-0 team in California
- Twyla Tharp taking Sinatra musical to Las Vegas
- Ouija movie could conjure Pierre Morel
- U.K. 'Cat Bin Lady' Mary Bale pleads guilty to animal cruelty charge for dumping cat in trash bin, is fined
- Rihanna teams with Doritos to offer interactive video for 'Who's That Chick?'
- T.I. will head back to prison without his AXE deal
- Kristen Stewart: Leave Bella Swan alone, 'Breaking Dawn' will be awesome
- Six Flags Magic Mountain to run Superman coaster backward
- PBS' 'Masterpiece' heads to KOCE-TV on Sundays
- The Note That Lingers: 'Mad Men' and Sonny & Cher
- Moody's: Next California budget deficit likely to be $12 billion -- or more
- Opinion: Nearly a full day later, Meg Whitman's spokeswoman is still linking to cross-dressing Korean bass player
- An appreciation: Tom Bosley, 1927-2010
- Hot Property: Bel-Air property of Jon Douglas on the market for $18.7 million
- Hot Property: Ed Ruscha's Point Dume-area house sells for $4 million
- Literary Death Match in L.A., and beyond
- Christina Aguilera celebrates the single life in Hawaii
- Opinion: How close are the California races for Senate, governor?
- Ravi Shankar withdraws from L.A. concert due to illness
- Keeping spray cans out of landfills
- Your Test Kitchen recipe for the day: Orange dinner rolls
- Opinion: New Obama ad makes last-ditch bid to reenergize black voters for Nov. 2 midterms
- Three NFL players fined, but not suspended, for dangerous hits
- Six Flags Magic Mountain aims to reclaim coaster crown with Green Lantern in 2011
- Live review: Mumford & Sons at the Palladium
- Rose Bowl game to be presented by Vizio for next four years
- Boys' basketball: C.J. Cooper gives Tim Floyd a commitment
- Kanye West at his movie premiere: 'I contemplated suicide'
- Ducks' Cam Fowler practices Tuesday despite broken nose
- Angelina Jolie's Bosnian partners aim to soothe emotions before cameras roll
- Creative Recreation's equally cool women’s collection
- Holy 'Glee'! Lea Michele and costars in racy new GQ shoot
- Jennifer Lopez talks 'American Idol' on 'The Talk'
- NBA bans APL shoes for 'undue competitive advantage'
- Recent stories from the Los Angeles Times
- Kings: Schenn, Westgarth out; Clifford, Lewis in; Bernier to start Wednesday
- FCC Chairman tells Fox and Cablevision to stop taking shots and get to work
- 'Happy Days' actor Tom Bosley dies at 83
- TV campaign on California climate law revs up (UPDATED)
- Matt Damon will tell the story of Lance Armstrong
- Gulf oil spill: Six-month milestone brings disaster back in focus
- Morelia Film Festival: A dancer in Tijuana tells her own tale
- NLCS Game 3: They still love Barry Bonds in San Francisco
- 'Glee' meets 'Rocky Horror' preview: Let's do the 'Time Warp'
- CEOs discuss how California can be fixed
- PREACH IT! Yes, Jimmy McMillan, the rent is too high indeed
- Serena Williams is really done for the season
- 'The Kid' Matt Hagan hopes to deny John Force his 15th NHRA funny car title
- Jodie Foster, Gwyneth Paltrow and more are Elle's Women in Hollywood for 2010
- Living green in L.A.: Home retrofits that worked -- and didn't
- 7.5 million iPads. How many Kindles?
- Album review: Elton John and Leon Russell's 'The Union'
- Meg Whitman ad paints Jerry Brown as labor-union puppet
- Consumers to DVD-profit-hungry Hollywood: Drop dead!
- A flying Humvee? Don't scoff, Pentagon wants one
- Opinion: Meg Whitman's misleading campaign to pigeonhole Jerry Brown
- Legislative leadership among the casualties of state budget vote
- Say 'Cheese!'
- Bud Selig on community ownership: 'I don't think it works'
- City OKs plan to reduce production taxes for filmmakers
- Album review: Kings of Leon's 'Come Around Sundown'
- NBC picks up 'Chase' and orders more 'Chuck,' while 'Undercovers' gets 4 more chances
- Google's Android chief fires back at Apple's Steve Jobs
- Tyra Banks sued by mother of self-proclaimed teen sex addict
- Goodbye, Mr. C: thank you for those 'Happy Days'
- 'Welcome to the Rileys' premiere: Kristen Stewart survives another red carpet
- Album review: Sugarland's 'Incredible Machine'
- Both sides of majority-vote budget fight shine spotlight on their opponents
- San Francisco supervisors to delay vote on Happy Meal toy ban
- L.A. Unheard: Evan Voytas' chill waves go anywhere
- Tom Bosley, Howard Cunningham of 'Happy Days,' dies at 83
- More help for those who want to grow food in the city
- Tito Ortiz: 'Getting a win is the most important thing'
- San Francisco Giants lineup for NLCS Game 3: Cody Ross up, Juan Uribe back, Aaron Rowand in, Andres Torres out
- NFL to begin suspending players for dangerous and flagrant hits
- White House to hold live online arts chat Tuesday
- Giants' Matt Cain savors win over Dodgers
- Opinion: Social media wrap: Got an iPad? The federal government wants YOU (to work for it)
- LaBamba will be by Conan's side on TBS
- 'Sarah Palin's Alaska': The former governor and the mama bear
- Morelia Film Festival: Collection of shorts looks at Mexican Revolution through contemporary lens
- Hyundai Equus starts at $58,000
- USC football: Lane Kiffin puts Trojans through conditioning for Oregon
- Authorities kill Lions Gate's second poison pill targeting Icahn
- Pictures: 'The Rocky Horror Glee Show'
- Football: Girl kicker gets 43-yard field goal
- GM partners with Envision Solar for Chevy Volt recharging
- New Jerry Brown ad compares Meg Whitman to Schwarzenegger
- Keeping tabs: Emilee Klein
- Critic's notebook: 'Il Postino' and the Latin moment
- Football: Let's all learn and move on
- Question of the day: Will Jerry Jones hold true to his word and not fire Wade Phillips before the end of the season?
- KUWAIT: Armed mob descends on TV station after show that criticizes ruling family
- Football: It's the battle of unbeatens in City Section
- Poll: Should the NFL suspend players for illegal hits to the head?
- The Morning Fix: Fox and Cablevision fight has no end in sight. Albrecht spills about recent past. Another 'Jackass.'
- Wall Street Roundup: Mixed bank results. Hedge-fund deception.
- 2010 EMA Awards
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: Donna Karan celebrates inspirational women. We notice Jimmy McMillan's style.
- Monster Mash: Larry Gagosian ready to debut Paris gallery; Ariel Sharon sculpture stirs controversy
- Your morning adorable: Shiba Inu puppy barks and howls while sleeping
- Daily Dodger in review: How much can the Dodgers depend on A.J. Ellis?
- EGYPT: Journalists strike for return of editor at leading opposition paper
- About (Late) Last Night: Johnny Knoxville might never say 'ma'am' again
- Alain de Botton's music for airports
- First Take: Speaker moves to restore child-care cuts. Maldonado crashes Gavin Newsom campaign event.
- Cheryl Burke of 'DWTS' to star in 'Forever Tango' at the Saban Theatre
- Top 5: Halloween costume pieces that could double as fashion
- Composting toilets, backyard chickens and waterwalls: Susan Carpenter's eco-living experiment
- 'The Event' recap: Impossible choices and stories that make sense
- Alfresco living room makes front lawn a mere memory
- 'Chuck' recap: the Casey team
- Brammo Enertia Plus doubles the range but not the price tag
- Director Sam O'Hare offers a vision of Coachella, from the air
- One year ago: Joseph Wiseman
- Opinion: Oh, the pain! Voters of all stripes -- even Republicans -- more receptive to Bill Clinton now than Obama
- Opinion: Obama spending stimulates the national debt by $3,039,000,000,000
- Johnny Sheffield dies at 79; played Boy in Tarzan movies
- Saul Toledo dies at 90; played on and wrote about Latino baseball teams in East L.A.
- PASSINGS: Gail Dolgin, Bob Kholos, Miriam Golden Ziegler Hailparn
- Villaraigosa introduces pension reform proposal
- Bank of America ends freeze on foreclosures in 23 states
- Court program helps women turn their lives around
- San Francisco: Enjoy sunset on the bay with new cruise
- Hot Property: Bel-Air property of Jon Douglas on the market for $18.7 million
- Neo-Nazi running for office in Riverside County
- Mexico seeks to require civilian trials for troops
- Four convicted in New York synagogue bomb plot
- Bruins won't duck a challenge against Oregon
- Real Madrid shuts out AC Milan, 2-0
- Villaraigosa introduces pension reform proposal
- Green Bay crowd might be merciless as Brett Favre returns with Vikings
- Increased risk of breast cancer from hormone therapy continues over time [Updated]
- What's in a name? For UFC and Brock Lesnar, only everything
- Afghanistan tosses out thousands of votes amid fraud probe
- Palin kicks off Tea Party Express tour
- Apple's earnings leap 70%
- Occidental CEO Ray Irani is the poster child for extravagant executive pay
- Serena Williams is finished for the season
- Kirk Gibson selling his bat from 1988 World Series? Say it ain't so
- Scam Watch: Beware of tax relief companies that charge upfront fees
- At a glance: Steve Cooley
- Ex-Chargers linebacker's SUV plunges over cliff
- Xi Jinping on track to become China's next president
- All things being equal, women are more likely than men to survive critical injury
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce launches Boxer attack ads
- Kings' fast start isn't a surprise, but Anze Kopitar's goal-less drought is
- Chicago Cubs hire Mike Quade as manager
- Proposal would restore state funding for child care
- Disney buys rights to release 'Avengers,' 'Iron Man 3' from Paramount
- Stamp of approval on 'Il Postino'
- Wright lied about two residences, prosecutors allege
- Expert says fertility doctor implanted far too many embryos in Nadya Suleman
- Diabetes studies point to value of peer support in controlling the disease and increase in hospitalizations
- Giants' Matt Cain is a pain for Phillies in 3-0 win
- Dodgers' fans talk a good game, but he knows they won't stay away
- Obama not helping Ohio Democrats, polls show
- Kevin Prince sits out another practice
- Don't get dumped on by daily stress, says author of 'The Law of the Garbage Truck'
- Palin: Don't 'party like it's 1773' just yet
- Players try to absorb NFL's helmet-to-helmet actions
- Kenya driver's come a long way
- Tuesday's TV highlights
- Long Beach Rep. Laura Richardson's Sacramento house up for short sale
- Happening Tuesday: Sleigh Bells, Alex Ross and more
- Shovel-ready white elephants
- Iran's supreme leader calls for 'speedy formation' of new Iraqi government
- FCC 'bill shock' rules don't go far enough for consumers
- Two studies focus on safety in surgery and medical procedures
- Georgia settles suit on confinement of disabled people
- Stepped-up U.S. operations in Pakistan taking serious toll on Al Qaeda, CIA chief says
- Critic's Notebook: L.A. Opera's 'Il Postino' on a Latin American high note
- Justice Department backs building of Tennessee mosque
- Israel pushes Palestinians to acknowledge its Jewish character
- Justice Department backs building of Tennessee mosque
- The impact of free parking; white-collar 'crime'; fighting bullies
- Horoscope: Oct. 19
- PASSINGS: Gail Dolgin, Bob Kholos, Miriam Golden Ziegler Hailparn
- Officials aim to establish Afghan local police force by March
- Six Flags Magic Mountain to run Superman coaster backward
- UCLA's Kevin Prince sits out practice to rest knee
- Welfare-to-work-to-welfare
- A suggestion to the military to slim down its potential ranks: go vegetarian
- CIA inquiry finds 'systemic breakdowns' in Afghan bombing that killed agents
- Consumers are held hostage in fight between Fox and Cablevision
- College kids, take note
- Hidden justice
- Behind the attack ads
- CIA inquiry cites failures in Afghan bombing that killed agents
- British jury finds Saudi prince guilty of murder
- Kings knock off Clippers in final seconds, 96-94
- 'Sarah Palin's Alaska' : A gold rush for tourism?
- Hot Property: Ed Ruscha's Point Dume-area house sells for $4 million
- Trojans pick up the pace to get ready for Oregon
- One family's generational battle with cancer is studied by researchers
- Child actor played Boy in Tarzan movie series
- Attorney general candidate has maintained popularity in L.A.
- Television review: 'Tower Prep' on Cartoon Network
- Quick Takes: Mel Gibson's 'Hangover'?
- Tribune chief executive may be on his way out
- Breast-cancer campaign: 'Too much awareness may not be good for your health,' doctor says
- Mexican bill on civilian trials for soldiers seen as falling short
- Up next for Chivas USA: Wednesday at San Jose
- IHOP sues church that calls itself IHOP
- Tuesday's TV talk shows
- Deaths from abuse and neglect increase among children under L.A. County oversight
- 105 tons of marijuana seized in Baja California
- A dad goes to the rescue
- Crystal Cathedral files for bankruptcy protection
- Saul Toledo dies at 90; played on and wrote about Latino baseball teams in East L.A.
- 'Tower Prep' info
- Study casts doubt on Neanderthals' use of tools
- More House Democrats targeted by third-party groups
- Up next for the Kings: Wednesday vs. Carolina
- U.S. to let private sector set limits for cadmium in children's products
- 'Tea party' favorite Christine O'Donnell questions whether 1st Amendment separates church, state during debate
- Kicking in for art projects
- U.S. seeks a larger village police force in Afghanistan
- China's interest-rate hike causes turmoil
- Putting the brakes on health insurers
- Some compassionate pot shops caught in L.A. law's red tape
- Clippers' Eric Gordon injured, but it doesn't look serious
- High school students fuel protests in France
- Clinton outshines Obama as campaign trail surrogate, poll finds
- New York: $79 rooms at Jane Hotel
- Lazeric Jones, Jerime Anderson in spirited battle to be UCLA's starting point guard
- Giants' Cody Ross is latest Mr. October
- Why many consumers don't buy movies online
- New reports of children's deaths
- High court to decide detentions case against former attorney general
- Maldonado sits in as Newsom rallies his fans
- A local solution for Bell
- China to raise benchmark rates
- Terrell Watson has Oxnard grounded
- Lakers' Shannon Brown puts the heat on himself
- Six Flags Magic Mountain aims to reclaim coaster crown with Green Lantern in 2011
- For the record - Oct. 19, 2010
- 'House' recap: The children's hour
- 'How I Met Your Mother' recap: Newer, bigger, better
- 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: The TV set
- Whitman campaign typo underscores the dangers of tweeting
- Anaheim Convention Center is new site for basketball finals
- Vaughn elected first vice president of the Screen Actors Guild
- Study finds kids with family history of allergies may be less likely to develop eczema if they live with a dog
- Assembly speaker juggles funds to restore Schwarzenegger child-care cuts
- Tuesday's Highlights: “Parenthood” on NBC
- Ovation Awards nominations announced for 2009-10 season
- Tuesday's Talk Shows
- Junior Seau fell asleep at the wheel before SUV cliff dive
- Mel Gibson finally has a 'Hangover' that helps his career
- Kristen Stewart: 'Breaking Dawn' will change people's minds about Bella Swan
- Boys' basketball: Orange Lutheran's James Douglas commits to Northern Arizona
- Makeshift bridges help Bornean orangutans cross rivers, move around isolated forests
- *Theater review: 'Venice' at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (Updated)
- Pro Portfolio: A 1960 house updated for greener times
- Much heated puffing among minority groups over menthol cigarette ban
- Devoted Yankees fan Freddy Schuman dies at 85
- Homeland Security, Boeing faulted for border project problems
- Opinion: No Obama steam, Gallup's generic congressional poll finds; Republican lead holding strong 15 days out
- Knott's Berry Farm coaster reopens after accident investigation
- Airline fares start to soar for the holidays
- Music review: Juilliard String Quartet at Beckman Auditorium, Caltech
- Valley Forge park officials are urged to use coyotes, rather than hunters, to control deer population
- Boxer and Fiorina spar over rights of those on the no-fly list
- New York museum returns to good graces after ban for selling art to pay bills
- Opinion: Napolitano visits San Diego, says border is more secure from cartels
- Fear my beard? Phillies' Jayson Werth scoffs
- Hot Property: Graham Nash sells Encino home for $1.6 million
- Hot Property: Nina Blanchard's former residence sells for $1.1 million
- Hot Property: Ryan Seacrest lists his gated estate for $14.95 million
- Farts and darts: A new 'Jackass' coming to theaters soon?
- Gavin Newsom stumps for the Latino vote -- and gets a surprise visit from Abel Maldonado
- Culture Monster chats with 'Amazing Race's' Connor and Jonathan about the game and 'Spiderman'
- Emily's List launches new ad for Barbara Boxer
- Opinion: Sarah Palin can see 2010 from her house; daughter Bristol may soon see her dance steps on her hand
- Swilling martinis with the cast of 'Mad Men'
- L.A. jewelry brand TomTom's new 'Tron'-themed collection
- NBC picks up 'The Event,' 'Outsourced,' and 'Law & Order: Los Angeles'
- Opinion: Today at the Obama White House: Robots
- Football: Richardson is Pac-10 player of the week
- Crystal Cathedral in Orange County filing for bankruptcy
- Whitman says personal gain from eliminating tax outweighed by her $140-million stake in campaign
- Angelina Jolie moves forward in Bosnia
- Opinion: Political signs: Do they affect your voting habits?
- Chat with Mark Boster on photographing Yosemite
- Grant Johnson, yo-yo king
- HTML Giant launches a Literary Magazine Club
- Julie Chen, Sharon Osbourne and other celeb moms sit around talking on 'The Talk'
- It's always Mother's and Father's Day on TV: Top 10 parent guest spots
- Boys' basketball: Games keep coming
- Your L.A. Times Test Kitchen recipe for the day: Three-bean and hominy chili
- Warcrafters beware: Scams abound. Here's how to avoid them
- Music review: Le Salon de Musiques at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
- Apple blows past earnings expectations again, extends string of record quarters
- Disney buys rights to release 'Avengers,' 'Iron Man 3' from Paramount
- NHL suspends Phoenix's Shane Doan, says hit to Ducks' Dan Sexton was 'type of hit we want out of our game'
- Why was 'Jackass 3D' so insanely successful?
- Terrell Owens and Zenyatta: Kindred spirits?