- On the road, Obama stresses aid to small firms
- TV TALK SHOWS
- Bengals' Rey Maualuga pleads guilty to drunk driving
- Head of entertainment industry charity quits
- Kirk, Giannoulias win Senate primaries in Illinois
- AIG begins awarding abbreviated bonuses
- Budget shortfall puts L.A. arts agency funding on the chopping block
- Israel satire show sees no end of material
- Iran announces launch of powerful rocket carrying animals into space
- Toyota inquiry expands to include additional models
- Cocaine trafficking keeps Ecuador anti-drug authorities busy
- LaHood says regulators are investigating Toyota Prius brakes
- Westside residents need, and yet oppose, traffic relief
- Ruling Yemen gets even more complicated
- Golf isn't feeling groovy
- Concerns grow over Al Qaeda's group in Yemen
- Chief Executive Tim Leiweke sees a place for AEG in the concert business
- Oscar nominations that are for the people
- Obama kicks biofuel strategy into higher gear
- Put the brakes on Toyota's plant closure
- CALIFORNIA LOTTERY RESULTS
- Celtics catch a break when they learn Paul Pierce doesn't have one
- USC Coach Lane Kiffin focuses on recruiting quality at 'closing time'
- Snow's on the Sierra, but Jerry Brown's undeclared
- 'Wolf Man' writer reflected wartime Jewish experience
- Activision exec to join Chegg.com
- 'The Hypochondriacs'
- Up next for Clippers: Wednesday at Atlanta
- Up next for Lakers: Wednesday vs. Charlotte
- A lean, not mean, City Hall
- Record deficit forces cuts at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
- A familiar refrain in TV ratings: CBS wins
- California redistricting effort is out of the backroom but not free of politics
- Toyota probes take a new turn
- Some L.A. Council members resist spending cuts, layoffs
- Cross found at Air Force Academy's Wicca center
- 'The Hypochondriacs' by Brian Dillon
- Nominees react
- Congressional Democrats are nay-saying Obama's budget
- Marines, Afghan army plan massive assault on Taliban
- Toyota sales sink in January; Ford and GM post gains
- Quick Takes - Feb. 3, 2010
- For the record - Feb. 3, 2010
- Dodgers' community caravan schedule for Wednesday
- USC football: Linebacker Hayes Pullard chooses Trojans
- Joe Torre talks about the Dodgers' rotation, Manny Ramirez and more
- 'Lost': What ifs and might have beens
- Boys' basketball: No. 1 Mater Dei wins, 111-36
- Wednesday's TV Highlights: Minnie Driver guests on 'Modern Family'
- Wednesday's TV Talk Shows: Oprah's got 'American Idol's' Fantasia
- Football: Crenshaw's Pullard headed to USC
- Opinion: In Illinois, it's Kirk (R) vs Giannoulias (D) for Obama's former Senate seat
- Chivas USA's Jesse Marsch expected to join U.S. coaching staff
- L.A. City Council feels heat over a proposal to shut off the municipal arts-funding pipeline
- Dodgers agree to minor-league deals with Jeff Weaver and Alfredo Amezaga
- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gets help with his Toyota problem
- BofA won't fight Obama's plan for consumer watchdog agency
- Mobile food court is planned for downtown L.A.
- Couples Update: Channing Tatum's love letters, Pink and Cary Hart's promise fulfilled
- PREACH IT! Tila Tequila proves our point and then promises to leave us alone
- Beleaguered head of motion picture home resigns
- Baseball: Lots of stars at Edison
- New reporting, editing assignments
- Joe Torre goes Hollywood
- Opinion: Obama says go to college, not slots; Vegas irate
- Kings no longer "fragile"
- Corey Pavin hits into rough with UCLA football coach
- Sandra Bullock, Kathryn Bigelow and others riff on a day of Oscar
- By comparison: NHL vs. Olympic hockey rinks
- Beyonce and Lady Gaga meet again! First images surface from 'Telephone' video shoot
- Football: Servite lineman headed to Arizona
- Oil refiners and truckers target California's global warming initiative
- Football: St. Genevieve quarterback receives honor
- Track: Claremont standout set to sign with Stanford
- Commercial property values rose slightly in January, report says
- Forget 'The Hills': Audiences embrace the harsh realities of 'Teen Mom'
- 'Boston Legal' actor Justin Mentell dies in car crash at 27
- The FDA approves first drug to treat debilitating hand condition
- Democratic Party leader sides with Poizner in spat with Whitman campaign
- Sure, there's the risk of fecal contamination, but still ... salad is good for you!
- Corned beef for breakfast? Try it, you might lose weight
- Mariska Hargitay joins campaign to stop violence against women
- George Parros: A pirate's life for me
- Did the academy really think 'The Blind Side' wasn't a best picture?
- Stunning homes and interiors from <br> 'A Single Man' are snubbed by Oscar
- Malibu home sales stayed steady in 2009 while prices took a tumble
- The Oscar secret of 'The Secret of Kells'
- Studios looking to cash in on Oscar nominations
- Opinion: Florida GOP Senate favorite Charlie Crist fading fast, trails Marco Rubio by 12 points
- Despite protests, 88 bison from Yellowstone National Park will be moved to mogul Ted Turner's ranch
- Happy 85th birthday, Elaine Stritch
- Critic's Notebook: L.A. City Council is poised to slash arts funds
- Dodgers vs. Yankees will be on prime time
- Rupert Murdoch needs to be convinced Conan O'Brien can make money for Fox
- Canine churchgoers: Dogs attend services at Westchester's Covenant Presbyterian Church
- Sidling up to the bar at newly opened Hatfield's: More elbow room (plus a cocktail recipe for the Chimayo)
- Chatty Scott McCarron called out Anthony Kim, Kim talks back
- Dodgers and Yankees, prime-time Saturday night
- D.A. Powell wins $100,000 prize for poetry
- Jose Canseco calls out Herschel Walker
- NBC affiliate board chair wants conditions on Comcast - NBC Universal deal
- News Corp. revenue up 10%, Fox operating income nearly triples
- Singapore Airlines makes environmentally friendly flight from LAX
- Video: Screenplay, foreign language, documentary Oscar noms -- surprises and snubs
- Gavin Newsom takes on Bill O'Reilly
- Speier chooses Congress over attorney general
- Major Macmillan titles not yet restored on Amazon
- CBS News staffers fret that layoffs will hamper newsgathering
- Freeze? What freeze? FDA in line for another budget boost
- Meet Carly Fiorina, the 'fireball'
- Dead animals help living animals: Donated fur coats, hats and trim make cozy nests for rescued wildlife
- Video: Is there even a race for the supporting actor and actress Oscars?
- IRAN: Mousavi questions his earlier support for Islamic Republic
- That '80s show: Duncan Sheik on board to compose 'American Psycho' musical
- Spikey, dog rescued from flooded L.A. River during rainstorm, is reunited with owner
- 'Boston Legal' actor Justin Mentell, 27, dies in SUV crash
- Are the Oscars ready to swap their stuffed shirt for a shapely thong?
- Activision's Guitar Hero chief exits after less than a year
- Ned Miller, USC sports statistician, dies
- Samantha's new 'Sex and the City' boy toy: Meet Noah Mills
- SIDS may involve deficit of brain chemical
- Former Yahoo exec Dan Rosensweig joins Chegg.com
- Fox News continues to roll, CNN recaptures (distant) second place
- Video: Sizing up the lead actor/actress Oscar nominations
- Money Links: Cut that deficit -- just not now; discount broker commission war; homeownership rate back to 2000 level
- Stars remake 'We Are the World' for Haiti relief
- Jon Stewart to take on Bill O'Reilly on Wednesday in the 'No Spin Zone'
- 'Don't ask, don't tell' photography project continues as military leaders mull lifting gay ban
- California solar: Use it or lose it
- Businesses must pay 'use' taxes, state warns
- Stanza e-book app maker says Apple nixed USB transfer
- Video: Kenneth Turan and John Horn on the Oscar best picture nominees
- ScarJo / Mango handbag puts Haiti relief on the map
- School reform votes translate into campaign dollars
- Poll: Should USC Coach Kevin O'Neill have fired Stan Holt?
- Glass is half-empty for premium-priced Cabernets
- Michelle Obama revs up campaign against childhood obesity
- A dozen Mater Dei athletes ready for Wednesday
- Foodies, rejoice! Julia Child, er, Meryl Streep gets the nod for 'Julie & Julia'
- Term limits undermine GOP campaign efforts
- California muni bond market could see supply and demand shift under Obama proposals
- Minimally invasive surgery great for patients, not so hot for surgeons
- Your morning adorable: The doctor is in for Melbourne Zoo's twin red panda cubs
- Baseball: Capistrano Valley is loaded with pitchers
- Former USC linebacker Rey Maualuga pleads guilty to drunk driving
- Video: Who will win the Oscar for best director? And who was overlooked?
- Pending home sales inched up 1% in December
- Quick! Where's the deep fryer!?!? Giant squid 'invade' local waters
- ABC wondering if 'The View' would be better in the afternoons
- Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, lives to text and tweet about it (eventually)
- Home Tour: In Brentwood, stucco house gets a fresh new look outside and in
- UCLA picked to finish third in Pac-10 baseball
- 'Nine' not totally snubbed at Oscar nominations
- Jamie McCourt gets back in the game too
- Groomer who sold 'gothic kittens' online goes to trial in Pennsylvania
- Groundhog-less Alaska celebrates its first-ever Marmot Day
- Football: Crenshaw players set to sign
- Opinion: Stephen Colbert grills Harold Ford: funny or unfair?
- Democrats urge rejection of Schwarzenegger's lieutenant governor pick
- CBS sells out Super Bowl ads
- Parentology: Aden & Anais blankets and other proof <br> of the power of the new-mom network
- EGYPT: Are politicians exploiting Egypt's football success?
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: Alexa Chung lands Vogue UK cover, Is Anna Wintour reality TV's newest star? and Stella McCartney's stunning spring campaign
- Southern California Edison signs solar deal with Recurrent Energy
- Monster Mash: J.D. Salinger portrait; controversy over Degas; Magnum collection sold
- Pentagon to study ending 'don't ask, don't tell'
- Opinion: Is Obama winning war on Al Qaeda that Bush lost?
- Boys' basketball: Monday's scores
- Girls' basketball: Monday's scores
- 'The Bachelor': Jake makes a virgin sacrifice
- Mike Cone's cactus-worthy pottery
- 'Lost' finally returns tonight; its actors and producers chat about the final season
- Those healthy claims on packages: We love them!
- Conservative activist James O'Keefe defends actions in Landrieu's office
- Oscar's 2010 costume design nods include 'Coco,' 'Nine'
- The literary side of the Best Picture Oscar nominees
- LEBANON: Probe launched into Israel's alleged cross-border abduction of teenage shepherd
- Mario Bellini's Dune tray for Kartell
- Rep. John Murtha hospitalized in intensive care
- 'Damages': Ellen is Tommy's girl?
- The Morning Fix: Oscar noms are in! OWN's big idea -- lots of Oprah. Sony layoffs. Paramount to test 'Catfish.' Is 'Lost' pirate-proof? 'Star Trek' game could have parents locking basement door.
- Give your nails 'The Look' for spring
- Knee replacements: good for gaining function, bad for gaining weight
- Obama administration in full-court political press to sell $3.8-trillion budget plan
- 2010 Academy Awards scorecard
- Speier’s pollster quashes rumor of candidate's interest in other statewide races
- The three biggest surprises of Oscar morning
- Apple has a flickering fix for the 27-inch iMac
- Obama, Medvedev praise efforts to control nuclear weapons
- First take: The Whitman-Poizner money race; a woman will lead National Guard; Prop. 8 court reenactment
- Amenity Home unfurls organic Fern linens for spring
- To combat piracy, UCLA reaches for the Clicker
- A new section in the paper, and other changes
- Get ready for the Palm Springs Mod Squad
- Opinion: Forget Groundhog Day! Feb. 2 = Marmot Day, thanks to Sarah Palin
- 'House M.D.': Family obligation, meet the diabolical puppet master
- Karen Schmeer dies at 39; film editor
- Jeeve Ducornet puts Hollywood house on the market for $649,000
- PASSINGS: Charles Lewis
- David Brown dies at 93; producer of 'Jaws,' 'The Sting'
- CBS takes the rap for not taking Grammy's rap
- Infection, early birth linked to asthma
- A tough sell? Count on it
- Tuesday's Talk Shows
- Securitization industry charts its future
- Manny Pacquiao decides to simply fight on
- L.A. takes a shine to another Owens Valley product: sun
- For LMFAO, Grammys are life in La La La land
- Weird, but this time, no shots directed at Kobe Bryant
- Women's AP top 25 results for Monday
- Sidney Crosby's three goals lead Penguins past Sabres, 5-4
- Helene Elliott's NHL rankings
- Shannon Ryan's men's college basketball rankings
- Lonnie White recalls sights, sounds and (gulp!) smells of Saints' bad old days
- Andrew Bynum's aggressiveness pays off for Lakers
- Son of alleged serial killer held in attempted robbery
- Haitian Americans frustrated in attempts to return to their homeland
- Jumbo squid ink-jet into Newport Beach
- No coming-out party for Super Bowl
- U.S. pair learns to build a better bobsled
- Consumer watchdog agency may get lost in the shuffle
- A love story turned mystery
- Kobe Bryant passes West as Lakers go south in loss to Grizzlies
- Obama appears blinded by his own ideological biases
- Wednesday's TV highlights
- Residents seek narrow escape for Broad Beach
- A disappointing defense review
- Sony Pictures to cut 450 workers as DVD sales decline
- Iran says it's willing to ship out uranium
- Indie producer Film Department pushes ahead with plans for IPO this month
- Clippers tonight
- On the outskirts of teeming Cairo, a refuge
- No coming-out party for Super Bowl
- J.D. Salinger portrait is hung in National Gallery
- U.S., China, others join Copenhagen Accord on climate
- Wind energy job growth isn't blowing anyone away
- L.A. must preserve its reserve fund
- Preaching faith to the canine-ites
- Obama's budget proposes $100-billion jobs plan, higher taxes on wealthy
- Concorde trial begins in France
- Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'How the Earth Was Made' revisits Mount St. Helens
- Citibank to keep checking accounts free until at least 2011
- Foes spend big to gun for Brown
- On the chopping block, again
- Joint Chiefs Chairman Mullen supports right of gays to serve in military
- Astronomers spot aftermath of asteroid collision
- Mr. Ayers -- recording artist
- New Orleans Saints' defense considers fear the key factor
- Pentagon budget calls for more unmanned aircraft
- Boldly gaming
- Congress should keep pressure on FBI
- A lonely road for a political novice
- Questions and answers for owners of Toyotas affected by the recall
- Arron Afflalo's jumper lifts Nuggets in overtime
- 'Avatar.' 'The Blind Side' and 'The Hurt Locker' among Oscar nominees
- Texas' fall from No. 1 has been thunderous
- Oil futures bounce back; gasoline prices keep dropping
- Toyota hopes to fix image along with gas pedals
- Disputed Toyota documents could shed light on safety accusations
- Ethiopian air crash shines light on lives of migrant workers
- 'Sanford' producer, child advocate
- Oscar nominations announced
- Man who claimed to be Vicente Fox's brother pleads not guilty to swindles
- Producer of 'Jaws,' 'The Sting,' 'Cocoon'
- 'Rapid refund' loans prompt warning from state attorney general
- The Times' top 25 girls' basketball rankings
- Events happening Tuesday
- 14 illegal immigrants found in Reseda house
- 54 killed as suicide bomber targets Shiite pilgrims in Iraq
- Dietrich Riley's hard choices typical in college football recruiting
- 'The Michael Vick Project'
- PASSINGS: Charles Lewis
- Jeeve Ducornet puts Hollywood house on the market for $649,000
- Utah extends season-best win streak to six games
- Pakistan says it will help train Afghan forces
- Escaped raccoon injures man at Bakersfield zoo
- Up next for Kings: Tuesday vs. New York Rangers
- Johnson & Johnson says Boston Scientific to settle suits
- Men's AP top 25 results for Monday
- NASA funding plan takes a broader view
- At a Haiti school's reopening, a lesson in sharing
- Swedish rapper guilty in killing
- Antidepressants may help stroke victims
- Conservative activists arrested at senator's office; the Toyota recalls; remembering J.D. Salinger and Howard Zinn
- Report linking autism to vaccines is retracted by medical journal
- Reed Johnson signs one-year deal with Dodgers
- Barnes & Noble shares jump on move by Ron Burkle
- Toronto's Burke gets the trading ball rolling
- L.A. can't go it alone on pot
- Marc Gasol has flourished in Memphis
- 3-D is helping brighten the picture for Imax
- Craig Smith provides relief off bench for Clippers
- Nikola Dragovic's assault hearing is postponed
- Set clear boundaries with a controlling mother
- Melissa Joan Hart, Joey Lawrence to star in ABC comedy series 'Melissa & Joey'
- CBS takes the rap for not taking Grammy's rap
- Poizner claims intimidation
- 'The Michael Vick Project'
- L.A. councilman considers layoffs for police, firefighters
- Horoscope: Feb. 2