- Frank McCourt meets press but sidesteps some questions
- Weekend Talk Shows: HSS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius makes the case for healthcare reform
- Uptick in consumer borrowing a surprise
- Iliad Bookshop's impressive odyssey
- PASSINGS: Lolly Vegas, Ron Banks
- Protection delayed for greater sage grouse
- iPad due out April 3; Apple stock hits record high
- Flight attendants union wants combat training
- Riding the bus in L.A.; water conservation in Orange; Reagan on the $50 bill
- Cleaning up on defense is no chore for Furcal
- Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 smart phones won't be reverse compatible
- Who will win the Oscars?
- It's effortless for Lakers
- Lakers are making less of more
- 2 customers disarm would-be robber
- Greg Critser considers our mortality in 'Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging'
- A mixed set of Hendrix sounds
- Healthcare gap persists for minority women
- Old Spice talks to the ladies, man
- Hopping to it to preserve the rare mountain yellow-legged frog
- For muni bonds, some financial advisors look outside California
- Muse school is actress' brainchild
- Kings lose their second in a row
- Shifts in California GOP candidate Poizner's position on abortion scrutinized
- Students are channeling their anger
- Overtime pay may be putting a dent in state's furlough savings
- Horoscope for March 6, 2010
- Saturday's TV Highlights: Larry Bird and Magic Johnson are featured in a new special
- Andreas Gursky makes a long-distance connection
- Timeline of events at Aurora Las Encinas Hospital
- Lakers find the road to a repeat isn't easy
- Reagan on the $50? Not yet
- Bank failures strike a blow to city’s art
- A service for 2 fallen airmen
- Google buys DocVerse, maker of group editing tool
- Teachers as reformers
- Up next for Ducks: Saturday at Phoenix
- Lakers talk over their issues
- They're fans of 'serious' films
- John Patrick Bedell's troubled path to the Pentagon
- Three Republicans fight for the GOP nomination to challenge Boxer
- Home away from home? Hardly
- Iraq war was 'right decision,' says British prime minister
- Illusions of home
- CALIFORNIA LOTTERY RESULTS
- Woman charged with abducting daughter in 1995
- Frank Denyer creates works that are intimate and unusual
- Upsetting times call for a Lakers victory
- Westchester boys, Carson girls win City Section basketball titles
- Lakers making less of more
- Arizona bus crash kills 6
- Stylists aim for picture perfection at the Oscars
- Aurora Las Encinas Hospital faces renewed scrutiny
- Ex-Assembly speaker handed out pay raises on last day
- New York Gov. David Paterson says he won't resign
- USC basketball season ends with fifth straight loss
- Michael Jordan doesn't show signs of changing
- Raimund Abraham dies at 76; Austrian-born architect, theorist and teacher
- Monday Evening Concerts
- As rains approach, a scramble to get latrines and hygiene supplies to Haiti
- Gloria Steinem: The founder
- Memorial service for Nathan Scott set March 15
- Loyola Marymount ends Pepperdine's season
- Muni bonds: Ours, or theirs?
- Quick Takes - March 6, 2010
- For the record - March 6, 2010
- Boys' basketball: Crespi, Alemany fans deserve salute
- Baseball: Lopes has 6 RBIs, Owens 14 Ks for Edison
- Boys' basketball: Third time still a charm for Celts
- Basketball: Friday championship scores
- Soccer: Friday championship scores
- Animal lovers' calendar: Weekend of March 6-7 and beyond
- Boys' basketball: Crespi wins Division 4A title
- Boys' basketball: Crespi leading Alemany 49-43
- Boys' basketball: San Pedro wins City Division II title
- Boys' basketball: Celts on top 47-43 with 1:29 left
- Boys' basketball: Crespi regains the lead, 45-42
- Winemakers, businesspeople at odds with wildlife officials over California tiger salamander protection
- Boys' basketball: Alemany takes 42-41 lead
- Readers find ad curiouser and curiouser
- Boys' basketball: Crespi 36, Alemany 35
- Boys' basketball: Crespi clinging to 29-27 lead
- Softball: Many gather to honor former Mater Dei pitcher Brianne Matthews
- Boys' basketball: It's the Twilight Zone
- Capturing the Spirit (Awards): eggshell fragility with a steel backbone
- Boys' basketball: Alemany is off to fast start
- Art review: Mel Bochner at Marc Selwyn Fine Art
- Boys' basketball: Alemany fans show up en masse
- It's a leather jacket jackpot at the Independent Spirit Awards
- Boys' basketball: Price holds on for 73-70 victory
- Art review: ‘Minimum Yields Maximum’ at Monte Vista
- Poizner reversed strong support for abortion rights
- A cacophony of color kicks off the Independent Spirit Awards
- Galaxy says Landon Donovan will return March 15, unless . . .
- POM Wonderful stands by its claims -- and keeps 'em coming
- Boys' basketball: Lutheran trails 70-67 with 2:35 left
- Boys' basketball: Price has 70-63 lead with 4:24 left
- Art review: Laura Lasworth at Lora Schlesinger Gallery
- Boys' basketball: Price up 51-46 after three quarters
- Boys' basketball: Price uses 11-0 run to take lead
- Baseball roundup: Hueneme upsets Chatsworth
- Boys' basketball: Lutheran in front 43-40 at halftime
- Baseball: Corona Santiago shows power and heart
- Art review: Kim Rugg at Mark Moore Gallery
- Boys' basketball: Lutheran takes early lead over Price
- Boys' basketball: Price and Lutheran ready to tip off
- Amanda Seyfried likely to don 'Red Riding Hood'
- Scene & Heard: Andrea Bocelli and Luminario Ballet
- Girls' basketball: Serra captures Division 5AA title
- 710 ESPN radio tweaks program lineup
- Google not very good at attracting search engines to its own Web pages
- Girls' basketball: Serra leads Valley Christian 51-35
- Girls' basketball: Serra leads 36-20 at halftime
- In tough economic times, police departments struggle to keep their K-9 units afloat
- Weekend reading: Poor Ned Colletti gets no love
- WebClawer: PETA wants to neuter Knut; owners fight to save dachshund that bit vet tech; Christian blogger defends post that advocated killing Tilikum the orca
- Closing Saturday: James Welling's Glass House show at Regen Projects
- Skirting danger, sipping cocktails at Women in Film's pre-Oscar bash
- Weekend TV Talk Shows: HSS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius makes the case for healthcare reform
- Energy Secretary Steven Chu talks politics and nuclear power in Santa Barbara
- Zanuck: 'George Lucas is the Thomas Edison of our time'
- Evan Lysacek, Mirai Nagasu to be honored in El Segundo
- Conan Twitter Tracker: The End
- Los Angeles Fashion Week: 'Concept' on the calendar
- Redbone singer and guitarist Lolly Vegas dies at 70
- Disney and Cablevision battle gets uglier as deadline nears
- Energy Secretary Chu talks green funding and China in Santa Barbara
- NBC renews its entire Thursday night comedy block
- 'Bengal Tiger' at the Mark Taper Forum will feature original cast and creative team
- Hot Property: Pete Sampras lists Lake Sherwood home for $25 million
- Paris Fashion Week: At Nina Ricci, romance wins out
- Opinion: Terror trial decision and re-decision = political problems for Obama
- Old Globe to present Tovah Feldshuh in 'Golda's Balcony'
- Mission Impossible? No, J.J. Abrams was indeed honored as an Irishman in film
- Poizner picks up a key conservative endorsement
- Out and about during Oscar week: Women in Film pre-Oscar cocktail party
- L.A. Times week in Hollywood (March 5, 2010)
- Newly jobless in Pasadena, director Damaso Rodriguez tackles the Great Depression in Seattle
- The Project: Whole wheat sourdough boules
- Top Google execs get bonuses and raises
- Solved! Tim Gray on the mystery of Variety's missing review of 'Iron Cross'
- Move over, Cosmo! The Joint Commission has its own quiz
- Yahoo Mail plays nice with Facebook
- Angels closer Brian Fuentes struggles in exhibition debut
- Preview review: Can 'Twilight' star Kristen Stewart use 'The Runaways' to become a serious actress?
- Music review: James Conlon and Lise de la Salle play Prokofiev
- Paris Fashion Week: For Balenciaga, Balmain and Rick Owens, it's all in the packaging
- PREACH IT! The Jackson house o’ crazy: a primer
- Bill Demong is a thrill seeker on and off the ski jump
- Baseball: Mater Dei loses its top pitcher for season
- A son's lament for CalPERS' big losses
- Theater review: 'Oedipus El Rey' at the Theatre at Boston Court
- Prime choices March 7 - 13
- Rainforest pact: Brazil and the U.S. agree to cooperate
- Printer ink, Israel loom large in Republican Senate candidate debate
- Theater review: 'Men of Tortuga' by Furious Theatre Company
- Renardo Sidney declared ineligible by NCAA
- Schwarzenegger and Shriver repay $235,000 earned from tourism ads
- Opinion: Most Americans think a mail-free Saturday sounds fine: Poll
- Everton wants to keep Galaxy's Landon Donovan a while longer
- Rodent of the Week: Another advantage to nursing the baby
- Statement from Rep. Eric Massa
- Services set for composer Nathan Scott
- SeaWorld Orlando's 911 calls released following trainer's orca death
- Google buys DocVerse, fourth acquisition in two months
- How a law class exercise triggered a media flurry about Chief Justice John Roberts
- Opinion: Fat, sugar, chicken, milk -- 100 years of American eating
- Details of Roy Ashburn's DUI arrest released
- Kinara Spa offers Oscar nominees and presenters a free day of beauty
- N.Y. Democrat Eric Massa to quit House amid ethics probe
- 'Real Housewives of New York City': The love boat
- Hot Property: A bumper crop of $50-million listings
- Theater review: 'Backwards In High Heels' at International City Theatre
- Microsoft: New Windows 7 phones won't run older programs
- Tony Strickland announces bid for state controller
- With 'Pendragon' project, 'Losers' director looks to win at the round table
- Pilot Season: News and Casting Updates
- Your morning adorable: Rabbit walks like a man
- Harlem Globetrotters invade Angels camp ... really
- Jay-Z, Beyonce get a White House visit with Obama
- 'John King, USA' to launch March 22 on CNN in Lou Dobbs' former time slot
- Theater review: 'The Story of My Life' by Havok Theatre Company
- Ron Banks and the Dramatics, with an L.A. twist
- NASCAR unveils Hunter Index of top developmental series drivers
- Dive-bombing red-tailed hawk dogging Connecticut town may be lovesick, wildlife experts say
- Is 'Green Zone' really appallingly anti-American?
- Has Sarah Palin gone from bagging moose to bagging swag?
- Theater review: 'Forgiveness' at Black Dahlia Theater
- 'Real Housewives of Orange County': Is that all there is?
- 'Alice in Wonderland,' from every angle
- Weekend Update: Jean Paul Gaultier for Target, Moods of Norway event, Blowfish sample sale, Urban Pet grand opening
- 'Avatar' could lift Oscar ratings, but there is the Leonardo DiCaprio factor and ABC's feud with Cablevision to consider
- Paris Review names Lorin Stein new editor
- French design firm H5 eyes Oscar glory with 'Logorama'
- 'Tron: Legacy' director: 'We are on a new server now'
- Meet the Trololololo guy -- you'll *never* forget him
- Vladimir Putin criticizes Russia's Olympic program
- TURKEY: Anger at U.S. over Armenian genocide resolution
- 'Manifest Equality' advocates for civil rights
- So what's in our food (besides HVP and maybe salmonella)? Take a look ...
- Sarah Palin at that gifting suite: Grabby? Not so much
- Opinion: A century of Times editorials on the filibuster
- Michelle Obama to donate inaugural gown to Smithsonian
- Chile earthquake: President-elect takes reins, though he's not in charge yet
- Statues of Nick Adenhart, Preston Gomez stir emotions among Angels
- Apple sets iPad release date
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: Taylor Swift to light up Elle cover; Ohne Titel's Stephen Courter; Rodarte's cool new video; 'Alice' tats; Oscar fashion bloopers; and more
- Monster Mash: New bid to crack Boston art heist; drama prize for Julia Cho; Ansel Adams' son sues museum
- Obama, Haitian president to meet next week
- $100 bill to get face-lift
- Spring's opening lineup
- Opinion: Will healthcare make Obama a one-term president?
- Baseball: Thursday scores
- Some Puckish fare on the menu for Oscar Sunday
- Terrorism trial creates political problem for Obama
- 'Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains': Russell and Coach escape the hot seat
- Sunbrella and Sharpies: Design secrets from Oscar's green room
- Madonna, Elton John, Quentin Tarantino and more hit Soho House for a star-packed pre-Oscar party in WeHo
- The Morning Fix: Oscar edition! NBC sets summer plans and will air Emmys live. E!'s latest reality mess.
- 'Alice in Wonderland': Curious and curiouser
- There's good news on the 'Chuck' ratings front
- First Take: The Tom Campbell effect. Schools miss out on federal funds.
- Final fabrication workshop for 'Fat Fringe' art installation at Fix Gallery this weekend
- Predicting Oscar: Best bets for best picture
- 'Star Wars' and Ke$ha? May the Farce be with you
- It's a beautiful day for a ballgame, and a guess at the 25-man roster
- Obama administration encouraged by steady unemployment rate
- Boys' basketball: View Park coach to have jersey number retired
- Opinion: Top 10 stupidest Tweets Obama's @WhiteHouse may archive forever
- Photo-Form launches tiles into the third dimension
- 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' stakes its claim to greatness
- Whoa dude, it's the Grateful Dead with Washington and Lincoln
- ClipSync and the wisdom of the peanut gallery
- Opinion: The Fox News story that nearly sank a Bush presidency before it began
- Nan Martin dies at 82; prolific actress
- Independent Spirit Awards go through changes
- The secret life of seals
- Market Watch: Mar Vista farmers market
- From the archives: Terrorism trial creates political problem for Obama
- Gunman opens fire at Pentagon entrance, is killed
- California's first couple were paid for tourism promotions
- Shane Mosley has something to prove against Floyd Mayweather Jr.
- Bill Dwyre: Santa Anita is awash in controversy over surface
- 'Brooklyn's Finest' info
- Review: 'Brooklyn's Finest'
- NBC's 'Dateline' to help fill Leno gap
- Jerry Brown's long political past cuts both ways
- Horoscope for March 5, 2010
- Before TARP panel, Citi chief thanks taxpayers
- House panel narrowly passes recognition of Armenian genocide
- Events happening Friday
- Departing U.N. envoy has strong words for Afghan government
- Review: 'Ran'
- 'Ran' info
- California disqualified from receiving federal school funds
- Up next for USC: Saturday at Arizona
- Campbell has shaken up the GOP bid to unseat Boxer
- Highlights of budget changes
- Pending home sales index drops 7.6% in January
- Loyola Marymount preparing to make run at West Coast Conference title
- Thomas ends his slump by holding off Maple Leafs
- Up next for the Clippers: Saturday at Utah
- Britain's Brown says decision to invade Iraq was made for right reasons
- At the Oscars' Governors Ball, that golden feeling
- Retail sales show strongest gain since before the recession
- Patches to California's yawning budget gap are OKd
- Interior Department says sage grouse deserves -- but won't get -- protection
- Trendy technology leads to new jobs
- Employment outlook brightens in U.S., state
- Quincy Pondexter leads Washington past Oregon
- A judge who cares; Chile tries to dig out; controversial antiabortion ads
- For Wesley Snipes, 'Brooklyn's Finest' is no stretch
- Chile's coast haunted by fear, desolation
- Letters: Hockey steals the show in Vancouver
- Reed Johnson gets Dodgers started in 8-3 exhibition win over White Sox
- Florida chill puts tomato prices up the vine
- Vic Darchinyan eager to put on a show against Rodrigo Guerrero
- Black leaders toss Gov. Paterson a lifeline
- Health insurers challenged to justify rate increases to the public
- Force of Arms
- USC basketball Coach Kevin O'Neill isn't bitter at season's end
- NBA roundup: Dirk Nowitzki leads Dallas past Sacramento
- More owners of Toyota vehicles say recall repairs aren't working
- High-tech industry is powering up again
- Truck drivers raging on the road
- Lakers Q&A: obsessing on point guards
- 'Alice in Wonderland' may have the last grin
- Nuclear power -- not a green option
- Grateful Dead exhibit truckin' to New York
- Independent Spirit Awards go through changes
- Starring roles in play not a quantum leap for these two
- Thousands protest California education cuts
- Blippy.com gives the world a peek inside your wallet -- and that's the point
- Business Briefing
- Friday's highlights
- Jump-starting nuclear energy
- GM to reinstate 661 dealerships
- Iraq car bomb kills 3 in Najaf
- City National repays remainder of TARP funds
- Alec Baldwin would like to be Elliott Forrest