- Afghan president heads to Washington
- Ruling party loses election in key German state
- The least visited U.S. national monuments
- Planning your trip to Nicaragua
- Home of the Week: Sister Aimee's castle in Lake Elsinore
- Taliban gears up for Western offensive in Kandahar
- Lakers go for a rare sweep against Jazz, and a close-out would be special
- The best choices
- Home appraisals still fraught with uncertainty despite new code of conduct
- A clean-energy future, now
- Rent Watch: What is 'normal wear and tear'?
- Scene & Heard: Santa Monica Museum of Art 'Incognito' art sale
- Former USC basketball star John Rudometkin continues to fight on — for his life
- Brad Eberhard: abstract art and abstract thoughts
- World Cup 2010: Group G
- L.A. spas where guys unwind
- Small-Business Q&A: How to improve sales
- What the Lakers have to do to win Game 4
- Horoscope: May 9
- UNDERRATED/OVERRATED: MGMT's 'Congratulations', Matthew McConaughey, Minute to Win It, Apple
- A Second Look: Fritz Lang's 'M'
- East Meets West: Huntington Spa at the Langham
- Ask the Inspector: Can I hide an inspection report while selling the home?
- Calaveras County: Still hopping to it
- Medellín, Colombia's architectural renaissance
- Vacationing with charity-minded tour operators
- Calendar: events for May 2010
- Chavez critic convicted in Venezuela
- The Movable Buffet: Meet a Vegas celebrity wrangler
- Critic's Notebook: A U.S.-Vietnam courtship with music
- Author and literary events for the week of May 9, 2010
- Lakers' postseason has been about messages received and delivered
- Discoveries: 'The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain'
- Misery's company in Jane Smiley's latest, 'Private Life'
- Globetrooper.com connects like-minded travelers
- The Desert Retreat: Spa Resort Casino/Palm Springs
- What's the best thing to do with an inherited IRA?
- Indiana Catholic college recalls era of change as it honors rabbi
- Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw shines in 2-0 win over Rockies
- Books & Ideas: Stephen Ambrose's troubling Eisenhower record
- ON THE MARKET: Huntington Beach
- The Uptown Vibe: Arcona Spa Santa Monica
- Programs on Cuba, Bicycling, Europe and Asia
- Gates seeks big cuts in military spending
- Bird lovers on the lookout for their feathered friends
- PLO agrees to indirect Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
- L.A. may stop footing bills for sidewalk and driveway repairs
- Authors and ideas: Martin Amis and an Italian idyll
- Don Cheadle aims to fire on all cylinders as War Machine in 'Iron Man 2'
- Los Angeles Ballet's 'New Wave LA'
- In Virginia, modesty is abolished at the Capitol
- Angels: Week ahead
- Three older women tackle Mt. Whitney
- Down but not out, Imperial County looks to a better future
- Town grieves for oil rig worker lost in explosion
- L.A. schools on sharper lookout for gifted students — and they find them
- Sam Querrey wins title in Serbia
- The Standard-Bearer: Burke Williams
- Planning your trip to Valley of Fire, Nev.
- Staten Island ferry crash injures dozens aboard
- Military deaths
- Digging up chemical weapons in D.C.
- Short films can be a shortcut to Hollywood success
- Oil-stained wretches
- The spa issue: Trends in Southern California day spas
- Charlie Haeger might go on DL
- Q&A: Guatemalan seeks answers in Honduran coup
- Utah Sen. Robert Bennett loses reelection bid
- 13 injured in fire at apartment complex
- A Kern County mining town feels hope leaching away
- Planning your trip to Calaveras County
- Planning your trip to Valley of Fire, Nev.
- For the record - May 9, 2010
- UFC 113 results
- Dodgers get what they deserve with Charlie Haeger on the mound again in 8-0 loss (updated)
- Ted Christopher rated No. 1 driver in NASCAR Developmental Series poll
- Opinion: With Bennett sidelined, Mike Lee and Tim Bridgewater will now face off for Utah Senate seat
- James Loney, you hit like Mark Grace. And that's a powerful compliment
- Video: Craig Kilborn looking to make return to television
- The Sparks fall to the San Antonio Silver Stars, 86-77, in preseason play
- Baseball: Harrison's ninth-inning home run lifts Orange Lutheran
- Phil Mickelson goes low, Tiger Woods does not at TPC
- Michael Hiltzik: How to kill a securities market
- Angels place Maicer Izturis on the disabled list
- Opinion: Utah Republicans reject sending Bennett back to Senate
- Republican Senator Bob Bennett ousted in Utah convention
- Baseball: Chatsworth earns share of league title
- Book Review: 'For Better' by Tara Parker-Pope
- Learning from Medellin
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology's 'All About Birds' website wins Webby Award
- Opinion: Sen. Bennett survives first round of GOP voting in Utah
- Gulf oil spill: Setback for untested containment dome
- Opinion: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer tells Obama to quit joking about immigration crisis
- Make music, not war: an exchange with Vietnam
- L.A. Ballet rides a 'Next Wave' in reality-TV dance
- Opinion: Sunday shows: Brennan, Giuliani, Adm. Allen, Holder
- Happy International Migratory Bird Day!
- Live review: Peter Gabriel at the Hollywood Bowl
- Opinion: Principal sorry for kicking patriotic students off campus; Roger Ebert frustrated
- Baseball: Fulton wins first league title
- YEMEN: A young woman explains why she wears the <i>niqab</i>, the all-covering veil
- Baseball: Friday scores
- Softball: Friday scores
- A sweet -- er, suite -- deal for this year's California Strawberry Festival in Oxnard
- Derek Blasberg's 'Classy' pals fete the writer with a party in Beverly Hills
- Manny Ramirez expectations can't extend to the mound
- On the market: Southland niches heating up
- Bearded & Tschorn: Dr. Phil's mustache gets its wings -- and halo
- Los Angeles Times week in Hollywood (May 7)
- The Realist Idealist: Charging up an electric car with solar panels
- Market Watch: Capay Organic expands into Southern California
- Opinion: Weekly remarks: Richard Shelby-Dems block financial reforms; Obama-Thankful for healthcare
- Flora Thornton dies at 96; L.A. philanthropist and arts patron
- Giulietta Simionato dies at 99; Italian mezzo-soprano
- Flora Thornton dies at 96; L.A. philanthropist and arts patron
- Troubled system works, and three kids get a new dad
- Jazz tries to take away Lakers' inside game
- Saturday's TV highlights
- Indisputable: Gore buys Montecito villa
- A portrait of mental disintegration
- Lakers defeat the Jazz to take 3-0 series lead
- In New York, never enough security
- All-Star game in Arizona: Will it stay or will it go?
- Manny Ramirez doesn't pitch in as Dodgers fall to Rockies, 8-0
- Penguins hold off Canadiens
- Stocks' plunge is a troubling mystery
- Medellín, Colombia's architectural renaissance
- City Council tentatively blocks rent hikes
- Mom can't help him out of Salt Lake City
- Seattle general manager isn't defensive about Mariners' slow start
- Events happening Saturday
- City National acquires failed San Diego bank
- Gustavo Dudamel injures himself mid-concert but returns to podium the next day
- Transportation chief Ray LaHood to meet with Toyota President Akio Toyoda in Japan
- CKX chief's departure could set off bidding war for 'American Idol' parent
- Book review: 'Spoken From the Heart' info
- Times Square shaken up again, by abandoned cooler
- L.A.'s Chinatown tries to draw more nighttime visitors
- Dodgers routed by Rockies, 8-0
- Federal regulators haven't kept up with oil drilling expansion
- Quick Takes: U.S. OKs Alicia Alonso's New York trip
- Britain's Conservatives claim victory
- L.A. city councilman calls for new advertising tax
- Lakers win in a three-point stance
- Brunch celebrates caregivers who stepped in to raise relatives' children
- L.A. Then and Now: Peacocks are one of Arcadia founder's legacies
- Fighting for 'made in the USA'
- Demolition, rebuilding of Sunset Boulevard bridge over 405 to begin
- Eli Broad's proposed art museum; 'the pill' and its impact; observing the Sabbath
- Manny Splendored
- Letters to the editor
- Chivas USA falls to Houston, 2-0
- Lee Westwood gets the drop on the Players field
- Pakistani militant groups out in the open
- Angels put Maicer Izturis on DL
- Cheerio in Los Feliz
- Driving in savings-neutral territory so far
- Richard Riordan, unleashed
- Goldman shareholders support Blankfein's chairman-CEO role
- Tijuana club scene revs up as drug-war fears ease
- Basketball gives Oklahoma City a new brand
- Denny Hamlin gets his third win
- Dynamo goes through Chivas USA's defense as if it isn't even there
- It won't save the whales
- Arizona bill takes aim at ethnic studies classes
- Consumer Reports lifts Lexus GX 460 'do not buy' rating
- All-time Brazilian World Cup soccer team
- Angels defeat Mariners, 4-3, on Hideki Matsui's single in 10th
- Aspiring Rush Limbaughs take to Web radio
- General Growth Properties wins approval of bankruptcy plan, ending rival's takeover bid
- My Favorite Weekend: Joel McHale
- Beyond Hefner's bedroom, a look at his legacy
- Angels' Joe Saunders is taking 'baby steps'
- SEIU picks Mary Kay Henry as president
- End of an era for the Varney homestead
- America's Next Top Mama
- World Cup 2010: Group G
- LeBron James is human after all, but Cavaliers may need superhuman
- Treatment of Derek Fisher shows hypocrisy is a family value in Utah
- Manny Pacquiao goes from boxing ring to political arena
- 'Spoken From the Heart' by Laura Bush
- Containment dome lowered into position over oil leak
- On the Media: Kobe, it's time to man up and own the photo shoot
- Don't look for beautiful games from Brazil
- Jelena Jankovic loses in the final of the Italian Open
- Horoscope: May 8
- No on the parcel tax
- Auto museum displays the crème of the crop
- The weekend TV talk shows
- Why didn't 'Clegg-mania' deliver votes?
- Mothers know best when it comes to family matters
- Filipina writes up a storm
- Needlework
- Edison profit slips on healthcare-reform costs; PG&E beats expectations
- Kermit Cintron literally hits the floor in loss to Paul Williams
- Last weeks of GOP Senate primary race focus on Boxer
- Court dismisses Lions Gate's attempted 'poison pill' to block takeover
- Afghan president heads to Washington
- All is well with Lakers forward Ron Artest
- Galaxy routs Sounders, 4-0
- 3-D films boost domestic box office in time for summer
- One man's political crusade in Utah
- Wall Street calmer but still fearful
- On track on foreign policy
- Times Square bomb suspect had ties to key Pakistani militants
- Media moguls on elevated pay scale
- Dodgers' Joe Torre discusses Colorado's Ubaldo Jimenez
- For the record - May 8, 2010
- Cross country: St. John Bosco gets another athlete signed
- Baseball: Doubles record for Grace Brethren's Schmidt
- Xavier Paul's stop was brief, but he lays ground work for return trip in 6-5 victory over Rockies
- Kings' minor-league affiliate advances in Calder Cup playoffs
- Chris Nolan and J.J. Abrams trailers, under lock and key
- Ted Green: For the Dodgers, it's always a matter of money
- Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Meet My Mom' on Hallmark
- Higher wolf-hunt quotas proposed in Montana and Idaho; wildlife advocacy groups object
- Weekend TV Talk Shows: The Times Square bomb plot is examined
- The Project: Chef Thomas Keller's Roquefort and leek quiche
- Fox and DirecTV hosting charity event for family of the late Will Flannery
- Baseball: Higginbotham outduels Buckel
- WebClawer: Runaway emu captured in S.C.; three-legged dog elected mayor of Colorado town; Katherine Heigl offers reward for animal abuse information
- Opinion: Getting the last word on Holden Caulfield
- The Obamas dine out in Washington
- There was nothing John Ely could have done; Dodgers send right-hander back to minors
- Joaquin Phoenix as rapper: Is the new Casey Affleck documentary for real?
- On 'Oprah,' Dr. Phil shaves off his trademark mustache
- 50 years of 'the pill' -- and here's yet another one
- Some Palin Facebook fans unhappy with endorsement
- Buckets of coffee, sweetened drinks don't boost colon cancer
- Falco out, Lahti in as the jazzman's wife in L.A. Theatre Works' 'Side Man'
- 'Iron Man 2' falling short of 'Dark Knight' in early ticket sales
- Opinion: Shine on, shine on, and harvest the money -- two bits at a time
- Environmental group urges wildlife officials to close state-owned caves to slow the spread of bat disease
- A new, barred window for pay-TV movies
- Opinion: Joe Biden update: Wrong again on jobs
- * KCRW switches theater commentators: Critic out, stage producer in
- TV This Week May 9 - 15
- UCLA basketball: Matt Carlino signs while Wear twins wait on release
- Opinion: Utah Sen. Bob Bennett is conservative, but is he conservative enough to survive the GOP primary?
- U.S. men's hockey team falls to Germany in overtime in Game 1 at world championship
- And now warming up in the bullpen ... Will Ferrell!
- The Ministry presents: Stars prep for Mother's Day 2010
- UCLA football: tackle Nik Abele forced to retire
- Opinion: Who the heck is Rojo Johnson?
- The challenge: Make a magazine in just 48 hours
- Joaquin Phoenix documentary: Even buyers aren't sure if it's a prank
- Former USC star Brian Cushing suspended four games by the NFL
- Dudamel is back: That was quick
- Former USC football player Carl Benson dies
- Martina Hingis, Anna Kournikova to play doubles at Wimbledon
- Dance review: Compania Nacional de Danza at the Orange County Performing Arts Center
- Democratic Party unveils first ad attacking Whitman
- Animal lovers' calendar: Weekend of May 8-9 and beyond
- Go ahead, drop the weight quickly
- You tell us: What fashion decade do you want brought back?
- State cash figures about $1.3 billion below projections
- 'Más Sabe el Diablo': Are all the secretos out?
- FDA panel members support continued use of both rotavirus vaccines despite trace contaminants
- New Round Rock pitcher Billy Ray 'Rojo' Johnson (who looks like Will Ferrell) has interesting debut
- PREACH IT! Wanna know the latest from Gabby Sidibe? Come back in five minutes
- FCC paves way for studios to push movies into the home, rattling theaters
- Who to blame for trading debacle? Regulators still are investigating, while NYSE and Nasdaq trade jabs
- Scarlett Johansson to V mag: 'I don't feel like a girl anymore'
- Opinion: New poll: Now, even Democrats oppose repealing Arizona's illegal immigrant law
- Today's Google Doodle? It's a 170th birthday present for Tchaikovsky
- California tourism expected to rise in 2010 and 2011
- With Beatles biopic, Oasis' Liam Gallagher will take a long and winding road
- Lionel Bringuier finishes for an injured Gustavo Dudamel at the L.A. Philharmonic
- Latest in MGM drama: Len Blavatnik is out and Peter Chernin isn't interested
- ABC names new co-anchor of weekend 'Good Morning America'
- Word Play: Louis Sachar's card-playing obsession
- For better or worse, summer is here, courtesy Katy Perry and Dr. Luke
- UPDATE: Lohan movie 'Inferno' sets off internal firestorm
- Felicity Huffman turns out for photographer Robin Layton's first solo show in L.A.
- Lions Gate loses latest round in Icahn battle
- Variety does a tacky spin job on its film critic promotions
- Dodgers' Web doings: Andre Ethier is all the rage
- Regency brings in-theater dining to San Juan Capistrano
- A video interview with singer and songwriter Sam Phillips: It's not easy being green
- Swoon's affordable bridal gowns
- Charla Nash, victim of chimp attack, checks out of Cleveland Clinic and returns to Connecticut
- Rodent of the Week: Reversing age-related memory loss
- 'Chavez fatigue' challenges regime in Venezuela
- Gulf oil spill: Hair of dogs to tackle oil
- Most-downloaded iPhone game sets the bar very low
- Tainted lettuce sickens 19, leads to recall and increased pressure on lawmakers
- Comcast and NBC to speed up plans to unload LA TV station
- After delay, iPad ready for international release
- Vote: Who are the 10 greatest L.A. Lakers of all time?
- 'Iron Man 2' not in top tier yet with $7.5 million from midnight shows
- Gulf oil spill: Breton wildlife refuge closed to public as spill spreads
- '24': Jack Bauer won't have a happy ending, exec producer says
- Everyday Joe TV catches fire -- with help from the Cable Guy, Sarah Palin and Kate Gosselin
- Times Square reopens after bomb squad finds only water bottles, books in cooler
- Getty Center announces summer concert series: Mayer Hawthorne, Les Savy Fav, Dawes, more
- The Agency Wars erupt again: CAA vs. IMG
- Little-known Senate candidate trumpets non-endorsement
- Gulf oil spill: More fishing areas closed
- Pacific Time podcast: Mercurial markets; dispatches from the Gulf of Mexico region, Pakistan, Sacramento, San Diego; and a little 'Iron Man 2'
- 'Sex and the City 2' fashion-focused book to be released May 18