- Gulf oil spill: BP woes continue with another debt downgrade
- Advisory committee for the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans releases its report
- World Cup: Brazil vs. North Korea; Brazil wins, 2-1
- Gulf oil spill: Oil containment work resumes after ship struck by lightning
- Twitter fail whale resurfaces as site struggles with outages
- Ex-News Corp. entrepreneurs by the beach look to make a mint on social commerce
- Gulf oil spill: Oil execs scolded for 'cookie cutter' spill plans
- Utah has not been contacted by Pac-10, Mountain West commissioner says
- Eminem, Usher and others play Activision's star-studded event at Staples
- 'Secret plan' comment sets off Whitman-Brown dust-up
- Quick! Name the U.S. surgeon general!
- Bloomberg wants more time to study Comcast-NBC deal
- Minnesota wildlife experts ask drivers to brake for turtles
- And the planet got warmer, too
- GQ coverboy Taylor Lautner still mows the lawn, takes out the trash
- Softball: Junior women's national team has been announced
- Brown apologizes for comparing Whitman's campaign to Nazi propaganda minister
- Wednesday: Chat with Ben Fritz from E3
- CAA's Bryan Lourd: Yes, we're talking with investors
- Kellan Lutz ponders the brass ring for 'Love, Wedding, Marriage'
- Gulf oil spill: Lightning-ignited fire halts oil collection system
- Everybody loves the Lakers, 90210-style
- Shareen Vintage stocks Madewell stores with fun summer finds
- Artist Vanessa Prager shows her spare side with solo show 'Love You Too'
- Wrestling stars will pile-drive the multiplex (but in family comedies?)
- 'Top Chef D.C.': Seventh season launches with a star cook in the kitchen
- Peanuts on planes: to ban or not to ban? Department of Transportation wants your input
- Opera review: Wagner's 'Die Feen' by Lyric Opera of Los Angeles
- E3: Nintendo in talks with three studios for 3-D movies on upcoming 3DS hand-held console
- Your morning adorable: Baby skunks make their debut at German zoo
- 'The City' sneak peek: Can Olivia Palermo save her job?
- Baseball: Lopez, DeSantiago share East Valley honors
- Apple's new iPhone hits snag as AT&T online ordering is paralyzed
- 'Real Steel' gives us an excuse to run Hugh Jackman pictures
- Art review: Felipe Ehrenberg at Museum of Latin American Art
- Meg Whitman drops another $20 million into campaign
- 'Mortal Kombat' gets new life from ... the director of 'Fame'?
- Pat Tillman documentary to have limited Los Angeles showing this weekend
- Combo plate: Michelle Obama on the town, L.A. blogger recommendations, ditto dining and more
- Dr. John: Night trippin' at the Grammy Museum
- Dodgers Web doings: If Frank McCourt doesn't step up for Cliff Lee or Roy Oswalt, is it because he can't or won't?
- Drug warfare flares up in Mexico; more than 100 killed in five days
- Football: Loyola running back picks Arizona
- The sound of the vuvuzela: The science behind the bluster
- Comcast gets support from Martha's Vineyard and South Bend
- Q&A: Susan Nethero, the 'Bra Whisperer,' dishes on common bra-fit blunders
- UCLA football: Is Coach Rick Neuheisel trying out a new career?
- In GOP primary for insurance commissioner, Mike Villines closes gap on Brian FitzGerald to 234 votes
- 'Unlikely' Candace Parker will practice
- Consumer Confidential: New plastic rules, less shrimp, a piece o' Tesla
- FDA warns against overdosing infants with vitamin D
- World Cup: Ghana's game-winning penalty kick almost costs him an ear
- REDCAT announces lineup for 2010 NOW festival
- World Cup: Portugal vs. Ivory Coast -- Portugal struggles to a 0-0 tie.
- New Adam Lambert music video premieres: 'If I Had You'
- The Salahis partied at White House, are now confirmed for 'Real Housewives of D.C.'
- ISRAEL: Ireland sends Israeli diplomat packing with a message that forging passports is 'clearly unacceptable'
- Opinion: Thatcher and Palin? Out of frame, out of bounds
- Gulf oil spill: 'We would not have drilled the way they did,' ExxonMobil says
- World Cup: Large salary disparity among the six MLS players in South Africa
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: Target makes a World Cup fashion gaffe, Soccer star Ronaldo makes a fashion pitch, Speedos make a comeback
- Another Charlie Sheen car goes off a cliff -- can anybody stop the madness?
- Teen sailor Abby Sunderland defends her parents
- Question of the day: Did Texas make a good move by staying in the Big 12 (or Big 10)?
- World Cup: Broadcaster to mute vuvuzelas
- With the tie clock, lunch is at half past paisley
- World Cup: Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon might be out of the tournament
- Wall Street roundup: Have banks won on derivatives? Goldman's success
- Opinion: President Obama to visit Ohio; 62-foot statue of Jesus explodes
- Decision due in Congress on repaying under-insured IndyMac depositors
- Conductor Steven Mercurio gets serious about Andrea Bocelli and his new collaborator, Sting
- SNEAK PEEK: 'X-Men' by Victor Gischler and Paco Medina
- HBO's 'True Blood' has a lot of bite
- World Cup: New Zealand vs. Slovakia: Tony Lochhead makes UC Santa Barbara history
- IRAN: Mousavi slams government, outlines opposition objectives
- How iconic foods became iconic foods
- Football: Where have all the top defensive backs gone?
- Betty White makes the talk-show rounds -- and flirts with overexposure
- World Cup: New Zealand vs. Slovakia; New Zealand scores in injury time for 1-1 tie
- World Cup: England has 'gone backward' under Fabio Capello, says Franz Beckenbauer
- Monster Mash: Ernest Fleischmann remembered; Getty Trust leadership dilemma
- E3: New Tron game one of growing number in 3-D, shrinking number based on movies
- Baseball: Mike Stanton is getting star treatment
- Planet Green expands eco-programming with 'The Fabulous Beekman Boys'
- Baseball: College World Series is loaded with local players
- 'Real Housewives of New York City': Reunion recap, Part 2 of three
- World Cup: Labor unrest spreads to fourth stadium
- The Morning Fix: Box-office trading gets closer to reality. Michigan says no to cannibalism. Rupert Murdoch goes after BSkyB
- First Take: Whitman's latest contribution. 'Tea party' fizzles in California. Budget deadline looms.
- Behind the looking glass: Focus group sounds off on Brown, Whitman
- Album review: Sarah McLachlan's 'Laws of Illusion'
- Dustin Hoffman and Scott Turow, together
- Why are Victoria Beckham and Sebastian Bach hanging with 'SpongeBob'?
- PacSun throwing a two-day beach party in Santa Monica
- 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey': Dina (and Grandma Wrinkles) bids farewell
- Sun-sensitive medications and healthful diets may affect cataracts
- More on the art of the politcal landscape
- 'The Bachelorette': Joshua Radin headlines a very 'musical' night
- E3: Virgin's Richard Branson dives back into games
- One year ago: George Belotti
- 'Twilight Saga: Eclipse' life-size cutouts selling for $33; will Jacob, Bella or Edward be going home?
- Album review: The Like's 'Release Me'
- Lower cancer risk is another reason to like 'good' cholesterol
- Happy days are here again says Pricewaterhouse Coopers
- Opinion: 4th time: See Obama see the oil spill. Hear Obama talk the oil spill. So, what'll he say tonight?
- Jimmy Dean dies at 81; country music star and sausage king
- Ernest Fleischmann dies at 85; manager who guided Los Angeles Philharmonic's transformation
- Book Review: 'The Passage' by Justin Cronin
- Sara Lee CEO reveals she had a stroke
- Should banks, merchants or customers bear the cost of paying with plastic?
- Urban Institute Panel analyzes California law on denser city development
- UCLA's Tyler Rahmatulla is out because of piling-on injury
- Angels hope for the best on Erick Aybar's knee injury
- Compton neighbors grew wary of accused killer
- 169 apply for pot dispensary permits
- Israelis have mixed feelings about flotilla inquiry
- Strike at World Cup stadiums has spread
- Tesla Motors plans $167-million stock offering
- Celtics take sizable hit in middle with Kendrick Perkins' injury
- Previewing Wednesday's featured matches
- Video games based on new movies take a hit
- California's economy to see sluggish recovery this year, UCLA economists say
- Burt Call guided Mater Dei masterfully
- Sting's classical effect
- Unpaid internships? File under 'hypocrisy'
- Swarm of quakes rattles region
- Lennar home buyers can rent their solar equipment
- Brazil beats North Korea, 2-1, on a frigid night
- Anaheim police investigating murder-suicide
- No troops for Kyrgyzstan
- The gulf tragedy doesn't negate the fact that oil is a green fuel
- UC Irvine recommends suspension of campus' Muslim student group
- Ayala's Jessica Hall is The Times' softball player of the year
- History says Lakers have to beat Celtics in seven games
- And the World Cup prima donna award goes to ...
- Stakes rise for Obama and the gulf
- Gambling debts send beleaguered former CalPERS board member back to Bankruptcy Court
- Dodgers' Chad Billingsley goes on disabled list
- Tuesday's Highlights
- North Korean 'fans' at World Cup look out of place
- East West Bancorp's stock jumps after latest takeover of a failed bank
- Q&A: New health coverage rules for employers
- Federal regulators approve investment vehicle to allow box-office futures trading
- U.S. Supreme Court to rule on California inmate release
- Debate grows over Afghanistan withdrawal plan
- Planet Green tries to broaden its reach with 'The Fabulous Beekman Boys'
- Mexico limits dollar transactions
- Preventive detention, with caveats
- 'The Passage' info
- When Lesley Ann Warren felt like 'Cinderella'
- Sting with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
- Sergeant honored at Camp Pendleton chapel
- CalPERS board member's ethics fines unpaid
- Federal appeals court reinstates charges against L.A. attorney Pierce O'Donnell
- A question of leadership for Getty Trust after CEO James Wood's death
- Mater Dei's Cory Hahn is The Times' player of the year
- Maybe conference expansion isn't for the best
- Downpour triggers flash floods in Oklahoma City
- L.A. mayor gets restraining order against man who allegedly threatened him
- With new album, Devo looks beyond its devoted following
- Prop. 8 judge wants a discussion of 'choice' in sexual orientation
- An appreciation: Ernest Fleischmann
- Obama previews oil spill address in Florida visit
- Compton neighbors grew wary of accused killer
- Matchup is a Dutch treat
- L.A. Philharmonic's determined visionary
- Downtown suits L.A. Film Festival's vision
- Sara Lee CEO reveals she had a stroke
- Carolina conundrum
- Horoscope: June 15
- Shootouts leave 10 federal police officers dead
- Iraq's new parliament holds its first session as political deadlock continues
- Lakers make it one for all
- Lakers rout Celtics in Game 6, 89-67
- Kyrgyzstan death toll higher than reported, interim leader says
- Tesla Motors plans $167-million stock offering
- Producer planned reality show on Abby Sunderland's voyage
- News Corp. picks up more bricks for pay wall
- Milestones and legacies
- Happening Tuesday
- Court blocks deportation over minor drug convictions
- Shootout leaves 14 dead in Mexico tourist spot
- 'Babalu' looking to get belt back at Strikeforce
- From here to eternity: the grunion put on their own show
- The Times' final high school baseball rankings
- Spirit Airlines, striking pilots to resume talks Tuesday
- Border security trips up immigration debate
- The best in high school baseball
- Dodgers go swinging in the rain, beat Cincinnati, 12-0
- Abby Sunderland's around-the-world sailing bid; deadly high-speed pursuits; cutting back on library hours in L.A.
- Fast Track: Another car owned by Charlie Sheen is driven off a cliff
- California budget woes cast shadow over day-care centers
- Quick Takes: Modigliani sculpture sells for nearly $53 million
- Steve Kerr won't return as general manager of Suns
- Lakers' Kobe Bryant gets his well-deserved due
- Angels suffer another insult to add to injury
- Lakers are desperately seeking another title
- Obama vows to fight oil spill 'with everything we've got for as long it takes'
- Southland economist Jack Kyser to retire
- Jimmy Dean dies at 81; country music star and sausage king
- Tuesday's Talk Shows
- Meg Whitman reportedly shoved EBay employee in 2007
- 'The Fabulous Beekman Boys'
- The national security shell game
- Starbucks to serve up free wireless Internet access for all
- For the record - June 15, 2010
- Pictures: Babies with beer
- Baseball: Teams selected for North-South series
- ISRAEL: Parliament might put an end to "Photoshop" models
- District court judge to hear arguments about Rocky Mountain gray wolves' endangered status
- Michael Jackson is coming to the video game world
- Tuesday's TV Highlights: Ed O’Neill on 'Biography'
- Ridley Scott wants to make two 'Alien' prequels
- Tuesday's TV Talk Shows: 'Tavis' has Tom Petty
- Angels catcher Jeff Mathis resumes rehab assignment at Salt Lake
- Opinion: Fighting over debit-card fees
- Escaped yaks get Wyoming cattle ranchers' goat
- Angels agree to terms with two of top five picks in last week's draft
- Football: Taft QB Bercovici commits to Arizona State
- Ask a Vet: How can I help an allergic roommate live comfortably with my cat?
- Nepalese government investigates surge in Indian rhinoceros poaching incidents
- Swimming in a murky (Dead)pool
- E3: Microsoft stays silent as a mime on Kinect pricing
- Album review: Drake's 'Thank Me Later'
- Cheap drug could save tens of thousands of accident victims by stopping bleeding
- Gulf oil spill: Obama names investigation panel
- Album review: The Gaslight Anthem's 'American Slang'
- Frank Gehry remembers L.A. Philharmonic's Ernest Fleischmann
- Top lawmakers, Schwarzenegger meet on eve of budget deadline
- Hero Complex Film Festival covered far and wide
- Workouts you can do at the gas pump (at last!)
- VW to launch bigger, less expensive Jetta
- Kevin Frandsen adds to Angels' depth at first base
- USC football: Hawaii athletic director says canceling opener could cause loss of more than $1 million
- Opinion: Opening soon: the box-office betting window
- Gulf oil spill: Time, money concerns led to BP's well design
- The dirt on Yelawolf: A conversation with Interscope's next great hope
- Combo Plate: Getting wired, Obama is a lemon-lime guy and more
- Meg Whitman accused of pushing EBay employee in 2007
- 'Skin Trade,' anti-fur documentary, has its L.A. premiere
- Lawmakers seek limits on utilities' political spending
- Glimmerglass Opera announces changes under Francesca Zambello
- PREACH IT! The Situation records a new soundtrack for his abs
- A thought-provoking study examines the lives of people fathered by sperm donors
- Texas turns down invitation to join the Pac-10
- Ghosts of the Pinochet regime haunt Chile's conservative president
- Leonard Nimoy's farewell: 'Live long and prosper my friends'
- A not very subtle reminder about Whitman
- World Cup: Germany's Miroslav Klose(s) in on a striking record
- 'Twilight' screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg talks Kristen Stewart, Bill Condon and 'Breaking Dawn'
- Lifetime considering 'Army Wives' and 'Project Runway' spinoffs
- 'The Rachel Zoe Project' returns in August
- World Cup poll: Should the vuvuzela be banned?
- Football: QB Max Wittik makes 'Super 7'
- CNN says reports that Larry King is close to being replaced are untrue
- World Cup: Get real, FIFA, the vuvuzela is about as traditional in Africa as the iPod
- Federal commission approves box-office futures trading
- Bob Berney in talks with producer Graham King to head new distribution unit
- Opinion: Social nets wrap: Sarah Palin and Margaret Thatcher, another 'special relationship' begins
- Most docs don't follow screening guidelines for cervical cancer; add in HPV and it's even worse
- Video: Vince Young's strip club fight
- International Whaling Commission chairman to miss 'absolutely critical' annual meeting
- Football: Brother of C.J. Gable to make Sylmar debut
- Alaska's plan for aerial wolf hunt rejected by judge
- Ziggy Marley buys Beverly Center-area home
- Jean Simmons home in Santa Monica goes up for sale
- Best medical schools don't produce the most-needed doctors
- Mark Wahlberg, David Duchovny and kids hit charity carnival
- World Cup: Brazil's Felipe Melo picks a name with golden boot connections
- World Cup: Italy vs. Paraguay: Italy scores in 63rd minute for 1-1 tie
- E3: ESPN comes to Xbox 360 game console
- Zach Galifianakis could be a fish (and the new Don Knotts)
- World Cup: When North Korea talks, it's tense and touchy
- USC sanctions won't be a distraction to Reggie Bush, Saints coach says
- World Cup: Ronaldo's ketchup-goal strategy
- Prosecutors seek two-year prison term for anti-whaling activist who boarded Japanese ship
- Can we dispense with the patient approach and ask greatness of Clayton Kershaw right now?
- Jimmy Connors will be talking about Wimbledon
- Kristin Chenoweth, Scarlett Johansson score at Tonys gift lounge
- Starbucks to serve up free Wi-Fi at 6,700 stores
- Opinion: Hey, it's show biz! GOP music to welcome Democratic First Lady Michelle Obama
- World Cup: U.S.-England is a hit for ESPN, Univision
- Students' DNA on the curriculum at Stanford Medical School
- Combo plate: A doughnut summit, Hungry Girl gets a TV show, Snooki discovers fried pickles, and more
- Twins' Joe Mauer still the top vote-getter in AL All-Star balloting
- Eating more brown rice may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, study finds
- Bureau of Land Management releases rental rates for solar installations on public land
- World Cup: FIFA to fans -- buzz off
- George R.R. Martin fans already in lust with 'Game of Thrones' footage
- ISRAEL: Family of Palestinian driver killed by police demands investigation
- Mixed signals from Europe: The euro and stocks rally again, but investors stay leery of government bonds
- Summer reading: Michael Koryta on Raymond Chandler & Stephen King
- Jimmy Dean and friends sing 'Big Bad John'
- Steinberg wants protections for teachers in poor schools
- The 15 greatest L.A. Dodgers of all time, No. 13: Walter O'Malley
- News Corp. doubles-down on digital distribution with acquisition of Skiff
- Drake's hip-hop lament: 'Everybody makes it feel like they're so much doper than me'
- SYRIA: Three dissidents released from jail
- Family-friendly meals from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen
- Your morning adorable: Rabbit shares its carrot with puppy