- Iran hard-liners skirt sanctions
- California sues 'Tax Lady' for $34 million
- Parents have the right to know
- Cities levy an array of taxes on visitors
- Horoscope: Aug. 23
- In New York, hundreds protest planned Islamic center
- Rectal cancer rates increase in people under 40, researchers say
- FDA commissioner calls for passage of stalled legislation on food safety
- Students opt for real-world experience in restaurant kitchens
- Indians can laugh at themselves, just not at their rulers
- Making the call on tuner for cellphones
- Two candidates, one big challenge
- Tiger Woods' divorce settlement is finalized
- Offshore oil: same old drill
- Chris Dufresne's preseason college football top 25: No. 10 Iowa
- Spike Lee continues New Orleans story
- Orange County Performing Arts Center and the Philharmonic Society of Orange County report modest budget surpluses
- 4 U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan; Karzai discusses security with Amanpour
- USC's Marc Tyler among leaders for starting roles
- Dining Details: Chi Dynasty in Studio City
- Restorer resurrects classic concept cars, symbols of Detroit's might
- This summer's lesson: Learning is fun
- Manny Ramirez is back with the Dodgers, but for how long?
- Assembly race casts light — and heat — on candidate with Mideast roots
- McCourt divorce trial to draw in Major League Baseball's top attorney
- A to-do list for shoring up Haiti
- Oregon's Mt. Hood: See, ski and tee
- Mentoring programs offer minorities a chance to grow
- Blogger beware: Postings can lead to lawsuits
- Kwame Brown reunites with Michael Jordan by signing contract with Charlotte
- Most men with genital piercings don't fit the usual stereotypes
- Back to school time is vaccination time
- Good Form: A versatile plank pose
- Planning your trip to Oregon's Mt. Hood
- Happening Monday
- U.S. troops in Iraq could do battle, but it's very unlikely, says top official
- Major League Baseball investigating source of Angels' leaked financial documents
- Why prosecute Roger Clemens? Because of a teenager
- Monday's TV highlights
- Flooding forces North Korea to evacuate 5,000
- Advice: New coffee bars are risky business
- Keeping the faith
- A Disney worker's fight to wear a hijab; the state budget; protecting wolves
- Stick with real fruit
- Company Town: 'The Expendables' still No. 1 at box office
- A baseball love story veers off the base paths
- If you suffer from PMS, perhaps a spa day will do the trick
- The Unreal World: It's a bird, it's a pain, it's gout
- Boys hoping to gain their manhood lose it — forever
- Pesky shareholder activists gain influence
- Gear: Comparing four hiking boots
- Parents have the right to know
- 80 arrests, 16 medical calls at rave
- Later school start times and Zzzs to A's
- Parents have the right to know
- 'Entourage': Is that a threat?
- 'True Blood': If everybody's supernatural, then nobody is
- Verizon makes play for PC gaming with subscription service
- Angels blanked by Twins, 4-0, and fall eight games out in AL West
- Live review: Rock the Bells still tolls for 1993
- Live review: Crowded House at Club Nokia
- Pan Pac open water swimming: Chip Peterson, Christine Jennings win
- Australian Will Power wins IndyCar race in Sonoma
- Reliever Kevin Jepsen rejoins Angels after missing Saturday's game
- Angels reliever Jordan Walden's whirlwind weekend takes him to big leagues
- Clayton Kershaw continues to struggle in first inning as Dodgers fall again, 5-2
- Music review: Tchaikovsky spectacular once more at the Hollywood Bowl
- Michael Been, co-founder of the rock band The Call, dies at 60
- Angels place Maicer Izturis on disabled list
- Football: Still trying to figure out mystery at Oregon high school
- Restaurants throwing in the towel as customers watch their waistlines and wallets
- Football: Crenshaw's opening opponent wins big
- Football: Norco is changing its offense
- Football: Dion Willis makes impression at Carson scrimmage
- EGYPT: $55-million Van Gogh painting 'Poppy Flowers' stolen from Cairo museum
- Home is wherever Vin Scully is on the air; a scary moment turns celebratory as he announces his return
- Football: Jordan Barrett is at UCLA
- Baseball: Cade Kreuter headed to Miami
- Box office: 'Expendables' still going strong; 'Vampires Suck' draws audiences
- Vin Scully to return as Dodgers broadcaster next season
- Dodgers add veteran catcher Rod Barajas
- Kathy Goodman: The regular season ends; the playoffs begin
- Mike Johnson wins second straight NASCAR Late Model race at Irwindale
- One year ago: David Avadon
- Vin Scully: Please tell us these fears will not be realized
- Your weekly ScamWatch: Jobs, taxes and real estate
- Video: Making homemade ice cream is E-Z
- Nancy Freedman dies at 90; feminist had long and wide-ranging literary career
- Patti Smith's memoir of a rock-poet
- L.A.'s string of indie labels succeeds with a jack-of-all-trades approach
- Book review: 'The Cross of Redemption' by James Baldwin, edited by Randall Kenan
- Michael Been dies at 60; singer was a founding member of rock band the Call
- Book review: 'This Must Be the Place' by Kate Racculia
- Astral Weeks: Why worry? It's all taken care of in the future
- Book review: 'Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession' by Craig Childs
- Authors & books: Calendar of events
- Rizzo’s horse had come in
- Norman Douglas' 'Siren Land' offers a classic look at southern Italy
- Indie rock star Jennifer Herrema pairs with Volcom on jeans collection
- Book review: 'Girl by the Road at Night' by David Rabe
- DISCOVERIES
- Planning your trip to Paris
- Scene & Heard: Harold Pump Foundation celebrity fundraiser
- A Second Look: Josef von Sternberg's vision is as clear as ever
- Rizzo's horse had come in
- 'The Fall of the House of Walworth' worthy of Poe
- Book review: 'Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession' by Craig Childs
- 'Mesrine': Public enemy, not a hero
- The Monitor: A safari into the wilds of niche cable
- How to save public television: The PBS Channel
- Pac-10 leader has busy year
- Marine Cpl. Claudio Patino IV, 22, Yorba Linda; shot in Afghanistan
- Spring enrollment's budget connection leaves California college students in limbo
- Jordan Walden's fastball speeds his promotion to the big leagues
- Marine Cpl. Kevin A. Cueto, 23, San Jose; killed by roadside bomb
- California's few congressional battlegrounds heating up
- Horoscope: Aug. 22
- Letters: Old Ann Taylor will be missed
- Building a case
- In the desert, a dream town in search of a buyer
- Shining light on the work of a groundbreaking ad man
- Chris Dufresne's college football Top 25 countdown: No. 11 Miami
- Caltech's Fred Newman had a line on free-throw shooting
- David Garrett carries the torch for classical crossover
- Testing the system
- Redskins nose tackle Albert Haynesworth's ailment more serious than previously thought
- 'Different Duncan'
- Book review: 'Girl by the Road at Night' by David Rabe
- DISCOVERIES
- Staying afloat until the river
- The Sunday Conversation: John Slattery
- Book review: 'This Must Be the Place' by Kate Racculia
- Book review: 'The Cross of Redemption' by James Baldwin, edited by Randall Kenan
- Norman Douglas' 'Siren Land' offers a classic look at southern Italy
- Underrated: 'Kids in the Hall' comeback, Mogwai;
- Newly single and rethinking his future
- A slimmer look with the right makeup
- Disincentivizing greed
- Calendar: A chile festival in New Mexico, Bumbershoot in Seattle and more
- Luck and the residue of design at Stanford
- 21 killed in series of Afghanistan attacks
- Dan Wheldon unhurt as car flips over
- Angels draw blanks in Minnesota, lose 4-0
- Sunday's TV Highlights
- Start-up lessons learned the hard way
- Shopping: The Shop at the Standard keeps it local
- This month's Money Makeover
- Wild steelhead to retain endangered species status, court rules
- Evan Longoria provides a complete package for the Tampa Bay Rays
- Hall of Fame omission of steroid era players could teach moral lesson
- Go ahead, layer it on
- A.J. Ellis goes out in style
- China's investigative reporters face harassment and worse
- Resources for entrepreneurs
- Racial strife escalates in Staten Island
- Matt Kemp's agent is an albatross around his neck
- Scene & Heard: Harold Pump Foundation celebrity fundraiser
- Dodgers' Manny Ramirez returns to the lineup
- Roger Federer ends seven-month title drought with victory in Cincinnati Masters
- Authors & books: Calendar of events
- More on the 'value-added' method
- THE FIRST TIME I SAW PARIS
- Hudson Jeans CEO Peter Kim fashions his own premium denim brand
- Holding budget ransom may be Schwarzenegger's last hope
- Prime choices
- Feedback
- An educational odyssey across three generations
- ESPN's Jay Mariotti is arrested on suspicion of domestic assault
- A mother's prodding led to women's right to vote
- Maicer Izturis placed on disabled list for third time this season
- Indie Focus: What's seen and unseen in 'The Last Exorcism'
- Denim goes beyond blue for spring
- While soldier's away, home gets passed around
- As Iranian American weddings grow more lavish, some call for restraint
- Mission accomplished?
- Dodgers lose more ground with 5-2 defeat to Cincinnati
- Arjun Atwal becomes first qualifier in 24 years to win PGA Tour event
- The Photo File: 'Catherine Opie: Figure and Landscape'
- New on DVD: 'Lost: The Complete Collection'
- It's a weightier Vincent Cassel in 'Mesrine'
- Blind tenant's guide dog barks at night. What to do?
- Planning your trip to Paris
- Nancy Freedman dies at 90; feminist had long and wide-ranging literary career
- Michael Been dies at 60; singer was a founding member of rock band the Call
- A more convenient era for travelers
- Parents ask which debts, expenses to prioritize
- Michael Berenbaum works to make sure the world remembers the Holocaust
- If you go to Stanley, Idaho
- Board shorts get creative for spring-summer 2011
- Racial strife increases in Staten Island
- Military deaths
- Australia elections end with no clear winner, and a hung parliament ahead
- Young lovers killed by stoning in Afghanistan
- Where there's family aggression, children get spanked
- Smart List: Food Network hits the gas with 'Great Food Truck Race'
- Proposed ban on private transfer fees could have major consequences
- State Republican Party looks to turn the page
- Topless protesters turn heads at Venice Beach
- Elderly and disabled immigrants may lose financial aid
- Plenty of talent to choose from in Trojans' backfield
- Aaron Wachtfogel and Sean Rosenthal win Manhattan Beach Open
- Indie rock star Jennifer Herrema pairs with Volcom on jeans collection
- More consumer protections on bank overdrafts may be coming
- Readers recommend: Tapas dinner on the town in Madrid
- Dodgers: Looking at the week ahead
- Child star in the making
- Astral Weeks: Why worry? It's all taken care of in the future
- Paris sights: From best to bust
- Homemade gliders soar — or not — at 'Flugtag' in Long Beach
- Will Power a convincing winner at Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma
- L.A.'s string of indie labels succeeds with a jack-of-all-trades approach
- Home of the week listing details
- Amazon.com may have trouble fulfilling high expectations
- War casualties
- Staying carried a certain power for USC tailback Marc Tyler
- MoveOn's call for a boycott of Target; a Muslim's call for tolerance in the U.S.; Ahmad Wali Karzai defends his record
- Fashion magazines embrace the average shopper — sort of
- Nicaragua hopes 'Survivor' will propel a tourism surge
- Nuns donate their brains to Alzheimer's research
- Palin an interested spectator in Alaska primary
- The locus of Amanda Ross-Ho's art
- Tours & cruises
- Cubs Manager Lou Piniella retires after game
- Vin Scully and baseball: He loves it too much to leave it
- Chess: Dmitry Andreikin wins world junior title
- Patti Smith's memoir of a rock-poet
- Idaho's Stanley Basin runs wild
- Jeans that flatter your body
- L.A. program aims to make parking easier
- Storm defeats Sparks, sets mark
- Lawmakers approve bill on handling of DNA evidence
- Angels: Looking at the week ahead
- For the record - Aug. 22, 2010
- Andre Ethier on the 'Manny Effect'
- Billingsley said he 'tweaked' his calf but was unaffected
- Dodgers celebrate the return of Manny Ramirez with four home runs in 8-5 victory
- Harold Dow dies at 62; decorated CBS newsman helped shape '48 Hours'
- And the winners of the Creative Arts Emmys are...
- Sunday's TV Highlights: 'The Spin Crowd' on E!
- Football: TV for Serra-Notre Dame opener
- UCLA center Kai Maiava out for season
- Notre Dame fans place hopes on Dayne Crist
- A juicy landmark in La Verne
- Fiorina fiercely criticizes Boxer at GOP convention
- 'True Blood' Saturdays': 'We will eat you after we eat your children'
- Peter Bourjos has huge day to lead Angels to 9-3 win over Twins
- Manny Ramirez returns to Dodgers' lineup
- Football: DaVonte Young enrolls at St. John Bosco
- Meredith Vieira, Maura Tierney make a pitch against cancer at Fenway Park
- LAUSD presses union on test scores
- Football: Scrimmage star at Loyola is the kicker-punter
- Child actors, young and all grown up
- Angels reach triple figures ... in lineups; Pineiro encouraged by progress
- Opinion: Sunday shows: Blagojevich, Karzai, Gen. Odierno
- Football and art collide at LACMA
- Pan Pac update: Michael Phelps out of 200 medley
- And now a brief moment to mourn the passing of ... the Dodgers' Hollywood Stars game
- A new collection of James Baldwin's writings
- When classical and pop cross over, is it a good thing?
- Sparks show that it's not how you start, it's how you finish
- Michael Hiltzik: Holocaust museums and the problem of imagery
- In the Studio: Amanda Ross-Ho
- The child stars of Gen X and Y: Where are they now?
- Wine of the Week: 2008 Parusso Langhe Nebbiolo
- SAUDI ARABIA: Human rights group urges authorities to flog crime suspect instead of imposing spinal cord punishment
- Critic's Notebook: Patti Smith on friendship and creative ferment
- If Manny Ramirez is planning on coming back to the Dodgers, now would be an excellent time
- Talking with Gina Brooke, makeup artist to the stars (like Madonna and Katy Perry)
- One year ago: Frank Fertitta Jr.
- Opinion: Ticket photo of the week: Steely abs in just 14 hours a day
- Cookbook Watch: 'Ready for Dessert' by David Lebovitz
- AP and Mannie Garcia, photographer at center of Shepard Fairey case, drop claims against each other
- Recall roundup: This week’s consumer product recalls
- Home tour: Santa Monica Shangri-La
- Opinion: Weekly remarks: Obama on fundraising reforms; Rep. Charles Djou seeks less federal spending, no new taxes
- Líderes de la enseñanza en Los Ángeles
- Restoration by Heart treats damaged art on paper tenderly
- Bali inspiration in Santa Monica
- PASSINGS: Bill Millin, Yvonne Lenart
- Cameron Diaz is home's latest star owner
- Teachers union agrees to reopen talks on evaluations
- Book review: 'I Curse the River of Time' by Per Petterson
- Mario Obledo dies at 78; California secretary of health and welfare, Latino civil rights leader
- Tips on creating an affordable tropical retreat
- 'I Curse the River of Time'
- L.A.'s leaders in learning
- Arizona fugitives captured at campsite
- House minority leader contemplates a leap up
- Tips on creating an affordable tropical retreat
- Willie Brown: State's man
- Frances Lasker Brody's house previews for architectural aficionados
- Dress Barn considers a name change
- USC defense dominates final preseason scrimmage, without making a single tackle
- Dodgers farmhands don't take status for granted
- Betting against California
- Galaxy loses to San Jose, 1-0
- 'I Curse the River of Time'
- San Diego church gets creative in food-giveaway program
- Matt Kemp's agent is an albatross around his neck
- Horoscope: Aug. 21