- Football: Santa Margarita takes 7-0 lead
- Football: Long Beach Poly ready for Narbonne
- Football: It's a good day to wear blue
- Never pitched: "Mad Men" writer fails to campaign, and doesn't win seat on the Writers Guild board
- Football: Jordan Payton won't be playing in Marmonte opener
- Football: Palos Verdes routs San Pedro, 49-16
- Girls' soccer: Hethcock resigns at Oaks Christian
- Toronto 2010: The Northwest wagon train of 'Meek's Cutoff'
- Robert Bucksbaum on selling the Crest Theater: 'It was pretty sad'
- L.A. Times bestsellers for Sept. 19: Tony Blair's 'A Journey'
- MCI founder Jack Goeken dies at 80
- Football: Palos Verdes up 49-9 after three quarters
- Tiger Woods could have a reduced role in Ryder Cup play
- New Guinness world record holders include long-tongued dog, giant bunny, balloon-crazy terrier
- Gay servicemen and women talk about life under 'don't ask, don't tell'
- Peter Craig goes to town
- Football: Palos Verdes is Fixen for a big victory
- Sergio Mora weighs in over limit, fined 20% of purse for fight against Shane Mosley
- Artists For Action offers an alternative to an Arizona boycott
- New York Fashion Week: Opportunity knocks, and Billy Reid's at the door(s)
- Last call for alcohol (and tacos): Mexico Restaurante y Barra is closing down
- Football: Palos Verdes leading 21-3 at halftime
- The tenuous state of L.A.'s public libraries
- Programming note: Who moved my jazz?
- 'Climatopolis': An optimistic look at how cities will handle a hotter future
- Opinion: Ted Rall, cartooning from Afghanistan: Day 22
- New York Fashion Week: Diane Von Furstenberg's goddesses
- PREACH IT! Fantasia Barrino's suicide attempt: Once more with feeling?
- Friday snack: New Kellan Lutz in his underwear
- Katie Holmes, Kanye West and more hit New York Fashion Week
- American Apparel receives extension to file quarterly report
- Football: Palos Verdes takes an early 14-0 lead
- Football: Previewing Mater Dei at No. 8 Corona Centennial
- It's an art quiz — with cake, from Martha Stewart's site
- North Carolina animal testing facility surrenders animals after PETA's release of undercover video
- Lindsay Lohan may have failed a drug test, which would mean more jail
- Ducks sign Matt Beleskey to two-year extension
- Football: San Pedro seeks revenge at Palos Verdes
- New York Fashion Week: The romantic side of Narciso Rodriguez
- New York Fashion Week: Calvin Klein was pure simplicity
- Charles Dillingham, managing director of Center Theatre Group, stepping down in 2011
- Michigan city council denies 9-year-old boy's request to keep his pet miniature pig
- Performance review: Sardono Dance Theater and Jennifer Tipton at REDCAT
- Farewell Joe Torre: The rise of Don Mattingly means Dodgers can kiss Tim Wallach goodbye
- New York Fashion Week: Ralph Rucci's Chado charm
- Report: Like a good ex-boyfriend, Mel Gibson returns Oksana's CDs (and her music rights)
- Former dogfighting 'bait dog' escapes euthanasia at Southern California animal shelter, seeks new home
- Environmentalists lobby Obama administration to adopt 60 mpg fuel standard
- The Parson Red Heads say goodbye to L.A. with a pair of shows starting tonight
- Don't listen to me, I have Screeching Weasel tattooed on my arm, but ...
- Politicians must disclose free tickets, state regulators say
- Critical Mass: 'The Town'
- Some Friday Jazz by Victor Conte: the 'BALCO Bebop'
- Lady Gaga video asks fans to lobby Senate for repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell'
- Jazz review: Ambrose Akinmusire at Cafe Metropol
- Source debunks rumors of Pat Burns' death -- and he should know
- Pacific Time podcast: Checking in on the California governor's race
- Weekend Talk Shows
- An inadvertent demotion for the queen
- Pilots call for changes to proposed fatigue rules
- Poll: Whom would you pick as the next Dodgers manager?
- Adam Lambert accused of battery by paparazzo
- TV This Week for Sept. 19th – 25th
- Kiki Vandeweghe buys Encino estate
- Nielsen's deal with ABC on iPad application: The referee joins the game
- Mosley at Staples: Can he do it a third time?
- New York Fashion Week: Ralph Lauren's western glam
- Harry Nilsson documentary opens Friday in West Hollywood
- Football: Austin Lacy leaves Bishop Amat
- Carl Icahn buying up debt in MGM, Blockbuster
- Behind the scenes at the bidding war for Werner Herzog's 3-D movie
- 'Eastbound & Down' premiere: Danny McBride, Will Ferrell step up to the plate for a second season
- Your morning adorable: Rothschild giraffe mom gives her baby a kiss at German zoo
- Boys' basketball: Grant coach to sing national anthem at Dodger Stadium
- YouTube, Google dials up premium content, ogles studios with new management team
- UCLA football: Houston's Case Keenum medically cleared to play
- September brings problems for the Legislature
- Kings' ECHL affiliate to hold tryouts
- The Project: Vanilla panna cotta with fresh seasonal fruit
- Autolux caps a season of touring at the El Rey Friday
- Bob Barker faints at shooting range, visits the hospital
- Stylist Phillip Bloch teaches us how to rein in our spending
- Clinton coming to California to campaign with Jerry Brown
- 'American Idol' on MySpace: Blake Lewis reacts to the news of video tryouts
- Stewart, Colbert plan dueling rallies in D.C.
- Consumer Confidential: Airline merger, more jobless Californians, sweaty sleep
- Oprah picks Franzen, officially
- Art review: Liza Ryan at William Griffin
- Toronto 2010: 'Miral' director Julian Schnabel: I'm confounded by the ideological criticisms
- WEST BANK: Israeli soldiers kill Hamas militant
- Opinion: Close encounters of the Catholic kind
- Opinion: Social media wrap: Steve Martin tweets on Abraham Lincoln, the joys of Twitter verification
- The Dry Garden: Predictions of La Niña winter
- At Domaine LA, a tasting of bubbly plus LudoTruck's fried chicken; dinner and St-Germain cocktail pairings at 320 Main; Torbreck wine dinner at Saam
- Wall Street Roundup: Second-chance hedge funds. Disagreeing with Warren Buffett.
- So much for like father like son at Cablevision Systems
- Weekend Shopping: The Spectacle at Fred Segal; Junior Drake sale; Space 15 Twenty flea market
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: Katie Holmes is happy with her Calvins. Buyers are happy at N.Y. Fashion Week.
- First Take: Lots of negotiating, but no budget yet. Wright indicted on charges of fraud, perjury. Padilla returns PG&E money
- Oscar nominee reactions
- Mt. Oscar
- 'The Fighter': Mark Wahlberg and other bodies in motion
- Monster Mash: New York City Opera's new leader; Nicole Kidman eyes Broadway return?
- Jonathan Franzen reads in L.A. and Oprah is in the air
- The Morning Fix: Fall TV gridlock! Joaquin Phoenix apparently was faking (I'm shocked!). Hollywood loves Detroit, and the feeling's mutual
- Art review: Michael McMillen at L.A. Louver
- Art review: Nancy Jackson at Rosamund Felsen
- New York Fashion Week: Brooks Brothers shoots for beds, birdies and beyond
- A betting man says: Frank McCourt still doesn't grasp the depth of the public's disgust
- Opinion: What Christine O'Donnell's defeat of Mike Castle really says about the GOP and the 'tea party'
- Pictures: Who turned down 'Dancing With The Stars'?
- One year ago: Leon Kirchner
- Holy legal hand grenades! Comic book creators say California game law could clobber all media
- The Deal: Viva Terra furniture up to 25% off
- Our recipes, your kitchen: Send us your pictures
- 'Fantasia for Real' returns for a second season more real than planned
- Opinion: Ohio Republican candidate John Kasich caught telling a true story in governor's debate
- Walter Goldschmidt dies at 97; longtime UCLA anthropology professor
- Funeral services for Jefferson Thomas
- Market Watch: Glorious apples born of an imperfect California summer
- PASSINGS: Alphonsus 'Arrow' Cassell, James Winner
- Senate approves small-business stimulus
- Pope Benedict XVI urges Britain not to let secularism overshadow Christianity
- 1 in 7 in U.S. lives below poverty line
- Horoscope: Sept. 17
- Think airline seating is tight now?
- Colin Kaepernick engineers Nevada rout of Cal, 52-31
- NBC newsroom is planned for O'Brien's former L.A. studio
- Dodgers still don't have any answers
- Fast Track: Casey Affleck says Joaquin Phoenix was just acting
- Two L.A. agencies get $111 million in stimulus funds but have created only 55 jobs
- Television review: 'Boardwalk Empire'
- In dark territory at the Toronto International Film Festival
- HIV virus used to cure a genetic blood disorder
- Movie review: 'Easy A' makes the snarky grade
- 'Boardwalk Empire' info
- For Maya community, a paradise lost
- 'Lovely, Still' info
- Willa Cather's spirit comes alive in Nebraska
- Iran opposition leader's offices raided
- Happening Friday: Jaguares at House of Blues Anaheim
- 'The Town' info
- 'You Were Wrong' by Matthew Sharpe
- Home sales in California fall a second straight month
- U.S. envoy Mitchell meets with Syrian president
- 'Catfish' info
- The FDA is investigating diabetes drug Actos because of a possible risk of bladder cancer
- Dodgers' choice of Mattingly a downer for fans
- Both USC, Minnesota remain mysteries
- Highlights of Joe Torre's three seasons as Dodgers manager
- UC regents shore up retirement funds — and a key executive's pay
- Murkowski leaves the 'easier path' to fight for her Senate seat
- Don Mattingly: Here he is Dodgers fans, ready or not
- Early puberty in girls may be linked to absent fathers in higher-income families
- Letters: Don Mattingly gets no love from Dodgers fans
- Santa Margarita takes down Carson, 56-14
- Anthem Blue Cross is sued over data security breach
- '¡Viva Mexico!' concert info
- PASSINGS: Alphonsus 'Arrow' Cassell, James Winner
- Movie review: 'Catfish'
- What Israel wants from the Palestinians, it takes
- Aetna gets OK to hike rates on individual health policies in California
- Department stores reach out to capture young shoppers
- Pope's security in spotlight after London arrests
- Continental-United airline merger approved by shareholders
- Book review: 'The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean'
- 'You Were Wrong' info
- Will L.A. lose its cool? An optimistic look at global warming
- Joe Torre's going, Frank McCourt's staying . . . what's wrong with this Dodgers picture?
- State Sen. Roderick Wright indicted on charges of voter fraud and perjury
- Warriors win league opener
- Internal memo accuses Sheriff Arpaio's department of wrongdoing
- Auditors find 3rd instance of illegal Bell taxes
- Michael Vick to start for Eagles; Kevin Kolb out with concussion
- Method and Madness: The Films of Jack Garfein info
- Tim Robbins and the Actors' Gang seek to 'Break the Whip'
- Reggie Bush returning his Heisman Trophy; what can cure our ailing schools; trying to encourage breastfeeding
- The best way to Mansfield, Mo.
- UCLA's challenge on defense against Houston on Saturday: Trying to keep lightning in a bottle
- Star power at the U.N.
- Night life: Crowds flock to Downtown L.A., fears follow
- Friday's TV highlights
- 'The Wave' info
- Those popular joint-pain supplements? They don't work.
- Walter Goldschmidt dies at 97; longtime UCLA anthropology professor
- Jerry Brown's office accused of playing politics over freed inmate
- Poll: GOP more conservative but not because of the 'tea party'
- Metrolink on the slow track to safer cars
- 'Last Train Home'
- Low rates make 15-year mortgages feasible for many refinancers
- Jack Garfein tribute at Billy Wilder Theater
- California gubernatorial candidates say they could break budget gridlock
- With or without Case Keenum, Houston figures to be a handful for Bruins
- Brookledge, Hancock Park's magical home
- Google hires 2 execs to bolster YouTube premium content
- Tea party activists are 'pawns' to corporate interests, Clinton says
- Wall Street ties are a major player in midterm election
- Ready, set — wait. . . India not ready for Commonwealth Games yet
- Market Watch: Glorious apples born of an imperfect California summer
- Janitor at L.A. County health clinic allegedly stole files for recycling money
- Kiki Vandeweghe buys Encino estate
- Researchers discover a possible test to predict Type 2 diabetes
- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's shaky debate performance highlighted in opponent's ads
- Sergio Mora faces Shane Mosley, but not before mother's blessing
- Quick Takes: Sondheim in big lights
- '¡Viva Mexico!' celebrates the many forms of Mexican music
- Movie review: 'Lovely, Still'
- Bank tries to pass the (fake) buck back to customer
- Three fuel-efficient cars win Automotive X Prize competition
- Newt Gingrich, 'factually insane'
- Seattle in turmoil over police-involved shootings
- U.S. household wealth fell 2.8% in second quarter, Fed says
- DeMint says 'tea party' candidates strengthen GOP
- Oaks Christian rallies for 33-32 overtime victory over St. Bonaventure
- Jerry Brown's office accused of playing politics over freed inmate
- High expectations for Kings as training camp begins
- Planning your trip to Red Cloud, Neb.
- Whooping cough hits hardest among young babies, data show
- Cuba's layoff of state workers reflects urgent bid to save the economy
- Biden warns against GOP's O'Donnell, urges Democrats to campaign hard
- In historic British hall, Benedict's call for resurgent religion echoes
- Dodgers say they're sad to see Joe Torre go
- Mitt Romney takes aim at Obama in speech
- How sad is the Reggie Bush non-apology? Let Elton answer that one
- Acne -- not acne medication -- is probably responsible for the mental health problems of sufferers, study says
- GOP seeks to assure 'values voters'
- Rodent of the Week: Why did Vioxx cause heart attacks?
- Laura Ingalls Wilder's home in Mansfield, Missouri: The center of the 'Little House' world
- 'Easy A' likely to top a quartet of low-budget films opening this weekend
- Funeral services for Jefferson Thomas
- California state colleges and universities will get more than $200 million in stimulus funds
- Good for California foster care
- Obama decision to avoid confirmation battle for Elizabeth Warren is hailed and criticized
- Movie review: 'Last Train Home'
- 'Break the Whip' info
- 'Easy A' info
- My favorite weekend: 'Glee's' Jayma Mays eats up free time
- A formula for foster care success
- Turkey's democratic push
- Friday's TV talk shows
- Capsule movie reviews
- Spring St., Exchange LA and the Falls info
- Movie review: 'The Town'
- Don Mattingly to replace Joe Torre as Dodgers manager
- Lights, camera, flu shot!
- Movie review: 'Jack Goes Boating'
- Geithner signals growing impatience with China's trade, currency policies
- 'Jack Goes Boating' info
- Relief bore reaches BP's damaged well; endgame in sight
- For the record - Sept. 17, 2010
- Football: Thursday's scores
- Boys' basketball: Landon Drew enrolls at Fairfax
- 'The Vampire Diaries' recap: Nice day for a vampire carnival
- Football: Taft holds on for 38-35 victory
- Lake Tahoe: Judge strikes down rules for new piers, ramps and buoys
- Football: Westlake wins, 31-3
- Dodgers discover a new low -- losing 10-2 to leave the Giants in first place
- Toronto 2010: Vincent Gallo makes 'Promises' and doesn't show
- Gulf Oil Spill: Bacteria mainly ate the gas, not the oil
- Football: Mowry's TD gives Westlake 28-3 lead
- Video: Why no NFL Channel on Time Warner Cable?
- 'Paranormal' sequel to receive sneak promotion like first film
- Gulf Oil Spill: Relief bore intersects BP's broken well
- Ducks add 18 players to training camp roster
- A budget deal is imminent! Oh, wait. Maybe not.
- Football: Dashon Hunt comes through for Westlake
- Football: Westlake extends lead to 14-3
- Friday's Highlights: “As the World Turns” on CBS
- Friday's Talk Shows
- Football: Westlake strikes with big play
- Football: Thousand Oaks scores on opening drive
- '40-Year-Old Virgin' actor guilty of attempted murder
- Poll: Is Peter O'Malley correct in saying the McCourts should sell the Dodgers?
- Football: Thousand Oaks fans are dressed in green
- Apple stock, at record high, has Exxon's market-cap crown in sight
- The Dish's Dish: Dinner made easy
- Netflix executive Robert Kyncl joins Google in a sign the search giant's getting serious about TV
- Theater review: 'True West' at the Lyric Theatre
- Will Casey Affleck end up in movie jail after admitting 'I'm Still Here' was a hoax?
- Samsung unveils digital video store
- 'Top Chef' finale: Goodbye to the dessert curse
- Key breeding grounds must be protected to save tigers from extinction, researchers say
- 'Breaking Bad's' Anna Gunn helps her daughter sell lemonade for Child Cancer Awareness Month
- Ducks' Lydman undergoing tests on double vision; Paul Mara a timely addition
- 'Boardwalk Empire' executive producer Terence Winter talks going back to the '20s
- Best of Times readers' summer vacation photos
- Independent groups keep spending for Jerry Brown
- Live review: The Walkmen at the Music Box @ Fonda
- Casey Affleck now says Phoenix movie was really a hoax
- Cher, theatrical? Why yes -- enough that there's a show in the works
- Ducks sign Paul Mara, but defenseman Toni Lydman unable to start camp
- PREACH IT! 'Jersey Shore' kids are getting paid, but are they getting paid like stars?
- Theater review: 'Ruined' at Geffen Playhouse
- Football: Westlake is showing itself press friendly
- Swallow, a Dexter cow, named the world's smallest cow
- Warner Bros.' Barry Meyer not ready to bite Apple's TV rental plan
- Four major cell carriers to sell Samsung Galaxy tablet
- New York Fashion Week: Boy meets Girl at Band of Outsiders
- Critic's Notebook: Lady Gaga, sexuality and 21st century pop: Speaking truth to Camille Paglia
- French anti-doping chief wants to give Armstrong's 'B' samples to U.S. investigators