- Taliban attackers kill 6 at Afghan police site
- Oil climbs above $110 on Libya, Mideast unrest
- The voice of Libya's rebellion is up and spinning
- Let's not hear about those courageous athletes anymore
- Venezuela polarized over Chavez's land policy
- Muffin top? Now that it's official, what do we do with it?
- Difficult budget choices that impact children's programs
- Israel and Palestinians have conflicting visions for village's future
- Cease-fire called off in Ivory Coast
- Editor's picks: 'Red State'
- Fast Track: Javier Bardem is reportedly almost set to be Stephen King's Gunslinger
- Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare privatization plan increases costs, budget office says
- Unrecycled new light bulbs release mercury into the environment
- Pop music: Kristin Hersh
- Mexican officials find 59 bodies in mass graves
- Thomas Adès and L.A. Philharmonic team for 'Aspects of Adès'
- Assessing Jerry Brown's first 100 days
- Fox gives Glenn Beck's show the boot
- Covina High's Remontay McClain aims to retain title of California's fastest teen at Arcadia Invitational
- Your Scene: Northern lights in Fairbanks, Alaska
- In New York, Bloomberg's new schools chief is out
- WSJ/NBC News poll: Donald Trump No. 2 among likely Republican candidates for president
- Retail therapy doesn't just perk you up, it could help you live longer
- A bicycle built for you
- Colombia is a rising oil exporter to U.S.
- Horoscope: April 7
- Retirement can't come soon enough for Phil Jackson
- High court ruling on Arizona program sets a bad precedent
- San Francisco restaurant details: Locations, prices and more
- Bill Varney dies at 77; Oscar-winning sound mixer
- Events: 'Barn to Be Wild' at the O.C. Fair & Event Center
- Libya opposition says another NATO airstrike has killed rebels
- Behind France's burka ban
- TAINTED WATER A BIG TEST IN JAPAN
- Democrats following Republicans into field of undisclosed donors
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- Car buying: How men and women compare
- MTV general manager Stephen Friedman named president
- World Wrestling Entertainment to get a makeover
- Doyle McManus: The choice between low taxes vs. Medicare benefits
- Recipe: <i>Huitlacoche</i> quesadillas
- Culinary SOS: Clementine's butterscotch brownies
- Florida sentences 'Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure' author to two years' probation
- House passes measure to keep government open another week
- Microsoft and Toyota to build cloud-based telematics system for cars
- Europe set to raise interest rates while Fed holds back
- Pop music: Janet Jackson
- Michele Bachmann has niche appeal
- Premier Pegasus out of Santa Anita Derby
- Vernon Wells faces friends turned foes in Angels' home opener
- Tom Zbikowski still gets his hits in, despite NFL lockout
- Grammys to take on a leaner note
- Russell Brand: A new brand
- Erick Aybar's MRI reveals slight strain in his left side
- Senate votes down GOP bill to curb the EPA
- European Central Bank hikes rates
- Kansas' Marcus and Markieff Morris will enter NBA draft
- In China, Bob Dylan plays set with a few omissions
- UCLA's Kai Maiava tweaks ankle at spring practice
- Averting a government shutdown; gays in textbooks; climate skeptics no more
- The joys of Mexican vegetarian dishes
- Giving the revolution songs to rally around
- Twitter gets tax break from San Francisco
- 2 arrested in massive insider trading case
- Jeff Probst buys Gene Autry estate for $5 million
- Coffee drinkers, what do those genes say about your health?
- China accuses dissident artist Ai Weiwei of 'economic crimes'
- Some progress cited in federal budget talks
- Lakers' Ron Artest struggles on offense in loss to Golden State
- FAA chief orders review of the agency's inspections of aging planes
- FBI releases trove of redacted documents on Notorious B.I.G.'s killing
- Casey Blake does well in return to Dodgers' lineup
- Denis Watson lists Pacific Palisades home for $23.5 million
- Events: Los Angeles Spring Fair
- Recipe: Mexican lasagna
- Google to open Beverly Hills office
- 'Soul Surfer' stays faithful to ideals
- Ducks look to clinch playoff berth with victory over Kings
- Tony Gwynn Jr. has intimate knowledge of Dodgers-Padres rivalry
- Recipe: Zetas with garlic and Pasilla chiles
- Polls on budget talks show support for compromise but a strong partisan divide
- Kings are in, Ducks are trying to join them as they go head to head
- Andrew Bynum has theory on why Lakers are struggling
- Harry Reid, John Boehner can't agree on why Congress can't agree to avert government shutdown
- Book review: 'Come to the Edge'
- Tiger Woods says he's 'right there in the ballgame'
- China accuses dissident artist Ai Weiwei of 'economic crimes'
- Restless legs syndrome drug approved; questions linger
- Medical errors in hospitals go undetected, study suggests
- Rory McIlroy has first down with a 65 at Augusta
- Census analysis: Number of nonwhite children in L.A. area declines, bucking nationwide trend
- Barry Bonds' defense rests without calling a single witness in perjury trial
- '33 Revolutions Per Minute' info
- San Diego Custom Bicycle Show
- Obama to host town hall at Facebook headquarters
- Events
- Los Angeles (LAX) adds flights to Shanghai, Las Vegas and other cities
- Spammers get friendly with Facebook
- Thursday's TV highlights
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- LACMA, Film Independent team for screening series
- Mexico and Caribbean: Up to 40% off rooms at 9 Marriott resorts
- New York Jets' Mark Sanchez addresses USC football team before practice
- WestJet to begin flying from Orange County (SNA) to Canada
- Florida sentences 'Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure' author to two years' probation
- 75-foot Valley Village mural is painted over
- Heavyweight teens risk adult heart disease but can outrun diabetes risk if they slim down
- Food technology has been bad for human health since long before the invention of high-fructose corn syrup
- Hiker's family faults L.A. County Sheriff's Department in his death
- Art: The Residents at the El Rey
- L.A. County supervisors drop provision for greater public oversight of discretionary funds
- Up next for the Lakers: Friday at Portland
- Lung cancer patients more likely to have high-risk human papilloma virus
- UCLA basketball to make Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena its temporary home
- Rio school shooting: 11 children killed in rampage
- Democrats following Republicans into field of undisclosed donors
- Wine of the Week: 2009 Loring Wine Co. Pinot Noir 'Russian River Valley'
- Dish Network wins bidding for assets of bankrupt Blockbuster
- Libyan rebels bide their time
- Thousands across Mexico protest drug violence
- Thursday's TV talk shows
- Italian premier's sex trial opens, adjourns
- Clinic settles lawsuits but still faces scrutiny over erectile dysfunction injections
- Let's all get off the term 'on steroids'
- Quick Takes: James Franco salutes Stephen Colbert
- Master's class
- Thomas Keller: A chef for all seasons
- Six days, six Bay Area restaurants
- For the record - April 7, 2011
- Kings clinch playoff berth with shootout victory over Coyotes
- Baseball: Crescenta Valley wins in eight innings, 1-0
- Royal Wedding TV Watch: April 7 - 21
- Baseball: Palm Desert wins championship
- Thursday's Highlights: 'The Mentalist' on CBS
- Thursday's Talk Shows
- Lodgings specials
- Patrick, 'miracle' pit bull who survived fall down garbage chute, is on the road to recovery
- Andreessen Horowitz creates $200-million 'growth-stage' investment fund
- SAG and AFTRA inch closer to merger
- Jason Reitman lists Beverly Hills home for sale at $1,595,000
- Gene Autry property sells for $5 million
- Sam Lindley leases Sunset Strip area home for $6,500 a month
- Google plans to open office for entertainment division in Beverly Hills
- Amanda Bynes loses dog Little Angel, Katy Perry posts photo of Kitty Purry
- Scrubbing away winter with the right exfoliator
- Dodgers hire ex-Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton to consult on stadium security
- Baseball: El Camino Real looks in City title form
- Cee Lo Green's ' You' finally reaches No. 1 on Billboard Top 40, breaks a record
- Baseball: Christian Lopes gets 8 RBIs in Edison win
- Football: Sheron Butler is new Morningside coach
- Terry Curtin named head of marketing for Relativity
- Hunx and His Punx dish out trashy bubblegum pop Friday in L.A.
- Opinion: Government: With a shutdown looming, the engines of blame warm up
- Alec Baldwin: '30 Rock' will end in 2012, Tina Fey to direct films
- The casting of 'The Hunger Games': Just calm down already
- Opinion: April 6 Buzz: Paul Ryan's budget; the sad story of John Thompson; anti-Muslim pastor Terry Jones
- Showtime addresses ill-timed Japan story line on 'United States of Tara'
- Happening in the Test Kitchen today
- California do-not-track-bill could lead the nation in online privacy laws
- Nobel laureate Baruch S. Blumberg dies at 85
- Dick Wolf says Skeet Ulrich's exit from 'Law & Order: L.A.' was 'very painful'
- Is Matt Lauer leaving the 'Today' show too?
- Saturday in Irvine: Literary Orange
- Opinion: Budget? What budget? Obama talks energy in Philadelphia before an Al Sharpton gala in New York
- Lakers Moments: Eddie Jones takes guard
- Video: Star athletes using sports for good
- USC football: School and Tennessee Titans settle lawsuit over Kennedy Pola hiring
- Feudal farce: Overtly inaccurate medieval films
- Offense shows life, but Chad Billingsley struggles in Dodgers' 7-5 loss to Rockies
- And the Colburn Prize goes to ... composer Michael Giacchino
- Your favorite L.A. book, Round 3: Ross Macdonald, Octavia E. Butler, Thomas Pynchon, Nathanael West
- Opinion: Jeb Bush: Florida law brings teaching into the 21st century
- Robert Redford will star in a revamped tale of Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson
- Motorola Xoom sells 100k units, says Deutsche Bank
- Metrolink to offer weeknight train service to and from Angel Stadium
- Ohio man, charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly barking at a police dog, claims 'the dog started it'
- Grammy overhaul: Bad news for Beyonce?
- Grammy Award changes affect classical, jazz categories
- Laila Ali and Curtis Conway welcome baby girl Sydney
- Deal is reportedly reached to let Yellowstone bison roam in Gardiner Basin conservation area
- Despite snowstorms, airlines cancel few flights in February
- Geek war! 'Game of Thrones' author feuds with 'Lost' show runner
- Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir will be unveiled Thursday
- Bristol Palin is paid $262,500 for abstinence campaign
- Judges urges NFL, players to 'come back to the table'
- NHL to feature Kings' 'Miracle on Manchester' playoff win in new promotional spot
- Portugal makes it official: It needs a bailout
- Lauren Conrad gets another book deal; 'L.A. Candy' selling for 99 cents
- Baseball: Chet Brewer Classic begins Saturday
- Bravo announces even more series, including a scripted one
- Piers Morgan, Keith Olbermann and others speak out about Glenn Beck's exit from his Fox News show
- Football: The St. Bonaventure workout
- Dov Charney says American Apparel is not looking for a buyer
- Opinion: 1st Amendment: How to fail the 'free speech' test
- Angelina Jolie's tattoo sparks new rumors about baby with Brad Pitt
- Dan Haren pitches Angels past Rays, 5-1
- South Pasadena farmers market wins honor
- GOP lawmakers turn shock-jock pressure into fundraising pitch
- Library of Congress adds 25 new recordings to its collection, including classics from Captain Beefheart, Steely Dan and George Crumb
- A rundown of the Barry Bonds trial
- Music review: Renée Fleming at Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
- Oil and gasoline prices are still climbing
- FBI releases hundreds of pages on Notorious B.I.G. murder investigation
- LACMA's Michael Govan talks partnership with Film Independent
- Dodgers Web musings: The return of Casey Blake (with beard)
- Italy trip delayed for 'Jersey Shore' cast?
- Britney Spears 'Till the World Ends' music video debuts
- Obama to host town hall on the economy at Facebook on April 20
- Europe set to raise interest rates while Fed holds back
- Candidate to replace Jane Harman in Congress urges supporters to battle proposed Wal-Mart
- California lawmakers look to Texas for salvation
- Girls' basketball: Gray, Holeman share MVP honors in City Section
- Judge at NFL lockout hearing alerts attorneys of her extensive research on case
- 'Arthur' movie premiere: Russell Brand, Helen Mirren get dodgy in New York
- Microsoft and Toyota building new cloud-based telematics system for 2012 release
- San Marcos earns top academic awards
- 'The Hangover Part II' trailer controversy -- monkey joke too much for moviegoers?
- Times guest blogger Hines Ward discusses Week 3 on 'Dancing With the Stars'
- Cooking by the book, the e-book
- The Spotlight: Carlie and Doni do a benefit for Santa Monica Playhouse
- A sneak peek at the new Bon Appetit
- Jennifer Garner brings sexy back -- date with Oscar next?
- Question of the Day: Who will win next year's NCAA men's tournament?
- Irvine Lake trouters score limits at Santiago Flats
- PolitiCal Roundup: A proposal to scrap firefighter pensions; no special gun permits for lawmakers
- Angels’ ‘diaper dandies’ among youngest rosters in baseball
- UAE: Emirati officer accused of human trafficking in Rhode Island
- 'The Biggest Loser' recap: Two go home
- Big changes in store for LACMA's film program
- Your favorite L.A. book, Round 2: Vote for your favorite nonfiction
- Culture Watch: Roger Gastman & Caleb Neelon's 'The History of American Graffiti'
- Grammy Awards get a major overhaul, including revamped categories, changes in voting procedures
- Recording Academy aims for a more focused Grammys, slashes 31 categories
- Twitter gets 6-year payroll-tax break from San Francisco Board of Supervisors
- LACMA, Film Independent collaborate on new film series
- Glenn Beck ending Fox News show later this year
- After 22 years, Kate Bush gets to record James Joyce
- NFL, players make cases to federal judge in St. Paul
- Influences: Cabaret singer Justin Vivian Bond
- Baseball: Babe Herman tournament schedule
- Baseball: Tuesday's scores
- Baseball: No-hitter for Troy's Cameron Ochoa
- Softball: Tuesday's scores
- 'The Good Wife' recap: So funny it hurts
- Angels' Erick Aybar undergoes MRI; Rays bench Manny Ramirez
- MTV names Stephen Friedman as its new president
- Dancing fifth-graders take over Music Center at Blue Ribbon Children’s Festival
- 'Arthur' premiere
- Your Morning Fashion and Beauty Report: Christophe Decarnin out at Balmain, CFDA auction aids Japan and Elle Macpherson lands a hosting gig
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- Modern times for Los Angeles Antiques Show
- Your favorite L.A. book, Round 1: Which Fante, Didion, Ellroy, Connelly to choose?
- Athol Fugard to receive Tony Award for lifetime achievement
- Dish Network to acquire Blockbuster for $320 million
- 'The Vampire Diaries': Executive producer Julie Plec previews The Klaus Chapter
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- Monster Mash: Iran cuts ties with Louvre museum; museums, artists voice support for Ai Weiwei
- Canning it: Here's how to get started
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- Boys' basketball: All-star games to be broadcast by Time Warner
- Tampa honeymoon could be ending for Manny Ramirez
- Searching for something positive to come from Giants fan's beating: A national call to end fan violence
- The Morning Fix: Dish snags Blockbuster! Netflix buys 'Mad Men.' Vieira ready to exit 'Today.'
- About (Late) Last Night: Watch James Franco geek out with Stephen Colbert
- Opinion: Yemen president gets stern warning from Obama press secretary
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- Culture Watch: Alessandro Striggio: Mass in 40 Parts
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- Opinion: Has the tongue turned? Obama explains his Libya attacks -- and his national security approval sinks
- A mural in Valley Village
- New panel to review L.A. community colleges' flawed rebuilding program
- Thomas Eisner dies at 81; entomologist who studied insect chemistry
- 'Julius Shulman Los Angeles' has some new angles
- Disaster in Japan exposes supply chain flaw
- Abby Sunderland revisits her sailing adventure and ordeal in 'Wild Eyes'
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- Abby Sunderland revisits her sailing adventure and ordeal in 'Wild Eyes'
- Obama phones congressional leaders as talks continue in attempt to avert government shutdown
- Violent storms kill 8 in Southeast
- Lonnie Franklin Jr., the alleged Grim Sleeper, is suspected in the deaths of eight more women
- Editor's picks: Chinese film @ REDCAT and more
- Sofitel hotel drops plan to seek helipad permit
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- KB Home's loss widens
- No challenge to Michel Martelly's election in Haiti expected
- The GOP plan for the federal deficit
- Wisconsin Supreme Court election: Republican, Democrat neck and neck
- Ducks' Corey Perry hits 50-goal mark in victory over Sharks
- U.S. court upholds Jeff Skilling conviction
- Kadafi letter asks Obama to end 'unjust war'
- Obama calls meeting with Boehner, Reid over budget impasse
- Many fans don't feel secure at Dodger Stadium
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- Child development agencies sue to halt state funding shift
- Tax rule that would've hurt small business is repealed
- Florida lawmaker to lead Democratic National Committee
- Barcelona and Manchester United enhance chances to make European Champions League semifinals
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- American Apparel chief denies reports that firm seeks a buyer