- La Scala opening with conductor James Conlon canceled after strike
- Cat crashes wedding
- What to read before the Maya apocalypse
- Skelton: Jerry Brown gets high marks in 2012
- Scary snowman in the city
- Jenni Rivera: Overflow crowd says goodbye at singer's memorial
- Crash test crumples two of Toyota's top sellers: Camry and Prius v
- Temperatures expected to rise after record-setting cold hits SoCal
- Earthquake: 2.9 quake strikes near Hydesville
- Congress should protect diplomats, not just bash Hillary Clinton
- Celebrity Birthdays for December 20th
- Richard Baum dies at 72; China expert at UCLA
- Don Haidl dies at 61; key figure in O.C. sheriff corruption case
- White House defends possible Defense nominee Chuck Hagel
- Robert Griffin III fined $10,000 for wearing the wrong shirt
- New jobless claims up 17,000 last week, but remain relatively low
- Holiday procrastination: 17 million Americans will shop Christmas Eve
- 'Skyfall': Javier Bardem on the difference between Silva, Chigurh
- 'The X Factor' recap: Tate Stevens wins Season 2
- 'The X Factor' recap: The three finalists sing for the win
- Test Kitchen video tip: Homemade ricotta
- Is Tom Cruise reaching? Senators blast 'Zero Dark Thirty.'
- Tim Tebow breakup: All alone again after split with Camilla Belle
- Darden missteps, 'Obamacare' flap dent Olive Garden owner's profit
- 'In Cold Blood' a cold case police decide is worth digging up
- Sharp words ahead of 'Plan B' tax vote
- Samsung to unveil flexible display technology at CES
- Putin further distances Russia from Syria's Assad
- Letters: A Capitol Hill hero
- Controversial Indian politician gets boost from election win
- House Republicans call off vote on 'Plan B' fiscal cliff plan
- American Airlines plans to sell London town house for $23 million
- Congress should protect diplomats, not just bash Hillary Clinton
- UCLA's Devin Lucien to return for Holiday Bowl
- Eat your meal(worms)! If nothing else, it could help the planet
- Movie review: 'Worlds Away' a Cirque du Soleil sampler platter
- More or fewer guns? The experts are divided
- Ben Affleck on running for Senate: He didn't say 'no'
- In Israel, Labor Party chief's shift to the right causes dissent
- Steve Nash's return a possibility for Saturday
- Flipboard rolls out magazine app for Android tablets
- Hairstylist remembers Adam Lanza: 'I thought he couldn't speak'
- Mortgage rates mixed, Freddie Mac says; 30-year fixed at 3.37%
- Costume Designers Guild to honor Anne Hathaway, Lorne Michaels
- U.N. Security Council approves military mission in Mali
- The ABCs of firing a teacher
- For Jacki Weaver, 'Silver Linings Playbook' finally computed
- Quick Takes: 'Glengarry' recoups
- Up next for the Clippers: Friday vs. Sacramento
- How Sally Field fought for Spielberg's first lady in 'Lincoln'
- Letters: Humane is hip
- Roger Ebert's Ebertfest gets $20,000 academy grant
- Review: 'On the Road' is achingly romantic
- Review: Danny Lyon takes us on a slick ride at Duncan Miller
- Third-quarter GDP growth is revised higher but weakness looms
- LAPD investigation of killing hobbled by DEA
- Boehner rejects Democrats' push for immediate vote on gun bill
- Palm Springs International Film Festival announces 180-film lineup
- Apple's patent victory may be small in larger battle with Samsung
- Wise-cracking 'Movie Interruption' to heckle 'Love Actually'
- Letters: Gun control back in play
- Canstruction LA to take place at January Art Walk
- L.A. county, LAFD fire chiefs discuss regional dispatch network
- What is the greatest sports moment in world history?
- Clippers enjoy the moment after 11th win in a row
- Letters: Fixing realignment
- Ava DuVernay no longer in 'Middle of Nowhere'
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 'Antifragile' dares us to expect the unexpected
- Receiver Darreus Rogers practices with USC for first time
- Milwaukee sheriff: Cut 'green projects' for a cop in every school
- Apple takes quest for Samsung product ban to appeals court
- Costume designers and actors, a tightly woven fabric
- La Scala opening with conductor James Conlon canceled after strike
- Hedge fund manager alleges Herbalife is 'pyramid scheme'
- Treasury to sell GM stake over 15 months
- With 11 straight victories, Clippers feel like winners
- NHL cancels more games
- KPFK's 'Travel Tips for Aztlan' names 2012's best Latin-alt albums
- New York Stock Exchange operator agrees to be sold for $8.2 billion
- Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey's interesting definition of 'lateral'
- Review: 'Not Fade Away' grooves on '60s in coming-of-age drama
- Oscar 8-Ball: Tom Hooper's 'Les Miserables'
- Singer Shirley Jones lists Encino home for $2.1 million
- 'Top Chef' recap: The ladies won't be foiled again
- Movies: 'It's a Wonderful Life' at American Cinematheque
- Don Haidl dies at 61; key figure in O.C. sheriff corruption case
- California: Shaun White to lead Northstar's 40th-year celebration
- Minnesota dog faces death sentence after state high court ruling
- Orange County will mark Harvey Milk Day
- Sandy Hook slayings: Newtown shooter's mother memorialized
- Movie review: 'This Is 40' finds truth amid midlife crisis, laughs
- Up next for USC: Saturday at Georgia
- Fuller House, once owned by Samuel Goldwyn, is sold
- FTC unveils broader rules to protect kids' privacy online
- LeBron James rides a bike to some Heat games
- Review: 'Facing the Sublime in Water, CA' delves deep
- UC Irvine knocks off USC, 61-54
- Derek Jeter calls mother of teacher killed in Connecticut shooting
- BlackBerry parent Research in Motion loses subscribers for first time
- Holiday cookie recipe: Rugelach with three fillings
- Apple looking at 46- to 55-inch displays for TV?
- Feds call for new safety review of airport scanners
- Free the CIA torture report
- Sandy Hook: Firefighters try to shield memorial from storm
- American Cinematheque gets into the holiday spirit
- 'The Paperboy': Nicole Kidman is used to audience discomfort
- DJ Earworm releases annual 'United State of Pop' megamix
- Coachella on the high seas
- Magic Johnson: Steve Nash will bring the Lakers missing leadership
- Homemade holiday gift idea: Chocolate bouchons recipe
- Bruins' defensive line makes moves like a ninja
- Emmanuelle Riva on states of being and 'Amour'
- Canada: Fun and fundraising go hand-in-glove in Banff
- A tortilla flap over whether Henry's Tacos folds
- Where gun violence is concentrated: It's not where you might think
- Newtown's firearms tradition clashes with gun-control push
- Infill housing development rises in Los Angeles region
- A costly lesson that your email — and money — aren't safe
- Minecraft documentary to stream Saturday on Xbox Live
- Clippers turn town upside down
- Michael Phelps is AP's top male athlete
- Sophie B. Hawkins still playing Janis Joplin in West Hollywood
- How to stop squirrels from stealing fruit
- Newark's Cory Booker will explore Senate run
- Latin American nations among the most upbeat, poll finds
- Los Angeles Restaurant Week set to begin Jan. 21
- Brothers Grimm stayed true to fairy tales they knew: Sinister
- Music: Brian Setzer Orchestra
- NCAA investigator on Shabazz Muhammad case is said to be fired
- Michael Phelps named AP male athlete of 2012; LeBron James second
- Oscar 8-Ball: Kathryn Bigelow's 'Zero Dark Thirty'
- 'Christmas 101' at Royce Hall
- Wesson's choice of fundraiser's wife for ethics panel criticized
- A conservative case for an assault weapons ban
- Suzy Favor Hamilton, ex-Olympian, admits she worked as escort
- No holiday rest for election-weary Angelenos
- Kinsley: Tuning the tax code
- Putin further distances Russia from Syria's Assad
- Adam Lanza: Will genetics reveal what sleuthing cannot?
- Does the Dodgers' Ned Colletti need to get his Marvin Gaye on?
- Movie review: 'The Impossible' has the right touch with real horror
- Huge expansion of U.S. protection for N. Calif. waters proposed
- Boehner cancels House vote as 'Plan B' falls short of GOP support
- Majorities support some new gun laws, not bans
- Oscars 2013: Heatmeter
- ESPN suspends commentator Rob Parker for 30 days for RG3 comments
- Women's basketball: Cal State Northridge upsets No. 12 UCLA
- Long Beach's Pendarvis headlines Florentine Gardens card Friday
- Home sales jump to highest pace in three years
- Review: 'Tchoupitoulas' a flight of fancy in New Orleans
- Friday's TV Talk Shows: Judd Apatow; Hugh Jackman; Richard Gere
- For Alex Sanchez, justice delayed or justice denied?
- Grief unending for Sandy Hook -- 'There is no answer to this'
- Apple Maps three times more likely to get you lost than Google Maps
- Is Tom Cruise big enough to carry 'Jack Reacher'?
- Instagram's most followed user, Kim Kardashian, might dump the app
- Olivia Culpo, Miss USA, takes title of Miss Universe 2012
- Review: 'Jack Reacher' is too much of a stretch for Tom Cruise
- Instagram reverts to old privacy policy wording after uproar
- Another mega solar plant nearing approval in California
- NYSE shares surge 31% on deal to sell company
- Jamie Foxx on playing a slave, Leo learning to say the 'N-word'
- What's that white fuzz on the Fuji apple tree?
- 'Rust and Bone's' Marion Cotillard dives head-first into roles
- Members of Afghanistan's warring sides gather in France
- Farmland peaks, crop space to revert back to nature, report finds
- U.S. under pressure over Rwanda involvement in Congo fighting
- Is Kobe Bryant shooting the Lakers out of games?
- Review: 'Barbara' a masterful study of a fraught Germany
- Rebecca Minkoff, Bryan Boy, the Man Repeller send a holiday carol
- Blizzard hits U.S. Midwest, wreaks havoc with travel
- Ben Roethlisberger apologizes for criticizing Steelers coaches
- Maker Studios raises $36 million from big-name investors
- California: Yosemite's Badger Pass opens with deals
- Pop music: Odd Future at the Observatory
- Dick Van Dyke to accept SAG Life Achievement Award
- Former Rwandan minister sentenced to 35 years on genocide charges
- Fearful 'end of world' calls, emails flood NASA as Dec. 21 nears
- Lakers' Pau Gasol, Mike D'Antoni try to get on same page
- Review: Andra Ursuta evokes disintegration at Francois Ghebaly
- Senators say 'Zero Dark Thirty' is 'grossly inaccurate'
- UBS to pay $1.5 billion to settle Libor charges
- 'Hobbit' to again rule box office; 'Zero Dark Thirty' has big start
- 'This Is 40': Graham Parker happily sinks fictional record label
- Near Newtown, U.S. gun ethos on display at museum
- Daum: Finally, it's time for gun control
- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at Disney Hall
- Richard Baum dies at 72; China expert at UCLA
- U.S. will let otters roam along Southern California coastline
- Galaxy signs local star Gyasi Zardes, closes in on Carlo Cudicini
- L.A. artist taking on Heineken over Silver Lake mural
- Dinner tonight! Chanterelle-sage bread pudding recipe
- Toyota's Camry, Prius v beaten up in crash test [slow-mo video]
- Jessica Chastain gets her character in 'Zero Dark Thirty'
- For the oenophile: Jancis Robinson's 'Wine Grapes'
- Rogue pharmacists fuel addiction
- GOP lawmakers challenge plan to correct diplomatic security flaws
- LeAnn Rimes fires back after 'X Factor' drunk-duet accusations
- Friday's TV Highlights: 'Christmas in Washington' on TNT
- What to read before the Maya apocalypse
- Syria conflict turns 'overtly sectarian,' U.N. reports
- Brigham Young pins 23-6 loss on San Diego State in Poinsettia Bowl
- Connecticut shooter's problems all too familiar to many parents
- 'X Factor's' Tate Stevens: 'I didn't come here to take second'
- French president says Algeria suffered under 'brutal' colonialism
- Newtown hits home, and hard
- Jazz vibraphonist Chris Dingman at the Blue Whale
- Shape of human hand may have evolved for fighting, scientists say
- The Hagel litmus test
- Facebook tests fee to have messages show up in nonfriend's inbox
- Comedians Joe Rogan, Doug Stanhope at the Wiltern
- Oh my, Semper Fi is going kinda dry!
- China: Raffles to open on Hainan Island
- End of the world? Gun violence? Mich. school district closes early
- Melodrama overtakes Ayana Mathis' 'Twelve Tribes of Hattie'
- UCLA, Lakers set the standard for win streaks in Los Angeles
- Review: 'Whatcha Wearin'?' dials up cute and charming
- Punk band X, wrapping 35th-anniversary tour, has L.A. show Friday
- Watchdog: Dying for Relief, part three: Rogue pharmacists
- For the record - Dec. 20, 2012
- For the record - Dec. 20, 2012
- Hollywood's ArcLight theater evacuated as popcorn burns
- Photos: Clippers vs. Hornets
- Newport Beach Christmas Parade launches amid boycott
- Football: Jim Kunau is hired as new coach at Anaheim Canyon
- Singer in famed Vietnamese musical family dies in O.C.
- O.C. man gets prison for molesting boy outside restaurant
- Football: Gardena Serra lineman commits to Houston
- Rogue pharmacists feed addiction
- Boys' basketball: Kris Yanku comes through for Taft in OT win
- Moorpark man accused of unlicensed dentistry
- Robert H. Bork dies at 85; pivotal figure in Supreme Court history
- Children’s Hospital Los Angeles receives $11-million gift
- Daum: Finally, it's time for gun control
- Photos: Concept art of Disneyland's Fantasy Faire princess village
- Man held in bomb hoax against Jewish temple, LAPD squad car
- San Diego brothers accused of defrauding sports fans
- Drug lord’s daughter deported to Mexico
- Thousands of abused reptiles, rodents found in Lake Elsinore shop
- Lancaster woman, son accused of selling drugs near school
- Football: Collin Keoshian signs with Illinois State
- Ex-O.C. cop guilty of stealing from charity football league
- Homeless population declines in L.A. County, U.S. says
- D.A. drops charge against Newport man accused of killing wife
- A California tax on oil drilling? Why not?
- California leaders set state health goals to be met by 2022
- Iwan Baan to sell photographic work to benefit Sandy relief
- Dec. 21, 2012: Fearful 'end of world' callers flood NASA
- Brown's choice for prisons chief is sentencing reform advocate
- Stream complete 'Django Unchained' soundtrack here
- Demand for home elevators goes up
- Northridge shooting suspect held without bail after extradition
- Farmers Markets: Yuzu, Victoria rhubarb and more
- Don Haidl, key figure in O.C. Sheriff's Department scandal, dies
- Jenni Rivera memorial: Her children recall ‘perfectly imperfect’ mom
- City Beat: the Do Good Bus takes volunteers to opportunities
- Counter Intelligence: Spago
- False alarm: Supposed gunman at L.A. hospital was security guard
- Battle expected over disclosure of 'fracking' chemicals
- Colleges start posing mind-bending essay questions: Where’s Waldo?
- Sandy Hook shootings: Talking to kids about the tragedy
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- New report embraces Medi-Cal expansion
- Toughest inmates guarded by some of least-experienced jailers
- 'Twilight' actor arrested at LAX for alleged public drunkenness
- 'Glengarry Glen Ross,' with Al Pacino, recoups investment
- Shaquille O'Neal to launch 'Luv Shaq' vodka
- 'Laguna Beach' reality star pleads guilty to DUI
- The books behind the new films at the Library of Congress [Video]
- Mushrooms sprouting through floors of rundown Sacramento apartment
- WATCH LIVE: Jenni Rivera memorial and 'celestial graduation'
- Gov. Brown appoints new leader for California's troubled prison system
- Jenni Rivera memorial: Fans travel from afar, even without tickets
- Beyonce is urged to abandon Pepsi endorsement deal
- Interstate 5 reopens after 60-car pileup near California-Oregon border
- LAUSD to pay $6.9 million in abuse case; Miramonte could be costly
- TP controversy envelops Granada Hills baseball team
- Threat of boycott doesn't dim plans for Newport Beach boat parade
- 'Swatting' at Charlie Sheen, Miley Cyrus homes investigated
- County to keep paying jailed assessor’s $197,000 salary – for now
- Apple, Google, Amazon, more buying Kodak patents for $525 million
- State lawmakers seek tighter gun laws after Sandy Hook shootings
- California senator seeks investigations of abuse of disabled people
- Basketball: Tuesday's scores
- Football: Julian Brooks signs with Nevada
- L.A. Now Live: Federal grand jury investigates L.A. jails
- 'Stick Fly' play reportedly becoming an HBO movie
- Dec. 21: It's (not) the end of the world as we know it, NASA says
- Indianapolis Colts, Indiana Pacers give helping hand to orchestra
- Bomb threat involving LAPD car near Jewish temple deemed a hoax
- Northridge shooting suspects scheduled to appear in court
- California taxes dip in a weak month for revenue
- Surprise party marriage proposal
- Eagle snatches kid: Real or fake?
- Jenni Rivera: Fans ready for sold-out memorial at Universal CityWalk
- Strong winds and cold blast L.A., but sunny skies are on the way
- Earthquake: 3.7 quake strikes near Petrolia
- National Film Registry films for 2012
- Celebrity birthdays for December 19th
- New college application questions encourage creative thinking