- Let gun lovers lead the charge on gun control
- Pentagon backs official who spoke to 'Zero Dark Thirty' filmmakers
- Nielsen strikes deal to buy Arbitron
- Zooey Deschanel divorce: It's final
- Review: Jose James' vocal pyrotechnics take off in Santa Monica
- Pasadena officers who killed teen acted lawfully, prosecutors say
- Holiday travel is expected to break records
- PASSINGS: Jack Hanlon dies at 96; former child star
- North Korea's dangerous ambition
- Daily Dodger in Review: The two halves of Chris Capuano
- Mexico: Time to party like there's no tomorrow
- Amgen pleads guilty to improper marketing of anemia drug Aranesp
- Uncorking Champagne: Lots of fun until someone loses an eye
- Dick's, Cabela's, others reconsider sales of Sandy Hook gun
- Los Angeles office rents a bargain by international standards
- Royce Hall's quest for a big-sounding piano ends on a high note
- Lincoln accused of 'tricky' tire switch by automotive website
- Wednesday's Talk Shows: Martha Stewart; Cyndi Lauper; Jamie Foxx
- Southland-based Sandy Hook victim fund takes off
- Countdown to the Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration
- Food FYI: Brazil beef ban expands amid mad cow fears
- Heard about airline seats that double as toilets? Utter loo-nacy
- Authorities identify suspect, victims in Colorado shootings
- Clippers building team bonds as they lock in the wins
- French masterpieces from Centre Pompidou arrive in Shanghai
- U.S. House approves changes to Video Privacy Protection Act
- California inmates welcome gift of guitars
- Reid: No 'Plan B' on 'fiscal cliff,' even as a last-ditch effort
- Pollution limits proposed for Malibu Lagoon and Creek
- Panel faults security failures in Benghazi attacks
- 'The Voice' recap: The final three compete for the crown
- L.A. girls pay tribute in visit, but Newtown is a day of hearses
- MOCA's Land art show, 'Ends of the Earth,' earns catalog honors
- 'Zero Dark Thirty': New questions on filmmakers' access to SEAL
- 'Gossip Girl' finale: Blair weds Chuck in Elie Saab
- Newtown, Conn.: The trigger
- Thousands flee Palestinian camp near Damascus, fearing attack
- Steve Nash could return for Lakers on Saturday or Tuesday
- Las Vegas: Where to find a rockin' New Year's Eve
- California parks officials improperly boosted pay, audit finds
- Greg McElroy to start for Jets over Mark Sanchez, Tim Tebow
- Instagram withdraws policy change, won't put users' photos in ads
- California senators propose tighter gun laws after Newtown deaths
- Movie review: 'Amour' an emotional tale of enduring love
- Chorus of voices grows stronger for 'death with dignity'
- Review: Chief Keef's 'Finally Rich' lands with force
- For the wine lover: a new guide to sherry
- Adrian Peterson donates $50,000 to disaster relief organization
- Clippers beat Pistons, 88-76, run winning streak to 10 games
- R.A. Dickey, Blue Jays make deal
- First shooting victims are buried
- The need to find a lasting good
- Dinner tonight! Kale-and-quinoa salad
- Dido releases new single featuring Kendrick Lamar
- The down and dirty of shooting 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'
- Jovan Belcher sent text about wanting to shoot his girlfriend
- 'Les Miserables' Amanda Seyfried in stylish winter essentials
- Amanda Seyfried talks popsicles and porn on 'Conan'
- Galaxy, Chivas USA to open 2013 MLS season at home
- IATSE ends strike against Pac-12 Network
- L.A. investment bank B. Riley buys stock research firm Caris
- Amgen is expected to plead guilty to unspecified charges
- Samsung unveils Galaxy Grand smartphone with a 5-inch screen
- FTC investigating data brokers that mine consumer info
- Wisconsin to hire Gary Andersen as its new football coach, report says
- S.S. Coachella 2012: It's a marathon, not a sprint
- Report: USC's Monte Kiffin was nation's highest-paid assistant coach
- Dillard's to pay $2 million to settle discrimination suit
- Quiz: Test your pop culture Christmas IQ
- Return of Steve Nash, Pau Gasol could be gift for Lakers
- Maurice Herzog dies at 93; French mountaineer
- Cerberus to sell Freedom Group, maker of gun used in Newtown massacre
- Jenni Rivera memorial service Wednesday at the Gibson Amphitheatre
- Former Laker Ramon Sessions focuses on upside, not the what-ifs
- Year in review: Heartbreak and heroes of 2012
- Builder confidence in housing is at highest point since 2006
- 11,200 child-care slots in Los Angeles County lost during recession
- Home chops: Kelsey Grammer, Beau Bridges
- A playlist for the End Times
- Merida, Mexico, says: Hope to see you after the world doesn't end
- AmEx, Xerox CEOs reportedly considered for Obama Cabinet posts
- Instagram says it will respond to terms-of-service uproar 'very soon'
- Johansson, Aguilera sound off; email hacker gets 10-year sentence
- Preview: Lakers vs. Bobcats
- Gunmen kill 5 anti-polio workers in Pakistan
- Sidney Crosby, the stealth ball hockey goalie
- Wednesday TV Talk Shows: Martha Stewart; Cyndi Lauper; Jamie Foxx
- South African President Jacob Zuma retains ANC leadership
- David Chase of 'The Sopranos' on effects of film, TV violence
- Treasury to sell stakes in most banks left in TARP program in 2013
- Goldberg: On Newtown, mourn first, then act
- 'No, no, no': Harrowing 911 call, then 4 dead near Longmont, Colo.
- Up next for the Clippers: Wednesday vs. New Orleans
- Legendary raises $443 million as big 2013 looms
- Barbra Streisand, Seth Rogen on their 'Guilt Trip' comedy travels
- Glorya Kaufman, dance school patron, made a USC trustee
- On somber anniversary, Biden copes with a new loss
- NFL power rankings: Tim Tebow can't stop Jets from sinking
- Russian warships head toward Syria
- NBC News' Richard Engel free after five days of captivity in Syria
- Nielsen strikes $1.26-billion deal to buy Arbitron
- Jonathan Gold quiz: Do you know your gingerbread?
- 2012 is tragic, but mass shootings not increasing, experts say
- Review: Mark Swope spies drama along the sidewalk
- Christmas 2012 L.A. dining guide
- 'The Voice' recap: Cassadee Pope wins Season 3
- Newport Beach dock renters may withhold holiday love
- Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg gives $500 million in stock to charity
- Up next for UCLA: Saturday vs. Fresno State
- A rooftop jump-off point for 'Silver Linings Playbook'
- No overall increased cancer risk for those exposed to WTC site
- How to grow eggplant as a perennial
- Scarlett Johansson hacker gets 10-year prison term
- Nerves on edge on first school day after Connecticut tragedy
- Obama backs Feinstein gun control initiative, aides say
- Movie review: 'The Guilt Trip'? Better they'd stayed home
- The Times' lineman of the year: Cameron Hunt of Corona Centennial
- Some Instagram users who deleted accounts say they won't return
- Traffic fatalities down across U.S. but up in California
- The Times' high school football All-Star team
- Report: Josh Brent banned from Cowboys' sideline for rest of year
- Pau Gasol to return tonight after eight-game layoff
- A single day of overindulgence: Hours off your life?
- Dwight Howard believes Steve Nash's return will help Lakers' defense
- Coach says he's to blame for Larry Drew II's short UCLA career
- Up next for the Lakers: Tuesday vs. Charlotte
- Lakers hang on to edge Bobcats, 101-100
- 'Les Miserables': Scary undertaking for Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway
- Obama makes a substantial counteroffer on fiscal deadline
- Edison Mission Energy files for bankruptcy protection
- Who will be the opening-day QB for the New York Jets next season?
- Trying, again, to ban assault weapons
- A search for normality as Newtown schools reopen after massacre
- GM increases pickup truck deals to work down inventory
- Prosecutor drops case against anti-gang activist
- Apocalypse, schmapocalypse: Here's Maya info you can believe
- Pau Gasol isn't the Lakers' problem, he's part of the solution
- Quick Takes: Martin Scorsese in a Bill Clinton mode
- Most Americans benefit from entitlements
- Time Warner Cable to drop arts channel Ovation
- Congo rebel leader acquitted on war crimes charges
- Instagram gets insta-backlash for upcoming changes [Google+ Hangout]
- Homemade holiday gift idea: Snowflake pretzel rods
- Jury awards $4.5 million to teachers recruited from Philippines
- North Korea's satellite may be dead in orbit, astronomers say
- California issues proposed rules for 'fracking'
- Cerberus to shed its 95% stake in gun maker Freedom Group
- Nancy Sinatra sells Santa Monica compound for $5 million
- Lionel Messi agrees to stay with Barcelona through June 2018
- Defense official says filmmakers didn't get classified material
- Strike averted: Keeping it clean on Broadway
- Perceived progress on 'fiscal cliff' drives Wall Street stocks higher
- Jovan Belcher texted that he would shoot girlfriend
- Grand jury probes L.A. County sheriff's handling of FBI informant
- Bradley Patterson kicked off UNA team for tweeting Obama epithet
- 'Les Miserables': Hathaway, Seyfried dedicated to singing
- The Times' final Top 25 high school football rankings
- 3-D 'Monsters, Inc.' should scare off Barbra Streisand, Seth Rogen
- Ireland to seek change in abortion law after woman's death
- For busy holiday travel season, Florida is hot [Google+ Hangout]
- Never-used $22-million children's museum gets new lease on life
- Listen to Frank Pastore speak prophetically about dying in crash
- The Times' high school football All-Star team
- Giuliana and Bill Rancic's new nursery: Not just for baby
- Facebook to roll out autoplay video ads by April, report says
- Cookbook Watch: 'Vietnamese Home Cooking' by Charles Phan
- Redskins' London Fletcher blames security for confrontation with family
- 'Les Miserables' is ambitious but overbearing, early reviews say
- NBC's Richard Engel released! Nielsen buys Arbitron.
- Chris Johnson pays tribute to Newtown shooting victims on 'MNF'
- Angelina Jolie in talks to direct 'Unbroken' for Universal
- Tim Burton directs the Killers' new 'Here With Me' video
- Light rail plan for Los Angeles International Airport advances
- Egypt's new prosecutor resigns amid judicial feud with president
- The secret life of book reprints
- Discovery's 'Zombie Apocalypse' plays what-if with end times
- Movie review: 'Zero Dark Thirty' tracks Bin Laden's dramatic takedown
- Team of Rivals: L.A.'s D.A. office
- Boehner changes gears in 'fiscal cliff' talks with Obama
- Daniel Day-Lewis, documentary 'Bully' to be honored
- Feds fine Toyota $17 million more for unintended-acceleration issue
- Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Happily Divorced' on TV Land
- S.S. Coachella 2012: Things get fishy off Nassau
- Acclaimed Indian director returns to L.A. to 'chase a new dream'
- Fix for flawed light-rail junction in downtown L.A. is outlined
- Against high-powered Baylor, UCLA will try to control the tempo
- Samsung set to overtake Nokia as No. 1 cellphone brand worldwide
- Is Obama sacrificing grannies for a budget deal?
- Rajiv Joseph on his Black List screenplay 'Draft Day'
- American Airlines is bundling extras
- GRAIL moon mission ends with a bang
- Sen. Feinstein expected to head Judiciary Committee
- Utah sixth-grader brings gun to school, fearing another Newtown
- UCLA blows by Long Beach State, 89-70
- Ryan Lochte gives away gold medal after breaking world record
- Animated She & Him holiday video follows Zooey Deschanel's divorce
- Polarized South Korea could elect its first female president
- Fuzzy playoff picture to come into focus in three NFL divisions
- Port terminal operator APM eavesdropped on workers, union alleges
- The Times' football coach of the year: Narbonne's Manuel Douglas
- Penguin settles in e-book price fixing case
- Philippine Congress OKs bill to offer birth control to poor women
- Album review: 'Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head' by T.I.
- Lakers rally to beat Bobcats, 101-100, in Pau Gasol's return
- Football: Narbonne's Troy Williams is The Times' back of the year
- Frank Pastore dies at 55; ex-major league pitcher, talk radio host
- USC would gain control of taxpayer-owned parking lots under proposal
- For the record - Dec. 18, 2012
- For the record - Dec. 18, 2012
- Carson pastor pleads guilty to $11 million in Medicare fraud
- Sen. Daniel Inouye dies at 88; war hero
- The Envelope Screening Series: 'Les Misérables'
- Boys' basketball: Chance Murray scores 31 points for Price
- Maurice Herzog dies at 93; French mountaineer
- Photos | Simeon vs. Carver
- Nuclear watchdog faults Mitsubishi over San Onofre equipment tests
- Rear-end accident deaths not as common
- 'Titanic 3D' world premiere
- A City Hall fight in Newport Beach
- Christina Aguilera: Celebrity hacker stole sense of security
- Girl, 13, gets Hasbro to make gender-neutral Easy-Bake oven
- Jenni Rivera memorial will be 'graduation into heaven,' brother says
- Football: Scott Altenberg did not call for Adoree' Jackson's fake punt
- Sandy Hook massacre creates 'new reality,' LAPD chief says
- Traffic deaths up in California, at six-decade low across U.S.
- Two L.A. County deputies face assault charges in San Diego
- No charges to be filed in alleged Facebook school threats
- Lincoln accused of 'tricky' tire switch by automotive website
- California teachers pension fund tied to gun maker by investment
- Boys' basketball: Team loses its gym because of water damage
- Scarlett Johansson 'humiliated, embarrassed' by celebrity hacker
- 'Django Unchained' premiere canceled because of Newtown tragedy
- Girls' soccer: Aliso Niguel tops Division 1 poll
- Boys' soccer: Ventura is ranked No. 1 in Southern Section poll
- Boys' basketball: Public vs. Private showcase is set for Saturday
- California Electoral College formally casts its 55 votes for Obama
- Essential reading after Newtown: 'Columbine' by Dave Cullen
- Deasy pledges safety review of L.A. schools after Conn. shooting
- The xx covers 'Last Christmas' with characteristic doom, gloom
- Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii
- Catalina Island Conservancy board backs controversial president
- Scarlett Johansson's celebrity hacker gets 10-year sentence
- Suspect in 2008 slaying of sheriff's deputy arrested in Mexico
- Food gifts for the modernist
- Celebs turning 40 in 2013: Neil Patrick Harris, Tyra Banks, James Marsden and more
- Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt sells Toluca Lake house for $2.15 million
- L.A. moves up gun buyback after Connecticut shooting
- Sheriff's officials reveal 2 recent threats to area schools
- Is Mo Yan courageous, or is he a patsy?
- McDade family lawyer 'disappointed' in no charges for police
- Sheriff's Department also to increase security at L.A. schools
- Jenni Rivera's public memorial Wednesday at Gibson Amphitheatre
- NASA scientists find hydrogen in moon's sunlit regions
- 'The moon is alive,' NASA says after water discovery
- Pasadena police shooting of Kendrec McDade was justified, D.A. says
- A piano named Sapphire
- Does gay conversion therapy ban violate free speech?
- 9 guns seized when man arrested for alleged school shooting threats
- Woman dies of West Nile virus; first fatality in O.C. in four years
- Shares of gun maker Smith & Wesson tumble after Connecticut shooting
- Former Amazon warehouse workers face a sad predicament
- Grandmother apparently killed with barbecue fork; motive sought
- Suspect identified in L.A. elementary school shooting threat
- Poet Jake Adam York, 40, has died
- Man accused of selling drugs from Santa Paula smoke shop
- PHOTO BOOTH: VH1's 'Divas' concert
- Gender gap: Support working women, boost economy, says OECD
- St. Bonaventure states its case to stay in Northern area
- Football: QB Nate Romine picks Air Force
- Boys' basketball: Brandon Randolph leads Inglewood to upset of the week
- California a leading state for research into cancer afflicting Gov. Brown
- L.A. Now Live: After Newtown, trying to keep L.A. schools safe
- Connecticut shooting sparks calls for gun control legislation
- New Peet's owner Benckiser to buy Caribou Coffee for $340 million
- Man arrested after threatening to shoot up L.A. schools, police say
- Football: QB Troy Williams leaves for Seattle on Jan. 1
- George Skelton: No reason for high-powered guns
- Body found in Arizona river may be missing ASU student from O.C.
- Spice Girls musical opens in London, fails to impress critics
- Fresno woman is set on fire by her husband, police say
- Newtown shooting brings back pain for L.A. Jewish center victims
- Sad French bulldog listens to Adele
- Rain, chilly temperatures expected for Southern California
- President Obama speaks to Newtown at interfaith vigil
- Newtown's martyred children and the cold hearts of the gun lobby
- Jenni Rivera's generosity to needy honored; memorials planned
- Gunman fires 50 round at crowded mall; motive remains mystery
- Celebrity Birthdays for December 17th
- Donald Fehr puts the players first, this time in hockey
- Guns seized, man held after Indiana school threat, police say
- Michael Douglas' son Cameron reportedly beaten badly in prison
- Michigan suspends three players for Outback Bowl
- Essential reading after Newtown: 'Columbine' by Dave Cullen
- Gun company's shares are in line of fire
- Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan-Tatum expecting a magic tyke
- Computers that will see, hear, smell: Next, world domination?
- Q & A: Bryant Gumbel wraps up 18th season on HBO's 'Real Sports'
- Muddy Leek opens in Culver City
- Participant Media to create pro-social cable channel
- Business is the state's business