- Insurer scales back, widening Medicare prescription gap
- Mexico's Calderon stocks his Cabinet with friends
- Officers cleared in child's killing
- Lakers' loss is longshot
- He's Japan's host with the boast
- Kennedy signs deal with Cardinals
- Italian to be tested for poisoning
- Bush's NATO message signals concern on Afghanistan front
- Bruins pull off a half gainer
- Rice will meet with Abbas
- After his best job, would Carroll want a new job?
- Dubai film fest will shell out
- Mexico's rich getting richer, study finds
- Bay Area papers' deal blocked
- Zune music player's sales on target, Microsoft says
- Comcast to have three chief financial officers
- Strategies for holiday business gifts
- Report finds flaws at Los Alamos lab
- Our unlevel playing field
- FBI to probe slaying of woman, 88, in shootout
- Bush firm on Iran, Syria
- U.S. to freeze mortgage loan limit
- BofA beats Citigroup as world's largest bank
- Also
- Stocks close modestly higher despite weak economic data
- By the numbers, it's civil war
- Selling shells by the seashore
- Federal agents search producer's home, office
- Florida State to be bowl foe
- Jack Macpherson, 69; La Jolla legend known for 'huge beer orgies'
- Dunleavy says his deal isn't quite done yet
- Giving franchises a hand
- Taking the lead
- Charges in Florida boot camp death
- More Catholic than the ...
- Walsh out as Raiders offensive coordinator
- Cloutier waits for playing time
- This year, an independent spirit reemerges
- Lesbian's custody rights are upheld
- AIDS campaign aimed at minorities
- Audit finds L.A. agency lacks mission
- Long Beach beating trial has slow start
- Panel urges ouster of lesbian fire chief
- Bush parley draws anchors
- A little ride of horrors
- A serious turn
- NBC weighs restructuring in Burbank
- Raising Science's bar against fraud
- West Hollywood seats first council
- Council to settle billboard lawsuit
- Snoop Dogg is arrested
- Pfizer to slash sales force by 2,200 jobs, or 20%
- EMI Group is contacted about bid
- Inflation still concerns Bernanke
- The dead-sexy Tesla delivers on its promise
- Good stuff well done
- Pope seeks reconciliation in Turkey
- Figure in Pellicano case indicted
- It's all about well-being at new health spa
- Military healthcare comes to 'burbs
- Boston gets an Italian goddess
- Cleaner diesels to enter U.S. in 2008
- 5 kidnapped at Mexico ranch
- Butler seeking staying power
- Hastings won't chair intel panel, Pelosi says
- Soulmates
- Bound body found in apartment fire
- A Texas-sized campaign loophole
- Google strikes deal to settle newspaper dispute
- U.S. growth may slow further, data suggest
- Wal-Mart adds Net offer
- Mayor's brother indicted
- CONTROVERSY OVER PENTAGON SPENDING PLAN
- Bush order freezing alleged terrorist funds ruled illegal
- Minority hiring practices probed
- 2 officials blamed in molester shuffle
- Talks on King/Drew contracts authorized
- It doesn't run in the Tyler family
- High court puts patent standard to the test
- Coming attractions
- Services set for David Hermance
- Board settles huge suit over land
- Games easiest for Odom
- Will your idea wash overseas?
- Migrating birds may pick up frozen flu virus
- Teacher faces multiple counts of sex with boy
- Six members of O.C. gang are arrested
- Peterson still out of Oklahoma's lineup
- Getting inside a haunting outsider
- A little dab will do
- Paris lightens up, soars
- Happy ending? Suit over Barney parody is settled
- 2 charged in plot to aid Taliban
- Dogs, pigs killed in attempt to halt flu
- Ozark town grieves for fire victims
- Christian Coalition chief out
- UCLA captures academic plum
- 3 arrested in grocery cart assault on woman
- A timeless reality in fairy tales re-imagined
- But leftovers took a hit
- The lost art of negotiation
- Weighing a return of Saddam Hussein
- Timely blessings
- Lights, camera, impasse of opinion
- McCain profile sheds some light
- Settlements and the Mideast divide
- LAPD shooting probe inconclusive
- The sweet side of bitter greens
- A twirl through the best spaghetti
- Penne with five American cheeses
- Prep volleyball
- Spaghetti carbonara translated into Spanish
- Opinion: Pelosi pulls chair out from under Hastings
- Opinion: McCain's Theodore Rex Redux
- Opinion: Another reason to avoid the bus
- Opinion: Stein: Hannity's gay action
- Opinion: OpEd: Free cell, free market
- Opinion: Random sentences from reader mail
- Opinion: Third-rail roundup: No mas, Hamas; Kathmandu calling; CA GOP MIA
- Opinion: OpEd: Rome's victorious stalemate
- No tax money for stem cells
- $4.15 million
- State GOP shouldn't dig in its heels
- Blackhawks fire Yawney
- Orange schools trustee files suit
- Milberg Weiss fraud case may grow
- Alaska to revoke leases on North Slope gas field
- FBI to probe deadly shootout
- Jackson tackles subject of playing the rookies
- 2 at slain reporter's paper threatened
- Clippers extend coach's contract
- Our superhero 'Returns'
- William Diehl, 81; war experiences influenced writer's popular thrillers
- Officials call for boycott of 'N-word'
- Landing on AM dial is no sad country song
- Baze rides gleefully to glory
- 'Catfish' bred in Asia move up on U.S. food chain
- Walking her way to ballot victory
- Domingo aids hearing campaign
- Writers spurn studios on talks
- Tilting right
- Police chief wants Guard to remain
- NYSE Group sets date for vote on Euronext deal
- O.C. to welcome drivers at a spruced-up gateway
- NSA spy program is under review
- Will East Coast go loco for an expanding El Pollo?
- Quebecers now a 'nation'
- Parking lot probed for Juarez's gold
- Think your job is a joke? Good! That's the spirit we're looking for
- Governor's closest aide will be leaving post in January
- Bruins feel neglected in BCS talk
- Mavericks stagger before winning their 10th in row
- Dodgers get a cut-rate deal on pitcher Wolf
- Winemakers in a squeeze
- Berkshire appears to have met SEC request
- Shooting in Queens draws mayor's rebuke
- Chivas USA gets Guevara
- NBC to use 'civil war' to describe Iraq
- A high point for Nepal
- 4 injured in home explosion
- No verdict yet in retrial of Chinese rights activist
- Man is shot and killed in possible gang attack
- Red Wings get past Stars, 2-1
- Delta to add $719 million to retired pilots' claims
- Losing the lion's share
- Law firm temp worker sentenced in data theft
- O.C. high school teacher is accused of sex with a student
- Raul Velasco, 73; host of Mexican variety show
- Frosty win for Seahawks
- Dollar slumps further, eliciting fear in Europe
- Sanofi boosts flu vaccine production for U.S.
- Tamil rebel leader calls truce 'defunct'
- Alabama fires Shula, Kines is interim coach
- Two at tech service firm quit over stock options
- YouTube videos to be seen on Verizon phones
- U.S. jet goes down in Iraq
- Rising violence swells ranks of Iraq's militias
- Get real, Hamas
- Angels discussing trade with White Sox
- Patriots put Seau on injured reserve
- Santa Claus visits Sotheby's
- Suicide blast kills 2 troops from Canada
- Justices rule on transport of medicinal pot
- Robert McFerrin, 85; Met's first male black soloist
- TUESDAY BRIEFING
- Cheerleading coach pleads guilty to drug, sex charges
- School district alters policy to settle suit
- Mayor signs 'living wage' law
- School evacuated after hand grenade is found
- Sex offender clause is debated
- Recount required in House race
- Hollywood parade is a bit out of step
- Ports considering maglev trains to cut smog
- UCLA has its sights on No. 1
- New rules of engagement, and marriage
- The iceman cometh back
- Cal State Fullerton suffers first loss, 110-100
- Web retailers step up holiday deals
- Massachusetts to file civil suit against 15 Big Dig contractors
- Dave Cockrum, 63; comics illustrator popularized X-Men
- Bebe Moore Campbell, 56; best-selling novelist wrote on racism, mental illness
- MTV to launch more than 20 websites
- Ford to unveil version of fuel cell Explorer SUV
- Rates on 3-, 6-month T-bills decline in auction
- In Congo, designer cheek
- Two quakes, 4.1 and 2.1, rattle Central Coast
- Cowboys cut Vanderjagt
- London's 'Mousetrap' just keeps on catching tourists
- FINALLY
- Ford aims to borrow $18 billion
- Phone firms' TV market bid may skip Congress
- The Getty's side
- Justices reject N.Y. Times in leak case
- Garon wins this face-off
- It's getting easier to relive art history
- K-9 patrol pads through N.Y. subway
- Hannity goes for Brokeback
- 2 youths gunned down; 1 later dies at hospital
- Stock rally gives way to sharp losses
- Palm slashes earnings targets for quarter
- Kabila's election victory upheld
- Officials follow radioactive trail
- Which officer shot girl can't be known
- Here's what the Yanks missed with the Clash
- Did Mr. Dithers OK his moonlighting?
- English-language daily to cover Palestinians
- Not all will be answered on the field
- Carroll is selected coach of the year
- Broadway shows pack 'em in
- Author McEwan denies copying
- 'Pray-in' protesters decry imams' removal from flight
- Iraq group seeks consensus
- High court weighs Baby Bell lawsuit
- 10 die in fire at home for mentally disabled
- Howland patient with Mata's struggles at line
- McGwire eligible for Hall
- It's all in the genes
- High court lets Philip Morris victory stand
- Oil passes $60 on supply fear, Nigeria strife
- Lincoln Memorial closed briefly
- Delgadillo names U.S. prosecutor as 'gang czar'
- UCLA can give Carroll Pasadena, not Glendale
- ABC is pulling 'Nine,' for now
- Bail is denied to man accused in data case
- Thompson's kin says promoter threatened her
- Beaches closed for pipe check
- Real deal versus gimmicks
- No repercussions for Stewart
- Carroll asks Arizona State to put Sarkisian in job mix
- Islamic ambassadors in a sea of Christians
- The stem cell money trap
- 2 officials seek ouster of fire chief
- Wal-Mart in joint venture with Indian telecom firm
- By the numbers
- ISRAEL MAKES AN OFFER TO PALESTINIANS
- North runways at LAX may be altered
- The battle for Surprise Canyon
- Economics fuel Lebanon's ills
- Coin of the realm due for a change
- The pope's visit to Turkey
- How Democrats can fix drug prices
- A balance of bravery and hope
- Lessons of the Vietnam quagmire
- Insurers learn to pinpoint risks -- and avoid them
- Opinion: "From their loins sprang the race"
- Opinion: Luigi's revenge
- Opinion: HBO's meek broadband play
- HBO's meek broadband play
- Opinion: OpEd: Aldomania unbound
- Opinion: Random sentences from reader mail
- Opinion: Third rail roundup: Clothing, crime and contraception
- Opinion: Ferguson: Wars within
- Opinion: OpEd: Don't burn that bra!
- Orphans of AIDS
- $2,599
- The Ethan question
- Modern invaders may topple fort
- Thousands rally to protest pope's visit
- Cell, TV towers pose risk for birds
- Now You Know
- She steers them into new roles
- Fast lines at this grocery store
- Suicide attack kills 15 in restaurant
- Sugar, spice, everyone's nice
- Lakers are flashy enough
- Physical therapy for the brain
- In hot water over a white bathing suit
- Markey withstands the wear and tear
- Words to diet by
- Beethoven's lasting N-n-i-i-i-n-n-t-h-h
- Garon is yielding better net results
- Ex-premier nearly falls during speech
- Beverly Hills doesn't want to miss the subway
- Addai carries the Colts, 45-21
- A tough diagnosis that's more difficult with youth
- Showing Up does more than that
- Official works his wizardry on L.A. Marathon route
- Georgia women top Stanford
- Senator admits backing militias
- Military plane crash kills 38