- Opinion: Updated: Terry McAuliffe gears up to buy the Virginia governor's office
- Wake-up Call: Pete Carroll, Brett Favre, Dallas Cowboys, Kings
- Football: All-star action on TV this weekend
- Blood sugar linked to 'senior moments'
- Tom Ford to open on Rodeo Drive -- right across from Gucci
- Around the Web 12.30.08: Tiny computers, shrinking laptops and lower PlayStation 3 costs
- Think pink: Thomas Pink's limited edition 'Pink Panther' collection
- Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines
- Opinion: Cold weather couture
- Is it a library or is it a gallery?
- One man's animal attraction to succulent Spanish pork
- Girls' basketball: Monday's tournament scores
- Boys' basketball: Monday scores
- Opinion: Ticket Replay: Obama and Blagojevich: No strangers in a dark, ruthless world
- New Year's Eve gift for clubgoers: lower tabs
- The picture of comfort
- 'Watchmen,' D.J. Caruso and 'Twilight' in Everyday Hero headlines
- EGYPT: Under a torrent of Gaza anger, Cairo defends itself
- Orson Scott Card's game continues with 'Ender in Exile'
- New eyelash-lengthening drug approved
- L.A.-area home prices are down, down, down (Are you surprised?)
- FC founder Philip Kaplan has new online service in the works
- EGYPT: Coptic pope bans phone confessions
- GAZA STRIP: In praise of Al Jazeera, Part 2
- Alvin Ailey on display
- Opinion: Ticket Replay: Obama praises radio host who calls McCain 'warmonger'
- Opinion: Barack Obama's golf score N/A; but the course crowd gives him a 10
- Dave Wheeler, subject of Steve Lopez column who sent in his own obituary, dies at 53
- Strategies for Mexico's drug war
- Burma's Stilwell Road: A backbreaking WWII project is revived
- Israel, vowing 'all-out war' on Hamas, continues airstrikes on Gaza
- Woman slips out of cuffs and allegedly kicks cops
- Freddie Hubbard, jazz trumpeter, dies at 70
- Pardo intended to kill others, police say
- Ore. woman, 88, gives naked intruder the 'squeeze'
- Christine Maggiore, vocal skeptic of AIDS research, dies at 52
- Tick tock ... tick: Extra second added to 2008
- Ellie Nesler dies at 56; woman killed her son's accused molester in courtroom
- Banned words list offers no 'bailout' to offenders
- Covina rampage has reverberations in two countries
- Israel's options in Gaza
- Neighborhoods: Brea
- Man accused of ramming wheelchair into officer
- Parent Co. files for bankruptcy
- Trojans stir up some trouble
- Baron Davis denies report
- Neuheisel rebuts claims by Norton
- Corp moves up to No. 2 slot
- Sale of IndyMac to partnership is likely
- Payouts from disasters rise 50%
- MOTHER OF KILLER WAS A TARGET
- Sadness from Covina rampage spans 2 nations
- Stocks pull back amid tensions in the Middle East
- Kerkorian sells rest of Ford shares
- Honey, I saved the fish
- Woman shot son's alleged molester
- Peculiar playoff pairings on tap
- A grim year is in store
- 'Watchmen' clash far from settled
- Cancer victim wrote own obituary
- Gifted jazz trumpeter of the post-bebop era
- Entering the San Francisco Pay Area
- Three NFL coaches are fired
- Missouri wins in overtime
- Innovators led AIG unit's striking rise
- Beleaguered leader of Somalia quits
- Civilians suffer as missiles fly in Gaza Strip and Israel
- Layoffs of O.C. social service workers delayed until Jan. 5
- New Year's Eve gift for clubgoers: lower tabs
- Cracking down on gunshots
- Denver fans see worst-case scenario
- It's a boy for Sarah Palin's daughter
- No-tax nonsense
- The man who saw the future
- SOUTHLAND
- Pistons end Magic's seven-game streak
- Full flux capacity
- Seeing past the storm at MOCA
- Where oil and art are one slick mix
- So addicted to that buzz in the air
- Those who lost less won
- Beavers' Riley isn't beyond comparing
- Oil spills prompt plant closure
- Clippers tonight
- GIs got a warm welcome from villagers
- U.S. to give GMAC a $5-billion bailout
- Diverse strategies for drug war
- Obama was here, and here, and here . . .
- RESULTS
- Emanuel to quit House on Friday
- Groundskeepers chip in their golf wisdom
- Israel vows an 'all-out war' on Hamas
- Bush won legal fights in war on terrorism
- Buffett's booming empire
- 300 feared dead off India coast
- Roski chips away at luring NFL to L.A.
- Bringing art to at-risk youths
- Dodgers consider Abreu or Dunn
- A matter of 'Good' and evil
- Prostate cancer drug OKd
- Falling gas price eludes the state
- One man's animal attraction to succulent Spanish pork
- A mad 'Doc' for a father
- Backbreaking wartime work, lost to the jungle
- The seduction of blind force
- In refusing a plea bargain, Carona took a baffling risk
- Feinstein warns of low staffing at LAX
- Primer on the Israeli-Hamas conflict
- Kings find that it's still tough at home
- Milk is big man on campus -- and now they know why
- Aim for a better cease-fire
- Talk, not torture, gets the information
- Avalanches cut a deadly swath
- Cuban buys 9.4% stake in Carmike
- Vocal AIDS skeptic dies at 52
- Orange and green
- Small quakes continue to rattle Yellowstone
- Nelson thinks highly of Bryant
- 'Marley': sniff, whimper
- TV memories due on stamps
- Level 3's bond ratings are cut
- Law may apply beyond marijuana
- Violence and guns
- 1 killed, 1 hurt in bar stabbings
- Israeli strikes against Gaza
- Blast kills 2, hurts U.S. soldiers
- Advanced Micro to cut 600 jobs
- It all started with a teen's curiosity
- A gift after 'Carol' glitches
- Below-ground cables explode in Savannah
- Woman hurt in fire at UCLA lab
- NYSE to suspend Fleetwood stock
- Hundreds seek Spanish citizenship
- Did robber cash the check first?
- Richly Baroque
- Population rises almost 3 million
- Germans warm to 'Valkyrie'
- Split opinion on supermajority
- Chiang treated for chest pains
- Wajed's alliance wins election
- 189 villagers reported killed
- Late night wins candidates' vote
- African Union suspends nation
- Men on ship may be stowaways
- SEC revises oil reporting rules
- Lloyd Webber plans 'Phantom' sequel
- Nuclear waste
- FOR THE RECORD - Dec. 30, 2008
- FOR THE RECORD - Dec. 30, 2008
- FOR THE RECORD - Dec. 30, 2008
- FOR THE RECORD - Dec. 30, 2008
- FOR THE RECORD - Dec. 30, 2008
- Health staff background checks lag
- Wanna be a big loser in 2009?
- Top Times recipes of 2008: Midnight chocolate brownie bites
- Bees can experience drug addiction, new research shows
- "Miracle cat's" owner responds to reader criticism
- Oh, what some investors wouldn't give to be down 40%
- Opinion: Bristol Palin's baby makes Sarah Palin a grandma. And he's a Republican
- Retailers to face an unhappy new year
- Totally Random
- "Marley's" handler on dog training for the movies
- Are the Dodgers serious about Manny Ramirez?
- Top 10 'deadliest hot spots' for teen drivers on New Year's Eve
- Stage the NHL Winter Classic in LA? Why not!
- Buffett's Berkshire scores on Florida hurricane season bet
- Furry shoplifter on the loose
- Jeanne Zelasko: Dodgers broadcast candidate?
- Joe Biden's puppy gets a name
- Art review: ‘Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna, 1575-1725’ at the Getty Museum
- Opinion: Barack the magic negro
- Vera Bradley's Tournament of Roses fashion float
- Small Bites: free chicken biscuits, gelato and sliders
- Fruit shoes -- A pair a day keeps the winter blues away
- Penn State's Rich Ohrnberger takes to Improv stage
- 'A Christmas Carol' at the Kodak: The ghost of 'Christmas Carol' past for producer-director Von Feldt?
- Editorial: Israel's options in Gaza
- Bette Midler does Sin City
- Opinion: What if you started a contest and no one entered?
- Is commercial real estate only for jocks?
- New CEO Young: Seeing past the storm at MOCA
- Opinion: Ticket Replay: Change we <em>can't</em> believe in: Obama and Larry Craig on same ticket
- FDIC nears deal to sell IndyMac to partnership
- Overweight and obese kids: Are enough being diagnosed?
- Hate that ugly sweater you got? Maybe you should get a $99 iPhone
- Gastric bypass surgery resolves diabetes in teens
- Modernism for everyone (with an overstuffed wallet)
- Ford not in Kerkorian's future
- Time for Oscar De La Hoya and Brett Favre to say goodbye
- LEBANON: Hezbollah says it won't provoke Israel clash over Gaza
- Sampler Platter: Fruitcake, Mrs. Darwin & sacred steak vaults
- The Oscars are now an alternate universe
- Kirk says goodbye to Ford
- 2008 memories: Infamous moments from the meltdown
- 2008 hotel openings in Las Vegas
- UCLA gets a No. 1 ranking in this investigation
- Opinion: Another %$#@&*\ Ticket Replay: How the media handles Blagojevich's $#&*/=@ language
- 'Star Wars,' explained by a 3-year-old
- FDA approves product to plump eyelashes
- IRAQ: Islamic New Year in Baghdad
- Neil Gaiman and the stuff that dreams are made of
- Homeless animals need blankets
- AFGHANISTAN: Taliban bomber kills 14 children in attack
- Boys' basketball: New top 25 rankings
- Cash on sidelines now 74% of stocks' value; 18-year high
- Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines
- Opinion: Ticket Replay: Obama-McCain Saddleback Forum with Rick Warren
- This just in: Le Cirque, a dismal Dungeness harvest and Drago Centro
- Best of California -- homepage inline
- The MLA meets, student athletes and a new recruiter
- Book review: 'Grown Up Digital' analyzes the Net generation
- Wake-up Call: The NFL ax falls on Marinelli, Mangini, Crennel
- Around the Web 12.29.08: Howard Stern's lost relevance, California's lost taxes, websites' lost connections
- The Heidi Chronicles: Should dog actors strike too?
- Opinion: Ticket Replay: Supreme Court refuses to debate Obama citizenship
- Recession RIP: Tracey Ross closes iconic Sunset Boulevard boutique
- Opinion: The Letters Top Five
- GAZA STRIP: In praise of Al Jazeera
- Bacon: Put it on your popcorn
- Opinion: Ticket Replay: Inside Obama's victory rally, the historical setting
- Weight loss comics, David Fincher and 'Star Trek' in Everyday Hero headlines
- Opinion: First, by golly, Sarah Palin; now, you know, Caroline Kennedy
- Study focuses on 'virginity pledges'
- America, 2008 and 2009
- Concern grows for young survivors of Covina shooting victims
- Even for Neil Gaiman, 'The Sandman' is a singular dream
- Ann Savage dies at 87; femme fatale starred in cult favorite 'Detour'
- Martha S. Putney, black historian and author, dies at 92
- When mental illness and civil rights collide
- 'Marley & Me' and a big Christmas audience
- George Francis, oldest man in the United States, dies at 112
- Detective asks to use bathroom, finds stolen gun
- The GOP must reject Big Government
- Hot springs' greater danger: extreme temperature swings
- Man's best friend prevails at box office
- A Kennedy nanny, 100, has tales to tell
- Eager to exit '08, traders are wary of the new year
- Steelers... 31, Browns... 0
- MOCA must now answer its true calling
- Fashions of the U.S.' first ladies
- Iran's supreme leader urges Muslims to defend Gazans
- GOP leader holds on to hope in a gloomy year
- Moose are roaming right out of existence
- How to trim your health bills
- Israel masses tanks along Gaza border
- Dolphins... 24, Jets... 17
- Vikings... 20, Giants... 19
- The harsh realities of mental illness
- RESULTS
- Ravens... 27, Jaguars... 7
- Ducks get mad, win
- Early departure has Bauer waiting for his big chance
- In other words
- Packers... 31, Lions... 21
- Small businesses await stimulus, tax changes in new year
- Lessons from Lebanon pay off
- Shoemaker in step with clients
- Chargers break even
- SOUTHLAND
- Colts... 23, Titans... 0
- Trojans get set for Pac-10
- More than pads on his shoulders
- Waterworks: which people sweat a lot or a little, and why
- News anchor up to his neck in scrutiny
- Lakers retain enough of the Christmas spirit
- Kuwait pulls out of Dow venture
- Pay for view won't buy you true love
- Don we now warm apparel
- 14 Afghan schoolchildren killed in bombing at checkpoint
- Quick might turn into Kings' first elite goalie in a while
- James bests Wade as Cavaliers beat Heat
- Falcons... 31, Rams... 27
- CARE OF YOUNG SURVIVORS A CONCERN
- Texans... 31, Bears... 24
- Ploy backfires for U.S. skier Miller
- Bengals ...16, Chiefs ...6
- She's wired for acting
- An upscale pressure pot
- A rare but nasty risk with that natural soak
- Pakistan hotel reopens with caution after deadly blast
- Get in the twist
- Alcohol adjacent
- Historian wrote about black women in WAC
- Defense of Blagojevich? Basic Brown
- Team is embracing challenge
- A speeding truck bomb, and a shared act of courage
- Big Government? Not now, not ever
- Star of '40s cult favorite 'Detour'
- Out of its league, but in a good way
- Cardinals... 34, Seahawks... 21
- Randolph could be out two weeks
- It's Lennon's life, but it's not a lively Lennon
- Eagles... 44, Cowboys... 6
- Dollar falls against euro and yen in advance of reports
- CUT COSTS, NOT YOUR CARE
- Chao speaks out for her Labor legacy
- Obama will stick to promise to cut taxes, his aides say
- Singing just for seniors
- Schools halt arts program
- TWO-MINUTE DRILL