- Joel Pineiro pitches a gem as Angels win, 4-0, to sweep Oakland
- Housing Scene: Home purchase negotiations shouldn't end at price
- Young athlete transcends the rules
- Valentino designers find their footing
- Money Talk: Will student debt hurt mortgage application?
- Genetically modified cotton stops one bug but fosters others
- Signs of oil spill pollution might be hiding underwater
- Angels: Week ahead
- Bangkok death toll hits 24 as troops fire live rounds, seek to isolate protesters
- Marine official says there is more 'tough fighting' ahead in Afghanistan
- Lakers limping into Western Conference finals
- Dodgers uncertain how long Andre Ethier will be out
- USC wins national championship in women's water polo
- Angels' former free agents get more contract time elsewhere
- On restrictions on teenagers; fixing L.A.'s cracked sidewalks; Eli Broad's vision; remembering Lena Horne
- Newport Harbor once bragged of buffalo, not bling
- The Sunday Conversation: For Danny Huston, it's good to be king
- Multicultural chic at Zainab on Melrose
- Claremont's Kori Carter shows rare quality while qualifying at Southern Section prelims
- Senate candidate maintains low profile but high poll results
- Planning your Pony Express experience
- C-SPAN's new digital bus visits Los Angeles
- Plan to put truck school on former landfill pits former allies against one another
- Consumer spending trend is a shaky foundation for economic recovery
- An old diary throws him a curve
- Britain's babes in the woods
- Dodgers: Week ahead
- Flyers, Canadiens turn Eastern Conference playoffs upside down
- Fans of Mexico's World Cup team are cautiously optimistic
- Age of septic system raises red flags
- An illegal substance sold legally
- Dodgers beat Padres, 1-0, for seventh win in a row
- Man whose murder conviction was dismissed is freed from prison
- 'The Ramona Gardens Sluggers'
- 'MacGruber' carrying 'SNL' baggage
- Freckles get their day in the sun
- PASSINGS: Elisa Rishwain, Rhonda Copelon, Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, Rollin 'Molly' Sanders, Norman Hand
- Dodgers pitcher Ramon Ortiz is full of surprises
- 'The Ring,' captured on CD and DVD
- Scene & Heard: 'Race to Erase MS' gala
- In search of the meaning of 'Mozingo'
- Old ills could dash a new southern Sudan's hopes
- Solo sailor Jessica Watson, 16, completes globe-circling feat
- He's a straight shooter about longbows and arrows
- Films & programs
- Angels miss Jeff Mathis' defense
- Thanks to Kobe Bryant, students get a kick out of the martial arts
- Mark Cavendish wins first stage of Tour of California
- Adam Scott wins by a stroke in the Texas Open
- Performance artist Dawn Kasper 'always swirling'
- A push to preserve the San Gabriels
- This month's makeover: Clovis and Lisa Blackwell
- Money Makeover: Handling an inheritance wisely
- Law may not protect tenant in foreclosed property
- Angels' Howie Kendrick takes lineup promotion in stride
- Study links pesticide to ADHD in children
- Schwarzenegger's legacy of promises squandered
- The Times' top 25 baseball rankings
- 'Ring' technicians prepare for the final catastrophe
- The $99 deal: Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows on Hawaii's Big Island
- When the ANC stood up against torture
- Will the 'PIIGS' trash Europe?
- Personal Finance: Keep the right bonds in your portfolio
- Former Mexico presidential candidate reported missing
- War casualties
- A new Spanish civil war
- How I Made It: Antonio Zate
- Listing details: 716 North Palm Drive, Beverly Hills
- Cars and loans and consumers
- Pen-point accuracy
- Dwindling visitor population doesn't stop wetlands docents
- Readers recommend: Abilene's Victorian Inn in Kansas
- UCLA awards honorary degrees to Japanese Americans who were interned
- Santa Margarita is example that using college approach in high school sports is dangerous
- Trading firms put their money on poker experts
- French researcher's release from Iran raises questions
- Book review: 'Almost Dead' by Assaf Gavron
- The Rolling Stones shine a light on 'Exile on Main St.' reissue
- Discoveries: 'The Last Tortoise'
- Localyte.com put 50,000 local experts in 170 countries at your fingertips
- Horoscope: May 16
- Shopping: Paul & Joe set to open L.A. store
- Investment banks aren't required to act in clients' best interest
- Time trial thought to be deciding factor in Tour of California
- Kandahar fears greater peril as West rethinks its planned offensive
- Indie Focus: Life, death and 'The Father of My Children'
- Book Review: 'Day for Night' by Frederick Reiken
- On the trail of the Pony Express
- Hits and Mrs.
- Travel calendar for May and June
- It's easy to research your roots
- East Coast mumps outbreak may be spreading to L.A.
- This year's Proposition 13 stirs no opposition
- Military deaths
- Anand wins championship
- Angels' Howie Kendrick takes lineup promotion in stride
- Bob and Mike Bryan win 61st doubles title, tying career record
- Contrast in styles between Lakers and Suns intrigues scouts
- For the record - May 16, 2010
- Home of the Week: A movie mogul palace in Beverly Hills
- Astral Weeks: An unexpected, and welcome, DeLillo discovery
- Rob McConnell dies at 75; valve trombonist who led the Boss Brass
- Dr. Stanley I. Greenspan dies at 68; documented developmental milestones of early childhood
- Opera personalities voice their displeasure
- New books: More about war
- Home of the Week update
- Planning your trip to Tallberg, Sweden
- Boys' volleyball: Saturday's Southern Section quarterfinal results
- R.J. Johnson wins second straight NASCAR Late Model race at Irwindale
- Cannes Critical Consensus: 'You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger'
- Baseball: Bryce Harper, the phenom
- Sunday's TV Highlights: 'The Tudors' on Showtime
- Don't look now: Dodgers are hottest team in baseball after 4-1 victory over the Padres
- Palin joins Arizona gov. to defend immigration law
- Michael Hiltzik: But where are the customers' yachts?
- Dodgers' Andre Ethier scratched from Padres game with finger injury
- Home runs by Cody Regis, Brett Krill power UCLA past USC
- 'Lost' video: Team Darlton takes on the Swedish Chef
- Assembly passes declawing-devocalization bill affecting California landlords and tenants
- Sparks: A good TV game
- Cannes 2010: Shia LaBeouf: We botched the last Indiana Jones
- White House asks Clinton library to release Kagan papers
- Obama honors law enforcement officers killed in line of duty
- Atlantis astronauts forced into shorter shuttle survey
- Cannes 2010: A video examination, Part 2
- Book Review: 'The Stress-Eating Cure' by Rachael F. Heller and Richard F. Heller
- Almay taps Kate Hudson as its newest brand ambassador
- Dodgers have to feel relieved at bullpen performance
- Cannes Critical Consensus: 'Another Year'
- Gulf oil spill: Obama administration warns BP it's on the hook for all damages, not the taxpayers
- Opinion: Sunday shows: L. Bush, Feinstein, Specter, Bennett
- Chelsea defeats Portsmouth in FA Cup final to complete Premier League double
- Gulf oil spill: BP's latest attempt to stop leak encounters problem
- Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway' turns 85
- TURKEY: Istanbul <i>muezzins</i> struggling to hit the right note get voice lessons
- EGYPT: Cairo scoffs at new Nile water agreement
- L.A. Opera's 'Ring' cycle gets ready to roll
- Football: USC getting a walk-on QB with a story
- Baseball: Friday scores
- Softball: Friday scores
- Lacrosse: U.S. Lacrosse Southern Section Championships results
- Fiery drama and a 25-yard-long pool in Hermosa Beach
- On the market: Homes near bike paths
- Swimming: Capistrano Valley, University win Division 1 titles
- In the studio: Dawn Kasper
- Opinion: Weekly remarks: President Obama touts Wall Street reform, Rep. Chris Lee calls for more spending cuts
- Allan Manings dies at 86; TV comedy writer and co-creator of 'One Day at a Time'
- Edward G. Uhl dies at 92; co-inventor of the bazooka
- L.A. region's first two female Episcopal bishops are ordained
- Dodgers pitcher Ramon Ortiz is full of surprises
- NBA Eastern Conference finals preview
- John Rockwell: Operatic
- Schwarzenegger's budget a blow to the poor
- California budget: Proposed program reductions
- Just saying 'no' to stocks
- UC Irvine opens state's first stem cell research institute
- Sonny Rollins concert details
- David Mamet boxes a few ears
- Uncomfortable question returns to haunt Kobe Bryant
- How soon they forget about Kobe Bryant's 'close-out' moment
- Angels rout Athletics, 12-3
- Aging really isn't part of the process for Suns' Steve Nash
- Kendry Morales leads outburst in Angels' 12-3 victory over Athletics
- British actress says Roman Polanski sexually abused her in 1982 when she was 16
- 'The Carrie Diaries' by Candace Bushnell
- Details emerge of Pakistani Taliban's suspected role in Times Square bombing
- Cleveland in LeBron James' rearview mirror? Looks like it
- Euro is falling? <i>C'est la vie</i>
- Clayton Kershaw recovers swiftly in Dodgers' 4-1 victory over Padres
- Amanda Seyfried in full bloom
- Quick Takes: Bret Michaels sets return
- Allan Manings dies at 86; TV comedy writer and co-creator of 'One Day at a Time'
- What price hope?
- Distressed whale dies on beach in Dana Point
- Q&A with Derek Blasberg on manners in the Internet age
- Western Conference finals: Sharks vs. Blackhawks
- Obama administration warns BP it's on the hook for all damages, not the taxpayers
- Newer senators fed up with old rules that block progress
- L.A. County cites errors in complaint against hospital
- Step up to the plate
- Conflicted over Arizona's immigrant law
- On the Media: The debate over Elena Kagan's sexuality
- Happening Saturday
- Schwarzenegger's budget is a blow to the poor
- Homeless helped expose former TV chef Juan-Carlos Cruz murder-for-hire plot, police claim
- Turkish leader begins goodwill visit to Greece
- Local elections kick off in Yucatan
- Triple Crown's star has two legs From Boo-Boo to Bo-Rail
- California budget: Proposed program reductions
- World Cup 2010: Group D
- Many questions, but few answers, in wake of golfer Erica Blasberg's death
- Angels miss Jeff Mathis' defense
- Obama assails oil industry's 'cozy relationship' with government
- U.S. seeks to position Karzai as wartime leader
- Sex offender John Albert Gardner III sentenced to life in prison
- Fortune finally favors Lookin At Lucky
- Horoscope: May 15
- LETTERS: Chely Wright, Jewish Federation and 'Babies'
- LAPD detective accused of embezzling witness protection funds
- Tony Clifton
- Gruesome death photos are at the forefront of an Internet privacy battle
- Flyers, Canadiens turn Eastern Conference playoffs upside down
- Words & Ideas
- Iraq recount finds no fraud
- Major league teams hope to reduce risk with international draft
- How they're fighting the oil spill
- My Favorite Weekend: Clint Black
- Andy Kaufman lives on in Tony Clifton
- 'Law & Order': Court adjourned
- Borax miners, Rio Tinto reach tentative agreement
- Book review: 'The Carrie Diaries' by Candace Bushnell
- NYSE trading floor empties out as trading moves to electronic exchanges
- Earthquakes rattle the L.A. area and Port Hueneme
- Dodgers' Jonathan Broxton is happy with more frequent work
- Darkness could give way to a bright near-future for Germany
- Roger Federer to face Rafael Nadal in Madrid final
- Sonny Rollins, nearly 80, looks to the future
- Eight major world religions meet up in a book
- IPhone raid search warrant unsealed
- Abundant snowfall a big lift for state's ski resorts
- Meet Maren Ade and 'Everyone Else'
- L.A. City Council scrambles to avoid proposed layoffs
- Blind man in Paris creates visions
- Saturday's TV highlights
- Judge selects lawyers in Toyota litigation
- Money woes come at Boyle and Homeboy high points
- Major league baseball: Down the Line
- Hollywood Park, Del Mar open their doors to Oak Tree Racing Assn.
- USC defeats LMU in water polo semifinal
- Kagan's abortion stance has both sides guessing
- Bangkok clashes rage on; death toll hits 17
- A pointless procedure
- Lakers' Andrew Bynum tests knee in practice
- Galaxy's Landon Donovan and Edson Buddle hit the road empty-handed
- Eastern Conference finals: Flyers vs. Canadiens
- Mexico's World Cup team meets with President Felipe Calderon
- The search for gifted students in L.A.; endorsements, or the lack of them, by The Times; buying American
- Kandahar fears greater peril as West rethinks its planned offensive
- Top World Cup goalkeepers
- Thousands of investigations based on child abuse tips go unresolved
- Saturday's TV talk shows
- Reagins sees no need for an overhaul
- With Suns' bench warming to the task, Lakers face a big challenge
- PHOTOS: Episcopal Church ordains two female bishops
- Photos: UCLA's Japanese American honorees
- Steep backyard: How one couple dealt with it
- Victor J. Croizat dies at 91; Marine combat commander in World War II
- Kate Walsh lists Los Feliz home at $4,295,000
- UCLA beats USC in college baseball
- Matt Kemp is alive! Drills two-run homer in Dodgers' 4-3 victory over Padres
- Animal lovers' calendar: Weekend of May 15-16 and beyond
- Boys' tennis: Friday's Southern Section playoff results
- Pet obesity an expanding problem, say veterinarians, nutrition experts
- Arizona biologist pleads guilty, gets probation for 2009 trapping of jaguar Macho B
- Weekend TV Talk Shows: May 15th – 16th
- Saturday's TV Highlights: 'The Hangover' on HBO
- Turan review: 'Robin Hood' misses the target
- Cannes 2010: Oliver Stone: Financial system is suffering from congenital heart failure
- Cannes 2010: A video examination, Part 1
- Wayward gray whale dies in waters off Dana Point
- Warner Bros. alleges 'scheme' in suit against copyright litigator Marc Toberoff
- World Cup: Mexico trims two from roster
- Baseball: A hit in every game for Jared Ortiz
- Agency must decide on proposed endangered species listing for Mexican gray wolf by end of July, judge rules
- Opinion: Forget immigration, the big challenge for Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is a tax increase
- Lance Armstrong kicks off his 50 days to Tour de France campaign
- Day care: Better is better, but more is not
- Baseball: Narbonne, Cleveland win City playoff openers
- Opinion: What's really new about Arizona's new approach to illegal immigrants
- Roman Polanski in hot water again: Is he a two-time offender?
- Pinnacles National Monument's recently hatched California condor chick, parent treated for lead poisoning
- Dennis Hopper book on the way
- What's next for housing after the tax-credit surge?
- 'Twilight' vamps Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed clean up at Young Hollywood Awards
- The Do-Over kicks off its 6th season on Sunday
- A new predictor of newborn health: Umbilical cord blood pH
- Gulf oil spill: Feared seafood shortages become reality
- Grace is moving out, Rivera's moving in
- Budget would end welfare to work, cut other programs
- Cannes Critical Consensus: 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'
- Librarians speak against cuts -- after a long wait -- at L.A. City Council budget meeting
- Fashion Diary: Revealing portrait in 'Ultrasuede: In search of Halston'
- Gizmodo to Apple's Steve Jobs: 'Right now, we have nothing to lose'
- Conductor Jorge Mester leaving Pasadena Symphony after 25 years
- GOP lawmaker speaks out against 'don't ask, don't tell'
- NBC cancels 'Heroes'
- USC basketball: Trojans big man Davis Rozitis to transfer, source says
- 'Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains': Rupert explains why the heck he was chopping wood past dark
- Gulf oil spill: Oily pelican and more tar balls found on Louisiana shore
- The Sparks release their final roster
- Opinion: President Obama's remarks on gulf oil spill
- It's been a big year for California ski resorts
- PREACH IT! Which is hotter, Russell Crowe's face, or his temper?
- CBS orders a new sitcom by Chuck Lorre's company
- Dodgers Web doings: Padres actually have believers
- Search warrant and affidavit detail Apple's role in missing-iPhone investigation
- ABC picks up two new shows, and NBC says goodbye to two
- Cannes red carpet: Kate Beckinsale, feel free to judge us
- Has Oliver Stone gone soft on 'Wall Street'?
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