- Carter wins American's release from North Korea
- Doctor whose office was searched by federal agents defends her procedures for prescribing drugs
- Angels trade Brian Fuentes to Twins
- Angels' offense goes missing in 3-1 loss to Orioles
- Bill to post California legislators' salaries online stalls
- Will the Dodgers let Manny Ramirez go?
- Fantasia Barrino opens up about her dark days and her painful healing process
- Group's schools in Pakistan press on despite floods
- Quick Takes: Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes team up again
- Migrant misery, in Mexico
- Justice Dept. OKs United-Continental airline merger
- Friday's TV highlights
- New mortgage delinquencies rise again
- California energy panel promises millions to ethanol firm founded by Schwarzenegger ally
- Vernon official relieved of duties pending city review of finances
- Bernanke's prepared remarks for economic outlook speech today
- Fast Track: Bristol Palin plans to dance with the stars
- Egg recall not first problem for DeCoster operations
- Struggling airline Mexicana to halt all operations
- 'Fubarnomics' info
- Intense heat sears Southern California for 4th day
- Movie review: 'Takers'
- Sparks face elimination against Seattle
- Microsoft co-founder sues major tech companies
- UCLA's Richard Brehaut sees things more clearly now after a rough baptism
- Movie review: 'Chamaco'
- A massive traffic jam in China; more on teachers and evaluations; the director of the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services answers critics
- White Sox reportedly win claim on Manny Ramirez
- Conviction upheld for ex-KPMG exec John Larson in tax-shelter case
- Horoscope: Aug. 27
- FCC appeals court ruling on indecency rules
- TV DINNERS
- Toyota recalls Corolla, Matrix models because of an engine defect
- Might return of 'Avatar' spoil weekend for 'The Last Exorcism' and 'Takers'?
- Protection sought for San Bernardino flying squirrel
- Casey Blake's grand slam breaks it open for Dodgers
- 'Centurion' info
- Governors Ball, by the numbers
- DWP to withdraw bill aimed at delaying power plant upgrades
- 'Banana Republican'
- For a 'free gift card,' simply give away your personal information
- Column One: Dramatic, historic and prices slashed, yet no buyers are biting
- Movie review: 'Chasing 3000'
- Horse-racing bill would let Californians gamble against a horse
- Book review: 'Banana Republican' by Eric Rauchway
- Mexico massacre investigator missing; blasts hit TV and police stations
- Women who breastfeed even one month reduce their diabetes risk
- HP raises 3PAR offer to $2 billion, trumps new Dell bid
- Washington Huskies get an off-season makeover
- Market Watch: Fresh dates — Barhi, Medjool and more
- Book review: 'Fubarnomics' by Robert E. Wright
- Cal State Stanislaus ordered to release documents on Palin's appearance
- Devon Kennard to start at middle linebacker in USC's opener
- L.A.'s Edendale alive and thriving
- L.A. County's leak investigation is about the law, not publicity
- MTA and its beleaguered Transit Access Pass system
- Carter wins American's release from North Korea
- Column One: Dramatic, historic and prices slashed, yet no buyers are biting
- 'Mesrine: Killer Instinct' info
- In the thick of Katrina
- Vintage DVDs: Cary Grant's 'None But the Lonely Heart'
- State clears movie fund of fault in nursing home transfers
- President Obama, 'The View' and race in America
- Letters: A marvelous announcement by Vin Scully
- Presbyterians censure minister for same-sex marriages
- It's UFC vs. boxing as Randy Couture takes on James Toney
- California court ruling limits discovery by inmates in appeals
- El Niño has grown more intense and shifted westward in last three decades, data show
- Appointee to campaign finance panel raises eyebrows
- Cristina Saralegui talk show to end
- Donald Bren doesn't owe two adult children any more money, jury rules
- Blockbuster said to be planning a bankruptcy filing
- Figures on flu deaths are misleading, usually too high, CDC says
- USC beats UCLA in U.S. News & World Report rankings
- Teens on Facebook GOL (grumble out loud) as mothers become friends
- Matthew Morrison of 'Glee' to head weSPARK fundraiser
- Movie review: 'Mesrine: Killer Instinct'
- 'The Unfinished Concert … 40 Years Later' info
- Attacks on gays in Northern Ireland city increase
- Social-media use nearly doubles among people 50 and over
- Grand Avenue project faces 2-year delay over funding
- Brown and Whitman spar in sync
- Chris Dufresne's college football top-25 countdown: No. 6 Florida
- Fish oil may not be much of a heart-saver for those who've already had a heart attack
- For the record - Aug. 27, 2010
- Clint Eastwood
- PASSINGS: Gloria Winters-Vernon
- Gulf oil spill: Doomed rig had good reputation, BP executive testifies
- Football: Winners and losers in TV schedule
- Football: Transfers and more transfers
- Friday's TV Highlights: 'Blood Dolphins' on Animal Planet
- Friday's TV Talk Shows
- Bills about fur labeling, declawing, pet insurance and animal neglect are approved by California lawmakers
- Stand up and paddle for farm animals next month in Lake Tahoe
- Brown discloses pension details
- Nordstrom opens at Santa Monica Place on Friday
- State clears movie fund of fault in nursing home transfers
- Refugees find the American dream down on the farm
- Your recipe for the day: Peach and orange blossom honey pops
- 'Top Chef': Taken out at the ballgame
- Opinion: Times reporters respond to Blowback critical of 'Grading the Teachers' series
- Football: Can Crenshaw get back to a bowl game?
- Video: Joe Flint on how Emmy ballots are counted
- It's a boy! It's a girl! It's ... 22 baby Komodo dragons?
- Michael Bublé shows new Nordstrom some Crazy Love
- Day 57: Leaders to gather in rare ‘Big 5’ meeting
- Chris Brown gets 'good job' from probation-status judge
- Blockbuster tells Hollywood studios it's preparing for mid-September bankruptcy
- Los Lobos: Live at Amoeba Music in Hollywood* (Update)
- Gulf oil spill: BP managers had little experience supervising Deepwater Horizon
- Opinion: Ted Rall, cartooning live from Afghanistan: Day 10
- Texas grants Antonio Margarito a license to fight Manny Pacquiao
- Kathryn Joosten of 'Desperate Housewives' shines her Emmy-nominee spotlight on lung cancer research
- 'Star Wars Uncut': The world remakes a classic
- Banks appear close to killing foreclosure-prevention bill
- Bruce Ackerman, Valley civic leader, dies at 64
- 'MasterChef': Bacon makes everything better
- Local artisan eats at the Food Rendezvous
- 'Cat bin lady' Mary Bale is lampooned in video, online game, fake Twitter account
- Live review: Jimmy Webb at Largo at the Coronet
- Dodgers' offense continues to roar in sweep of Brewers, 7-1
- 'Machete' premiere: Jessica Alba, Robert Rodriguez and lowriders in downtown L.A.
- John Jorgenson brings Django Reinhardt-inspired Gypsy jazz back to SoCal
- 18-game NFL season could mean a new TV partner, permanent date for Super Bowl
- Music review: Vibration Institute Orchestra and Evidence at Royal/T
- Academy announces final Emmy presenters. Tell us who you want to team up!
- Movie projector: 'Avatar' re-release a wild card as 'Takers' and 'Last Exorcism' debut
- Tourism to Jamaica drops after drug-lord clashes
- COLOMBIA: Deaths of 3 teens feed fear over Facebook threats
- New Yorker Festival announces lineup
- Democrats pass fee hike on marriage licenses
- Mike Mangan's Big Organ Trio celebrates album release at the Mint Friday
- Labrador who ate an entire beehive wins pet insurance company's award for oddest claim
- PREACH IT! Kristen Stewart has a threesome on camera! Ha. Made you look
- USC football: Trojans will play home-and-home series with Texas
- Event: Illuminating designs from ReMade Studios at Frogtown Art Walk
- Gulf oil spill: BP corporate culture at center of hearings
- Climate change: Is El Niño heating up?
- Catching up with Corey Lynn Calter, the designer who’s more than just a pretty dress
- Broad Collection building design is upside-down
- Students to get a voice on teacher performance under new state law
- Beacon Solar Energy project OKed; first solar thermal project approved in 20 years
- Buffett offers buyout to minority holders of partner Munger's Wesco Financial
- Football: Time Warner Cable to show game of the week
- Google rolls out real-time search page
- Are campaign contributions a route to a lower tax bill?
- L.A. Kings prove fights are forever
- FCC to gather economists to discuss Comcast - NBC Universal deal
- Day 57: California struggles with deficit; Virginia has a surplus
- Joe Torre says Jonathan Broxton's exact role less vital than winning games
- Whatever happened to home ec?
- Solar power: California approves first solar thermal project in 20 years
- The Sparks' DeLisha Milton-Jones avoids handshake line after Wednesday's loss
- USC football: Pat Haden says USC returning Grantland Rice Trophy
- A slice of 20 LA noirs, for reading and watching
- Pacific Symphony wants you to follow Twitter during concert
- It's time for the Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival
- Latin talk show queen Cristina to end 'El Show de Cristina'
- L.A. supergroup alert: Ben Harper, Joseph Arthur and Dhani Harrison debut Fistful of Mercy on KCRW
- Packing them in with ribs and steaks
- FCC appeals ruling that tossed its indecency rules
- Bristol Palin reportedly joining 'Dancing With the Stars'
- The evolution of home economics programs
- Bruce Springsteen revisits 'Darkness on the Edge of Town' in expansive reissue package
- Question of the day: Now that his divorce is final, will Tiger Woods start playing better?
- 'Sons of Anarchy' actor's traffic stop escalates into arrest
- Theater review: 'Parasite Drag' at the Elephant Space
- French diet guru Michel Montignac dies at 66
- Opinion: The Golden State's gay-friendly governator
- Slide's Levchin takes lead role in Google's social efforts
- And the Emmy for best vote counter goes to ...
- Football writers strip USC of its 2004 national title trophy
- 'Star Trek,' old school and up close
- Tiger Woods tied for early lead at the Barclays
- Football: No free ride for transfers
- Mel Gibson's domestic violence case goes to prosecutors
- Boys' basketball: Taft gets Georgia transfer
- Baseball: Chatsworth is returning to National Classic
- Roger Clemens' arraignment date set for Monday
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: Catching up with Isaiah Mustafa, why Mariah Carey apparently is in maternity clothes and Maria Sharapova's looks
- Football: Bob Johnson to coach in U.S. Army All-Amercan Bowl
- Opinion: President Obama schedules a major classroom address to the nation's school children
- Wall Street Roundup: Bearish millionaires. Dick Fuld now flying commercial.
- Dodgers' Eric Collins adds Big Ten football to his announcing chores
- Monster Mash: New York approves new skyscraper to rival Empire State; Kevin Spacey to play 'Richard III'
- Kenneth Turan's film pick of the week: 'The Big Uneasy'
- Mortgage delinquencies remain high at 1 in 10 loans
- First Take: Legislature scrambles to meet final deadline. Chief justice pick clears first hurdle.
- IRAN: Hardliners push for family-law bill that activists say further erodes women's rights
- Cult favorite Zero + Maria Cornejo boutique opens Thursday on Melrose Place
- The Morning Fix: Eisner and Comcast's Shell in running to run Tribune! Could Oscars move back to Mondays? Conan will have to curb his tongue at Emmys.
- Home loan rates drop yet again to record low
- EGYPT: Party leader buys biggest opposition newspaper
- 'Top Chef': Push the panic button
- Kathy Goodman: Defense is not enough
- 'Twin Peaks': Still Kyle MacLachlan's favorite role
- One year ago: Dominick Dunne
- The state of working musicians in New Orleans: 'Half the gigs ... and the work pays less'
- Mom's Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Pizzeria Ortica's lamb ragu
- Opinion: New England fishermen flotilla protests today off Obama's vacation island over more fed regulations
- Photos: College rankings
- Culinary SOS: Pizzeria Ortica's lamb ragu
- George David Weiss dies at 89; songwriter co-wrote 'What a Wonderful World,' 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'
- Jocko's details: Location, prices and more
- Wine of the Week: 2008 Moulin de Gassac Vin de Pays de l'Herault 'Guilhem' Blanc
- The Review: Jocko's steakhouse in Nipomo
- India lower house passes nuclear liability legislation
- Recipe: Lentils with turkey sausage
- New home sales fall to record low
- Dodgers' Andre Ethier earns an ejection
- EPA rules will bar ships from discharging sewage near California coast
- Kim Jong Il visits China with his youngest son, South Korea says
- Bidding war for 3Par escalates
- Pop music: Electronica at the Hollywood Bowl
- Sunset Strip Music Festival info
- Jocko's details: Location, prices and more
- FDA finds evidence of salmonella in chicken feed
- Weak GDP raises stakes for Obama, Fed
- Doctor's office raided in probe of illegal prescriptions
- Shareholders get new access to proxy ballot process
- Dow drops below 10,000
- Reggie Bush scandal costs USC more hardware and prestige
- A riot of sounds on the Sunset Strip
- Obama on vacation, but mostly out of sight
- Not your mom's home ec
- Oil industry's answers frustrate federal panel
- MoveOn.org's Target boycott is about stopping corporations from buying elections
- Experimental targeted cancer drug helps 4 out of 5 metastatic melanoma patients [Updated]
- North Korean leader, youngest son on trip to China, South says
- Heat wave spawns wild weather
- Art: 'The Art of Ancient Greek Theater' at the Getty Villa
- Lindsay Lohan ordered to undergo rigorous outpatient therapy
- Recall effort could halt city operations in scandal-plagued Bell
- Critics say air safety standards have fallen in China
- Panel OKs nominee for chief justice
- L.A. finds only a quarter of registered pot dispensaries eligible to stay open
- Events: Fiesta La Ballona in Culver City
- Word of Mouth: Documentaries are proving grounds for feature film directors
- Car bombings, other attacks kill 51 in Iraq
- 'Eat Pray Love': A spiritual quest and a triumph of capitalism
- NOW, CLASS
- Reshuffling the geopolitical order
- Legislators prepare to vote on paparazzi crackdown
- U.S. Soccer is mum on Bob Bradley's future
- Afghan troops learn rules of the road
- Tobacco companies are reaching out to kids via YouTube, study says
- Brown and Schwarzenegger don't have to defend Prop. 8 -- but they should
- Screening Room: Mods & Rockers Film Festival
- Quick Takes: Ryman Auditorium wood reinstalled at Grand Ole Opry House
- Anthem Blue Cross is allowed to move ahead with rate hikes
- High school quarterbacks to watch
- Horoscope: Aug. 26
- Carter arrives in North Korea
- Technology podcaster oversees an expanding empire
- Successful Tijuana security chief's job at risk
- Evaluating teachers; high-tech parking meters; John Boehner's future
- Family: 'Ferdinand the Bull'
- Critic's Picks: 'Get Low'
- Thursday's TV talk shows
- Under pressure, Tribune Co. to file revised restructuring plan
- Personalities of married couples don't fuse over time
- Kings sign defenseman Willie Mitchell
- Ex-Disney chief Michael Eisner reportedly in talks with Tribune Co.
- Donald Bren didn't promise lifelong relationship with ex-girlfriend, lawyer says
- T.I. reworks his act for Hollywood
- Community colleges cancel deal with online Kaplan University
- Colts' Joseph Addai leaves game against Packers after suffering concussion
- Russia halts forest highway construction as opposition grows
- Culinary SOS: Pizzeria Ortica's lamb ragu
- Miners deserve more
- Antonio Margarito granted license to box in Texas
- Warren Buffett offers to buy rest of Wesco Financial
- Recall effort could halt city operations in scandal-plagued Bell
- Colorful former home of animator Brad Case is listed
- 2011 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 specs
- A poor appetite for gulf seafood
- Federal inquiry takes aim at BP's corporate culture on safety
- Wyclef Jean's disqualification leaves Haiti in political uncertainty
- Accountability works
- Harbor Gateway teen's slaying case goes to jurors
- Calderon proposes steps against money laundering
- North Korea's Kim on surprise visit to China
- John McEnroe says women's tennis schedule is too demanding for players
- Thursday's TV highlights
- Stem-cell setback
- George David Weiss dies at 89; songwriter co-wrote 'What a Wonderful World,' 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'
- Pop music: Cyndi Lauper at the Greek Theatre
- Obama, midterm elections and the 2012 race
- Defying an anti-incumbent mood, a veteran Democrat runs on his record
- St. John Bosco's Bryce Treggs is like his father — only taller
- It's tough to get a read on the Trojans
- Chris Dufresne's preseason college football top 25: No. 7 Virginia Tech
- Judge orders Cal State Stanislaus to release documents related to Palin's visit
- Google lets users make phone calls from Gmail
- The Angels' summer of slumber
- Kevin Prince's status for UCLA opener still uncertain
- L.A. schools chief says district will adopt 'value added' approach
- Real Madrid, AC Milan will face battle to advance out of Champions League group play
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