- Improbable rallies by New Orleans and Oakland accent the day
- Democrats would do right to do right by Abel Maldonado
- Ted Haggard returns to the pulpit in Colorado
- Monday's TV Talk Shows: 'Tavis Smiley' welcomes Rev. Jesse Jackson
- Summer football practices showed signs of what was to come
- L.A. shines at Mexican book fair
- Not your usual seasonal sounds
- Horoscope: Dec. 7
- Canned juices and Alzheimer's disease: Are they linked?
- Los Angeles warily awaits rain
- Indonesia bans film about 1975 killings
- The fight's back in John McCain
- Paula Hawkins dies at 82; Senator backed family issues but bucked women's caucus
- One-sided chest strengthener on a roller
- Bouchon Beverly Hills info
- Pharmacists have the right medicine
- Ravens are giving it a wild-card chase
- Monday's TV Highlights: 'Alice' concludes on Syfy
- Senate healthcare talks pick up pace
- Up next for the Kings: Monday against Calgary
- Ducks come up short again in shootout
- $10 million is smuggled out of Afghanistan daily, official says
- Obama finalizes 'endangerment finding' on global warming
- Icy conditions close Grapevine as Southland braces for cold and snow
- 'The Talented Miss Highsmith' by Joan Schenkar
- 1st of 3 rainstorms hit Southland; Interstate 5 is closed through the Grapevine
- Humanists launch a godless holiday campaign
- Video game voice actors worry they're getting shortchanged
- If trainers could choose just one gadget
- The BCS system worked as well as it could
- L.A. council members want city attorney to resolve probe of Michael Jackson memorial
- Charlie Weis' comments on USC's Pete Carroll stir up a Web storm
- Chelation based on faulty premise
- Climate talks need unity of purpose, not sniping
- Party video turns up on YouTube, and Mom's mad
- Bengals...23 Lions...13
- One-Sided Chest Strengthener On A Roller
- Come on, it's just acne
- Questionable autism approaches
- All the lonely people
- UCLA puts up a fight but ends up with a loss
- 'Blind Side' makes her a fan again
- California lottery results
- Alabama and Texas to meet in BCS title game
- Alabama atop Harris poll
- 'Blind Side' hits No. 1 as 'Up in the Air' soars
- A theory for toddlers' turbo-charged learning style
- Trojans headed to the Emerald Bowl
- Improved TARP forecast could mean $200 billion to help create jobs
- Internal breakup at TCW gets ugly
- Lottery results
- Pearl Harbor mini-submarine mystery solved?
- PHOTOS: Storm arrives in Southland
- Four autism treatments that worry physicians
- Autism: Kids put at risk
- Live: Airborne Toxic Event at Walt Disney Concert Hall
- Latisse lash lengthener has its fans and detractors
- PASSINGS: Warren Vanderschuit, Eva Szorenyi, Eric Woolfson, Robert Kendall, Vyacheslav Tikhonov
- One side effect of an illness can be a loss of friends
- Steve Meltzer dies at 56; puppeteer opened center in Santa Monica
- Autism therapies can get undeserved credit
- What to do now that the COBRA subsidy is ending
- Getting serious about Hollywood, Discovery taps Peter Liguori as chief operating officer
- 'Californication': Playing nice
- Boys' basketball: New rankings
- 'Dexter': 'Hello, Dexter Morgan'
- Bailout cost estimate is shrinking
- Monday's TV Highlights: 'Alice' concludes on SyFy
- Monday's TV Talk Shows: 'Tavis Smiley' welcomes Rev. Jesse Jackson
- Former UCLA track coach Bob Larsen wins major award
- Theater review: David Mamet's 'Race' on Broadway
- Football: Colton running back picks Oregon
- Lakers vs. Suns: Lakers win ... again
- Opera review: 'Barber of Seville' at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
- USC football: A fan's look back at the Arizona game
- UCLA football: Bruins could land in EagleBank Bowl
- Music Review: John Adams goes for ecstasy in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's West Coast, Left Coast festival
- Girls' basketball: The Mater Dei Hoops Classic begins Monday
- TCW bond fund managers quit after firm ousts investment chief
- Jim Furyk shoots 67 to win Tiger Woods' tournament
- UCLA basketball: Bruins trail No. 1 Kansas at halftime
- 'Alice' goes down the rabbit hole tonight on SyFy
- USC football: Trojans to play Boston College in Emerald Bowl
- REVIEW: 'Avatar: The Game' wants to be a mighty alien epic in its own right
- Sofia Vergara heats up ABC's 'Modern Family' and makes us laugh
- Three golfers achieve rare feat in Tiger Woods' tournament
- Tiger Woods thanks supporters of his Thousand Oaks tournament
- Cross country: Loyola's Gedyon comes close
- Alice McGrath, who changed the world
- 'Up in the Air' takes off in limited release as box office keeps booming
- Marc Christian and the story behind the obit
- DIY holiday project: A card hanger for holiday greeting cards, and homemade gift wrap
- Christie's auctions off iconic fashion photographs as a part of its mid-season sale
- Girls' basketball: Burbank Burroughs' Lisha Elsenbach breaks school records
- Football: It's a Crespi reunion
- Fidel Castro's son named to international baseball post
- Glass artisan Caleb Siemon of Santa Ana is the first lady's honey-pot maker
- Easy reelection likely today for Bolivian President Evo Morales
- USC football: Charlie Weis says comments about Pete Carroll were taken out of context
- ARAB WORLD: Libya's Kadafi and some Muslim clerics urge Swiss to drop minaret ban
- Boys' basketball: Mater Dei wins tournament
- Sen. Dick Durbin 'skeptical' about Afghanistan troop buildup
- Boys' basketball: Saturday's scores
- Girls' basketball: Saturday's scores
- First look: 'Blind Side' tops box office as four new movies disappoint, 'Up in the Air' soars
- Boys' basketball: Fairfax making progress
- Opinion: A Sunday Thought: An Obama-free political video from abroad
- EGYPT: ElBaradei says he'll only run for president if vote is free, fair
- George Lopez leads USC's Spirit of Troy -- plus that funky band War
- Billy Joel says daughter Alexa Ray is 'going to be fine'
- Second City, from Candy to Colbert to Carell
- Gifts for cooks: 'Gourmet Today'
- USC football: Pete Carroll denies allegation in Internet post
- Boys' basketball: Boykin is MVP for LB Poly
- Girls' Basketball: Long Beach Poly wins Inglewood tournament
- 'Masterpiece Comics' by R. Sikoryak
- Surreal worlds of J.G. Ballard, 'Armitage Family Stories' and more
- Los Angeles Times bestsellers for Dec. 6, 2009
- Damon Dunn wants voters to do what he didn't
- Executive session can't be called without board meeting
- A 'crazy' way for an industry to operate
- Edward Fatu dies at 36; pro wrestler performed as Umaga
- 'Ravens' by George Dawes Green is among the year's best mysteries and thrillers
- The year's best paperback reissues
- 'Frank Lloyd Wright in Pop-Up' by Roland Lewis
- Second City's first-rate legacy
- 'Norman Mailer, MoonFire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11'
- Bully wants to be a Facebook friend
- 'Clash of the Dinosaurs' on Discovery
- Readers recommend: New York City pizzeria
- Smart phones can be a costly travel companion
- Just the way the BCS planned it
- 'Frank Lloyd Wright in Pop-Up' by Roland Lewis
- Calendar
- The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering celebrates an arduous life
- Smart phones can be a costly travel companion
- What happened in Palm Springs in 1959
- Kings stumble in shootout to Blues, lose 5-4
- Military deaths
- Mustangs rally from big deficit, beat the Waves, 83-77
- Weezer lead singer hurt in tour bus crash
- Do's and don'ts of electronic party invites
- Thank-you notes still a welcome touch
- How to mind your holiday manners
- What the health insurance mandate means
- Senate healthcare debate stretches through weekend
- Comfortable in the zone? They'll find out
- How to help
- Trail Blazers win game but lose Greg Oden, probably for season
- Kirkuk, Iraq's simmering melting pot
- L.A. Episcopal Diocese elects openly gay bishop
- EVENTS
- Planning your trip to Lisbon
- Creative hairstyles to flaunt for the holidays
- Women's AP top 25 results for Saturday
- Film's new romantics
- Obama administration has religion on its side
- 'Frontier Hanukkah'
- Time traveling at Tavin in Echo Park
- Creators of abortion film say they want honest debate
- Mt. Whitney in their sights
- Report inconclusive on floor mat's role in fatal Toyota crash
- Ex-Assemblyman allegedly runs over parking lot attendant
- The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering celebrates an arduous life
- Up next for USC basketball: Tuesday vs. Sacramento State
- Kimbo Slice does just enough to get past Houston Alexander
- Calendar events for December 2008 and January 2009
- Planning your trip to Palm Springs
- War casualties
- Suns have revived the burn factor
- Horoscope: Dec. 6
- Sofia Vergara's American 'Modern Family'
- 'Norman Mailer, MoonFire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11'
- Damon Dunn wants voters to do what he didn't
- GALLERIES
- Surreal worlds of J.G. Ballard, 'Armitage Family Stories' and more
- Shaving real estate commissions can save sellers thousands
- West: Boise State completes another undefeated regular season
- Capistrano Unified teachers protest proposed 10% pay cut
- Football injuries becoming a real head case
- The going just gets weirder for USC in 21-17 loss to Arizona
- A broader definition of healthcare
- Graeme McDowell is enjoying a fortunate detour
- Pearl Harbor veterans recall infamous attack
- 'Weird' hands sometimes pay off
- L.A. council candidate Paul Krekorian assails 2 mailers by Christine Essel
- Most deserving players have little chance at Heisman
- Yellowstone a petri dish for climate change
- How the top 25 fared
- East Carolina beats Houston to win Conference USA title
- Kings stumble in shootout loss to Blues
- Underrated / Overrated
- C'mon, that's getting old
- This winter, blonds are going blonder and brunets are getting darker
- Holiday tipping guide: How much to give?
- 'Masterpiece Comics' by R. Sikoryak
- A visit to 1959 Palm Springs
- Obama zeroes in on jobs, healthcare, Afghanistan
- In Lisbon, the night is forever young
- Executive session can't be called without board meeting
- 'Ravens' by George Dawes Green is among the year's best mysteries and thrillers
- Letters to the editor
- To Alice McGrath, who changed the world
- The drawings of war
- 'Precious' is a story worth telling
- Sellers need a strategy when angling for lower commissions
- Book calendar
- The week's prime choices
- Elvis Presley's 'Elvis 75: Good Rockin' Tonight' set showcases King's artistry
- Clippers at the top of this glass
- A special holiday flight to the North Pole
- Ray Romano returns with 'Men of a Certain Age'
- Westchester wins early battle with Taft
- Salahis incident again raises blacks' fears for Obama's life
- Two World Cup downhill wins in two days for Lindsey Vonn
- MUSEUMS
- Tokidoki to open first L.A. boutique
- Who'll be 'Top Chef'?
- The year's best paperback reissues
- 'Julie & Julia'
- 'Until the Light Takes Us' goes behind the music -- and the murder
- If you go ...
- Paying off student loans requires smart decisions
- An oasis of wine culture near Vegas
- Men's AP top 25 results for Saturday
- Planning your trip to Lisbon
- Planning your trip to Mt. Whitney
- Memo to Wall Street: Philanthropy, not bonuses
- Chicago ends Pittsburgh's five-game home winning streak, 2-1, in overtime
- Akira Kurosawa at 100
- Placido Domingo Awards Dinner honors Juan Diego Florez
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Whole lot of playin' going on
- Up next for UCLA: Sunday vs. Kansas
- Edison defeats Lakewood, 37-29
- Up next for the Ducks: Sunday against Ottawa
- Second City's first-rate legacy
- Army Spc. Kyle A. Coumas, 22, Lockeford; dies in explosion
- Colleague could see the fall of Troy from months away
- A 'crazy' way for an industry to operate
- Educators have the wrong number in answering budget crisis
- Harvard couldn't hold him
- Three tie in American Open
- Timing a retirement home purchase
- A child's illness spurs action on marrow transplants
- Prayers almost answered for Los Angeles Arleta
- Matt Barkley can't convert for USC at the finish
- MUSIC
- The unconquered lions of 'Invictus'
- Jewelry that's faux and fine
- Tom Ford had to give life to 'A Single Man'
- Protect yourself
- Negotiating with your agent
- Letters: Itemizing the crate escape
- In Lisbon, the night is forever young
- A visit to 1959 Palm Springs
- Off-duty sheriff's deputy shoots man in Boyle Heights
- SEC: Alabama puts end to Florida's reign
- Baucus defends recommending girlfriend for job
- USC's season has a dull edge to it
- Nuggets win at San Antonio, 106-99
- UmbrellaToday.com won't leave you feeling all wet
- Adrian Peterson has to get a handle on the ball
- The office politics of holiday gifts
- L.A. City Council is set to rule on whether AEG should cover cost of Jackson's memorial
- Will the Angels get greedy?
- Hollywood Freeway Chickens have always had a lot of pluck
- What Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth have to say
- Zapata photo shrouded in mystery
- Lakers' Derek Fisher comes through again -- quietly, as usual
- Cambodia's first war crimes trial marred by flaws
- CALIFORNIA LOTTERY RESULTS
- Vietnam to Afghanistan
- Business Letters
- About this story
- Mr. Skin's naked enthusiasm
- Programs on Egypt and bicycling
- The school bell rings and students stay to study
- England's not-so-easy World Cup task
- Army Pfc. Marcus A. Tynes, 19, Moreno Valley; killed in explosion
- Denmark's green credentials obscure some unpleasant facts
- Yemen teeters on brink of failure
- Hair color glossary of terms
- FCC pushes for Internet access on your TV
- MOVIES - Dec. 6, 2009
- MOVIES - Dec. 6, 2009
- TELEVISION - Dec. 6, 2009
- William A. Wilson dies at 95; first U.S. ambassador to the Vatican
- Art + music at the Hollywood Bowl
- Los Angeles Times bestsellers for Dec. 6, 2009
- For the holidays: These titles travel in packs
- Classic design from a creator of L.A. landmarks
- Listing details
- IRS to outline changes in the home buyer tax credit program
- Angels, devils and Bigfoot
- Favorites 2009: Fiction and poetry
- Dark Passages: Dissecting the Detectives, Part 1
- Temp firms a magnet for unfit nurses
- Making sure you have adequate insurance
- Favorites 2009: Stories of California and beyond
- The worlds of David Hockney