- Pennington Arrives
- Piper Jaffray to Pay $32.5 Million to Settle Wall Street Probe
- All That's Missing Is a Leather Helmet
- New Law Gives Sex-Abuse Plaintiff the Means to Fight
- Chechen Blast Deaths Could Exceed 80
- Missing Front Plate Can Bring $25 Fix-It Ticket
- Murray Faces Tough Choice
- Tiny Congregation Weathering Zoning Battle
- LAPD Officer Is Arrested in Weapons Probe
- What a Wonderfully Wacky Time It Was
- Pollard Has Been Waiting for This
- Pope's poems to be published
- DNA Samples Requested in Hunt for Serial Killer
- J.P. Morgan Signs Contract With IBM
- Drunk Elk Shot After Attacking Swedish Boy
- No Free Parking at New Shopping Center
- Torrance Rest Home Fire Kills 2
- Lamenting 2-0-0-2 as You Ring in the New
- The Land Rover
- Museum's fictions stranger than truth
- Deck stacked against 9/11 cards
- Also
- White House Downplays N. Korea Issue
- Top Ribapharm Execs Threaten to Quit in Protest
- Powerful Blast Damages Memorial to Marcos
- In N.Y., It's 100 Years of Chilly-Dipping
- New Year's Revelers Can Take the Bus Free
- Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
- PUC Tables Vote on Gas Market
- McNabb Works Out, Seeks Playoff Return
- Pardon the cutting remarks
- 'Pork for Pensions' Is a Fair Swap
- Players Defend Meeting
- Connecticut Pushes Streak to 50 Games
- 10 BEST
- 10 WORST
- Brodeur Strong Again for Devils
- Living on love, or words to that effect
- If it's a new year, it's time for Dick Clark
- No Matter Who Starts, UC Irvine Keeps Winning
- Snowed under by the mobs at Stats' post-yule sale
- State Auditing D.A.'s Fund for Misuse
- Stoops Is Not Open to Discuss Pro Job
- Gentry Is Fed Up With Bad Defense
- USOC Members Divided on Ward
- Global's Winnick Steps Down
- Waiting for 'Godot's' humor
- A Long, Sad Chapter 11 in History: Bankruptcies in 2002 Set Record
- Freedom Like a Holiday, Dissident Says
- Prison Fire in Iran Kills 27 and Injures 50
- Inspectors 'Have Zilch' Thus Far
- Small Riverside County Agency Aids Teenage Parents
- Firefighter, Wife Accused of Abusing Girl
- Ayn Rand Group Strives to Have Voice in Debate
- Two Assistants Staying, Two Come With Dorrell
- TOP PERFORMERS
- Trail Blazer Streak Reaches Eight
- MIGHTY DUCKS: 3 GAMES
- THE TIMES' RANKINGS
- Unite to Defang N. Korea
- Project Seeks to Remove 'Seamy' From Simi
- Prosecutors to Turn Over Suspect's Statements
- GAME OF THE WEEK
- St. Louis Finishes Season in Style
- State Gives SBC Right to Offer Long-Distance
- Fires Set in Protest at Illegal-Migrants Camp
- Man Arrested in Death of Domestic Partner
- Blue Chips Up, Tech Stocks Down in Lackluster Session
- Pilot Lands Disabled Plane on Interstate 15
- Man Held in Shooting Death of His Roommate
- Romario Still Hopes to Play for Brazil
- Three Down, More to Go?
- Indian tunic, insulated
- 1 Million Hens Ordered Destroyed as Poultry Quarantine Is Expanded
- Forestry Service Fined in Workers' Fatal Crash
- Afghan Official Calls for Artifacts' Return
- Floral Designer Gives Cars in Parade a Dutch Treatment
- Sunrise to Buy Marriott Division
- Disappointing Season for Retailers
- Tyco Gimmicks Inflated Profit, Audit Shows
- Filipino Indicted in U.S. Election Case
- Senior Accused of Manslaughter in Movie Ticket Line Altercation
- Pakistan Hints It Was Ready for Nuclear War
- Progress Cited on Water Deal as Deadline Nears
- Desalination Plan Considered for Bay
- Molina Healthcare Files for IPO
- Resignations Hurt Stock of Produce Firm
- Tech Industry May Get Upgrade in 2003
- Avalanche Victim Was 'Very Fond' of Outdoors
- Paris Airport Worker Arrested; Arms Seized
- Passport Smuggling Inquiry Sparks Manhunt
- Court Ruling Jeopardizes Coastal Panel
- Hospital Worker Held on Sexual Assault Charge
- Hilton, CNL in Hotel Venture
- Foreign Buying of U.S. Corporate Bonds Drops
- Holiday Closured
- Fed May Cut Jobs as Fewer Checks Written
- Needy Children Need You
- Reelection Strategy Alters Bush Team
- Ex-Turkmen Official Gets Life for Plot
- They Had a Commitment to Yemen, Despite Danger
- Attacker Disguised Gun as a Baby
- The Doctors Are In -- and They're Booked Solid
- Homicide Rate in County Falls to 1999 Level
- Israeli Reservists Can't Refuse to Serve in West Bank and Gaza Strip
- Poll Finds Most Wary of Tax Cuts, War
- New York Law to Stamp Out Most Public Smoking
- Venezuela Detains Dissident General
- Home Sales Decline in November, but Record Still Likely for Year
- Prandium Chairman Relyea Resigns
- Store Tapes May Help in Search for Woman
- Paul Kantor, 83; L.A. Dealer Showed Many Emerging Artists
- MacPherson Goes Out Throwing
- Clarett Always Has Teams on Red Alert
- La Scala's renovation woes
- Prices Fall as OPEC Readies Supply
- Skid Row Strays Have Best Friends
- Bonanza of Feats Will Come in 2003
- A Few Things Worth Mentioning
- FINALLY
- Cities Plan Festivities for New Year's Eve
- Rancho Rehab Hospital Has Backer and Believer
- Davis to Sit Out a Game
- Gesser's Injured Ankle Is Good Enough to Play
- 'Blue Whale in the Sky'
- Stage, screen stars to be honored by queen
- 'Survivor' boosts CBS' Letterman
- Economy Sinks Plans for New Guggenheim
- Hand-Over Applauded in Kenya
- Fate of 1,300 Unknown After Cyclone Zoe Hits
- 2 Shot at Cyber Cafe; Gunman Still at Large
- Revelers Warned to Check Gunfire
- When It Comes to Being Booked ...
- Ex-Pitt Star Heath Killed
- Yankees Sign Clemens to $10.1-Million Contract
- Captain Kirk
- TV Azteca takes over station
- Rolly Polly to Be Challenged by This Well-Rounded Field
- $25,000 Reward Posted in Student's Slaying
- Oxnard Youth Club to Close for Renovation
- Kings Are Powerless in a 2-0 Loss
- By the Numbers
- Syncor Shareholders Approve Takeover
- Afghanistan's Toughest Battle Lies Ahead
- Quicken Agrees to Change Loan Notice
- End of the Line for a 'Martyr'
- Unidentified Man Shot to Death in Parking Lot
- Minnesota Gives Arkansas the Boot
- No. 1 Alabama Falls Flat to Utah
- Coach Carousel Continues to Spin Around
- KINGS: 3 GAMES
- Lewis Leads Seven to All-Star Game
- Some Holiday Cheer? At Least O'Neal Talks
- Rowling outearns the queen
- Strange but true in 2002
- Mohammed al-Fassi, 50; Sheik Known for Garish Estate, High-Stakes Divorce
- Molestation Scandal Wrenched Church Hierarchy and Faithful
- Team Looking to Right Ship
- Carroll May Have Some Work to Finish
- KNBC lets weatherman go
- Nun's piercing memoir of torture and her quest for the truth
- Governor Wants Apology From Virginia for Halftime Show
- Tribune to Buy 2 WB Stations From Acme
- United Machinists to Oppose Pay Cuts
- 5 Use Copter to Break Out of Prison
- U.N. Council Approves Tighter Controls on Iraqi Imports
- Scuttle Single-Hull Tankers
- Holiday Closures
- No Bash in the Boulevard for 2003 Revelers
- 'Confessions': Quick! Somebody get the gong!
- NEW YORK WILL NOT WOO OSCAR -- THIS TIME
- No One Should Be Muffled in the Halls of Academia
- Private Zoos in China
- Fox Hunting
- Learning How to Cope With an 'Urban' Coyote
- Pricing Ourselves Out of the Housing Market
- U.S. Flunks Logic Test on War With Iraq
- Diversity and Freedom
- Blatter's Wedding a Surprise
- New Year's Delicacy Is Bittersweet for Family
- Hybrid Autos to Get Their Own Show Outside
- 'Two' is No. 1 with 'Catch' closing in
- Banking on your own blood
- Lion Changes Could Start at the Top
- Toy Firm Turns Popular Mint Strip Into Child's Play
- Patient Stand on N. Korea Urged
- A cycling caution
- Avalanche Buries Group of Skiers; 1 Killed, 1 Hurt
- 4th Unmanned Space Capsule Is Launched
- Ventura Couple See Stoicism, Need on Visit to Afghanistan
- Sale of Land Under Fire
- Hard to Fulfill Last Season's Promise
- A Bad Patch May Be Over
- A fix for fans of Jane's Addiction
- Bush Ally Is Top Contender for Nomination to Supreme Court
- New West Symphony Upbeat
- Pro- and Anti-Chavez Forces Turn Out Again in Venezuela
- Caymmi weaves Brazilian rhythms into supple cloth
- Redskins End Skid Against Cowboys
- Wait Is Worth It for Browns
- A star is born? Well, not quite
- 3 U.S. Doctors Killed by Gunman in Yemen
- Wellstone Crash Likely Caused by Slow Speed
- Kenya's Invisible Candidate
- Motorist Critical After Car Crashes into Bridge
- Hell Hath No Fury Like Girlstyle
- Margaret Hancock, 90; Memoir Tells of Her Mixed-Race Family
- Trophy Line
- THE TIMES' RANKINGS
- Now They're the Bullies on the Block
- One actor who can take it to 'The Bank'
- American Soldier Wounded in Gun Battle
- Scholars Advise Illinois Governor on Issuing Blanket Clemency
- FCC: Stay Tuned to Public
- Oxnard Man Awaits Rescue After Crash
- Redick Has Hot Hand for Duke
- The Old South, Up North
- For Now, It's the Ultimate Surf Museum
- Rahlves Wins Downhill Event
- Moore Has Twice the Fun
- He's got game
- Radio Telescope Project Encounters Interference
- Steelers Continue Winning, Barely
- Portis Runs Over Hapless Cardinals
- Sykora Misses His Chance
- In search of the year that's just gone by
- MS drug may slow progress of disease
- Networks to Offer Bigger Dose of 'Reality'
- Hybl Does Some of His Best Work Outside Spotlight
- Served up weekly, this show could be a big fat Greek flop
- Some Analysts Foresaw Weak Holiday Retail Sales
- The shiny new pills, and the tried-and-true
- In O.C., More Gang Deaths, Fewer Funds
- How a Single Act of Kindness Has Multiplied
- FAST BREAK
- New Conspiracy Theory: 'Cane Mutiny by Voters
- In Web of Intrigue, Jackson a Kobe Ally
- Global Woes May Hit U.S. Economy
- AIDS battle advances on 2 fronts
- Hotel Manager Killed in Fire Failed to Heed Official's Warning
- Reagan Building a Shining Success
- Redpoint Ventures Is Taking It Slow
- A Spirited Debate Over DUI Laws
- Cornered N. Korea Will Stand Firm, Critics Say
- The Administration Can't See the Forest for the Sequoias
- Rockets Hit Low Mark, Still Win
- No. 6 Stanford Rallies Behind Kimyacioglu
- FBI Seeks 5 Men in Terrorism Probe
- In Baghdad, Many Insist Americans Would Regret an Invasion
- USOC's Ward Facing Hearing
- Saints Are Put in Place--Out of the Playoffs
- There's a Real Catch to These Cougars
- Classic-books school saves a classic hall
- Looks like we've bitten the hand that feeds us
- Aerobatics Pilot Is Not Winging It
- McGahee Might Wait to Cash in His Chips
- Float Builders Stick to 'Glue Man'
- TONIGHT
- Gramatica Gets No Cold Feet
- The man with the dangerous mind returns
- Israeli Troops Kill Boy, 11, in West Bank
- A Grieving Dad Takes His Own Vengeance
- U.N. Inspectors Pore Over Customs Records
- Palestinian Towns Wobbling on Last Legs
- Man Held in Truck Theft After High-Speed Chase
- Grain Elevator
- Bills Can Build on This; Bengals Try to Recover
- 2003's First Trading Days May Be Indicative
- New home test for diabetics
- An alternative to skiing and snowboarding
- 'Travelports' Are Way to Go
- Jets Break From Pack
- 'Port Charles' struggling to find audience as Saga No. 10 unfolds
- Gilmore Completes Farmers Market Addition
- Touchy teeth linked to other sensitivities
- New Year's Eve Crowd No Sure Bet in Las Vegas
- Bibby Is Happy With Everything but Record
- More Strange Plays in Theater of Absurd
- 'Love Liza,' a shifting ride of emotions
- Do the cardio, but avoid routine
- Better Water Deal Is Sought
- A Long Way From Fiesta Bowl for Oregon
- Pity the poor scribe when words fail
- Study Finds Less Use of Drugs With Random Testing
- Resolve all you want, but fitness needs a real plan
- Feel-good kava has a down side
- Whittier Unveils Plans for 'Grand Boulevard'
- Motorcyclist's Body Found Near Tollway
- Disappointment All Around
- Actor's life laid bare
- Virtual second opinions
- The time had come for professional help
- Health-Care Storm Brewing in California Threatens to Swamp U.S.
- Liberty, Ellis Island Tour Numbers Off
- Driver Dies, Four Hurt in 3-Car Freeway Crash
- Domestic Spying? Be Wary
- Another Struggle for Colts
- It's Down to Last Day for Frankel
- TWO-MINUTE DRILL
- Bowled over by college football