- California Democrats call for investigation into loan modification and foreclosure practices
- Tennis Channel advances in its discrimination case against Comcast
- Report demands that Mexico try human rights claims against military in civilian courts
- Property from Oscar winner Jennifer Jones Simon headed for auction
- Michael Hiltzik: Pom not-so-Wonderful?
- Paris Fashion Week: Yves Saint Laurent moves forward
- Lieutenant governor's race heats up with new ads
- Kim Yuna picks Peter Oppegard as her new coach
- Skinny jeans that suck you in and stay put
- Opinion: Joe Biden update: The Democratic party is not dead, he reveals
- Soprano Dolores Wilson dies at 82
- Combo Plate: Kimchi crisis, sweet fundraiser and more
- Paris Fashion Week: Giles Deacon resurrects the house of Emanuel Ungaro
- Beyond Rick Sanchez: Who should Jon Stewart fight with next?
- XCOR to launch private rocket plane from Curacao
- An early look at Julie Taymor's film version of 'The Tempest,' starring Helen Mirren
- BlogHer co-founder forecasts the future
- National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 include L.A. Times staffer
- Michigan agency casts critical eye on state's film tax credits
- Attorney general debate: Kamala Harris, Steve Cooley clash
- Prime Beverly Hills development site purchased by Asian investors
- Celebrities be warned: Justin Bieber wants to punk you
- Question of the day: Of the people available, whom would you pick to manage your MLB team?
- Live coverage of Steve Cooley, Kamala Harris Attorney General debate
- Facebook co-founder gives additional $50,000 to legalize marijuana in California
- Attorney general debate: A swipe at Jerry Brown
- Braves' Tim Hudson, Twins' Francisco Liriano named MLB's comeback players of year
- A Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson reunion?
- Attorney general debate: Steve Cooley says he would collect local pension if elected
- Attorney general debate: Steve Cooley would fight panel's mandate on California prisons
- CNN's Sibila Vargas named as KCBS morning news co-anchor
- Mea culpa! Rick Sanchez apologizes to Jon Stewart
- Attorney general debate: Kamala Harris says she and Steve Cooley differ greatly on healthcare
- Are nanotech-based pesticides safe? A new report looks at the issues
- 10-10-10: Numerology meets environmentalism
- Attorney general debate: Steve Cooley, Kamala Harris oppose marijuana legalization
- Undocumented ex-housekeeper fires back at Meg Whitman
- Attorney general debate: Steve Cooley takes 'lawyer-like' stance on greenhouse-gas law
- Attorney general debate: Steve Cooley says he would go to court to defend gay-marriage ban
- Southern Section responds to Mater Dei suit
- Angels let go longtime athletic trainer Ned Bergert and scout Dale Sutherland
- Attorney general debate: The Arizona immigration law
- Opinion: Believers against bullying (of gay kids, that is)
- Attorney general debate: Kamala Harris says she will 'follow the law' on death penalty
- TeleFutura gets an Indian touch
- Attorney general debate: Death penalty versus the environment
- Union launches new Spanish-language ad for Jerry Brown
- The Velvet Underground's Moe Tucker is having a party: A tea party
- Your morning adorable: Parakeet plays soccer
- Reality TV loves Republicans -- and the feeling is mutual
- EGYPT: Opposition newspaper sacks chief editor, reporters strike in protest
- Read all about it! Device owners read more books, magazines and newspapers
- Attorney general debate: Candidates set for noon face-off
- Yea or Nay: Who's to blame for your fat kid?
- Firefighters rescue 18-foot Burmese python from burning Rhode Island home
- Kids' stuff: The L.A. Kids Consignment sale overwhelms (in a good way)
- Dodgers need to bring back Larry Bowa
- Familiar formula: Gold at new high as the dollar sinks
- Tea Partiers barking mad over puppy-mill humane measure in Missouri
- Gustavo Dudamel and wife expecting baby boy
- Journalists protest proposed law in Bolivia that would outlaw reporting on acts, opinions deemed racist
- Lil Wayne lands in solitary confinement for contraband
- Video: Andrea Pirlo's amazing goal in AC Milan's 1-0 victory over Parma
- Opinion: Social media wrap: Defense Department utilizes solar power, Jessica Simpson (as White House goes green)
- Kanye West names his new album, takes over 'Saturday Night Live,' releases yet another new song
- Lisa Rinna, Harry Hamlin learn of burglary on live TV
- Whitman uses Times report to hit Brown
- Hot Property: Jane Seymour and James Keach list Sherman Oaks house
- Hot Property: Vidal Sassoon sells Beverly Hills home
- Kerouac: 'Life is too sweet to waste on self propaganda'
- Paris Fashion Week: Chanel's spring awakening
- Consumer Confidential: More years of work, more service jobs, less-noisy chips
- CNN's 'Parker Spitzer' premieres: Too polite for TV?
- Traceability key to food safety, cautions Institute of Food Technologists
- Edward Norton goes back to movie prison
- Recipe for the day: Rustic vegetable soup with rye croutons and parsley-savory 'pistou'
- Brown has $22.5 million to spend before Nov. 2
- Recycler launches ecollective to make recycling electronics easier
- Report: Urine sample from Tour de France champion Alberto Contador could show evidence of blood transfusion
- Wall Street Roundup: A bond bubble? Big French fine.
- City Garage in talks for new space in Santa Monica
- SYRIA: Damascus tightens screws on Lebanon with arrest warrants in Hariri inquiry
- Monster Mash: Washington National Opera names music director; Billie Joe Armstrong lifts 'American Idiot' sales
- Hasbro and Discovery not toying around with the Hub
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: Why Dana Delany won't do Botox. Serena Williams strikes deal with OPI. And even cats can be victims of photoshopping.
- About (Late) Last Night: Jon Stewart goes easy on Rick Sanchez
- 'Caprica' looks for more action; Polly Walker's Sister Clarice codes a 'digital Heaven'
- Pasadena gardener becomes a one-woman food bank
- First Take: Welfare card use limited. Let the voting begin! Attorney general candidates to face off.
- Football: Reseda headed toward 5-0 start
- Mick Rock talks about shooting Bowie, Lady Gaga and why he's collaborating with John Varvatos
- The Morning Fix: Oscar working on timing. Hasbro and Discovery not toying around. `Superman' has its director.
- The Deal: Cookbook sells fresh flowers from North Hollywood High garden
- One year ago: Israel Gelfand
- Opinion: Republican Rep. Joseph Cao reaps the rewards of bipartisanship; Obama thanks him the Chicago way
- Opinion: Quietly, America's Election Day becomes Election Month -- and you're in it right now
- 'Chuck' recap: Standing tall on the wings of Chuck's dream
- The perfect way to end a disappointing Dodger season: David Hasselhoff and Jameson Moss sing 'Don't Stop Believin'
- Frederick Jelinek dies at 77; speech recognition pioneer
- Book review: 'Even Silence Has an End' by Ingrid Betancourt
- Afghan offensive fails to reassure residents
- 199 L.A. County workers made at least $250,000 last year
- Obama's economic advisors divided on Bush-era tax cuts
- State to block access to welfare cards from casinos and cruise ships
- Alex Ovechkin and Capitals eager to challenge for Stanley Cup
- Chiefs stand alone, but Colts stand in their way
- 'Die Hard' director gets a year in prison in wiretapping case
- Former Bell official Rizzo will again try to post bail
- American League division series: Rangers vs. Rays
- Dwyane Wade hurts a hamstring as the Big Three era opens in Miami
- This player-coach-fan gets his fill in the fall
- Kyle Clifford is among six rookies who impress for Kings
- Drinking lightly during pregnancy may not affect a child's cognitive development, a study finds
- Yet another study shows CPR is better without mouth-to-mouth
- The 'science' behind Lynda Resnick's Pom Wonderful juice
- Google unveils partnerships for its TV service
- Ironman contestant's biggest foe? Cancer
- Two solar projects on California public land get federal OK
- Sharron Angle: 'Republican Party has lost their standards'
- Twitter names successor to chief executive
- Grupo Televisa to invest $1.2 billion in Univision
- The moon, Mars and now the Supreme Court
- Allstate sues Toyota over sudden-acceleration-related insurance claims
- Review: Best and worst of Halloween Haunt 2010 at Knott's Berry Farm
- Will this finally be the year the Sharks win the Stanley Cup?
- Book review: 'Even Silence Has an End' by Ingrid Betancourt
- Daniel Ellsberg's role in leak of Pentagon Papers gets a second look
- America's assassination list
- U.S. counter-terrorism agents still hamstrung by data-sharing failures
- New kids' TV channel raises product-placement concerns
- Quick Takes: Billie Joe Armstrong boosts 'American Idiot'
- Social networks bring us closer to isolation
- Eight reasons to be thankful deputy isn't a crack shot
- Phone insurance doesn't pay off for most users
- Democrats make gains in new polls, but the political climate still favors Republicans
- TARP losses now estimated at $51 billion
- Harvard-Westlake's Tiana Woolridge excels in two sports and the classroom
- No-shows force Bell to cancel meeting
- Horoscope: Oct. 5
- German militants reported killed in Pakistan
- Wronged in the name of science
- Injury cited by ex-Bell police chief in disability pension claim didn't prevent him from exercising
- In vitro fertilization innovator Robert G. Edwards wins Nobel Prize
- Supreme Court starts new term with Elena Kagan on bench
- Tuesday's TV highlights
- Understanding the role of diet in lowering blood pressure
- Visa, MasterCard changes will benefit merchants — and maybe consumers
- The woman behind 'Catfish's' mystery
- Telecom firms' donations to minority groups criticized as FCC considers net neutrality rules
- Marijuana's health effects
- GOP embraces reality TV
- Academy looks to move 2012 Oscar ceremony up several weeks
- Roy Halladay gets long-awaited opportunity
- The key to losing weight and keeping it off? Ask an alpaca
- Halloween Horror Nights gets bigger but not better at Universal Studios Hollywood
- Ryan Murphy buys Diane Keaton house
- No surgical sponge left behind
- Kevin Prince looks good enough in return to practice
- Longest yacht built in U.S. since 1930s prepares to set sail
- Geary Roark lists Studio City home at $1,099,000
- National League division series: Cincinnati vs. Philadelphia
- American League division series: Yankees vs. Twins
- Report finds many prosecutors in California have committed misconduct
- National League division series: Atlanta vs. San Francisco
- Iran says computer virus not to blame for delay in launching nuclear power plant
- Americans are branching out sexually, survey finds
- After record-setting highs, cooler-than-normal temperatures forecast for Southland
- Searching for the hidden riches of Rennes-le-Chateau
- 'Even Silence Has an End' by Ingrid Betancourt
- On redevelopment agencies; a state budget deal; and China's massive water project.
- A fee to pay your bill? Yep
- Utility bills are key in case against L.A. Councilman Alarcon
- GOP embracing reality TV
- Health insurers pour money into GOP campaigns, hoping to limit new regulations
- Real estate mogul pleads not guilty to wire fraud
- Tuesday's TV talk shows
- California Supreme Court upholds unpaid furloughs for more than 200,000 state workers
- Happening Tuesday: Natasha Leggero, Van Morrison and more
- West Bank mosque attacked
- Child protective services has 'outlived its usefulness,' pediatrician says
- Surge in early voting upends election playbooks
- Santa Barbara: A month of noshing and drinking at Epicure.SB
- 3.5 million Californians would be eligible for healthcare tax credits, study finds
- Will Philadelphia fly again in NHL's Eastern Conference?
- Latinos not enthusiastic but likely to vote Democratic, survey says
- 'Waterproof' bandages rarely are, Consumers Union says
- White House is going solar, again
- USC trying to plug its porous defense
- Organ transplants in demand
- Bruins never deliver on Rick Neuheisel's promises
- Service sector grows in September
- Kimchi crisis leaves South Koreans hot under collar
- Faisal Shahzad gets life term for attempted Times Square bombing
- Greece reiterates its commitment to deficit reduction
- Ex-baseball star and bankrupt financial 'guru' Dykstra envisions a comeback
- Carolina Panthers release former USC standout Dwayne Jarrett
- Trapped Chilean miners could be rescued soon
- Jury orders Apple to pay $625 million in patent suit
- A Nobel's long gestation
- Reds fans have endured while waiting for another playoff appearance
- Eastern Sierra: Free guide points to fall color hot spots
- Cancer survivors and exercise: It's a good thing
- As for governors, Democrats hanging on by their fingernails
- Early voting by state
- Big Bear Lake: Creatures of the night will howl at Flashlight Safaris
- Failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad gets life in prison
- Troy rolls past Middle Tennessee, 42-13
- Los Angeles Times Travel Deals & News blog gets a new look
- The doctor is in -- at least for a few minutes
- Phil Jackson says Andrew Bynum could be reduced to part-time status
- ¿Quién enseña a los chicos de L.A.?
- Donald Trump hints at presidential bid, sort of
- Legendary Pictures chairman engineers takeover
- West Bank Oktoberfest raises a glass to Palestinian culture
- Whitman, illogical on immigration
- Officials fail to resolve rail board impasse
- Notorious Tijuana jail to be just a dark memory
- Three killed in attack on NATO fuel trucks in Pakistan
- For the record - Oct. 5, 2010
- PASSINGS: Van Snowden, Maury Allen, Georgi Arbatov
- 'House' recap: Everybody lies
- 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Story time
- What California students learned photographing desert tortoises could -- and did -- fill a book
- Football: Taft receiver gets Oregon State offer
- 'Gossip Girl' recap: 'Me versus you. No limits.'
- 'The Event' recap: Running 'round in circles
- Nonito Donaire: Bantamweight tourney didn't make sense (or dollars)
- Bubble or not, Treasury bond buyers want more
- 'How I Met Your Mother' recap: A little closure goes a long way
- Tuesday's Highlights: “No Ordinary Family” on ABC.
- Tuesday's Talk Shows
- Pom Wonderful sells ... sex?
- Aaron Sorkin: Not hitting 'like' on Sarah Palin
- Football: USC makes offer to Dorsey's Mickens
- Live review: Matador sticks to the beat at 21
- With 'I'm Sure,' hope for the romantic comedy?
- Tony Curtis laid to rest with a public funeral in Las Vegas
- Norton Simon's disputed 'Adam and Eve' getting closer look from Supreme Court
- Health insurers throw support behind Republican candidates
- 'Good food for all' is goal of food policy task force
- Dana Delany discusses her botched Botox treatment
- British comic actor Norman Wisdom dies at 95
- Paris Fashion Week: At Celine, Stella and Chloe, the mothers of modern minimalism
- Schwarzenegger goes to Nevada to attend Curtis funeral
- State officials cancel access to welfare benefits on cruise ships and at all casinos
- Football: Welch resting after surgery
- When it comes to watching, Angelenos are focused on writing
- 'The Social Network': Great TV comes to the big screen
- ABC Family cancels 'Huge'
- Anne Hathaway, Jenny McCarthy among latest to join the 'It Gets Better' campaign to help LGBT teens
- Danielle Staub settles defamation lawsuit with ex-husband
- Theater review: 'Leap of Faith' at the Ahmanson Theatre
- FCC wants more information from Comcast and NBC
- Drug violence doesn't scare off investors in Mexico, as stocks near all-time high
- Fiorina and NRSC air new ad attacking Boxer
- Nicki Minaj, Jay-Z reign supreme at 2010 BET Hip-Hop Awards
- Real estate mogul Namvar pleads not guilty to wire-fraud charges
- Jazz review: Angel City Jazz Festival at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre (updated)
- Conan O'Brien breaks out the water hose in new TBS promo
- Opinion: Should Meg Whitman have turned in her maid?
- Zack Snyder will mold the Man of Steel
- Martin Scorsese's paean to Elia Kazan
- Election officially begins today as millions of mail-in ballots are sent
- Ben Mondor, longtime minor league baseball owner, dies at 85
- Matthew Morrison, Neil Patrick Harris and 'Modern Family' cast at 'Leap of Faith' opening
- Tull gets control of Legendary Pictures in buyout of original investors
- L.A. Opera to host free outdoor screenings of 'Il Postino'
- For the record, Susan Sarandon is sadder than you are about Tim Robbins
- Things that went right for the Dodgers in 2010
- Kings, goaltender Jonathan Bernier agree to two-year extension
- Ontario Mills mall gets city funds to help with improvements
- Hammer Films' classic horror titles could still come back from the dead
- UCLA football: Kevin Prince to start at quarterback for Bruins
- NFL nixes calf-roping celebration by Vikings' Jared Allen
- Theater review: 'Peter Pan' in a tent at the Orange County Performing Arts Center
- IRAN: No end in sight for gold bazaar strike as government plays down economic woes
- Football: Mater Dei sues CIF Southern Section
- R.I.P. Echo Curio's live music (for now)
- Clipper training camp update: Baron Davis practicing
- Mexico's giant mustachioed statue spotted in unglamorous conditions
- Twitter's Dick Costolo replaces co-founder Evan Williams as CEO
- No more 'Dancing With the Stars' for Susan Boyle for now
- Is Cormac McCarthy really headed for the Nobel?
- CBS sells $600 million in bonds
- Ducks send Green, Macenauer to AHL Syracuse team
- Join our live chat with 'Stone' star Milla Jovovich on Tuesday
- CBS pulling in the viewers with the big bucks
- Your morning adorable: Snacking rabbit tries to hold a baby carrot in his paws
- Theater review: 'Welcome to Arroyo's' at the Old Globe
- Google TV to launch with content from Amazon, Netflix but not major TV networks
- Matador at 21 Night 3: Guided by Voices gives the festival a salty salute
- California economy remains steady, index says
- 'Lie to Me' replaces 'Lone Star' Monday: 'It almost feels like we're tramping on someone's grave'
- Western lawmakers set their sights on gray wolves
- Proposed radio debate between Brown and Whitman won't happen
- Kings put Ersberg, Clune on waivers
- Major League Baseball: Let the housecleaning begin
- California Supreme Court upholds state worker furloughs
- Paris Fashion Week: John Galliano's leading ladies
- Facebook's Zuckerberg friends 'The Simpsons'