- Opinion: Wedding plans: Chelsea Clinton tells Dad to lay off the Big Macs
- File this Jesse James story under 'paparazzi are people too'
- Parents struggle on this week's L.A. Times bestseller list
- Gulf oil spill: Crews, fishermen race to protect the coast
- Gulf oil spill is a political challenge for Obama's energy policy
- Injured baby gorilla's condition is improving, says Louisville Zoo
- WWII explosives found near George Clooney's Italian villa
- The 10 greatest L.A. Kings of all time -- No. 7: Bob Miller
- Schwarzenegger embraces national healthcare, vows quick implementation in California
- 'Real Housewives of New York City': Meet Jennifer Gilbert, yet another new 'Housewife'
- Praise for civil-rights leader Dorothy Height
- Giant panda Mei Xiang isn't pregnant after all, says National Zoo
- Auditor warns high-speed rail is getting off track
- Building blocks of life are found on asteroid
- Swedish spitfire Espinosa could seek safety in South America
- Preview review: 'Secretariat' tries to sneak up on the blind side
- Lifetime should try to embrace its audience instead of run from it
- Artwork from the estate of philanthropist Nancy M. Daly brings nearly $1.3 million at auction
- 'Ghostbusters 3': A sequel that will happen over Bill Murray's dead body?
- Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman sing the praises of Thursday night’s musical 'Fringe'
- Many doctors don't discuss diet with obese patients
- Building blocks of life are found on asteroid
- Ebay launches a shopping and fashion page featuring top celebrity stylists
- Free medical clinic returns to Los Angeles
- Your morning adorable: Young rooster learning to crow
- Your chance to tell the FDA what you think of food-package labels
- It's 5 o'clock somewhere: Bukowski exhibit on the way
- Introducing #LAThelp on Twitter
- Crisis fears ease in Europe, and Wall Street parties on
- Football: Loyola is the place to be this summer
- 'Zoot Suit' premieres in Mexico City
- 'Jersey Shore' hopefuls hit Long Island for casting call
- Jenna Jameson and Tito Ortiz say, um, never mind
- Rielle Hunter says she didn't wreck John Edwards' home
- Jessica Alba is smokin' -- but this time fish sticks are involved
- Gulf of Mexico oil leak called spill of ‘national significance’
- LeBron James has a strained elbow, bone bruise
- More seats on sale for Harrison Ford and 'Empire Strikes Back' at ArcLight
- Toyota again selling Lexus GX 460 SUV, contacting U.S. owners about fix
- Missoni opens in Beverly Hills with fashions for the home
- 'American Idol's' Constantine Maroulis coming to Pantages Theatre in 'Rock of Ages'
- Consumer Confidential: Passenger rights, Exxon profits, recalled cribs
- Softball: Anaheim Canyon-El Modena match has been rescheduled for May 10
- Opinion: Disgruntled CNN visitor launches WTFCNN.com due to marimba-playing robots
- Oprah Winfrey interviews Rielle Hunter, who remembers to wear her pants
- Opinion: Rep. Duncan Hunter vows to deport U.S.-born kids of illegal immigrants as Arizona brushfire hits California
- Question of the day: Who will win the Kentucky Derby?
- DUBAI: Glitzy Gulf city gears up for potential 2020 Olympics bid
- Orlando Magic's Dwight Howard fined $35,000
- Lions Gate previews positive earnings news as Icahn takeover bid looms
- Seasonal stories
- Obama praises congressional efforts to limit Supreme Court finance ruling
- Little change in mortgage rates
- 'American Idol,' humbug. Music Center's Spotlight Awards have the real goods
- Opinion: GOP donors ready to desert Florida Gov. Crist as Arizona's McCain ponders fallout from tea party anger
- Activision lands next game from Halo development studio
- Baseball: Wednesday scores
- Softball: Wednesday scores
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: Bill Clinton gets ready to be father of the bride. Eva Longoria Parker's new scent. Louboutin designs for Barbie. Julia Roberts is People's most beautiful.
- Obama eulogizes civil rights leader Dorothy Height
- Wall Street Roundup: Jobless claims down. Strong earnings.
- 'America's Next Top Model': Pretty and Prince in New Zealand
- Notes from the Test Kitchen: So you wanna be an intern ...
- Obama names three to Fed board
- Master gardener in training: The joy of recycled tools
- Monster Mash: new leader for Alvin Ailey; more of Anne Frank's diary on display; Banksy's name game
- Laura Bush's memoir gets early exposure
- The Morning Fix: Viacom profits up! Lions Gate-Icahn battle drags on. Jimmy Fallon for the Emmys? So what does 'off the record' mean?
- Baseball: Ruiz, Paez deliver again for Bishop Amat
- President Obama back to political roots on Midwest visit
- First Take: Schwarzenegger lashes out at Steve Poizner. Abel Maldonado goes late-night
- Lecture and architecture tour focus on Lloyd Wright
- The case for DreamWorks Animation to stop riding the dragon
- Dodgers hope there's no place like home
- Opinion: Obama's Organizing for America campaign now hiring more campaigners to, well, campaign
- 2010 TV Pilot Season's almost a wrap: The race to the finish
- Warm quinoa salad
- Stuffed summer squash
- Puerco con chile negro (pork with dried pasilla chile sauce)
- Opinion: The Murtha House race: Can Republicans turn Tim Burns into the next Scott Brown?
- Paul Schaefer dies at 89; Nazi founded Chilean colony
- The Review: Elements Kitchen in Pasadena -- all the elements of success
- Wine of the Week: 2008 Domaine Ricard ‘Les Trois Chênes’ Touraine Blanc
- Critic’s Notebook: What L.A. might ask of Eli Broad
- Oil spill may alter Obama's drilling plans
- Tiger Woods struggles to a 74 at Quail Hollow
- Goldman Sachs is focus of criminal investigation
- India and Pakistan pledge to improve relations
- Republicans agree to debate financial reform in full Senate
- Thursday TV talk shows
- FDA approves immune-boosting therapy for prostate cancer
- Ron Artest searching for his shot
- Mapo restaurant details: Location, prices and more
- Corporate takeovers are on the rise again
- Wells Fargo puts name on 87 Wachovia branches in California
- Events: Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena
- Roadside bomb kills 12 Afghans in minibus
- The Performance: Emma Caulfield in ‘Timer’
- Taliban leader in Pakistan may be alive
- Angels' Kevin Jepsen is making the cut
- He's start-ups' best friend
- Main St. paid for Wall St. maneuvers
- Thunder's Serge Ibaka is the new kid on the blocks
- WellPoint's profit jumps 51%
- Fiorina releases 2008 tax return
- It's official: NCAA expands basketball tournament to 68 teams
- Frantic drive to spare Gulf Coast from oil spill
- Have they got a tale for you in Ojai
- The Supreme Court could use an oboist
- Trazzler, Scoopler, Swipely and Bump? He's in
- Taliban flogging video may show different girl, but message is the same
- Gaza gets a kick out of revived soccer
- Obama administration considers challenges to Arizona immigration law
- Northrop Grumman profit rises 21% in first quarter
- Books: Giada de Laurentiis at Village Books in Pacific Palisades
- China school attacks leave 1 dead and 33 children burned or slashed
- Pop music: Tributefest in Santa Clarita
- 2 jail escapees captured in Castaic
- Lawndale school among contenders for Obama speech
- Wine of the Week: 2008 Domaine Ricard ‘Les Trois Chênes’ Touraine Blanc
- Lawmaker defends law banning sale of violent video games to minors
- The perils of state pensions
- Investors bet that good times are ahead for REITs
- CB Richard Ellis cuts loss, boosts revenue
- Democrats' campaign-finance plan: Put the donors on camera
- At a glance
- Supreme Court allows Mojave war memorial cross
- 2 jail escapees captured in Castaic
- Supreme Court says Mojave cross can stand
- The Southland’s crowded film festival scene
- Bill would limit NHTSA officials' moves to auto industry
- State of 'taxiness'
- Samuel Bayer: From Nirvana to ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’
- ‘Quiet Heroes’ photo exhibit celebrates elderly survivors
- Calexico schools struggle to recover from quake
- New U.S. rules on tarmac delays: Q&A
- Out There: Residents on Long Beach island live in fear of sea wall failing
- Scientists find underwater asphalt volcanoes off Santa Barbara
- SEIU’s top healthcare strategist to succeed union leader
- Hewlett-Packard to swallow Palm in $1.2-billion deal
- Family hauler gets a stylish overhaul
- Lakers hope silence is purple and golden
- Koo Koo Roo to close 10 stores in state
- Saving the Hollywood sign; ballot initiatives; Iceland’s volcano and global warming
- 11th Annual Ojai Storytelling Festival info
- Offshore wind-power project OKd
- At Churchill Downs, talk helps Kentucky Derby trainers pass the time
- A room with a view to one big mystery
- Arizona immigration fight to move to the courtroom
- On a blustery night, Dodgers’ bats remain in a deep freeze
- Quick Takes: Gervais is Golden again
- Music: The Antlers play the Detroit Bar and the Troubadour
- Events: Children's Day at Aquarium of the Pacific
- Screening Room: Mexican, European and Asian film festivals
- Legalization must be part of immigration reform
- Events: Jillian Lauren discusses and signs her memoir
- Book Review: ‘Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life’
- Soldier killed in clash amid Thai protest
- British candidates go Round 3
- Dodgers say it’s too early to panic
- Bank-turnaround specialist to buy Pacific Capital Bancorp
- Arizona's new immigration law becomes an issue in Major League Baseball
- Kamala Harris in Democratic race for state attorney general
- Nevada State Athletic Commission considers blood-testing program
- Horoscope: April 29
- Drivers still texting despite California ban, Auto Club survey finds
- Afghan Taliban getting stronger, Pentagon says
- East West Bancorp swings to profit; shares rise
- Tensions rise over Haiti tent camps
- Event: Conejo Valley Days in Thousand Oaks
- USC’s Matt Barkley wants a strong finish to spring practices
- Calexico schools struggle to recover from quake
- Book Review info: ‘Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life’
- Sempra to pay $400 million to settle energy crisis gaming complaint
- S. Korea’s answer to a country diner
- Man charged in bomb scare
- Florida governor bolts GOP to run as independent
- L.A. County sees rise in infant mortality
- Critic’s pick: ‘From Silent to Sound’
- Andrew Bynum's defense proves decisive for Lakers
- Word of Mouth: ‘City Island’ has a rooting section
- Pakistan's Taliban leader survived U.S. drone missile
- Killer gets life sentence for burning homeless man to death
- Sarah Silverman at Book Soup
- Critic’s Notebook: What L.A. might ask of Eli Broad
- Emma Caulfield: Where you’ve seen her
- Europe's fiscal ills threaten the U.S.
- Steve Cooley in Republican race for state attorney general
- Toyota resumes selling recalled Lexus GX 460 SUV
- For the record - April 29, 2010
- Robert Pound dies at 90; Harvard physicist
- Victoria Manalo Draves dies at 85; Olympic gold medal diver
- Recipe: Stuffed summer squash
- Farmers markets: Getting the goods
- The California Cook: For small farmers, thinking outside the markets
- Sotera Jaime always has a lunch date
- PASSINGS: Furio Scarpelli, M. Edgar Rosenblum, Milan Herzog, William G. Spitzer, Christie Stanley
- Recipe: Puerco con chile negro (pork with dried pasilla chile sauce)
- Culinary SOS: Warm quinoa salad
- Where to find Jaime Farms
- Elements Kitchen details: Location, prices and more
- The Find: Mapo in L.A.'s Koreatown
- <b>Skelton:</b> The perils of state pensions
- Many doctors don't discuss diet with obese patients
- 'Modern Family': We're like two peas in a pod, or Siamese twins, or a snake with two heads
- Movie sneaks thumbnails
- Track and field: Senior year over for Mater Dei's Woepse
- Opinion: Judge Bill Clinton's SEC dissent: There's real doubt that Goldman Sachs violated any laws
- Smog is ugly, and its health effects aren't very pretty either
- Digging up saltcedar won't boost water supplies
- Baseball: Hollywood gets no-hitter from Torres
- 'America's Next Top Model': Anslee on Alasia, 'She doesn't know who she is'
- Scarlett Johansson isn't perfect after all: 'I've never really been a comic-book reader'
- Baseball: Three home runs for Valencia sophomore
- Sneak peak: 'The Boondocks' returns Sunday to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim
- Thursday's TV Talk Shows
- Baseball: Birmingham wins pitching duel, 26-15
- Baseball: Esperanza hands Owens his first defeat
- 'Golden Girls' Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Betty White help animals (in Arthur's case, posthumously)
- Howie Kendrick's walk-off bunt wins it for Angels
- Report issued on SeaWorld Orlando trainer's orca death
- Opinion: Forget Obama and others, Arizonans like their tough illegal immigrant law and Jan Brewer who signed it
- Lions Gate appeals poison pill ruling, delays shareholder vote
- Football: Don Markham suspended as coach at Rialto
- Apple acquires Siri, a personal assistant application for the iPhone
- Football: John Robinson has returned to coaching
- Hewlett-Packard bails out struggling Palm in $1.2-billion acquisition
- Schwarzenegger, morphed into Meg Whitman, strikes back at Poizner ad
- Planetary Society sells its Greene & Greene house
- Lieutenant governor hits late night
- Adam Shankman won't sing on new musical, but will he make his way to the Emerald City?
- Weekend update: Prada opens at South Coast with an exclusive bag; donate an old dress at Diane von Furstenberg; William Rast and Faith Connexion sample sales
- Diabetics should not take high doses of vitamin B, researchers say
- Iraq's ex-premier calls for caretaker government, new elections
- Word of Mouth: 'City Island' tries to grow from small to big
- Acupuncture in the delivery room remains a prickly research topic
- Quick ejection for Mike Scioscia
- Courtney Love addresses sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll
- Can Greg Kinnear cut it as JFK?
- Nicolas Cage’s former Bel-Air home pops right back on the market
- Al Gore, Tipper Gore snap up Montecito-area villa
- Vitamin E helps nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
- Greg Kinnear, Katie Holmes to star as JFK, Jackie in upcoming miniseries
- PREACH IT! Sandra Bullock calls checkmate in a tough public relations game
- Republican candidates in need of new material?
- Girls' basketball: Mater Dei's Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis named to All-USA girls' team
- Starting pitching no longer beats at the heart of Dodgers
- Tiger Woods gets back to 'normal' at Quail Hollow
- Injured Canada goose turns up in veterinarian's backyard and gets surgery to remove hunting arrow
- Get a grip, baby. Those swimming lessons pay off in several ways
- Steinberg rejects Schwarzenegger Board of Education nominee
- Coast Guard OKs controlled burn to deal with Gulf of Mexico oil spill
- Tyler Perry adapting new 'Madea' play for the big screen
- Networks trying to find something to laugh at that they can own
- Oil slick may hit Louisiana coast by Friday, Coast Guard says
- Box office futures market chief attacks 'powerful special interest group' MPAA in mail blast to senators
- Softball: Garden Grove Pacifica beats Valencia
- Steinberg sees governor's hand behind possible legislative pay cuts
- New media and publishing, starring Wil Wheaton
- Softball: Carson and San Pedro will raise money for cancer
- Facebook privacy officer-turned-candidate advises ex-employer to be more open
- MyShoes.com: the perfect fit for shoe shoppers on the go?
- The Review: Elements Kitchen in Pasadena -- all the elements of success
- Football: A high school version of pro day
- WORLD CUP: Mexico's Miguel Sabah out with injury
- Book deal for Baba Booey: Howard Stern producer will write a memoir
- What kind of 'Breaking Dawn' will Bill Condon make?
- Question of the day: What should team owner Rick Hendrick do about the Jeff Gordon-Jimmie Johnson feud (and who's at fault)?
- Humanitarian aid caravan is attacked in Oaxaca
- Mike Huckabee backs Chuck DeVore in California's U.S. Senate race
- Baseball's All-Star Game rosters expand; rules change
- Mexico's treatment of immigrants slammed
- Huntington Library to offer the first look at its Charles Bukowski collection with 'Poet on the Edge' exhibit
- Dodgers fall to Mets, 7-3, completing series sweep
- Little evidence that anything works to prevent cognitive decline
- Conservatives say they have to 'talk in whispers' in liberal Hollywood
- Boys' basketball: All-star game set for Saturday
- One-third of married women say their pet is a better listener than their spouse, poll finds
- Kristin Chenoweth on 'Glee,' Meniere's and Feeding America
- Fox News cruising as usual, but Glenn Beck takes a little spill
- Supreme Court hears arguments on genetically modified seeds
- Opinion: Breaking urgent cheeseburger alert: Obama orders cheeseburger at restaurant
- Warner Bros. supersizes picture deal with Imax
- Football: Servite game in New Orleans in jeopardy
- Poll: Was Dodgers GM Ned Colletti out of line in publicly criticizing outfielder Matt Kemp?
- Food Network, Cooking Channel serving up a host of new shows
- Your morning adorable: Deer licks friendly cat
- The 10 greatest L.A. Kings of all time -- No. 8: Rob Blake
- It's official: Bill Condon will direct 'Breaking Dawn'; one film or two still unclear
- Kobe Bryant's jersey is again the NBA's most popular
- Ted Green: Relief and resentment rule the day
- A new cheatsheet for theater buffs
- Betty White is 'scared to death' to host 'Saturday Night Live'
- Russia's Digital Sky Technologies continues push into Silicon Valley with ICQ buy
- Troubleshooter Pisano tapped as chairman of distressed Motion Picture & TV Fund
- Kevin Jonas rocks a school field trip to L.A. County's Natural History Museum
- Bill would limit NHTSA officials’ moves to auto industry
- 'The Biggest Loser': The worst-case scenario
- Kerry-Graham-Lieberman climate bill sent to EPA, buying time in the Senate
- Macy's puts out a call to charities for its annual 'Community Shopping Day'