- Birthday fun: The whirling, twirling cake topper
- Opinion: The Ames Republican debate transcript: Everything they said that you missed
- An all-star tribute to the jazzy Joni Mitchell
- Opinion: GOP debate scores big ratings for Fox News
- Retail roundup: Retail sales, apparel sales, Wal-Mart, Walgreens
- 'The Whistleblower': Poster child for the middlebrow?
- Best-dressed in denim: The latest trends and looks
- Opinion: Weekly remarks: GOP's Pat Toomey says regs kill jobs; Obama says new jobs his top priority
- Patt Morrison Asks: The Possibilian, Kevin Kelly
- A few words with Gloria Steinem
- Ames Straw Poll: Bachmann, Pawlenty, Paul vie for top honors
- Ames straw poll: Contenders make closing arguments
- Readers Recommend: Culinary-class restaurants in Vancouver, Canada
- Waiting calmly to die
- Little League's boys and girls of summer are too young for TV
- Dodgers' Juan Uribe to see specialist about hip injury
- In Monrovia, it's Little League on a shoestring
- Your Scene: Happy landing in San Diego
- 22 more fake Apple stores found in China
- Palestinian Authority has cash crunch amid statehood drive
- What kept Andrew Luck down on the Farm?
- USC's Matt Barkley isn't the complete package yet
- Mission San Juan Capistrano showcases its historical treasures
- Scam targeted surrogates as well as couples
- Dodgers minor league report
- Weak offense puts Angels in infrequently traveled territory
- Perry overshadows Bachmann's Iowa victory
- Ranking baseball's best and worst fans
- Ames Straw Poll: 'Help is on the way,' Cain sings
- Throwing trash all in one bin works in some cities
- Weekend TV talk shows
- Ex-HMO attorney named head regulator of California health plans
- Wall Street ends wildly volatile week on positive note
- Famed livestock show may soon steer clear of Denver
- Ames straw poll: Candidates make a breakfast run
- Profile of ADHD sharpens in each school year
- Echoing voices of a sorrowful past
- Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw continues to shine
- 'Brundibár' info
- Falcons, hawk ward off gulls and pigeons at Santa Monica complex
- Stage collapse kills four before Sugarland concert in Indiana
- Ames Straw Poll: Final results
- Hot Property: Orson Welles' former home, 'Parks and Rec's' Michael Schur
- Summer Camp Campaign: Boys camp builds teen's confidence
- Happening Saturday
- Sticker shock: 'Made in China' ranks only 2.7% of U.S. spending
- Obama confers with Saudi Arabia, Britain on Syria violence
- Luxury retailers worry that shoppers may pull back on spending
- Split views on ADHD's effect in adulthood
- On the Media: A scrappy newsman is shown the door
- Up next for Chivas USA: Saturday at Seattle
- Economy and markets go down the rabbithole
- Bounty at Lake Powell follows record dry stretch
- Waiting calmly to die
- Fullerton to hire watchdog to review Police Department
- An EMI sale might not raise antitrust concerns
- Quick Takes: Kathy Griffin chides 'Hoarders' ad
- With Ryan Vogelsong, Angels' loss was Giants' gain
- Jered Weaver is rocked in Angels' 11-2 loss to Blue Jays
- Dwight, Justin and Troy Dumais dive into it with all they've got
- Jonathan Scott can't let Big Ben get clocked
- Chris Erskine makes a crepe and is not ashamed to say so
- Analysis on the news pages
- N.Y. educator turns down principal's job at L.A. arts high school
- Chase exec tours with pep rally to dispel financial fears
- Angels minor league report
- Commission formed to choose DWP ratepayer advocate
- Justice Department walks a line on political redistricting
- Away from straw poll, Sarah Palin weighs her options
- Abner Mares beats Joseph Agbeko for world title
- Ron Paul comes in from the fringe
- Bachmann: Win a 'down payment on taking the country back'
- For USC football, hard times are going down pretty easy
- Los Angeles' trash and recycling policies for apartments debated
- Saturday's TV highlights
- Redistricting panel is expected to approve new maps
- Horoscope: Aug. 13
- Brittany Viola wins 10-meter platform gold at diving championships
- New L.A. parking meter plan gets ticking
- Bachmann wins Iowa straw poll as Perry looms
- Major League Baseball teams step up to give back
- It's easy to ignore the spies in our midst
- Syrian soap operas get real this Ramadan
- Complex financial deals and energy projects cost Vernon millions
- 3 held in drug smuggling near San Onofre
- SEC presidents will discuss admitting Texas A&M
- Richard Brehaut stands out during UCLA mini-scrimmage
- Syrian forces kill 19 as protests erupt nationwide
- Fixing No Child Left Behind
- Thousands attend funeral for slain San Diego police officer
- Huntington Beach advances to Little League World Series
- Vernon considers selling its controversial homes and apartments
- Frank McCourt, Dodgers try to limit scope of Stow family suit
- Some London residents unhappy with police response
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry declares GOP presidential bid
- For the record - Aug. 13, 2011
- Recycling at multifamily and commercial properties
- Meda Chamberlain dies at 94; South L.A. community leader
- Jani Lane dies at 47; lead singer for metal band Warrant
- Dodgers end four-game losing streak with 1-0 victory over Houston
- Jani Lane autopsy: No quick answers in Warrant singer's death
- Disney shuts down production of 'Lone Ranger'
- Bob and Mike Bryan take the cake with win No. 700
- Saturday's Highlights: 'Honeymoon for One' on Hallmark
- Public artwork at downtown Los Angeles' Downey Pool facility gets a name
- Marine to receive Medal of Honor in September
- 1DollarScan will scan your paper books, cheap
- The water's up at Lake Powell
- Perseid meteor shower: Coming tonight to a computer near you
- Jason Momoa, Rose McGowan at a leggy 'Conan the Barbarian' debut
- Battle over Malibu property continues
- Opinion: Don't blame the school for a gay teen's death
- Sneak peek: What will Britney do at the MTV VMAs?
- Opinion: Secure Communities is flawed and should be shelved
- Mercury chairman backs another auto-insurance discount initiative
- 'Twilight's' Kellan Lutz launches Abbot + Main at Nordstrom
- Former Assemblyman Richard E. 'Dick' Floyd, 80, passes away
- The Philadelphia curfew experiment starts ... now
- In Rotation: Aaron Goldberg and Guillermo Klein, ‘Bienestan’
- Will NBC bosses bring more Latino talent to KNBC-TV?
- Jani Lane dead at 47: Warrant singer's death under investigation
- Chasing history: Tiger Woods vs. Jack Nicklaus
- Step-by-step: How premium denim is made
- Emmys: Kyle Chandler looks back on 'Friday Night Lights'
- Wal-Mart shakes up e-commerce business and management
- MTV cancels 'The Hard Times of RJ Berger'
- 'The Help's' cast, especially Viola Davis, wins over the critics
- Dodgers call up Justin Sellers, place Dee Gordon on DL
- Chinese market tour with WP24's Sarah Johannes
- Dodgers web musings: The wait for Eugenio Velez
- Samsung to appeal European block on Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales, report says
- Opinion: 2012 campaign: Republicans wax medieval on gay marriage in Iowa
- Orange Lutheran dedicates basketball court to teacher Nancy Paul
- Kellan Lutz learned guitar from Rob Pattinson, Jackson Rathbone
- 'Senna' opening brings Formula One story, and hero, to U.S.
- Obama talks jobs and growth with corporate CEOs
- Weekend TV Talk Shows
- TV stars share their summer TV viewing
- Facebook tweaks game platform to increase 'virality'
- TV THIS WEEK for August 14 - 20
- Theater review: 'Sandra Bernhard: I Love Being Me, Don't You?' at REDCAT
- Jodie Foster helps keep search for alien life alive
- Should Chris Johnson be highest-paid running back in NFL history?
- Opinion: Sarah Palin, in Iowa, still sees room for others in the Republican field
- L.A. rethinks apartment recycling in march to zero-waste goal
- No sign of Icahn yet as Lions Gate sets annual meeting
- The week in Latin America: Start-ups grow in Cuba
- The fallback: Chez Panisse almond torte
- Alaskan fisheries advisor guilty of $100,000 in illegal fishing
- Mexico celebrates comic Cantinflas on the centennial of his birth
- Farmers market: 30 years in Santa Monica
- Why is recycling so complicated? L.A.'s quest for a better way
- Virginia school district bans Sherlock Holmes book
- Stocks end wild week with a modest rise
- Sprint pulls plug on 4G version of BlackBerry PlayBook
- Vroman's to make guest appearance on 'Parks and Recreation'
- 72 Hours: Decemberists, Aimee Mann among weekend's top gigs
- Banksy creates new show on pranks and anarchy for British TV
- Where were you on 9/11? Readers invited to share stories
- Lee Evans traded from Buffalo Bills to Baltimore Ravens
- Opinion: 2012 campaign: Defending Michele Bachmann (generically)
- Octavia Spencer is the Oscar front-runner in 'The Help'
- Breeann Rodriquez, 3, missing in Missouri; parents deny wrongdoing
- Casey Anthony isn't completely free just yet
- Fish as an economic indicator: Sushi is most expensive in L.A.
- Opinion: Appeals court rules Obamacare individual mandate unconstitutional
- Pop & Hiss premiere: Non Projects label offers new mixtape
- Opinion: Partisan pictures: Movies vs. campaign ads
- Ex-HMO attorney named head regulator of California health plans
- Japan-to-U.S. visits continue to drop since quake and tsunami
- Port of Los Angeles setting a record pace for exports
- L.A. Opera's summer camp: Putting on a show
- Not as much 'Made in China' as you might think
- Boys' basketball: Mater Dei's Shaqquan Aaron transferring to Taft
- Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina of 'American Idol' hit GMA
- Opinion: One answer to the foreclosure mess: More immigrants
- Facebook Chat reverses changes made to online friends list
- Boy who survived riptide submersion still improving
- U.S. skier loses Olympic shot after peeing incident on plane
- British riots: Police use facial-recognition technology
- Honda to build small cars in Mexico
- Nick Flynn: Finding the emotional truth
- Pop & Hiss video premiere: Dublab captures L.A. Ladies Choir
- Demonstrations on Mexico drug war offered look at Mexicans abroad
- Coca-Cola beefs up green fleet
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar is engaged to Catriona McGinn
- Dodgers sign No.1 pick Chris Reed
- T.J. Simers: John Elway needs to find a QB better than Tim Tebow
- Dougherty gang: Sister is singing like a bird
- Opinion: Did Ron Paul win the GOP debate in Ames?
- Bill Plaschke: Hall of shame is more like it for Dennis Rodman
- Tim Tebow looks solid in Broncos' preseason opener
- Fashion News: Kate Moss, John Galliano and a lovely gown
- Test Kitchen tips: Clarifying butter
- Consumer confidence at lowest point since 1980, report says
- 'Project Runway' recap: Living under 'a black cloud'
- Poll: How offensive was the cover art for Steve Reich's 'WTC 9/11'?
- Fake Apple stores: 22 more found in China
- Consumer Confidential: Sentiment down, sales up, cars recalled
- Wall Street Roundup: Climb continues. Unreliable ratings.
- Jani Lane, of Warrant, dies; 'hair metal' generation recalls icon
- Traveling north: Mendocino, Part III
- Palo verde tree called Desert Museum puts on show all summer long
- Retail sales send stocks up again
- Monster Mash: Andrew Garfield said to join 'Death of a Salesman'
- The Morning Fix: Box office 'Help.' Saving Ryan Reynolds.
- Weekend Shopping: Sales at I am Beyond, Rachel Pally and Native
- Late Night: Jon Stewart calls Fox's Megyn Kelly a hypocrite
- Style L.A.: What are you wearing? Reader photo, color blocking
- Alec Baldwin: Prime time, but not ready to be hizzoner
- Opera rules to live by, according to Twitter
- From the Culinary SOS archive: Mac 'n' cheese galore!
- Size matters, New York tells Census Bureau
- No guilty verdicts in Alabama corruption trial
- Art review: Troy Morgan at Blythe Projects
- Opinion: Inside the Ames Straw Poll and what else to watch for
- 'Senna' rekindles personal memories of an intriguing athlete
- Opinion: Iowa GOP Debate: No Perry or Palin, but plenty of verbal punches
- Study predicts California pension savings with hybrid plan
- Hollywood Headlines: A crazy week in review
- Philip Levine 'stunned' to be named next U.S. poet laureate
- South Koreans worry that foreign woes will hit home
- <i>Mon dieu!</i> Baguette vending machines in France?
- Is Obama reconsidering vacation plans?
- Gas prices expected to fall
- Angels' Vernon Wells has happy homecoming in victory over Toronto
- Wake up and hear the rewards clamor, CVS
- Mortgage rates keep dropping
- Common ground on deficit
- '30 Minutes or Less' info
- 'Glee: The 3D Concert Movie' info
- West Hollywood plastic surgery clinic staffer caught in sting
- Philip Levine 'stunned' to be named next U.S. poet laureate
- News Corp. shares jump 18% as earnings beat forecasts
- Movies til Dawn info
- Friday's TV highlights
- Iowa GOP debate: Bachmann, Pawlenty earn high marks
- Why recycling in Los Angeles is so confusing
- Movie review: There's a kidnapping, and secrets revealed in 'Rapt'
- Television review: 'Strike Back'
- 'Final Destination 5' info
- Coordinated bomb attacks kill at least six in Peshawar, Pakistan
- Founding Fathers and federal debt
- Trojans may add a hurdle to the NFL's return
- Look and learn: Diseased human organs at the L.A. County Fair
- Alabama county rejects offer to settle $3.1-billion debt
- Happening Friday
- Destination: Cocktail
- U.S. trade deficit jumps
- Americans' views of Congress reach historic lows
- Critic's Notebook: Taking stock of stock market pundits
- 'Strike Back' info
- Movie review: 'Final Destination 5'
- Altruistic wasps? More like plain self-interest
- Face transplants like Charla Nash's: A growing list of successes
- Straw poll rebuttal? Iowa bus tour isn't political, White House says
- UCLA defense becomes more aggressive
- Jane Fonda is in her prime time
- Quick Takes: Behind 'Art in the Streeet's' numbers
- Used-car prices soar, slowing depreciation
- Soybeans now rule the range on Argentina plains
- Homeland Security sued over immigrant detention
- Letters: Are you ready for some NFL football?
- Europe needs one voice on economic woes
- Russia and China accused of cyber-spying campaign to steal U.S. secrets
- Tiger Woods misses the cut at the PGA Championship
- Goodyear working on self-inflating tires
- Cops saw video of deadly incident with Kelly Thomas before writing reports
- Ruben Salazar's daughter on her father's killing; Jonah Goldberg on debt deal; L.A. County's pastic bag ban
- The Times' preseason college football rankings: No. 19 Ohio State
- Karen Tenkhoff buys loft in Venice's Dogtown Station
- Rory McIlroy's wrist hurts, but so does a triple bogey
- Sarah Palin fans speculation with Iowa fair visit
- Fast Track: Jani Lane, Warrant frontman, is found dead
- SEC alleges insider trading related to Disney-Marvel deal
- Matt Kemp's walk-off single lifts Dodgers in 10th inning
- Soccer's original rules were made to be brokered, apparently
- Las Vegas: Two 'Phantom' tickets for $99 at the Venetian
- A distinct Perch above downtown L.A.
- 'Mysteries of Lisbon' info
- Los Angeles helps the wealthy but not the little guy
- Teacher database debacle
- Top 3 negative experiences on social networking sites
- Rep. Gary Miller's three missing grandchildren found in Mexico
- Movie review: 'Mysteries of Lisbon'
- Titans ready to make Chris Johnson a big offer — if he reports
- First-round pick Chris Reed signs with Dodgers
- Perch details
- Movie review: 'Magic Trip' is a psychedelic trip to nowhere
- Movie review: 'Gun Hill Road'
- This bus bench doesn't sit here anymore
- Federal appeals court strikes down insurance mandate
- Curtis McNeal leads USC starting tailback race, Lane Kiffin says
- Vampire bat bites man: Rabies transmission reported as U.S.' first
- Movie review: 'Glee: The 3D Concert Movie'
- Shelve Secure Communities
- Michele Bachmann does a drive-by at Iowa State Fair
- Dodgers on pace for big revenue drop
- Movie review: 'Senna'
- Berlin Wall: A blessing in disguise