- Luby's cafeteria to buy Fuddruckers and Koo Koo Roo for $61 million
- John Stevens, former Flyers coach, remains Kings' top choice for assistant coaching job
- Lakers-Celtics Game 7 draws almost 30 million viewers
- Report: Rachel Bilson, Hayden Christensen take an engagement break
- Art review: Hilary Brace at Craig Krull
- Gulf oil spill: Escrow chief in BP fund promises speed
- Fedor Emelianenko ready for next fight
- Fox to sneak preview weak tracking 'Knight and Day' on Saturday
- TV This Week for June 20th – 26th: 'Futurama' returns
- World Cup: U.S. vs. Slovenia: Don't blame the referee from Mali
- Early fitness important to cutting future risk of diabetes, heart disease
- Gulf oil spill: Swift reaction to BP's ouster of Hayward from spill response
- Jaleel White celebrates his nerdy Urkel past
- Rob Blake ends NHL career; former King praised as 'elite-level player' with 'a blue-collar heart'
- John Adams lends his music to 'I Am Love,' starring Tilda Swinton
- Torii Hunter, Howie Kendrick help power Angels to 7-6 victory over Chicago Cubs
- Designer Katie Simone Nehra presents her Fall 2010 line with an intimate poolside soiree
- High-level Mexican officials not to blame in day-care center fire, Supreme Court says
- Theater review: 'Yellow' at the Coast Playhouse
- Gulf oil spill: Tony Hayward replaced as head of BP oil cleanup effort
- Delphic's overdue disco at the Echo tonight
- LAFF 2010: The cast of 'The Kids Are All Right' goes downtown (VIDEO)
- Stop the fracking: HBO doc 'Gasland' covers another environmental disaster
- World Cup: England vs. Algeria: Teams play to scoreless tie
- FDA panel recommends against drug for increasing women's libido
- Gulf oil spill: Oil collection up by about 25%
- What if you went to a riot and a film festival broke out?
- Art review: Achim Freyer at Ace Gallery
- Seth Rogen reads 'Ferdinand the Bull' live in Los Angeles
- Andre Ward fights for Super Six lead Saturday in Oakland
- Dodgers invade Fenway: Will Manny Ramirez hear any cheers amid the boos?
- Art review: Yvonne Venegas at Shoshana Wayne Gallery
- Billy Joe Shaver returns to L.A. on Saturday
- Pacific Time podcast: L.A. Lakers, Westside stories, crime in Salinas and vacation by train
- MOROCCO: Dispatch from Fez: Sounds and scenes from the World Sacred Music Festival
- Lakers' Sasha Vujacic also went off the bench to model for Rock & Republic’s SV18
- Assembly leader Perez drums up support for budget proposal; questions about its legality are raised
- FDA panel recommends approval of 5-day 'morning after' pill
- Summer reading: Marisa Silver on Richard Flanagan
- Disneyland to provide sign language interpreters
- SpaghettiOs, Marie Callender frozen dinners yanked in food recalls, and an agency brawl over beef
- L.A. Master Chorale hopes to raise its profile with a Nico Muhly CD and a new partnership with Decca
- Former King Rob Blake announces retirement from NHL
- What cars women pick
- Lakers' championship beats World Cup on Twitter with record activity
- Zenani Mandela, 13: A famous family says farewell
- UFC's Court McGee triumphs over adversity
- Your morning adorable: Duckling and dog play -- each in their own way -- with a squeaky toy
- Combo Plate: Food (truck) fight, carbo-loading for charity, burger inspiration and more
- The Project: Rosemary-crusted porterhouse steaks with red wine sauce
- Magnum Photos Collection opens to the public
- British director Ronald Neame dies at 99
- Catcher Jeff Mathis returns to Angels' lineup against Cubs
- Consumer Confidential: More jobs, bad SpaghettiOs, dead letters
- Poll: Is Kobe Bryant the greatest Laker of all time?
- Portugal's Jose Saramago, Nobel winner for literature, dies at 87
- Angels are encouraged by shortstop Erick Aybar's progress
- Lakers' Game 7 victory is ratings success for ABC
- 'Entourage' star Rex Lee says Ari's not done abusing Lloyd
- Miley Cyrus is everywhere, with a little help from Disney ... and Bret Michaels
- LEBANON, ISRAEL: Politicians trade barbs as activists prepare to set sail for Gaza
- Erykah Badu offers an unapologetic 'window seat' to her soul
- John Delloro, labor leader and teacher, dies at 38
- World Cup: Serbia vs. Germany: Serbia wins, 1-0
- Adam Lambert's half-shaved head -- and a peek at him putting on his guyliner
- Personal income grows slightly, helped by stimulus funds
- Hunter or nurturer? Some lessons for Father's Day
- Jonah Hex is Hollywood ugly but riding tall in his first graphic novel
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: WWD takes on Lady Gaga. Adam Lambert's half-shaved head
- French ceramics from Boone Collection donated to Huntington, LACMA
- Ceramics at Eagle Rock, South Pasadena events
- World Cup: U.S. vs. Slovenia: U.S. rallies for 2-2 tie
- World Cup: U.S. vs. Slovenia: Tied in the 86th minute
- The Morning Fix: Shocker! Another big exit at MySpace. Turkey's hot and steamy soaps. Jonas Brothers fading?
- Eccola's new Los Angeles store opens on Beverly
- Question of the Day: Will the Lakers three-peat? If not, who will stop them?
- World Cup: U.S. vs. Slovenia after 65 minutes
- IRAN: In a surprise, hard-liners take on Ahmadinejad for being too lax on 'improper' veiling
- World Cup: U.S. vs. Slovenia: U.S. pulls within 2-1
- Monster Mash: Miami Art Museum names new director; piano project comes to New York
- The Dry Garden: Loving mulch before it's mulch
- Showtime picks up 'Secret Diary of a Call Girl' for a fourth season
- Fans mourn Michael Jackson
- Opinion: NY Times 2 Twitter: No Tweet here
- World Cup: U.S. vs. Slovenia: U.S. trails, 2-0, at halftime
- World Cup: U.S. vs. Slovenia: After 30 minutes, an aggressive Slovenia leads 1-0
- Opinion: Hillary Clinton drops immigration bombshell: Feds will sue Arizona
- World Cup: U.S. vs. Slovenia: Slovenia leads 1-0
- Wall Street Roundup: CalPERS gears up. Swiss bank fears
- Nook Sleep Systems debuts new line of mix-and-match bedding for baby (and you)
- Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago dies at 87
- U.S. vs. Slovenia -- World Cup pregame
- REVIEW: 'Toy Story 3' is 'everything you hoped it would be'
- Knowledge of self: Self Jupiter talks Freestyle Fellowship reunion, returning to school, and the West Coast underground
- World Cup: U.S. vs. Slovenia lineups
- MOCA taps L.A. artist Doug Aitken to make its next gala groovy, if not Gaga
- One year ago: Ali Akbar Khan
- World Cup: Team practices hampered by bad conditions
- Dispatch from Fez: Sounds and scenes from the World Sacred Music Festival
- World Cup: Historic win for Mexico
- Opinion: Obama's 'hopey-changey' fading abroad now too
- Gulf oil spill worsens -- but what about the safety of gas fracking?
- Workers give performance reviews low marks
- Garry Shider dies at 56; longtime member of musical collective Parliament-Funkadelic
- David Martinez dies at 67; pastor's church helped gang members and addicts
- Credit card firms say consumers side with them on merchant fees. Oh, really?
- FDA fines Red Cross $16 million after blood safety inspection
- FCC moves to gain more authority over broadband service
- Jaleel White fondly recalls playing Urkel on 'Family Matters'
- Movie Review: 'Jonah Hex'
- Mortgage rates rise slightly but remain near record lows
- Lakers come to their own defense
- New charges filed against 'Jason Bourne' suspect
- Israel agrees to ease restrictions on imports to Gaza
- Supreme Court rules in favor of California police chief who read employee's texts
- Jimmie Johnson isn't king of this road
- Feds charge 1,200 people in mortgage fraud crackdown
- U.S. cars take lead in quality
- Death by firing squad spotlights old execution method
- The NRA and transparency in advertising
- Los Angeles Film Festival: Double exposure for Trieste Kelly Dunn
- Embracing the love of Amma, 'the Hugging Saint'
- California small business program faces loss of federal funds
- Horoscope: June 18
- Lakers have 16 NBA banners — and a tweeting record
- Evidence of witness tampering found in Red Line subway court battle
- KIIS-FM leads Los Angeles and Orange County radio ratings
- GOP lawmaker defends BP, at his party's peril
- After title time comes decision time for Lakers
- Rep. Joe Barton and oil industry have long history
- David Martinez dies at 67; pastor's church helped gang members and addicts
- Obama finally makes a move for the gulf
- PASSINGS: Sebastian Horsley, Ernie Johnson
- Pebble Beach's Cliffs of Over? Not for Phil Mickelson
- Making college sports clean again
- Farmland protection program turns into penny ante game
- Don't blame Facebook
- Tiger Woods has a long way back at U.S. Open
- TODAY'S GAMES
- Night Life: Sam Nazarian's Colony vs. David Judaken's MyStudio
- Prepaid fund to cover future financial collapses nixed
- Preliminary settlement reached in autism lawsuit
- Fishermen face scales of justice
- Corporate welfare and California's budget deficit
- 'I Know I Am, But What Are You?'
- My Turn: A little life in her motivation
- Sparks lose to Sun, 78-75, after losing star
- Movie review: 'Toy Story 3'
- Head of BP rejects taking blame
- California home prices jump 20.9% in May
- Night Out info
- 'Anton Chekhov's The Duel' info
- What tack to take on Abby Sunderland's tale?
- Despite heavy LAPD presence, violence breaks out after Lakers' victory
- Quick Takes: London Olympics enlist Danny Boyle
- MySpace loses another top executive
- Capsule movie reviews: '2:22'
- Matt Kemp feeling better at the plate
- Boston's Rasheed Wallace goes out on a positive performance
- Mexico's Javier Hernandez might have spot in lineup against Uruguay
- Designers move to accommodate alternatives to incandescent bulbs
- Movie review: 'I Am Love'
- 'I Am Love' info
- Pilot convicted of recklessly operating aircraft for buzzing Santa Monica Pier
- Lakers-Celtics Game 7 is a triumph in TV ratings
- At College World Series, UCLA is out to show it's not a one-dimensional team
- Fixing the filibuster
- Whitman launches ads on Spanish-language TV stations
- Book review: 'I Know I Am, But What Are You?' by Samantha Bee
- U.S. rallies for 2-2 tie with Slovenia
- Overseer of BP fund 'a force of nature'
- Friday's Talk Shows
- Parents of Mexican preschool fire victims angry about ruling
- Angels are nearly thunderstruck
- Evidence of witness tampering found in Red Line subway court battle
- Evidence shows tenacity of plaintiffs' attorney in Toyota case
- U.S. gets a tie but wanted more against Slovenia
- Angels' Erick Aybar appears to be a fast healer
- Movie review: 'Cyrus'
- 'Toy Story 3' director Lee Unkrich can breathe easy
- My Favorite Weekend: Kevin Nealon
- Events happening Friday
- Friday's Highlights
- 'Toy Story 3' appears blessed, 'Jonah Hex' cursed
- Lakers' success comes down to more than Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol
- Times Square bomb suspect is indicted
- A family's grief magnified
- Probation chief needs room to turn department around
- U.S. soccer players happy to have tie with Slovenia
- Movie review: 'Anton Chekhov's The Duel'
- Retail chains are embracing their online stores
- LAPD officers questioned in gunshots outside restaurant
- Alleged Ponzi scheme operator's assets frozen
- Phil Mickelson makes a move at U.S. Open; Tiger Woods does not
- Kings offer assistant coaching job to John Stevens
- Ron Artest talks quite a game after his 20-point Game 7 performance
- Lakers forward Ron Artest is the calm in sea of awful shooting
- GreenRoad online system monitors truckers' driving habits
- BP replaces CEO Hayward as point man for oil spill response
- Letters: Lakers' flags are flying
- Cal State raises undergraduate student fees by 5%
- Murder, and then stares, in L.A.'s Koreatown
- Little hope for 53 missing miners in Colombia
- L.A. mayor picks new animal services chief
- Should the Getty merge its president and museum director positions?
- Obama and BP's oil spill; Michelle Obama's oil use; prison overcrowding
- A day after Lakers' title victory, a smiling Magic Johnson can't shut up, and is willing to put up
- World Cup: A preview of Saturday's matches
- Hotel bets on studio to attract Hollywood crowd
- 'Cyrus' info
- Muslims around the world less approving of Obama
- For the record - June 18, 2010
- 'So You Think You Can Dance': OMG, Bieber and an elimination!
- Candace Parker will have shoulder surgery and is out for the season
- Mayor Villaraigosa appoints Brenda Barnette to head L.A. Department of Animal Services
- Friday's TV Highlights: 'Crossroads' on CMT.
- Friday's TV Talk Shows
- Wally Wood, talented and troubled, was born 83 years ago today
- Bushmeat from Africa is being smuggled into Europe at an alarming rate, new study finds
- Ron Tutor and David Bergstein keep negotiating for Miramax
- In Los Angeles area, more Mexico soccer fans celebrate a World Cup victory
- So what was an alligator doing in a puddle in Ohio?
- Reports: Gary Coleman's body has been cremated
- In Mexico City, scenes from a World Cup victory party
- IRAQ: U.S. State Department's Jeffrey Feltman says new government must be 'inclusive'
- On the air: Mahony deposition, Lakers-Celtics, Afghanistan
- Star sightings: Seth MacFarlane makes music, Sophia Bush goes Team Bella
- World Cup: TV reporter Sara Carbonero grills boyfriend (and Spain's keeper) Iker Casillas after loss to Switzerland
- Jerry O'Flaherty's samurai maneuver
- Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays arts fete for Henry Segerstrom; now it's his turn
- Cooper-Hewitt awards go to designers of High Line, birding center and designer shops
- E3 2010: MTV outsources Rock Band instruments, embraces dancing
- Kevin Connolly will step behind the 'Entourage' camera
- Football: Crenshaw's Martin vs. Dorsey's Simmons
- Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. embracing Freddie Roach's lessons
- Mixed-up markets: Gold hits record high, while the euro and stocks also gain
- David Ulin moves from book editor to book critic
- Foxes, chameleons seized at Egypt airport
- Sting in Irvine: One more look at his classical spin
- Assessing Whitman's Latino strategy
- Harvard researchers conduct a real-world test of soda taxes
- Opinion: Bad hair day? Pols have them too!
- Work begins on Westside condominium building
- Live review: Symphonic Sting is loose and lively
- 'Miss Rona' returns to Hollywood
- A pop critic takes on the 'Ring': Sweating through 'Götterdämmerung'
- NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker to tout new drama 'Undercovers' to black journalists
- Michael Voltaggio dishes on leaving the Langham and on his upcoming venture
- From Twitter: Where were you 16 years ago during the O.J. Simpson pursuit?
- From family fight to jail cell: SK Foods and the fall of Frederick Scott Salyer
- David L. Ulin's new role at the Los Angeles Times
- Four months later, Hirschhorn exits MySpace
- America Ferrera engaged to boyfriend Ryan Piers Williams
- 'Top Chef' D.C. makes its premiere
- At 'Entourage' Season 7 premiere, life imitates art -- witness Adrian Grenier's hair
- What happens when 'Work of Art' judge Jerry Saltz recaps his own show?
- Shopping update: 'Launch My Line's' Kathy Rose's Roseark opens in Santa Monica
- Esa-Pekka Salonen remembers an inimitable Ernest Fleischmann
- USC football: NCAA delays penalty; Trojans will open season at Hawaii as scheduled
- 'Bronde,' the hybrid hair color celebs seem to be loving
- 'Smurfs' is not going to be 'Citizen Kane'
- Rare French ceramics coming to LACMA and Huntington
- DreamWorks Animation's CFO warns of lower earnings from 'Shrek'
- Pac-10 football: Utah becomes conference's 12th member
- E3: Disney's Epic Mickey game reunites the iconic mouse with older, bitter brother
- World Cup: Mexico vs. France: Mexico wins, 2-0
- World Cup: Mexico vs. France: El Tri leads, 2-0
- Is there any Hollywood movie that isn't having an anniversary this month?
- Google Street View vehicles’ data collection gets scrutiny from Michigan
- World Cup: Mexico vs. France: Mexico leads 1-0
- World Cup: Mexico vs. France: Scoreless at the half
- Rihanna's toilet must be 'DEEP CLEAN' and her other tour rider demands
- Joaquin Phoenix's 'I'm Still Here' could soon be there in theaters
- Video: Susan Nethero, the 'Bra Whisperer,' shows how to wear a bra
- You don't want Yeasayer to be lonely at the Bowl this weekend, do you?
- Report: Actor Jeremy London kidnapped, forced to use drugs at gunpoint
- Dodgers drop series finale in Cincinnati, 7-1
- Attorney general's office questions legality of Assembly budget plan
- Movie projector: 'Toy Story 3' appears blessed, 'Jonah Hex' cursed
- World Cup: Mexico vs. France: Scoreless after 35 minutes
- Gulf oil spill: Congressional frustration with BP chief Tony Hayward
- Bravo TV's 'Work of Art' favors emo-hipster backstabber Miles Mendenhall
- Wimbledon just says no to vuvuzelas
- Your morning adorable: Dog plays iPad hockey
- The 15 greatest L.A. Dodgers of all time, No. 11: Walter Alston
- Judge freezes assets of O.C. company accused in $53-million Ponzi scheme
- Apple's sales 'problem' sends stock to new high
- World Cup: Mexico starts Hector Moreno over Paul Aguilar
- Students in Puerto Rico end long strike
- Tom Bergeron, Ryan Seacrest, Julie Chen and Jeff Probst talk reality-show host realities
- Strikeforce CEO: 'Sometimes friends have to get it on.'
- Gulf oil spill: Relief well is ahead of schedule
- The Deal: Melamine dinnerware at Sur La Table
- New Benadryl recall adds to consumers' headaches
- How Frederick Scott Salyer went from 'tomato king' to jail cell inmate
- World Cup: Brotherly love for Honduras
- What To Wear, a real-time wardrobe advice website, launches Thursday
- S. Irene Virbila's 12 favorite places to dine al fresco in and around L.A.
- Jewelry seems too risky; maybe we should buy kids some string
- Literary letters for auction at Sotheby's on Thursday