- ActionFest packs a wallop for Chuck Norris fans
- Western Turkey by rail is efficient if not altogether romantic
- Investment manager pleased clients — until his criminal past emerged
- Sunglasses keep their cool
- Private rail car contact information, prices and itineraries
- Deposition paints an unflattering portrait of Mahony
- 'Double Exposure' offers a picture of the celebrity photo shoot
- A high-speed zip across Europe by train
- Taxes and fees hit the traveler's wallet
- The really juicy details behind the Lehman Bros. collapse
- New designers head for the shade
- War casualties
- Art or propaganda? Examining North Korean paintings in Austria
- Dodgers must choose between Charlie Haeger and Claudio Vargas
- College World Series: UCLA beats Florida, 11-3
- Worry grows over white-nose syndrome's widening reach among bats
- Carly Fiorina gets mixed reactions from crowd at Juneteenth event
- Astral Weeks: It's 11:11, do you know where you are?
- John Baldessari's former students share memories
- Riding the rails in the U.S.
- La Quinta Resort & Club near Palm Springs offers golf package
- Parkour ready to launch
- FHA and Fannie Mae getting tougher with reverse mortgage borrowers
- Monday's World Cup matches
- Turkey looks east and makes waves
- Weaver strikes it big, as do Kendrick, Hunter
- Jimmie Johnson drives through opening to win at Infineon
- Graeme McDowell refuses to crack under U.S. Open pressure
- Scene & Heard: Actors Fund Tony party, for Brian
- Need to Know: Marriott, Schrager partner on Waikiki Edition hotel
- Children's lemonade stands raise money for Santa Monica-Malibu schools
- In New Mexico, parishioners keep their church immortal
- 'Happy Father's Day!'
- Website lets buyers and sellers vent about bad agents
- Phil Jackson remains Lakers' ideal coach
- Oil spill stress starts to weigh on gulf residents
- The fanboy's guide to the Los Angeles Film Festival
- TLC's hook on the heartland
- John Baldessari's former students share memories
- Rolling in class on a private rail car
- The Sunday Conversation: With Daniel Handler
- How to dress for middle-aged success
- Shopping: Reyn Spooner's new wave of Hawaiian shirts
- Drawn-out thoughts on war
- Military deaths
- 2 killed as Basra residents erupt over electricity shortage
- Mike Dunleavy: Lakers need to keep Derek Fisher
- The top matches at Wimbledon on opening day
- Israel takes small step toward easing Gaza blockade
- Pitching gamble pays off for UCLA in College World Series opener
- Calendar: events for June and July 2010
- Taxes and fees hit the traveler's wallet
- Protecting seniors from financial abuse
- A steam-powered train trip into West Virginia's past
- Angels are roughed up by Cubs, 12-1
- Lakers championship teams: 1949-2010
- Profiles of the Lakers
- The actor inside Casey Affleck
- Home of the Week: Rancho Mirage villa with its own golf course
- The truth about misassigned paternity
- Tiger Woods, and his sport, get their groove back
- How about this Lakers lineup?
- 10 games that shaped the Lakers' season
- A bold prediction could be riding on Mexico-Uruguay outcome
- Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' strikes right notes
- Programs on Mt. Whitney and Europe
- Obama uses some clout on oil spill
- Rustling up a ranch vacation for less
- 'Present!' for 13 years
- Civic pride doesn't require a vote
- Tiger Woods moves up in the Open, but he still has to catch Dustin Johnson
- Dorsey shifts gears -- to a passing game
- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's delicate balancing act on oil drilling
- 'Hitch 22' by Christopher Hitchens
- Smart List: The Tudors' finale, 'Dexter: Season 4', Stones, Roots and 'Grown Ups'
- Western Turkey travel tips
- Revisiting the 'Soul' of a remarkable high school jazz band
- John Baldessari's 'Pure Beauty' at Los Angeles County Museum of Art will be sort of double retrospective
- Decades later, tracking down the remains of Vietnamese prisoners
- LAPD's new $74-million jail sits empty
- Books' power to connect is as potent as ever
- California's drought may be over, but no one's rushing to lift restrictions
- New on DVD
- Book review: 'What He's Poised to Do' by Ben Greenman
- Gunman targets stepdaughter's family in San Bernardino restaurant; 3 dead
- Eli Broad: L.A.'s peripatetic patron
- John Wooden's first All-American at UCLA stood out in other arenas
- The L.A. Lakers as a unifying principle
- John Baldessari's 'Pure Beauty' at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- They're in his nature
- Palin has a date with Margaret Thatcher
- Afghanistan violence is soaring, U.N. says
- Arts Olympus launches multicultural art fair on historic Queen Mary
- Serena Williams has her eye on a crowning achievement
- France's World Cup surrender takes an ugly turn
- Fine theater in these playoff rounds
- Book review: 'The Search for Smilin' Ed!' by Kim Deitch
- Food books, a feast of ideas
- Soot can cause 'ghosting' on painted walls
- Surfing industry sails into uncharted waters
- Planning your trip to Cass, W.Va.
- The danger of deficits; the Prop. 8 trial; a museum for Eli Broad's art
- All aboard: America by Amtrak train
- Bid on a hotel rooms with OffandAway.com
- Letters: To really escape, look for an 'authentic' adventure
- Lakers are all the rage now, but not so long ago it was all about Kobe's rage
- Graeme McDowell is the last man standing at Pebble Beach
- TV highlights for Sunday
- 'Every Man in This Village Is a Liar' by Megan K. Stack
- Timur Gareyev wins National Open
- Horoscope: June 20
- Laura Chick's mission: Root out waste and fraud
- Las Vegas train: Will it ever happen?
- Readers recommend: Gelato chain in Italy
- Dodgers: The week ahead
- Louisiana officials use barges to keep oil out of key bay
- Raising a child costs 22% more now than in 1960, report says
- In South Africa, it's the South Americans running the show
- 'The Lovers' by Vendela Vida
- Planning your train trip through Europe
- 90 dead as China endures severe flooding, landslides
- Angels: The week ahead
- 'Hip Hop High' charter school in its closing days
- Dodgers swept out of Boston in 2-0 loss
- For the record - June 20, 2010
- Carlos Monsivais dies at 72; Mexican author and activist
- Janelle Monae in Wondaland
- L.A.'s German accent
- The ultimate test kitchen, where top chefs and restaurants connect
- The Kushner effect, an angel in American playwriting
- Discoveries: The delights and perils of fashion
- Manute Bol dies at 47; towering NBA player provided aid to his native Sudan
- Home of the Week update
- ISRAEL: Vuvuzela, the horn of plenty -- and other World Cup opportunities
- Football: Westlake is the team to beat this summer
- Sunday's TV Highlights: 'Scoundrels' on ABC
- Football: Lakewood lineman commits to UCLA
- Football: Highland wins Beverly Hills tournament
- USC football: Arik Armstead commits to Trojans despite NCAA sanctions
- Bowles loses bid for three West Series wins in a row in Sonoma
- Former boxing official Anwar Chowdhry dies at 87
- E3 wrap-up: Marvel vs. DC, who has the most heroic video game?
- This time bullpen stumbles as Dodgers lose sixth consecutive interleague game, 5-4
- Book Review: 'Gold Medal Fitness' by Dara Torres
- Montoya prefers Road America over Infineon Raceway
- Boys' basketball: Chaminade knocks off Fairfax
- World Cup: Denmark vs. Cameroon; Danes win, 2-1, as Africa's drought continues
- Angels continue their road warrior ways in 12-0 victory over Chicago Cubs
- Dodgers' rotation woes only continue as they place Carlos Monasterios on the disabled list
- Manute Bol, former NBA player, dies at 47
- NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice from Sonoma
- World Cup: Vuvuzela contest causes woman to rupture her throat
- Opinion: Sunday shows: Barbour, Emanuel, R. Gates, Cao
- UCLA football: Bruins pick foursome as team captains
- Bryan Camacho is leaving Bell-Jeff
- 'The Phantom' is back -- but you might not recognize him
- World Cup: Ghana vs. Australia: Socceroos earn draw despite playing a man down
- World Cup: Irish gloating as misfortune piles upon misfortune for Thierry Henry's France
- Michael Hiltzik: The corporate gravy train
- Summer reading: Joshua Cohen's trick answers
- How to write an opera from 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'
- World Cup: France kicks forward Nicolas Anelka off its team after he insults Coach Raymond Domenech
- On eve of LACMA survey, John Baldessari talks about his history teaching--and past students flash back too
- MUSLIM WORLD: Business flourishes at sex shops abiding by Islamic standards
- The afterlife of Tony Kushner's 'Angels in America'
- Why no Lakers news on the front page?
- World Cup: David Beckham plays down England security breach as fan gets into Three Lions' locker room
- Runway Video: Annie Lennox performs at the Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 2011 show
- Dodgers' rotation concern no less troubling just because it's so familiar
- How to buy the perfect shoe, on sale, thanks to Shop It To Me
- Dolce & Gabbana & iPad: Apple's fashionable tablet helps chronicle brand's 20 years in menswear
- World Cup: Maradona praised by the left
- One year ago: Robert Young
- World Cup: Netherlands vs. Japan: Wesley Sneijder's goal puts Dutch close to final 16
- Jerry Ferrara, aka Turtle, is game for an 'Entourage' movie'
- An Echo Park garden that's a smashing success
- Low stakes, high spirits for Sunday art auctions at Santa Monica Farmers Market
- Kathy Goodman: The win that almost was
- Opinion: Weekly remarks: GOP Sen. Roger Wicker hits slow gulf response; Obama hits partisan GOP
- PASSINGS: Angelina Genaro Alioto, Ernie Johnson
- Sharing a win they didn't see
- The downside of victory
- Dodgers get tough draw in interleague play
- California unemployment report fosters doubts on recovery
- Obama urges G-20 leaders to continue government support of economic recovery
- San Francisco grants reprieve to jobs program for transgender people
- USGA chief hits back at Tiger Woods
- Television reviews: 'The Gates' and 'Scoundrels'
- Just Manny being boring
- PASSINGS: Angelina Genaro Alioto, Ernie Johnson
- FIFA to address U.S.-Slovenia controversy
- Greenbacks and the gridiron at USC, a century ago
- It's Phil Mickelson weather at Pebble Beach
- Summer Camp Campaign: Filling Emmanuel's enthusiasm for science
- 'Scoundrels' and 'The Gates' info
- Senate votes to delay Medicare cut
- Army Sgt. 1st Class David J. Hartman, 27, Merced; among 3 killed in blast
- Watching Tom Watson never gets old
- Tiger Woods moves into contention at U.S. Open
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. looks to end winless streak
- Female buyers prefer small cars and crossovers
- First the pill, then the disease
- U.S. once again cast as world's consumer of last resort
- Dodgers fail to cash in on Boston's errors
- After a wild ride, time for investors to rethink
- China's labor unrest may help U.S. manufacturers
- Words & Ideas: Book calendar for the week of June 20, 2010.
- Angels hitters pick up pace in Kendry Morales' absence
- Jonathan Broxton is asked to preserve a tie — but can't
- Iranian clerics lash out on veiling
- Missing from the World Cup? China
- Terry Crews took an unusual path to 'The Expendables'
- In San Francisco, wild parrots need homes
- Clinton library releases Kagan e-mails
- Casualties seen and unseen
- Jerry Brown and his Joseph Goebbels gaffe
- Morey Amsterdam's former family home is listed
- Los Angeles Film Festival: Susan Seidelman recalls making 'Desperately Seeking Susan'
- The value of a college degree; life in Inglewood; selling the DWP's assets
- BIRDIES AND BOGEYS
- Making debit cards cheaper
- On the media: Cable and network news spew criticism about gulf oil spill
- Air America pilots relive high times at reunion
- China's central bank to allow more exchange rate flexibility
- Countdown to ecstasy -- 10 postseason plays that made the Lakers champions
- Dan Haren would be perfect fit for Angels
- So long, first grade
- PacSun looks to catch a new wave
- How butterfly wings build their color
- His Dodger Stadium 'date' is kind of down on ballpark chow
- A smashing success
- Padres in first place in the right place
- AEG announces agreement to pay $1.3 million to help cover cost of Michael Jackson memorial
- The USGA gets a couple of things right by shortening holes
- Congress to weigh regulation of financing by auto dealers
- Sharing a win they didn't see
- WORLD CUP: U.S. gets a tie but wanted more
- Shaolin Temple's real kick is inner peace
- Fox to sneak-preview movie 'Knight and Day' to generate missing buzz
- Horoscope: June 19
- In Haiti, aftershocks of a mother's wrenching decision
- L.A. Film Festival honors Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
- Happening Saturday
- Walgreens to stay in Caremark's prescription-plan network
- Testing the waters —literally — at Orange County beaches
- Retirement, here and abroad
- LAPD cancels training trip to Arizona out of 'respect' for council's boycott
- Colleague backs BART officer's claim in shooting death
- Costa Mesa's declaration on immigrants almost costs hotel a conference
- Market Watch: New pest SWD forcing some farmers to turn to pesticides
- Brian Lamb: Medium Cool
- Federal agency investigates porn industry clinic
- Lakers parade will close wide swath of downtown Monday
- Justine Henin wins Wimbledon tuneup
- Cameroon falls to Denmark, 2-1, and is eliminated
- Pop music review: Cuban singer Silvio Rodriguez dazzles at the Gibson Amphitheatre
- Anti-Taliban tribal militias come with baggage
- Malibu jury deadlocks in trial of surfers charged with beating paparazzo
- Hopes dim for quick legislative action to boost California's food stamp participation rate
- Cal State OKs 5% hike in undergraduate fees
- Venus Williams and Andy Roddick remember 2009 Wimbledon finals but prefer to look ahead
- World Cup preview: A look at Sunday's matches
- French are practically toast, and England's getting roasted
- Ginger Rogers' former home goes on the market
- Kobe Bryant might not be No. 1, but he's one of a kind
- Jose Saramago dies at 87; Portuguese novelist won the 1998 Nobel Prize in literature
- Nigel Lythgoe: His ticket to the next round
- Ronald Neame dies at 99; prominent British filmmaker
- Football: Jacob Smith appears headed for Granada Hills
- Baseball: Yucaipa pitcher gets $800,000 bonus
- Football: Oaks Christian-Long Beach Poly put on a show
- Killings in the neighborhood take toll on young minds
- The light and dark of Tom Cruise's 'Knight & Day'
- Animal lovers' calendar: Weekend of June 20-21 and beyond
- Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' on HBO
- Weekend TV Talk Shows: The Gulf oil disaster remains a key topic
- Jason Bowles wins pole for NASCAR K&N Pro Series race in Sonoma
- Dodgers open their Fenway experience with nightmare fifth inning in 10-6 loss
- Whitman wants nurses' union mailing list; nurses want candidate forums
- The classic 'Star Wars' poster and The Force of history
- Art review: Lael Corbin at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
- Japan 'holds they key' to progress at International Whaling Commission meeting, expert says
- Mark Ruffalo talks about his next role (in the men's room)
- Snoop Dogg pays homage to Sookie and 'True Blood.' The video result? Amazing.
- Hwang and Nottage get commissions while five other playwrights get 'living wage' grants
- Comcast-NBC Universal deal gets Mayor Villaraigosa's blessing
- Rodent of the Week: Why women are more vulnerable to psychiatric stress
- Opinion: Marx Bros. break out in a House hearing
- Julianne Moore feels the buzz at 'The Kids Are All Right' premiere
- Friday editions delayed, incomplete
- Manny Ramirez receives mixed reception at Fenway Park
- Tony Smith's monumental sculpture 'Smoke' will not disappear from LACMA; multimillion-dollar purchase finalized
- What's that? Health insurance more likely for those with a college degree??
- Fundraiser will auction signed animation cels
- Theater review: 'The Three Musketeers' at the Theatricum Botanicum
- World Cup: Landon Donovan's play sure to have impressed watching Everton Coach David Moyes
- Writers Guild members approve new rules on credits
- Theater review: 'The Jesus Hickey' at Skylight Theatre
- Opinion: Social nets wrap: Thompson, Issa and others poke fun on a Friday
- Dodgers pregame notes: Manny Ramirez returns to Boston