- Saturday's TV Highlights: 'A Bride for Christmas' on Hallmark
- Obama, GOP broaden their 'fiscal cliff' pitches
- Businesses hitting the brakes ahead of the 'fiscal cliff'
- NCAA water polo championships: USC, UCLA seeded No. 1-2
- 'Killing Them Softly' has deft cast, heavy hand, critics say
- Kobe Bryant's rant is followed by a romp over Nuggets
- Review: 'Nothing to Hide' a tricky gift from two aces
- Lost hat sparks Facebook quest that evokes a mother's love
- Drew Brees' TD streak comes to an end against Falcons
- 'X-Factor': So bad you should be watching? [Google+ Hangout]
- Mets, David Wright agree to $138-million deal
- 'Christmas tree or holiday tree?' issue haunts R.I. lighting ceremony
- 'Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm' casts a spell
- 18 treated for chemical exposure after New Jersey train derails
- $1 dining: Muhammarajun at Sipan Bakery
- Lewis Black's trademark fury crosses all lines
- Orange County-based Best Wines Online debuts
- Lottery officials verify winning Powerball ticket
- Syria phone, Internet access cut amid fighting
- Serra outlasts Chaminade for Western Division title
- Apple now selling unlocked iPhone 5
- Traffic report: Computerized brakes saved thousands of lives
- Joe Jackson hospitalized with minor stroke
- In Rotation: Ethiopian pianist/composer Samuel Yirga's 'Guzo'
- 3 die in Wyoming college attack; sharp-edged weapon used, police say
- TV Week: Dec. 2 - 8: 'Blake Shelton's Not-So-Family Christmas'
- N.Y. Gov. Cuomo presses insurance companies on Sandy claims
- Angels trade Jordan Walden to Braves for starter Tommy Hanson
- Chimp attack victim who lost face sought $50 million, doesn't get it
- Long Beach: Airport's new passenger concourse to open next week
- Graeme McDowell up by three at Sherwood
- Quick Takes - Nov. 30, 2012
- PASSINGS: Zig Ziglar, Don Rhymer, David Courtney
- Some rules for Texas secessionists before they depart from us
- Teacher pleads guilty to having sex with 17-year-old ex-student
- Boys' basketball: Bryan Alberts scores 32 points for Village Christian
- Mel Shaw dies at 97; Disney design artist
- Inmate charged in 1991 slaying, rape of 16-year-old Compton girl
- Girls' basketball: L.A. Windward holds off Chaminade, 56-53
- Johnny Lewis not on drugs when he killed landlady, report says
- U.S. judge dismisses suit against Santa Monica nativity ban
- L.A. Auto Show: Mitsubishi unveils all-new Outlander crossover
- Carlsbad seawater desalination project moves ahead
- Another costly verdict goes against the LAPD
- Some flights leaving Bob Hope Airport may be canceled
- Man About Town: Ejected from home, we're going to Disneyland
- California Lottery sees Powerball as a win-win for the state
- Love that's lasting, lucky and arranged
- Try This: Stretch with the crab reach
- Counter Intelligence: Tasty Dining in San Gabriel brings the heat of Wuhan
- Some flights leaving Bob Hope Airport may be canceled
- Wal-Mart opens first store in Irvine
- Man arrested in $2.4-million embezzlement at Santa Ana bakery
- PASSINGS: Martin Richards, Bryce Bayer
- Lindsay Lohan accused of lying to police, reckless driving
- Football: Edison's Dave White gets another shot at first title
- Holiday TV Specials
- Review: 'Dead Accounts' with Katie Holmes doesn't add up to serious drama
- Loyola Marymount receives federal grants
- Mosfilm -- Russia Film Studio
- Halle Berry, Gabriel Aubry agree to truce
- Powerball to be sold in California: Merchants, customers cheer
- For teens, misuse of Rx drugs predicts abuse of other drugs
- Rodent of the Week: Ritalin and Prozac -- a troubling combo for children?
- Impact of the 2012 hurricane season
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Charges dismissed in rape case
- Football: Myron Miller resigns at Tustin
- Mayoral aide was with official targeted in child endangerment probe
- Football: CIF Regional bowl games announcement is Sunday
- Actress Halle Berry aims to sell Hollywood Hills West house
- Fiancee charged as accessory in O.C. double murder, dismemberment
- Football: Lots of respect from both teams in Inland Division final
- <b>Chart:</b> Republican presidential candidates on the issues
- L.A. fire official: 'We're very upset' about records security breach
- Lindsay Lohan facing charges on both coasts
- Talk back: California gets Powerball. Will you play?
- 'Concert for George' streaming on YouTube for 24 hours
- Girls' volleyball: CIF state championships are on Time Warner Cable
- Football: Ross Porter to do play-by-play on two championship games
- Economist found guilty of murdering his wife in 1993
- Gift picks for the indoor-outdoor gardener
- Osvaldo Golijov misses yet another deadline for violin concerto
- Brad Pitt's 'Killing Them Softly' poised for soft box office debut
- L.A. Auto Show: Mazda shows off all-new 6 sedan
- Submit your best holiday photos to The Times
- Barbara Boxer endorses Wendy Greuel for L.A. mayor
- Powerball tickets to be sold in California starting in April
- How the holiday films are tracking
- Cutting Christmas trees banned in local national forests
- Football: Championship schedule (updated)
- Testing mushrooms' magic
- Scientists can't get their minds around Alzheimer's
- Lindsay Lohan charged with three misdemeanors in PCH crash
- State lawmaker to propose changes to Proposition 13
- Talk back: Should California restaurants serve banned foie gras?
- LivingSocial cuts 400 workers as rival Groupon weighs CEO's fate
- State Supreme Court rejects Costa Mesa's appeal on job outsourcing
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- Pending home sales match high set in 2007 on job creation, prices
- Audit faults LAUSD for not reporting charges of sexual misconduct
- Boys' basketball: Semifinals set for Redondo tournament
- Football: Max Lyons will be busy for Crenshaw on Saturday
- CHP stats tell all: L.A. motorists can't drive in the rain
- Gifts with a handcrafted touch
- Tests inconclusive on death of mountain lion near Newbury Park
- The 8 most underrated things in L.A. sports
- 2013 Honda Civic redesign
- L.A. Auto Show: Honda rushes to redesign lackluster Civic
- Sam Spiegel announces zany Maximum Hedrum project
- Will outdoor fun dry up in parched California?
- Witness says man had hands on head when shot by deputies
- Rain in L.A. brings a shower of complaints, jokes on Twitter
- Hostess seeks $1.8 million in executive bonuses, 110 bidders interested
- Amid boycott threat, Newport Beach council delays vote on dock rents
- Oceanside husband, accused of cooking wife on stove, due in court
- Lindsay Lohan to be charged with lying to Santa Monica police
- Chula Vista man convicted of impersonating police officer
- L.A. Now Live: State dismissed FBI's 'Most Wanted' from parole
- Suzanne Collins follows 'Hunger Games' with 'Year of the Jungle'
- Lindsay Lohan's N.Y. arrest complicates muddy legal picture in L.A.
- One California Senate race not to be decided until January
- All lanes of 5 Freeway in Glendale reopened after big-rig crash
- Suspect held in killing of animal control officer near Sacramento
- Basketball: Wednesday's scores
- Big changes planned for New York's Avery Fisher Hall
- Girls' basketball: Palisades tournament continues
- Architect accused in firefighter's death to face trial
- Football: Narbonne QB Troy Williams makes TV appearance
- Custody battle between Halle Berry, ex returns to court
- Football: Su'a Cravens is Gatorade state player of the year
- Southbound 5 Freeway reopened after big-rig accident
- Hairywood: Awards contenders and their facial hair
- Skelton: 'Lincoln' provides political lessons from the past
- Fatal collision ties up traffic on 134 Freeway
- Storm brings high surf, slick roads to Southern California
- Jackknifed big-rig snarls traffic on 5 Freeway in Glendale
- Video: Nets and Celtics basketball court fight
- The original Batmobile
- Nets and Celtics basketball court fight
- Close encounter with a blue whale
- Do freshman TV shows have the class to win?
- Grover Norquist, GOP ayatollah, is losing his grip on the party
- Stars help light Rockefeller Center Tree
- Celebrity birthdays for November 29th
- David Beckham: Life in Pictures
- The Spring Street Arcade
- Keep the state off my plate
- Navy catapults experimental bat-winged drone into flight [Video]
- How Joshua Smith's absence affects UCLA
- How Rachel Weisz put depth in 'Blue Sea' performance
- Judge orders Paul Ceglia to pay Facebook nearly $90,000 in fees
- 'Spidernaut' finds a new home in D.C. after gravity experiment
- Away from Egypt's protests, the worries mount
- Russell Simmons to receive Producers Guild's Visionary Award
- Internet Explorer 10 ad claims Microsoft's browser stinks...less
- Solange Knowles on new music, cold ones and family support
- Tiffany & Co. saw third-quarter profit plunge 30%
- Centennial lineman gets up for game just by lying down
- 'The X Factor' recap: The top 8 tackle No. 1 hits
- Ben Howland, players react to UCLA's recent rash of departures
- Music: Kneebody's back at the Blue Whale
- Initial jobless claims dropped again last week after Sandy
- Elite NFL players come back quickly from injuries
- Ex-medical technician indicted in hepatitis C outbreak
- 'Christmas Story' at Orpheum; Cinematheque salutes the 'Garys'
- Frank Langella talks about his role in indie 'Robot & Frank'
- John Madden and Ol Parker riff on 'Marigold Hotel'
- Italy: Paddling around Cinque Terre and Sardinia by kayak
- Music: Bad Brains at the Fonda
- Commercial charity fundraisers and the bite they take
- Sweden's Rebecca & Fiona dive into the U.S. EDM scene
- New Mexico traffic stop was case of police abuse, lawsuit alleges
- Friday's TV Highlights: 'Last Man Standing' on ABC
- Spurs to be penalized for Miami move
- U.S. weighing whether to arm Syria rebels, ambassador says
- Jeff Zucker in at CNN! Sen. Rockefeller has eye on News Corp.
- California: Temecula vineyard villa and wine tour for $369
- Steven Spielberg and Stephen King team up on 'Under the Dome'
- Joe Biden: Costco-shopper-in-chief
- Matthew McConaughey takes off on his 'Magic Mike' role
- Rolando McClain may not be a Raider much longer
- Brad Pitt's 'Killing Them Softly' poised for soft box office debut
- NHL proposes direct negotiations between players and team owners
- Josesito Lopez fighting to save Riverside cross
- New computer model of the brain focuses on seeing and doing
- Tommy Lee Jones on playing a real firebrand, in fake hair
- 'Hyde Park,' 'Lincoln' and more films give history a leading role
- UFC's 'best' Frankie Edgar tries to prove it against Jose Aldo
- Angels could find value in building from back of pitching staff
- Simian Mobile Disco takes its beat to Fonda Theatre
- Music: KIIS' Jingle Ball to rock the halls of Nokia this weekend
- Chief Romney strategist: Candidate 'won the day,' if not election
- Congratulations! Now let's check if your newborn will be obese
- NFL Thursday night: New Orleans at Atlanta
- Movie review: 'Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning' has a new violent mission
- No solid clues in mountain lion death in Santa Monica Mountains
- Email privacy bill passes committee in the Senate
- Still have leftovers? Make turkey pot pie
- Lindsay Lohan arrest: Punched woman in face, cops say; Lohan unhurt
- Movie review: 'Dragon' soars as martial arts-detective tale
- In Taiwan, proposed sale of media group prompts concern
- Armadilla answers the eternal question, 'Where's the remote?'
- UCLA faces Stanford in one for Roses
- Narbonne, Crenshaw already have proved they belong among the best
- Review: 'Anything Goes' is 'the top' at the Ahmanson Theatre
- L.A. Auto Show: Toyota RAV4, fast Ford Fiesta, sleek Jaguar are hits
- With four films in awards contention, Fox Searchlight has a plan
- Nick Watney's 67 good for the lead at Sherwood
- Qatar poet gets life in prison after 'insulting' emir
- Mike D'Antoni counting on Lakers defense until Steve Nash returns
- French court throws out Continental conviction in Concorde crash
- Lakers leading the league in turnovers
- Arizona lawsuit challenges restrictions on driver's licenses
- On Location: Busy 'Argo' editor turns footage into breathless action
- First marine wilderness in continental U.S. is designated
- Richard Marx has drunken one-man Twitter party
- George H.W. Bush, skydiver at 85, in hospital at 88 with bronchitis
- Ecoterrorism suspect surrenders at Canadian border
- A slick stereotype: L.A. drivers unable to handle the rain
- Verizon rated best cellphone carrier; AT&T; receives low marks
- Why elephants need circuses and zoos
- Review: 'A Werewolf Boy' has heart, heft and surprises
- Humphrey Bogart Festival set for Key Largo
- Electricity rates to rise for Southern California Edison customers
- New musical about transgender mayor heading to Intiman Theatre
- Music: Rapper Nas to play Wiltern on Friday
- George Zimmerman offers signed thank-you cards to raise money
- L.A. County's father-son, supervisor-lobbyist relationship
- L.A. Auto Show: Bentley's new GT3 race car makes its U.S. debut
- Big changes planned for New York's Avery Fisher Hall
- Saints players tweet bus was egged by Atlanta airport workers
- Egypt adopts draft constitution after marathon session
- Holiday cookie recipe: Banbury tarts
- Review: Brad Pitt is smooth, but 'Killing Them Softly' isn't
- Comedian Chris Hardwick buys in Hollywood Hills
- Letters: Junk mail by another name
- Katie Couric's daytime talker gears up for Jeff Zucker's exit
- Get to know the bacteria and viruses that call your body home
- Veteran right-hander Ryan Dempster could give Angels rotation depth
- Monte Kiffin will step down after USC's bowl game
- California: Nervous driving in snow? Try the snow chain concierge
- 'Back to 1942' feels distant: Movie capsule
- DIY holiday food gift workshop Saturday
- Connie Britton finds a true voice in 'Nashville'
- Ice sheet melting accounts for 20% of sea level rise since 1992
- Barry Bonds doesn't understand why people are so mad at him
- Television review: 'A Fairly Odd Christmas' offers cheer to show fans
- New CNN chief Jeff Zucker wants more passion, vitality from network
- Powerball gives some love to convenience stores in two states
- MVP Chris Wondolowski tops MLS awards winners
- Obama's 'balanced' approach hits a Democratic wall
- Thawing permafrost may amplify global warming, U.N. reports
- Ex-Massey coal executive charged over safety issues
- The risks and rewards of 'auteur' filmmaking
- Safe peanut butter, and beyond
- Egypt passes rushed draft of constitution amid popular anger
- Review: 'For the Martian Chronicles' salutes Bradbury at L&M; Arts
- The Lakers are pointless without Steve Nash
- LivingSocial cuts 400 workers as rival Groupon weighs CEO's fate
- L.A. Auto Show: Lincoln rolls out Liz Taylor's 1956 Continental Mark II
- Mortgage rates level off near record low, Freddie Mac says
- L.A. Auto Show sees major debuts
- iTunes 11 is here at last. But will I use it?
- Theater: 'The Santaland Diaries'
- Joe Wright, Keira Knightley a fearless team on 'Anna Karenina'
- Obama's victory margin keeps growing in slow tally
- Original Batmobile to go up for auction
- Camera Ready: Dior's Raf Simons gets his Hollywood moments
- Review: Past, present collide in Wangechi Mutu's 'Nitarudi Ninarudi'
- Letters: Insurance lament
- Kings a lifelong passion for David Courtney
- Prop. 8 supporters, opponents await Supreme Court decision
- EPA bans BP from new federal contracts
- Craig Thornton's Wolvesmouth dinners to surface
- Suzanne Collins follows 'Hunger Games' with 'Year of the Jungle'
- U.S. economy grew at 'measured pace' in recent weeks, Fed says
- Lives intersect in 'Crossroad': Movie capsule
- Letters: Not so fast on charter schools
- Port strike: SoCal loses work as ships shift to Oakland, Mexico
- LAUSD slow to report on teacher misconduct
- Retail sales up a weak 1.6% in November due in part to Sandy
- Nick Watney leads World Challenge, Tiger Woods three shots back
- Hurricane Sandy pushed U.S. air travel down in October, report says
- Dinner tonight! Seafood chowder
- Death of man who was in Oxnard police custody ruled a homicide
- Genome of bread wheat laid bare for scientific gleaning
- New college football playoff format may not end controversy
- Lindsay Lohan's day goes from bad to worse with 3 more charges
- Lakers hope offense improves when point guards return
- Senate committee approves sweeping update to digital privacy law
- Up next for the Lakers: Friday vs. Denver
- David Courtney, voice of Angels, Kings and Clippers, dies
- Report on British news media abuses calls for new regulator
- Fast-food workers walk out in N.Y. amid rising U.S. labor unrest
- Scott Forstall got what he deserved, another ex-Apple exec says
- Microsoft announces pricing for Surface Pro tablet: $899 and $999
- Happy Holidays from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen!
- Report examines possible failings in funds for diplomatic security
- Q&A;: Tennis great Andre Agassi on retirement, return to play
- 'Concert for George' streaming on YouTube for 24 hours