- Cannes '08: Pete Hammond's Notes on a Season -- Madonna, Sharon Stone, and Harvey Weinstein draw big names, big money for AmfAR's Cinema Against AIDS gala
- Track and field: Morgan does it all at City finals
- Track and field: Competition fails to catch up with Carson's Byrd
- Softball: Interview with Pacifica pitcher Katie Tamayo
- Baseball: Umpire's ruling ends Baker's bid for perfect-o
- Track and field: Morgan putting on a show at City finals
- The lesson from other commodities: Prices can fall, too
- Softball: Don't believe everything you hear (not even from me)
- Opinion: Barack Obama gets under John McCain's skin
- Opinion: John McCain discusses gay marriage with Ellen DeGeneres
- Opinion: Poor scholars and the balance of payments
- Track and field: That can't be Larry Drew Jr., can it?
- Softball: La Palma Kennedy battles rain, beats Wilson
- Softball: Garden Grove Pacifica holds on for 1-0 win
- Softball: Norco's Gerhart closes out victory with show of force
- Opinion: McCain's Silicon Valley values
- World Heritage sites in China
- Credit squeeze: The problem with down payments
- Opinion: With Ted Kennedy ailing, Wesleyan grads will hear some new pol named Obama
- Boys' tennis: Klincke upsets defending champion at City Individuals
- Dior phone home: $5,000 designer cellphone
- Opinion: American Airlines' emotional baggage
- Track and field: Dorsey's Moore will be in action soon
- Which part of Octopart don't you understand?
- Softball: Norco finally breaks the deadlock against Rodino in eighth
- Laura and Jenna 'Read All About It'
- Softball: Hart goes deep, but not deep enough in bottom of 7th
- Baseball: Former Hart standout named WAC Player of the Year
- Softball: Norco's best scoring chance ends in a double play
- Softball: The word on the street is ... Crescenta Valley
- High school sports bring many injuries to their knees
- Softball: Norco threatens twice but can't put anything across
- Softball: Ahhh, cellphones are a wonderful thing
- Track and field: Mother Nature delaying action at City finals
- Softball: La Palma Kennedy beating Wilson, so far
- Softball: Norco-Hart is, predictably, a pitcher's duel
- Tax Debt
- Congress Critters
- $4.69 a gallon, a new high* for L.A. Land
- One LendingTree suit deserves another
- Goslings take shelter
- Groups try to stop circus from chaining elephants
- Is Everything Really Getting More Expensive, Or Is It Just Clever Manipulation?
- Softball: Garden Grove Pacifica fans show up, as do both pitchers
- If you're not worried about privacy, you don't know Diddly
- Cannes fashion: Am-fAR out
- Softball: Not much of a home-field advantage for Garden Grove Pacifica
- Neighbor on Richardson house: "pretty disheveled"
- Football: UCLA's Chow makes visit to Upland, Los Osos
- Opinion: Joe Lieberman's sway extends only so far
- SEC launches first test of Web mutual fund analyzer
- Softball: Couple of quarterfinal games postponed to Friday
- Altruistic teens may regret donating blood
- Opinion: Rent control may not be theft. But will Nathenson get an "A"?
- 'Battlestar Galactica': Dinner mishaps
- Tornado rips through N. Colorado; 1 killed
- Opinion: BREAKING NEWS: John McCain jettisons the Rev. John Hagee's endorsement
- 'American Idol' finale ratings surprisingly high
- A writer's take on the new New Orleans
- Softball: Can Long Beach Wilson find the luck of the Irish again?
- Climate battle heats up...
- Buyer of Rep. Laura Richardson's house: She "walked away"
- Baseball: Simi Valley hopes the hits keep coming
- Show restraint this weekend -- thanks to Volvo
- Baseball: Orange Lutheran's Cole and Norco's Hobgood set to face off
- California company plans to clone dogs
- For Bank of America stock, it's lonely on the new-lows list
- A billion here, a trillion there...
- Graffiti a blight in photos too
- Baseball: Mater Dei at Los Alamitos should be a good one in Division I
- Animals serve as muse for decorations
- Cannes '08: Kenneth Turan attends Quentin Tarantino's master class
- Opinion: Barack Obama begins his own quiet quest for a running mate
- Cannes '08: Moment of Zen -- So you think you can dance, France?
- Low-cost pet clinic open tonight in Rancho Palos Verdes
- Five bundles of tiger joy
- Endangered species officials under investigation
- Girls' swimming: Palisades wins its 19th City title
- Girls' basketball: Hoover coach calls it quits
- Opinion: In today's pages: McCain's delusions, Hezbollah's power, labor's future
- Boys' swimming: Cleveland wins third consecutive title
- Boys' basketball: Meisels returns to Valley Torah
- Cannes '08: Tweetscanning Cannes -- What films are festivalgoers tweeting about?
- Opinion: One last Kentucky tidbit
- Opinion: Mitt Romney keeps a silver toe in politics, opens a PAC
- 'American Idol' Banter: It's one for the rockers
- Florida men charged with smuggling Cubans; illegal entry of Cubans grows
- United States spying on Venezuela, says Chavez
- Drug war deaths in Mexico continue
- Migrant workers' stays may be extended
- Boys' volleyball: Six SF Valley/North teams advance to finals
- 'Top Chef': Lisa survives another week. Am I missing something?
- Opinion: John McCain lauds Barack Obama's strategy on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show'
- IRAQ: When a parent's worst nightmare becomes reality
- Football: Crescenta Valley's Eberhart is put on paid leave
- EGYPT: A long and curious state of emergency
- ISRAEL: Olmert's peace offensive
- 'American Idol' news conference: The Davids sing each other's praises
- 'American Idol' finale show
- Report: Lender 'took a beating' on Rep. Laura Richardson's foreclosure
- Opinion: The candidates, seen through beer goggles
- Opinion: Ticket readers solve the Great Political Button Mystery. It was ....
- Around the Web 5.22.08: Ghostly social networking and searching for the Idol
- RESULTS
- House votes to override farm bill veto
- U.S. girds student lending industry
- The power of Hezbollah
- Cheese race is fizzling out
- Firm fined for tainted lunchboxes
- McCain aide is inspired . . . to resign
- In defeat, Obama triumphant
- State fines hospitals over lapses
- Ewwww! Gross! Cool! Who knew science could be so much fun?
- Selanne and Niedermayer get deadline
- Senate panel rejects EPA air ruling
- Sony unit to help fill theaters with expanded digital shows
- Unifying note in a chamber divided
- Faculty assists students financially
- New work visa rules to cut bureaucracy
- Punished, and paid
- Sober-living homes rushing to meet Newport's deadline
- Willis is headed for Tigers bullpen
- Oil chiefs scolded over gas prices, high profits
- Voters could be led to a tax hike
- With Davids, 'Idol' still Goliath
- One last chance to squeal
- More deaths in state are linked to air pollution
- S. Korea plans to lift beef ban
- Israel, Syria confirm peace talks; timing raises questions
- Colon is sharp in return to majors
- O.C. deputy charged in false investigation reports
- Federal agency to hold hearing on O.C. toll road
- Marlins become first to defeat Webb
- A healthier FDA
- Indiana Jones whips fans into a frenzy
- 'Big One' scenario paints bleak economic picture
- Study touts new drug for use in angioplasty
- Last plaintiff in landmark 1954 school desegregation court case
- Survivor unrest prods China to act
- It's those awful TV shots
- Ex-special ed teacher sentenced in sex case
- In 'Norman's Ark,' the joy of survival
- Looking at poverty from the inside out
- Black college faces its own bias
- Get Fit? Wii, you may be pushing it
- His wonderful life -- and enduring legacy
- British hip-hop's biggest Rascal
- Squaring off over labor's future
- Treatment czar draws criticism
- Luke Walton
- McCain: So wrong, so what?
- Janitor videotaped girls, police say
- Ratings glitch hits Moody's
- Baseball: City playoff openers go pretty much as expected
- Softball: Nothing second-rate about Norco-Hart matchup
- Softball: Esperanza is outside Simi Valley's comfort zone
- U.S. special forces to remain in Iraq, Gates says
- Guerrero overpowers Blue Jays
- Cannes '08: Critics size up Soderbergh's 'Che'
- Olmert is in fight of his life
- Opinion: Ron Paul surge collects more GOP convention delegates
- Kobe's rallying points
- Softball: St. Germain catches praise as Ayala's "big star"
- Opinion: Rethinking aid by force
- Infrared barbecues give a quick sear, but durability is unknown.
- Bodily functions at the Discovery Science Center? It helps to be a kid
- A Lincoln Heights fixer-upper is transformed into a country escape in urban L.A.
- Scene Stealer: 'The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian'
- Rethinking aid by force
- 2 vandals attack Stonehenge with hammer
- 'Crystal Skull' poster artist Drew Struzan's brush with blockbusters
- Where the movies pop
- Centuries later, the hammock is still swinging
- Douglas Fairbanks' 125th birthday at Hollywood Forever
- Kerry Simon is taking over Las Vegas' restaurant scene
- Why regulate marriage at all?
- Pilots run out of fuel, pray, land near Jesus sign
- Cooper-Hewitt curator walks the International Contemporary Furniture Fair
- James Stewart: Celebrating his 100th birthday
- Grandma's got game
- Air travelers hit with new baggage fees
- Plan to cut cellphone contract cancellation fees draws criticism
- Case is closed on deadly day at market
- RESULTS
- Jailed securities lawyer in fraud case denied bail
- Solvent-busting rule means flat paints will be greener
- McCain soiree may be tryout for running mate
- Critic's Preview
- Tighter O.C. campaign finance laws urged
- Blockbusters' poster boy
- Echoes from the Age of Aquarius
- Polyester pillows aren't just a lot of fluff
- Victorian vibe
- Diverse goals take rivals to Florida
- Lonnie White's Xs and O's
- Late slip-up ruins it for Chelsea's fans
- Stunning locations
- Disabled Lebanese spoke volumes
- Odom keeps his head and body in the game
- A couple's red-hot discovery
- This victory feels like a series-clincher
- Never afraid to speak his mind
- Kuroda finally gets second win of season
- An eye for originality
- Carona trial to remain in O.C.
- Quality of state's seawater improves
- Knee surgery goes well for Bynum
- THE ENABLER
- THIS WEEK: PLAN BLT
- Ex-cop accused of sex assaults
- Jails, gangs and the homeless discussed
- CRITICS'PICKS
- Torre pleased by Kemp's play
- Popovich blames bad decisions
- Elderly lack dental care
- HOT DISH
- Infrared grills: a hot idea or hot air?
- Figgins is back, but Aybar goes on DL
- Time Warner gets boards' OK to spin off cable division
- Relax -- it's retro metal
- Country oasis in the city
- FAA bans anti-smoking drug
- NIGHT LINES
- Hammock is still on the upswing
- Pakistan reaches truce with militant faction
- Fears return as Fed issues dour forecast
- TEEING OFF
- CEO revamping Sprint for the future
- BREAD WINNER
- UNTITLED
- Judge won't move Carona's trial
- A little bit baffled
- Police use stun gun on naked intruder
- Merck puts stop to drug study
- Nonprofit to help recruit teachers
- Brush fire erupts in Angeles forest
- Dolphins might split with Taylor
- Modernist work gets record price
- True Hollywood tragedy
- A postcard doodler crisscrosses L.A.
- 2 nuclear plant workers arrested
- A HAPPY MOTHER RATES FOR US
- Tankers to face tighter scrutiny
- Five Valley shootings appear unrelated, police say
- Blood, sweat, finales
- BOOKIT
- Lower sales drag down Hot Topic
- Limited Brands bares big gains
- Morning briefing
- Agent says FBI is not prepared
- WEB CHATTER
- FINALLY
- House approves tax package
- Microsoft adds rebate program
- 8 sentenced for plotting major attack
- SCENESTEALER
- Happy 125th birthday, Doug
- Cabanas, but slightly off-kilter
- UNDERRATED / OVERRATED
- Daimler to buy Chrysler studio
- War memorial set for Little Tokyo
- Death Cab takes 'Stairs' to the top
- HERMOSA BEACH
- CRITICS'PICKS
- New Regency gets ex-Fox exec
- Teachers reach accord on salaries
- On location, where all MADness breaks loose
- O.C. supervisor is hospitalized
- King's point
- Grammys are due Feb. 8 at Staples
- It's one for the rockers
- Southwest CEO named chairman
- Cellphones can be sent to Cuba
- The heat's coming from his kitchen
- BUZZ BANDS
- GOP barks up the wrong tree
- State recalculates school ratings
- Katrina levee leaks despite pricey repair
- Pacific Energy sells some assets
- New polygamist search thwarted
- Different place, different attitude
- It's a matter of timing
- Film studios settle suit against site
- Interior Dept. officials may have meddled
- Businesses to face fees on emissions
- An Office specializing in fine beers, but there's good grub too
- Skater waltzes off with 'Stars' prize
- Pop mastermind gets 25 years
- Army to defend immigrants
- Overprotecting our children
- In NBA, you can beat them halfway
- DIRECTOR'SCRAFT
- SCREENING ROOM
- Got this welcome covered
- Free ride for baggage ends June 15
- CRITICS'PICKS
- Napster slashes its losses
- Money woes tied to bridge collapse
- Iraq war deserter faces deportation
- Paul Hamm takes stage again