- The envelope, please: My athletes of year, decade
- EGYPT: Court upholds ban on the all-covering niqab at three universities during exams
- Jim Zorn fired by Redskins
- 'Grey's Anatomy': Kim Raver gets comfortable at Seattle Grace
- 'Desperate Housewives': One baby of a crisis
- Adam Lambert, shiny and fab for Gridlock 2009 -- with a flashback to his Upright Cabaret gig on New Year's Eve 2008
- Babycakes is open downtown
- IRAN: Chinese activists to opposition: 'Go, Iranian friends! Go!'
- 'Family Guy': Scaredy farts
- Opinion: African American activists, including Jeremiah Wright and Cornel West, blast Cuba on racism
- Census Bureau kicks off head count
- M Cafe's 'Little m' debuts today in Beverly Hills
- The Morning Fix: Fox-TW Cable make love, not war. CES buzz! Watchdog bites TV Everywhere. Avatar!
- Republican senator defends blocking appointment of Obama's TSA nominee
- Facebook fights back, disallows the Suicide Machine
- Datebook: Events, exhibits, classes for the week ahead
- Vogue Paris names its top 30 models of the decade
- Americans optimistic about coming decades
- Michael Hiltzik: Movie piracy, from the inside
- Opinion: OMG, what's happening? A year into Obama's reign, Ron Paul's loopy ideas now making sense
- Poll: Jordan Farmar, point guard of the future or career backup?
- Media Companies Align to Serve Orange County
- Another one of fame's trappings
- Supreme Court to weigh NFL and antitrust laws
- Bernanke, pro and con
- Will Super Bowl sponsors stay in the game?
- Shootout at Las Vegas courthouse kills 2
- Chris Johnson becomes sixth member of 2,000-yard rushing club
- Texas to focus on a strong running game in BCS title matchup
- Finding the right boot camp
- Hungry after that workout?
- Horoscope: Jan. 4
- 'The Biggest Loser'
- U.S. counter-terrorism official cites human error in airliner safety lapse
- Clippers' DeAndre Jordan making most of renewed opportunity
- Happening today
- Paul 'Bear' Bryant's gift that keeps on giving at Alabama
- Afghanistan, now and then
- South Koreans experience what it's like to die -- and live again
- O.J. Mayo scandal leads to heavy sanctions for USC basketball; team 'shocked and saddened'
- What goes into chicken
- Roots are loving their late nights
- Lakers' Jordan Farmar ties career high against Mavericks
- 4 U.S. troops die in Afghan blast
- 'Avatar' soars into $1-billion territory
- New life for 'Goode Family'
- Casual purchase of counterfeit DVD shines light on piracy
- Obama's nuclear-free vision mired in debate
- Clippers tonight
- 'Shades of Grey' by Jasper Fforde
- Bernanke says poor regulation, not monetary policy, led to housing bubble
- Up next for Kings: Monday at San Jose
- USC takes action on basketball, waits to see reaction
- NFL playoffs first-round matchups
- The Times' top 25 boys' basketball rankings
- Palm Springs International Film Festival welcomes the world
- Counting calories burned is not as easy as 1-2-3
- Tips for low-cost health
- Fitness boot camps offer what gyms cannot
- Good form: End your workout with a tension-releasing stretch
- Vitamin D can help with bone density and immunity
- Gizmos get physical
- Kovalev scores four goals
- Yemen dismisses Al Qaeda threat as 'exaggerated'
- TCU has grown by leaps and bounds
- Lakers' Artest is cleared to practice after fall
- LA., Long Beach ports fight to stay dominant
- USC's Stafon Johnson accepts Senior Bowl invitation
- How to check your property's flood status
- He's fallen in love -- so how does he tell his wife?
- Race to fill Orange County Assembly seat is calm and quiet
- Two ways of life collide in Wonder Valley
- Family mourns a young man who didn't make it home
- Lame-duck role may not suit Schwarzenegger
- A 'Biggest Loser' challenge to just lighten up
- For many Los Angeles-area Armenians, it's two days till Christmas
- Kenyan tribe slowly driven off its ancestral lands
- Alabama's Mark Ingram gives offensive linemen their due
- '10 Minute Solution: 5 Day Get Fix Mix,' 'Personal Training With Jackie: Power Circuit Training,' 'Denise Austin: 3 Week Boot Camp,' 'Bob Greene: Total Body Makeover'
- Lakers feel it against Mavericks, but Pau Gasol feels only pain
- AIG is silent on offer to buy its aircraft leasing unit
- New Da Vinci rumors have art world abuzz
- Forget the statistics, Terrence Cody is a big deal for Alabama
- Northrop Grumman to keep many jobs in California
- Lottery results
- The week ahead at a glance
- Four Blair High graduates team up to succeed at college
- Chris Bosh becomes leading scorer in Toronto Raptors history
- Men's AP top 25 results for Sunday
- TODAY'S TALK SHOWS
- Game shows draw a new kind of contestant
- Excavating Mark Peel and Jay Perrin's Tar Pit
- Suleman fertility doctor accused of gross negligence
- Slain El Monte school-board member Bobby Salcedo is honored, mourned
- Boot Camps Offer What Gyms Can't
- L.A. needs a healthy Latino middle class
- Monday's Highlights
- Ronald Murray's three-pointer lifts Bobcats past Cavaliers, 91-88
- In Israel, a highway that divides
- Bringing overpaid executives to heel
- Homeowners forced to buy flood insurance after FEMA redraws maps
- 'Shades of Grey' by Jasper Fforde
- Lakers center Andrew Bynum plays his way back
- Food for guns; problems at Fremont High; religion and the media
- Texas prepares to face another unforgiving defense
- Alabama's strategy in BCS title game: Stop the run and the pass
- Playing with rematches
- Women's AP top 25 results for Sunday
- Obama's can't-do style
- Gold Line riders tour nacimientos
- Houston Mitchell's two-minute drill
- Packers...33 Cardinals...7
- Ducks have a rough outing from the get-go
- N.Y. chocolate tours: Hard times never tasted so sweet
- Release weighed for convict in 1983 Seattle massacre
- Pepperdine is no match for Miami
- 'Hurt Locker' wins over National Film Critics
- Sanctions come down hard and heavy on USC basketball
- L.A.'s top FBI agent arrives by way of Iraq and Las Vegas
- Five men detained in Pakistan deny ties to Al Qaeda in court
- CALIFORNIA LOTTERY RESULTS
- For the record - Jan. 4, 2010
- NaNO Vapor: Strong claims, weak details
- Paul M. Zall dies at 87; Huntington Library scholar examined lives of early American leaders
- Runner found little tricks that made a big difference
- Jon Feltheimer buys Holmby Hills estate for $9,812,500
- Joely Fisher sells Encino home for $2.4 million
- USC Basketball: Journeyman point guard Gerrity "shocked" by sanctions
- Pacquiao promoter confirms mediation effort to stage Mayweather fight
- NFL playoff picture update
- USC football: Stafon Johnson accepts Senior Bowl invitation
- Boys' basketball: New rankings
- Obama wraps up Hawaiian vacation to return to capital
- Feds investigate Obama effigy in Jimmy Carter's hometown
- Football: A new take on Woods and Farmer
- Lakers vs. Mavericks: In-game report
- USC Basketball: O'Neill doesn't think sanctions will affect team
- Railroads making a comeback
- USC basketball: Pac-10 commissioner on USC's self-imposed sanctions
- USC Basketball: Trojans senior Dwight Lewis: "I was looking forward to playing" in postseason
- USC basketball: NCAA reaction to Trojans' self-imposed sanctions
- Opinion: Ticket Replay: Did you hear the one about <em>Washington</em> lecturing Afghans on corruption?
- Blogging in the new year: More Olympic TV coverage, more laughable figure skating scores
- Opinion: Ticket Replay: Obama dog Bo officially declared cute, seeks universal pet healthcare
- Passengers on U.S.-bound flights face more screening
- Miami Dolphins quarterback Pat White injured by helmet-to-helmet hit
- Report: Redskins to fire Jim Zorn on Monday; Mike Shanahan is favored to replace him
- NFL playoff update after morning games
- Big giant heads are coming to LACMA
- 3-D coming for TV
- Poll: What do you think of USC's self-imposed sanctions?
- Wes Welker injury; Tom Brady has broken ribs
- If it's Friday in Afghanistan, it's buzkashi day; horsemen compete for dead goat
- David Beckham wishes he were still with Manchester United
- Roger Goodell to look into Colts case; perks may be offered to make late-season games more competitive
- FA Cup fourth-round draw
- Opinion: Ticket Replay: Forget Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, people, it's Leif Erikson Day
- 'Avatar' worldwide total hits $1 billion as foreign grosses explode
- USC basketball imposes major sanctions
- Supreme Court in Peru upholds a 25-year sentence for former President Alberto Fujimori
- Struggling for a voice in China
- 10 simple ways you can save in 2010
- First look: 'Avatar' continues to dominate as box office repeats Christmas success
- ISRAEL: A New Year's greeting of sorts from Iran leads to resignation
- Human error, not turf battles, at fault in Christmas attack on airliner, top U.S. official says
- Boys' basketball: Saturday's scores
- Girls' basketball: Saturday's scores
- Opinion: Ticket Replay: What Michelle Obama told the Olympic Committee about her Chicago (and father)
- Football: Farmer selected for 2011 bowl game
- Boys' basketball: Gahr suffers first defeat
- Football: Times' all-star package in Sunday's paper
- A photographer looks 'East of West L.A.'
- Bill Powell dies at 93; pioneering black golfer ran Ohio course
- 'In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp' by Er Tai Gao
- 'Hearts of the City' by Herbert Muschamp
- 'The Cave Man' by Xiaoda Xiao
- Tuning back in to 'White Noise'
- Afghans love to get their goat in rough national sport
- Author of 'Crazy Heart' is grateful for serendipity
- Horoscope: Jan. 3
- Teens tumble on 'Make It or Break It'
- 'The Cave Man' by Xiaoda Xiao
- Letters: Kudos to Times readers' vacation snapshots
- Do you need a money makeover?
- Bestsellers
- Gilbert Arenas situation puts Wizards, NBA over a barrel
- Up next for Lakers: Sunday vs. Dallas
- Scott Frost moves toward the threshold at Hussong's
- A real payoff to paying more
- Don't overlook utility bill payment aid programs
- TV makers hope viewers will embrace 3-D-enabled sets
- 'Lost Boys' try to help those left in south Sudan
- Business Letters
- Up next for Ducks: Sunday at Chicago
- New Year's resolutions from around the NBA
- GALLERIES
- The Strip's CityCenter hotels up the ante
- More EBay shoppers bought via cellphone during holidays
- Donald Sterling is generous, impolitic and eager to be liked
- Longhorns' case gets a big assist
- Fun isn't part of Nick Saban's playbook
- Sunny skies take a toll on Rose Parade floats
- O.C. Islamic Educational Center a target of anti-Muslim acts
- From Lisbon to L.A., some stories we'd like to read in 2010
- Freight trains make big comeback in nation's transportation network
- Longtime East Hollywood theater director is slain
- Kenya slum electrician puts his life on the line
- In Sierra Leone, pop music is a beat that drives politics
- Alabama quarterback touching all the bases
- Wife of slain El Monte civic leader tells how night out with friends morphed into horror
- Alabama players enjoying Southern California weather
- Coach of the year: Jim Benkert
- Kobe Bryant's winning shots are nice for Lakers, but . . .
- CALIFORNIA LOTTERY RESULTS
- Alabama players enjoying Southern California weather
- If you like these matchups, you'll love them next week
- Capture of Carlos Beltran Leyva is another blow to Mexico's most violent drug-smuggling gang
- Visiting elk country
- Airfares
- RZA's new rap: filmmaker
- Get a leg up on texture with patterned tights
- Tourism officials warn against price gouging at 2010 soccer World Cup
- Readers recommend: Wild Horse Sanctuary in Northern California
- 'Hearts of the City' by Herbert Muschamp
- Shanghai's World Expo, Oberammergau Passion Play rate in 2010
- 'I am for sale'
- A photographer looks 'East of West L.A.'
- Fashion forecasts for 2010
- Tuning back in to 'White Noise'
- 'Meatballs,' Kanye West, 'Ugly Betty' and more
- 'Youth in Revolt' tries to be a different teen-virginity film
- L.A. Opera, other music companies play to youth
- Peter Marino brings glamour to Aria Resort & Casino
- Believers come to her home for a miracle
- Planning your trip to Thailand
- UC Riverside wins in overtime
- The Times' top 25
- Findings point new path for dealing with Vietnam War's poisonous legacy
- Langenbrunner's hat trick helps Devils beat Wild, 5-3
- The fact of the matter. Or not.
- MUSEUMS
- 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs'
- In with the old
- California's higher education system; restoring the L.A. River; more problems for LAUSD
- Up next for USC: Wednesday at Stanford
- U.S., Britain close embassies in Yemen over threats
- ApproachGuides.com guides cover cultural and historical topics
- Paperback bestsellers
- Another failure to communicate
- Doubts remain -- but legal recourse does not -- in Kevin Cooper case
- Short-handed Nuggets win at Utah
- Afghanistan lawmakers reject Karzai's Cabinet picks
- Gao Brothers won't let Mao -- or Lenin -- rest
- 'Committed' by Elizabeth Gilbert
- MUSIC
- Anastasia Beverly Hills expands its eyebrow empire
- Money resolutions to make in 2010
- Words & Ideas
- Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin top list of most admired women
- Memphis rolls to a big win at Phoenix
- Alabama players enjoying Southern California weather
- Marine Staff Sgt. Charles Cartwright, 26, Oceanside; killed in combat
- More healthcare votes ahead for Congress
- Sunday's TV Highlights: 'Worst Cooks in America' premieres
- History channel pursues updated look
- Las Vegas calendar: events from January to April 2010
- A smart convention plan
- Yemeni groups pose new set of terrorism threats
- Military deaths
- Women's AP top 25 results for Saturday
- Lakers forward Lamar Odom sets up the winning push
- The fall, and rise, of Eagles' DeSean Jackson
- Top Obama counter-terrorism official cites human error in airliner attack
- A city's changes in sharp relief
- Visiting elk country
- 'In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp' by Er Tai Gao
- 'The Privileges' by Jonathan Dee
- A DAY AT THE RACES
- The science of science education
- 'Nine': No strength in numbers
- 'Watching the Sea Rise'
- A low-key Tina Brown stares down a new beast, daily
- Time for a fresh look at a fateful year -- 1989
- Prime choices
- Calendar: events for January 2010
- Family concerts in L.A., Orange counties
- Fashion trends they wish would go away
- Retracing Jack Kerouac's rocky road
- Is 'Empire State of Mind' the new 'New York, New York'?
- Kids Stuff
- Planning your trip to elk country
- EVENTS
- Husband's past loves not as advertised
- Katharine McPhee is having more fun as a blond
- 'Loren Cass'
- Is 'Bitch Slap' empowerment or exploitation?
- Higher education in California should better reflect the times
- Shanghai's World Expo, Oberammergau Passion Play rate in 2010
- Mark Sanchez faces familiar guy
- Sunday's TV highlights