- Several protesters killed as Syria continues crackdown
- A trio of John Wayne war films
- It's not flag day when it comes to Lakers
- Jon Huntsman was a keyboard wizard, but is a presidential run a rock 'n' roll fantasy?
- InterContinental hotels abroad offer free 5th night and food credit
- There are many more losers than Shane Mosley on this fight
- Refined words near the crude oil towers
- Survey: Support for Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee tilts toward less educated, lower incomes; Mitt Romney's backing is more upscale
- My Turn: Her war on belly fat
- In some courts, Dylan rules
- Madoff victims' trustee reaches $1-billion settlement with liquidators of three 'feeder funds'
- Gastric bypass weight-loss surgery increases risk of alcoholism, study says
- Juan Uribe, Don Mattingly ejected as Dodgers lose to Pittsburgh, 4-1
- Where do the Lakers go from here? A five-step plan
- CompUSA chief to quit and return $11 million in assets
- After Oprah leaves, daytime TV may never be the same again
- Mississippi River expected to crest in Memphis today
- Rep. Aaron Schock, and his abs, land on Men's Health cover
- Boehner demands trillions in cuts in exchange for debt vote
- After severe war injuries, a new battlefield
- "Dick Van Dyke: My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business" info
- Cowell, Abdul together again
- 'Thor' a pretty super box-office warrior
- Book review: 'Dick Van Dyke: My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business'
- Scores arrested as Syrian forces seek to crush protests
- Charlie Sheen's 'Winning' single
- Boehner: Trillions, not billions in budget cuts needed
- Fast Track: Meredith Vieira is leaving 'Today'
- Supplies running low in besieged Libyan rebel city
- On 'Grey's Anatomy,' an altruistic act in Alzheimer's study could wreak havoc
- SeaWorld San Diego set to debut new Shamu killer whale show
- Bankruptcy could help Frank McCourt retain control of Dodgers
- U.S. names roster for 2011 Women's World Cup
- Firebird spy plane at a glance
- Democrat Joe Donnelly sets sights on Indiana Senate seat
- Senate Democrats call for July deadline on debt-limit vote
- Texas governor woos Vernon businesses
- Gastric bypass weight-loss surgery even better for heart health in teens than adults, study finds
- Odds of getting Osama bin Laden barely better than even, Obama says in interview
- Weight-loss surgery as safe for the elderly as for younger people
- Horoscope: May 9
- East L.A. man kills girlfriend and their children, then himself
- State to double crime searches using family DNA
- Monday's TV highlights
- Vitamin D might be associated with risk of lung infection in infants
- L.A. Councilman Koretz introduces motion to bar sales of pets from mills
- University of California weighs varying tuitions at its 10 campuses
- For Lakers Coach Phil Jackson, it's all over except the book . . . probably
- Hertz offers $2.24 billion to buy Dollar Thrifty, topping Avis bid
- 'Amazing Race' finale: Despite the wind, it does not look like the brochure
- California, Illinois and Amtrak are among recipients of high-speed rail funds rejected by Florida
- Large field of candidates hoping to replace Harman is a challenge for debate organizers
- An hour of exercise a week may reduce colon polyp risk
- Dodgers' Chad Billingsley hindered by late mistakes
- FDA clears quick MRSA test
- For Americans, to infinity and beyond
- White House Situation Room: History's center stage
- Japanese plant in harm's way will suspend nuclear power production
- Pakistan TV unmasks supposed top CIA agent but reportedly gets it wrong
- Arizona taking immigration law to U.S. Supreme Court
- Dean Heller sworn in as Nevada senator
- Gas price run-up takes respite
- Something in the water
- 'The Beaver' sluggish in limited release
- Events Happening Monday
- American Airlines tests streaming in-flight movies via Wi-Fi
- Michigan: Chrysler show celebrates 70 years of Jeep production
- Lakers turn up the funk, and it's downright creepy
- Angel Stadium has yielded fewest homers this season
- Jack Klugman's former equestrian estate is for sale
- New league gives basketball amateurs a shot at glory
- A brutal picture of Baca's problems
- Tax breaks for downtown L.A. developers; another look at a high-speed rail route; Osama bin Laden's fate
- Kobe Bryant chosen to All-NBA defensive team
- Newt Gingrich will announce presidential decision Wednesday
- Classic Locations: Chasen's
- L.A. County considers time limit on cash welfare aid
- Divided, they just get lost
- Fast Fame quiz: Who was Fred Astaire's first dance partner on screen?
- Watch and wait strategy reduces number of CT scans for kids
- NFL is focused on several issues
- Bubonic plague is back -- this time in New Mexico man
- YOU OLD SOFTIES
- Onboard pilot optional with Northrop's Firebird spy plane
- Scientists surprised by Genesis mission's solar wind data
- Angels get rocked by the White Sox, 8-0
- James Cuno of Art Institute of Chicago signs on as new Getty Trust president and CEO
- Good Form: A bicycle built for you
- Skin cancer takes many forms
- For the record - May 9, 2011
- PASSINGS: Lionel Rose, Gunter Sachs, Thomas G. Nelson
- Bill Blackbeard dies at 84; scholar of newspaper comics
- Live review: Fleet Foxes at the Hollywood Palladium
- Silver edges up as new trading week begins
- Live review: Ricky Martin at the Nokia Theatre
- Monday's Highlights: 'House' on Fox
- Charlie Sheen's 'Winning' single
- Monday's Talk Shows
- Live review: Patsy Cline showcase at Walt Disney Concert Hall
- Angels' Torii Hunter reflects on Mike Scioscia's 1,000th career victory
- Where were you when you heard about Osama bin Laden's death?
- 17 shows we want to see in 2011-12
- Music review: Maximiano Valdés conducts the Pasadena Symphony with pianist Chu-Fang Huang
- Dance review: Lucinda Childs revives 'Dance' at Royce Hall
- Angels rally for 6-5 win over Indians, giving Mike Scioscia 1,000th career victory
- Paula Abdul joins Simon Cowell on 'X Factor'
- Angels hope Colorado specialist gives Kendrys Morales 'fresh perspective' on return from broken ankle
- Ethier, Kershaw help Dodgers stop losing skid with 4-2 victory over Mets
- Australian Aboriginal boxer Lionel Rose dies at 62
- Mom's bathroom reading, in the Owchar house
- Hunter off, Wells to cleanup spot, Trumbo to wear pink spikes for Angels
- L.A. Times Test Kitchen Tips: Storing potatoes
- 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' premieres outdoors at Disneyland with Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz
- Architecture: A dramatic makeover in Lafayette Park
- Mom's bookshelf, in the Kellogg house
- Hong-Chih Kuo to be used like regular reliever; now to get back to the regular Kuo
- Gunter Sachs, German photographer who was married to Brigitte Bardot in '60s, commits suicide
- Audiences reject Mel Gibson as 'The Beaver' flops
- Boys' volleyball: Southern Section playoff pairings
- 'SNL': Tina Fey reprises role as Sarah Palin on 'Saturday Night Live' [Video]
- Box Office: Thunderous 'Thor' destroys two romantic comedies
- LIBYA: Alleged gang-rape victim Eman Obeidy flees to Tunisia
- Baseball: It's time for San Fernando-Kennedy showdown
- Mother's Day Gift: Discounted beauty packages from Ona Spa
- Baseball: Saturday's scores
- Trout and catfish plants for Southern California and Eastern Sierra during the week beginning May 9
- Softball: Saturday's scores
- SYRIA: 12-year-old reported killed during protests in Homs
- Lacrosse: US Lacrosse Southern Section playoff scores and updated pairings
- Buzzword of the day: Paraben-free
- Alexander McQueen, post-McQueen, shares challenges with other labels when the top designer departs
- Rebuilding Japan, Xbox 360, laptop theft: Your weekly ScamWatch
- IRAQ: At least 14 dead in attempted escape by Al Qaeda-linked prisoners
- SYRIA: At least 10 killed, 250 detained in Baniyas
- TUNISIA: Tunisian authorities impose curfew
- Coffee grown on the Big Island's rainy side
- Book Review: 'Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag' by Sigrid Nunez
- Critic's Notebook: 'Treme's' collection of beautiful moments
- Shaily Savla and Vishal Dudheker
- Shopping: Vivier and Bentley store opens in Silver Lake
- 'Paraben-free': Should you care?
- Not Just for Kids: 'What Happened to Goodbye' by Sarah Dessen
- Kristen Wiig, so weird on 'SNL,' goes (somewhat) normal for 'Bridesmaids'
- Dark Passages: A butcher's boy returns
- Nonfiction film: 'Hey, Boo' spotlights the 'To Kill a Mockingbird' sensation
- Book review: 'The Churchills: In Love and War' by Mary S. Lovell
- Book review: 'Tabloid City' by Pete Hamill
- Vows in the vines
- Stephen and Shoshana Silver
- Stay cool in Ho Chi Minh City's cafe oases
- Dana Wynter dies at 79; actress in 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'
- Book review: 'The Forgotten Founding Father' by Joshua Kendall
- Justine Booth and Ryan Guerrero
- Teachers union challenges L.A. Unified's new evaluation process
- Scene & Heard: 'Rock & Royalty Race to Erase MS' gala
- 'Mother of the Year'
- Autism rates may be higher than thought
- Obama order could make corporate political spending public
- U2's The Edge finds conservancy's price
- Teachers union challenges L.A. Unified's new evaluation process
- On Mother's Day, Ann Stow shares a message and waits for a miracle
- Your Scene: Timeless moment in Cambodia
- War casualties
- Head of L.A. city union held in alleged theft of computer
- Mexico's drug war: Crossing borders
- Costs of having a food truck
- Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris: the California Democratic Party's future?
- Saying goodbye to a Lakers era as wild and successful as they've had
- Granada Hills Kennedy pitcher Ryan Cruz knows how to pick them
- Angels' Kendrys Morales to get second opinion on ankle
- Lakers swept into season of uncertainty
- Libyan forces destroy key fuel supply in Misurata
- Andre Ethier's home run powers Dodgers past Mets, 4-2
- U.S. wants to interrogate Osama bin Laden's wives
- Being a healthy role model suits figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi just fine
- Twentysomethings should weigh health insurance options
- Dodgers' James Loney works his way out of slump
- Flood of lawsuits by LAPD officers costs the city millions
- In Mexico City, crowds protest drug violence
- Afghanistan insurgents attack government compounds in Kandahar
- It's not a Magic moment for Lakers in many ways
- In finding Osama bin Laden, CIA soars from distress to success
- Manchester United moves closer to clinching English Premier League championship
- Doyle McManus: Tim Pawlenty's gambit
- 5-year-old twins and their parents dead in suspected East L.A. murder-suicide
- Dual-language immersion programs growing in popularity
- In wake of Osama bin Laden's death, Taliban may be considering options
- Good-faith estimate disclosures ineffective in helping consumers shop for mortgages
- Good times for San Antonio's River Walk
- Book Review: 'Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag' by Sigrid Nunez
- Travel calendar
- Bigger and better
- Mother's Day travel getaways
- Nonfiction film: 'Hey, Boo' spotlights the 'To Kill a Mockingbird' sensation
- Not Just for Kids: 'What Happened to Goodbye' by Sarah Dessen
- Paul Feig is indebted to 'Leave It to Beaver'
- Kristen Wiig, so weird on 'SNL,' goes (somewhat) normal for 'Bridesmaids'
- Berlin art colony Kunsthaus Tacheles in limbo
- This month's money makeover
- Horoscope: May 8
- Afghan bodybuilding is big again
- Angels in the minors
- GOP finding it hard to make progress
- Nurturing a historic herd of bison
- Book review: 'The Churchills: In Love and War' by Mary S. Lovell
- Las Vegas travel calendar
- Coffee grown on the Big Island's rainy side
- Romping room for Shostakovich
- New on DVD: 'Justin Bieber: Never Say Never'
- Underrated/Overrated
- School opened up a class conflict for David Lindsay-Abaire
- Stay cool in Ho Chi Minh City's cafe oases
- Readers recommend: Hemet's Quality Inn
- Food truck makers revived by gourmet trend
- New faces at old fashion labels
- Performer with a volatile income yearns to own a house
- More for Your Money: Disputing rental-car damage charges
- Justice for Janitors campaigners record their stories
- Egypt's new foreign policy tests old alliances
- Manny Pacquiao, and fight fans, are irked at Shane Mosley's performance
- This Laker Girl would rather blend in with the crowd
- Critic's Notebook: 'Treme's' collection of beautiful moments
- 'SNL': Tina Fey reprises role as Sarah Palin on 'Saturday Night Live' [Video]
- Brothers' helping hands
- Families of dead miners feel let down by Washington
- Dodgers in the minors
- 100 FBI retirees defend disgraced Boston agent
- Pakistan in the balance
- Letters: Some 'Valleys Visions' left off the list
- Coffee sampling in Hawaii's new growing region
- Education reform: Shorter week, more learning
- Mental health experts caution against retribution
- Web Buzz: Localo.com finds inexpensive spaces for visitors
- Tours & cruises: 15-day 'Papua New Guinea Kundu Festival' itinerary
- Investing: Why Monsanto shares are falling
- One killed, two injured in South Los Angeles collision
- U.S. seeks access to Bin Laden widows in Pakistan
- 'Paraben-free': Should you care?
- The U.S. decision not to release photos of Osama bin Laden's body; California won't execute anyone this year; punishing GOP legislators for lack of progress on the budget
- Antiabortion measures flooding state legislatures
- Lucas Glover wins in playoff at Quail Hollow
- Chef Joachim Splichal's recipe for success
- Slain soldier 'knew what was important'
- Archeologists find trove of relics at Ventura Mission site
- Taliban renew attacks in Kandahar; death toll hits 25
- $1-million-plus LAPD payouts
- U.S. releases videos of Osama bin Laden
- Dual-language immersion programs growing in popularity
- Lakers' 122-86 Game 4 loss ends underachieving season and a dynasty in embarrassing fashion
- The feathered look in hair
- Conference aims to empower U.S. Muslim women
- Book Review: 'Juice!' by Ishmael Reed
- Jaap van Zweden can't shake Concertgebouw's sound
- Noah Webster, a man of many words
- Hollywood noir wasn't always on film
- Japan looks abroad for high-tech help at Fukushima plant
- 'Clayton Brothers: Inside Out'
- Films & programs
- TV This Week
- Library of Congress builds the record collection of the century
- In fashion, the brand plays on
- Book review: 'Tabloid City' by Pete Hamill
- Critic's Notebook: Lafayette Park Recreation Center extends an arm to area kids
- Still battling weight in Arkansas
- Debt doesn't go away when lender writes it off
- Internet data collection: The privacy line
- Planning your trip to San Antonio
- A salute to famous mothers
- Indie Focus: 'The Arbor' puts words in actors' mouths
- Get your caffeine on in the West
- Dark Passages: A butcher's boy returns
- Book calendar events for the week of May 8, 2011
- Funny or Die on a mission to live large
- Planning your trip to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Discoveries
- Listing details for 1580 Sunset Ridge Drive, Laguna Beach 92651
- Hilo Coffee Mill: Visitor information
- The Sunday Conversation: Rita Wilson
- A Laguna Beach mansion without the mass
- Seve Ballesteros dies at 54; audacious Spaniard won five major golf titles
- Working Hollywood: Even puppets have their own stylists
- Times updates and expands value-added ratings for Los Angeles elementary school teachers
- Angels 1B Kendrys Morales to go to Colorado for second opinion on broken ankle
- Pacquiao vs. Mosley: Round-by-round highlights of Manny Pacquiao's victory over Shane Mosley
- Jorge Arce defeats Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. for WBO super-bantamweight title
- Ethier's hitting streak stopped at 30 in Dodgers' 4-2 loss to the Mets
- Paula Abdul may hold up the show on 'The X Factor' with last-minute contract talks
- Why Torii Hunter's game-winning double was actually a single Friday night
- David Beckham and son escape injury and citation after 405 Freeway accident
- Keeping tabs: Trevor Plouffe
- Baseball: Santa Monica's Hirschberger strikes out 13
- Football: Loyola secondary has talent
- Dodgers Web musings: Where Ethier's hitting streak fails to translate
- Conductor Jaap van Zweden is ready for his close-up
- Opinion: Sunday shows: Cheney, Donilon, Daniels, Rice, Kerry
- Freddie Roach will help coach USA Boxing team
- 'Moscow, Cherry Town': A Shostakovich to sing about
- ‘Fringe’ recap: What the Fringe!?
- Summer special: Indah's Balinese-made cruise collection
- A visual history of the Cannes Film Festival