- San Diego may lease land to Scouts despite ban on gays, atheists
- 23 years later, this stolen Corvette is still hot
- Appeals court to examine O.C. sex offender ban from parks, beaches
- Bernard Madoff's brother is sentenced to 10 years in prison
- Reward offered in death of 22-year-old South L.A. church musician
- Apple grabs 53% of U.S. smartphone market
- News Corp. print holdings would have lost $2 billion as stand-alone
- Obama offers a scaled-down budget plan to avert 'fiscal cliff'
- Gun control advocates denounce NRA plan
- New Year's Eve 2012 L.A. dining guide
- SoCal ski resorts to open urban boarding features, tubing park
- Apocalypses: There's one around every corner
- Directors Roundtable: Six filmmakers discuss first shooting days [Video]
- Appeals court puts hold on California gay conversion ban
- Weekend Talk Shows for Dec. 22-23: Placido Domingo; Ben Affleck; Adele
- Mistletoe: A kiss of death for your garden's trees?
- NRA official says Hollywood shares blame for Newtown massacre
- Holiday cookie recipe: Gingerbread macarons
- Maya 'doomsday' may actually be Sunday, archaeologist says
- USC's Tee Martin focuses on getting Robert Woods to return
- Showrunner Glen Mazzara to leave AMC's 'The Walking Dead'
- Hawaii: Cultural center's new film explores soul of the islands
- Ashton Kutcher files for divorce from Demi Moore — finally
- CalPERS not allowed to sue bankrupt San Bernardino
- Statehood for District of Columbia could get another look
- California parks agency's accounting problems began sooner than thought
- Audit finds L.A. County sheriff's officials improperly used aircraft
- Flawed data stall California's 911 upgrades
- Maccheroni Republic breaks new ground downtown
- 4 dead, 3 troopers injured in Pennsylvania shooting
- North Korea says it has detained a U.S. citizen
- Homemade holiday gift idea: Fig bars
- Obama, lawmakers mark end of mournful week
- Redskins' Robert Griffin III expected to play Sunday
- Sam Champion of 'GMA' marries Rubem Robierb in New York City
- More people moving to U.S.
- Mobile social network Path rolls out powerful new search feature
- EPA issues air pollution standards for boilers and cement plants
- Influential investor Gordon Crawford has left his mark on media
- Hawaii: Go island-hopping by air for as little as $39 each way
- Consumer spending and incomes rose in November
- Overhaul of California government payroll system at risk of collapse
- Let there be dark
- Friday was deadline for turning over redevelopment money
- UCLA plays Fresno State on Saturday
- A's ask Oakland for five more years
- Up next for the Lakers: Saturday at Golden State
- The bells toll, and Newtown and a nation mark the moment
- Holiday hits: Kenneth Turan's DVD picks of the week (and year)
- Herbalife to answer 'pyramid scheme' claim; stock slide continues
- Prime Minister Mario Monti of Italy steps down
- Friday Travel Ticker: Disney extends the season
- Reader reactions to 'Jack Reacher': The fans are furious
- Party leaders in Senate trade accusations of blame for Plan B failure
- LAFD probes 15-minute response to teen's collapse
- Letters: When dying isn't easy
- Letters: Dealing with Hamas
- Murder charges filed in Indiana house explosion
- Violence in America? We're all responsible
- Madonna to Chilean fans: No smoking, or else no show!
- 'Amour,' 'Intouchables' make academy's foreign language film shortlist
- UPS guy steals homeowner's FedEx package -- on video
- Will senators' slam on 'Zero Dark Thirty' hurt it at awards time?
- A family's 'Impossible' journey of healing
- KB Home stock drops on disappointing growth data
- Ultraviolet disc-to-digital at home begins with CinemaNow
- Islamists, opponents clash in Egyptian city of Alexandria
- Steve Nash coy on playing Saturday, 'for sure' on Christmas
- U.N. helicopter shot down in South Sudan
- The world didn't end -- yet
- Lakers' rotation continues to evolve
- Genetically engineered salmon moves closer to FDA approval
- Clippers break franchise record with 12th straight win
- Watch Jimmy Fallon, Jerry Seinfeld update 'Who's on First?'
- 'Life of Pi's' Ang Lee on going 'to the edge'
- With the Do Lab, journeys near and far
- CEO insists Herbalife is no pyramid scheme
- 'X Factor's' Tate Stevens, 'Voice's' Cassadee Pope ... Who's best?
- Steve Jobs' yacht stuck in payment feud with designer Philippe Starck
- 'Spilt Milk' by Chico Buarque plays on memory, experience
- TV This Week: Dec. 23 - 29: 'A Christmas Story' on TBS
- Forget Kim Kardashian, here's what we really searched for in 2012
- Obama criticized over Chuck Hagel candidacy for Defense secretary
- Peña Nieto team decries past drug cartel strategy — and keeps it
- Eastern Sierra peak will be named Mt. Andrea Lawrence
- James Gandolfini's 'Not Fade Away' performance honors late father
- Johnathan Franklin savors a happy return
- Consumer confidence falls to 5-month low on 'fiscal cliff' fears
- Disney controls Winnie the Pooh trademarks, court rules
- Iraq denies interest in Maradona as coach of national soccer team
- Live discussion: The fast decline of Tim Tebow
- Deadly winter storm heads east after pummeling Midwest
- In Honduras, a controversial tycoon responds to critics
- Forget the 'fiscal cliff'
- Suspicions swirl over disappearance of activist in Laos
- Randy Travis pleads not guilty to assault; jury trial awaits
- 'The Holy or the Broken' tracks a song's slow build to classic
- Pop musicians' (final?) tweets for the apocalypse
- El Camino Real's Evan Wardlow pulls out all the stops on defense
- 'Gangnam Style's' Psy dances into Westwood condo
- California visual effects artists fight foreign film tax credits
- 'Gangnam Style' sets world record: Gallops to 1 billion video views
- A busload of poets: Michael Zapruder's 'Pink Thunder'
- Getting dialogue started on violence not easy, ex-CBS exec says
- What can Hollywood do to stem gun violence? [Poll]
- U.S. economic growth in third quarter is revised upward
- A defiant NRA calls for armed guards in every school
- Rebel Wilson chosen to host April's MTV Movie Awards
- Directors Roundtable: Tom Hooper on the perils of live singing
- A singing Tommy Lasorda and the Dodgers spread holiday cheer
- Dinner tonight! Warszawa's cold borscht
- Consumer confidence tumbles to 5-month low on 'fiscal cliff' fears
- Up next for USC men's basketball: Saturday at Georgia
- Troubled BioWatch program at a crossroads
- Luxury car sales on track to have best month in years
- Letters: Fairness for fixed-income seniors
- Rebel Wilson will host 2013 MTV Movie Awards
- Letters: A tantrum by the rich
- Jobless rate falls below 10% in California
- Media investor Gordy Crawford signs off. Hulu owners bicker.
- Autonomy founder Mike Lynch still wants details on HP allegations
- Letters: The childhood roots of violence
- Ethnic violence leaves at least 39 dead in Kenya
- Alarcon child endangerment case isn't felony status, D.A. says
- State arts agency loses chance to raise money via tax returns
- Did 'Zero Dark Thirty' filmmakers get torture right? [Poll]
- CIA director wades into controversy over 'Zero Dark Thirty'
- Clippers' victory leaves a mark
- Review: Jackson Browne, Bob Weir & friends in holiday benefit
- State unemployment rate falls to 9.8% even as employers shed jobs
- TV chefs' recipes too high in fat, calories for WHO recommendations
- Gun lobby has squelched injury prevention research, doctors charge
- The buzz in Paris: What books do international writers recommend?
- Police use pepper spray to control crowd seeking new Air Jordans
- 'Iron Man 3' among films giving North Carolina a boost
- Obama steps up gun control effort
- NYSE to be bought by upstart rival for $8.2 billion
- 10 California hospitals fined for serious errors
- Tim Tebow aside, consider the NFL gambles that have worked
- Farmers Markets: Look for Page and Lee mandarins
- For the record - Dec. 21, 2012
- Open-source maps of California's emergency medical agencies
- Wife of LAPD chief gets restraining order against homeless woman
- Occupy L.A. protesters sue city
- Boys' basketball: Alemany rolls past L.A. University
- Boys' basketball: Kevin Harris scores 31 points for West Ranch
- Hot Property | Connie Stevens, Alan Thicke
- L.A. county, LAFD fire chiefs discuss regional dispatch network
- Football: Kicker Bret Miller picks Arizona
- Baseball: JSerra freshman Chase Strumpf commits to UCLA
- Authorities search for injured hiker as night falls
- $50K reward offered in slaying that left a neighborhood in tears
- Mayan calendar school threats unfounded, officials say
- L.A. County sheriff's aircraft used for personal reasons, audit finds
- Preview: Lankershim Boulevard's new energy
- Football: St. Paul hires Rick Zepeda as new coach
- Year in review: 13 things we said goodbye to in 2012
- What's that white fuzz on the Fuji apple tree?
- Jane Fonda on yoga for boomers
- A Christmas Eve night to remember
- Suspect Tasered after allegedly biting LAPD officer
- Democrats target secret political money with new legislation
- 'X Factor's' Tate Stevens: 'I didn't come here to take second'
- Battle over Harborside pot dispensary heads to court
- O.C.'s sex offender ban to be reviewed by Court of Appeals
- SoCal Close-Ups: Big Bear, Lake Arrowhead and Idyllwild
- World War II medals stolen from home of retired Marine
- D.A. sends Andrea Alarcon child investigation case to Trutanich
- Bike-share company plans to start in downtown L.A. this April
- L.A.-area fire departments consider linking 911 dispatch systems
- 2012: Los Angeles celebrates
- Directors Roundtable: Six filmmakers talk shop
- Rosie O'Donnell's sweet Chicago home
- 'Hobbit' to again rule box office; 'Zero Dark Thirty' has big start
- Police train at Cal State Northridge for response to shooting scene
- Joshua Tree man threatened to shoot down police copter, officials say
- DJ Earworm releases annual 'United State of Pop' megamix
- Blizzard hits Midwest
- State Senate leader backs Medi-Cal expansion
- California Senate leader asks feds for more mental health funding
- Despite gay ban, Boy Scouts can lease public space, court rules
- Worst movies of 2012
- A Griffith Park hiking path for newcomers
- Rachel York
- FBI hunting for San Gabriel con man who skipped sentencing
- Directors Roundtable
- How to stop squirrels from stealing fruit
- Derek Jeter calls mother of teacher killed in Connecticut shooting
- Stockton school shooting survivor to Newtown: 'There is hope'
- Councilman pushes for gun show ban in Glendale
- L.A.'s weather turns colder, and the Twitter comments heat up
- Christmas house display looks like 'Vegas,' neighbors complain
- 11 last-minute gift ideas for book lovers (that aren't books)
- Holiday procrastination: 17 million Americans will shop Christmas Eve
- Baseball: Mira Costa coach faces restrictions after review of program
- 10 California hospitals fined for medical errors
- Marines to undergo random tests for alcohol consumption
- Newport Beach man accused of killing wife is out on bail
- Farmland peaks, crop space to revert back to nature, report finds
- Northridge shooting victim’s family angry suspect wasn't in prison
- Football: Thomas Oser is finalizing college choice
- L.A. Now Live: NASA debunks Dec. 21 'end of the world' fears
- Basketball: Wednesday's scores
- Boys' basketball: Poly's Kameron Chatman loses appeal
- Baseball: It's a homecoming for Rob Rasmussen
- Caregiver accused of stealing more than $150,000 from elderly woman
- Darden missteps, 'Obamacare' flap dent Olive Garden owner's profit
- State fails to coordinate energy programs, audit says
- L.A. gun buyback day next week: Mayor, LAPD announce locations
- L.A. artist taking on Heineken over Silver Lake mural
- Crime alerts for Fairfax, Del Rey and 11 other L.A. neighborhoods
- Robber smashes 2-inch-thick window, steals cough syrup
- Homeless man found dead under Pasadena bridge
- O.C. councilman wants to allow teachers to carry guns at school
- La Scala opening with conductor James Conlon canceled after strike
- Cat crashes wedding
- What to read before the Maya apocalypse
- Skelton: Jerry Brown gets high marks in 2012
- Scary snowman in the city
- Jenni Rivera: Overflow crowd says goodbye at singer's memorial
- Crash test crumples two of Toyota's top sellers: Camry and Prius v
- Temperatures expected to rise after record-setting cold hits SoCal
- Earthquake: 2.9 quake strikes near Hydesville
- Congress should protect diplomats, not just bash Hillary Clinton
- Celebrity Birthdays for December 20th
- White House defends possible Defense nominee Chuck Hagel
- Robert Griffin III fined $10,000 for wearing the wrong shirt
- New jobless claims up 17,000 last week, but remain relatively low
- 'Skyfall': Javier Bardem on the difference between Silva, Chigurh
- 'The X Factor' recap: Tate Stevens wins Season 2
- 'The X Factor' recap: The three finalists sing for the win
- Test Kitchen video tip: Homemade ricotta
- Is Tom Cruise reaching? Senators blast 'Zero Dark Thirty.'
- Tim Tebow breakup: All alone again after split with Camilla Belle
- Darden missteps, 'Obamacare' flap dent Olive Garden owner's profit
- 'In Cold Blood' a cold case police decide is worth digging up
- Sharp words ahead of 'Plan B' tax vote
- Samsung to unveil flexible display technology at CES
- Putin further distances Russia from Syria's Assad
- Letters: A Capitol Hill hero
- Controversial Indian politician gets boost from election win
- House Republicans call off vote on 'Plan B' fiscal cliff plan
- American Airlines plans to sell London town house for $23 million
- Congress should protect diplomats, not just bash Hillary Clinton
- UCLA's Devin Lucien to return for Holiday Bowl
- Eat your meal(worms)! If nothing else, it could help the planet
- Movie review: 'Worlds Away' a Cirque du Soleil sampler platter
- More or fewer guns? The experts are divided
- Ben Affleck on running for Senate: He didn't say 'no'
- In Israel, Labor Party chief's shift to the right causes dissent
- Steve Nash's return a possibility for Saturday
- Flipboard rolls out magazine app for Android tablets
- Hairstylist remembers Adam Lanza: 'I thought he couldn't speak'
- Mortgage rates mixed, Freddie Mac says; 30-year fixed at 3.37%
- Costume Designers Guild to honor Anne Hathaway, Lorne Michaels
- U.N. Security Council approves military mission in Mali
- The ABCs of firing a teacher
- For Jacki Weaver, 'Silver Linings Playbook' finally computed
- Quick Takes: 'Glengarry' recoups
- Up next for the Clippers: Friday vs. Sacramento
- How Sally Field fought for Spielberg's first lady in 'Lincoln'
- Letters: Humane is hip
- Roger Ebert's Ebertfest gets $20,000 academy grant
- Review: 'On the Road' is achingly romantic
- Review: Danny Lyon takes us on a slick ride at Duncan Miller
- Third-quarter GDP growth is revised higher but weakness looms
- LAPD investigation of killing hobbled by DEA
- Boehner rejects Democrats' push for immediate vote on gun bill
- Palm Springs International Film Festival announces 180-film lineup
- Apple's patent victory may be small in larger battle with Samsung
- Wise-cracking 'Movie Interruption' to heckle 'Love Actually'
- Letters: Gun control back in play
- Canstruction LA to take place at January Art Walk
- L.A. county, LAFD fire chiefs discuss regional dispatch network
- What is the greatest sports moment in world history?
- Clippers enjoy the moment after 11th win in a row
- Letters: Fixing realignment
- Ava DuVernay no longer in 'Middle of Nowhere'
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 'Antifragile' dares us to expect the unexpected
- Receiver Darreus Rogers practices with USC for first time
- Milwaukee sheriff: Cut 'green projects' for a cop in every school
- Apple takes quest for Samsung product ban to appeals court
- Costume designers and actors, a tightly woven fabric
- Hedge fund manager alleges Herbalife is 'pyramid scheme'
- Treasury to sell GM stake over 15 months
- With 11 straight victories, Clippers feel like winners
- NHL cancels more games
- KPFK's 'Travel Tips for Aztlan' names 2012's best Latin-alt albums
- New York Stock Exchange operator agrees to be sold for $8.2 billion
- Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey's interesting definition of 'lateral'
- Review: 'Not Fade Away' grooves on '60s in coming-of-age drama
- Oscar 8-Ball: Tom Hooper's 'Les Miserables'
- Singer Shirley Jones lists Encino home for $2.1 million
- 'Top Chef' recap: The ladies won't be foiled again
- Movies: 'It's a Wonderful Life' at American Cinematheque
- California: Shaun White to lead Northstar's 40th-year celebration
- Minnesota dog faces death sentence after state high court ruling
- Orange County will mark Harvey Milk Day
- Sandy Hook slayings: Newtown shooter's mother memorialized
- Movie review: 'This Is 40' finds truth amid midlife crisis, laughs