- State university fee hikes are a test many families can't pass
- Monday's TV Highlights: Rufus Wainwright is profiled in a new documentary
- British ID card program meets resistance
- Blackhawks, Huet shuts out injury-depleted Red Wings, 3-0
- Foul trouble derails Lakers' Andrew Bynum
- Redskins look to sink Giants
- Senate Democrats get 60 votes to move healthcare bill along
- Feinstein to introduce legislation to establish 2 national monuments in Mojave Desert
- California tax collectors want their cut on out-of-state sales
- Iran's opposition movement mourns cleric
- Men's AP top 25 results for Sunday
- Obama's Guantanamo policy rings a bell
- Mavericks beat Cavaliers despite Dirk Nowitzki's absence
- Joe McKnight's uncertain status muddies USC tailback situation
- Lakers reserves are struggling in their fill-in role
- Women's AP top 25 results from Sunday
- A giant of California history returns to Sacramento
- Advertising emergency room wait times gains popularity
- Not starting? It's Brand-new to this former Clipper
- The controller question
- Reader letters: Drug company representatives and doctors
- Browns...41 Chiefs...34
- Accept generous offer to go on trip with a friend
- Buccaneers...24 Seahawks...7
- Observations from the 2009 football season
- Falcons...10 Jets...7
- 'The Man in the Wooden Hat' by Jane Gardam
- In downtown Los Angeles, Santa makes a special delivery
- Improving Grizzlies beat Nuggets, 102-96
- CalPERS probing investment advisor's ties to middleman
- Speaker-to-be Pérez knows what he's in for
- What's at stake in the UC Hastings-Christian Legal Society case
- Eagles...27 49ers...13
- Cardinals...31 Lions...24
- Weekend box-office results
- Strat-O-Matic: Not the real thing, but an incredible simulation
- Beloved Mexican priest is branded a rogue
- Popular dissident Hossein Ali Montazeri mourned in Iran
- EARLY BIRD: The Lazy Ox Canteen
- Why require people to buy health insurance?
- Rose Parade float to honor organ donors
- 'Avatar' rockets to solid opening
- Monday's Talk Shows:
- The gift card Grinch
- Darlene Love's season
- Raiders...20 Broncos...19
- Records show no mention of terrain in withholding aircraft during Station fire
- Egypt's barrier along Gaza border called 'wall of shame'
- Chargers are among several to weather tough challenges
- The week ahead at a glance
- What is to blame for child obesity?
- Patriots...17 Bills...10
- Wake up, flight crews!
- California National Guard troops help Afghan farmers
- A new twist in healthcare billing: the 'facility fee'
- Emergency Room wait times in Southern California
- Susan Boyle hitting holiday high note
- The true saga behind 'Crazy Heart'
- Lindsey Vonn reclaims World Cup lead
- Familiar faces among health industry lobbyists
- Titans...27 Dolphins... (OT) 24
- For the record - Dec. 21, 2009
- Nelle Becker Slaton dies at 88; educator promoted science studies for minorities
- PASSINGS: Napoleon A. Jones Jr., John Silard, Ruben Castro, Amin Hafez, Thor Arngrim
- Zinc may ward off viruses but there are dangers
- But does zinc help colds?
- Familial Mediterranean Fever: Rare genetic disease is often misdiagnosed
- Tackle Your Arms And Waist With This Move
- Station Fire: Day 1
- Democrats win Senate test vote on healthcare
- Monday's poll: One shot to win Game 7 of the NBA Finals, who do you want taking it, Jordan or Bryant?
- Monday's TV Highlights: Rufus Wainwright is profiled in a new documentary
- Opening the vault: The top 12 recipes of 1986
- Actress Brittany Murphy dead at 32
- NFL Week 15 scores
- Brittany Murphy dies at 32; young Hollywood reacts
- Opera star Placido Domingo does Mexico City concert
- Boys' basketball: Taft-Campbell Hall game set for Monday
- VIDEO: 'Avatar' director Jim Cameron and his stars on opening night
- Boys' basketball: Final eight teams for SFV Invitational
- Don't tell 'Avatar's' Stephen Lang he's the bad guy: 'I didn't play a villain; I played a man doing his job'
- GOP sharpens attack on Democratic healthcare bill
- What's fresh now at the market? Romanesco
- Opinion: Obama aide Axelrod fudges Dec. 31 deadline for Iran on nuclear weapons
- U.S. sends 12 Guantanamo detainees to their home countries
- Bipartisanship a victim of healthcare debate
- Could 'Avatar' hit $1 billion?
- Sunday's question: Which school has the most passionate college football fans?
- Democrats squash GOP efforts to delay healthcare bill as key vote looms
- The hazards of a sportswriter's job
- Sunday's poll: Are the Kings for real?
- Brittany Murphy: Life in Pictures
- Comments of the week: International conspiracy theory and Twitter quitter edition
- Iran's Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri dies
- Jack Zilly's days in Hollywood
- Tijuana security boss Julian Leyzaola leads a risky, controversial life fighting Mexico's brutal crime
- Flashback: reading like it's 1999
- Tiger Woods' best plan of action
- A-Rod who? Kate Hudson throws a party with sexy Santa babies in charge of valet parking
- First look: 'Avatar' slowed by snow in U.S., explodes overseas for $232.2-million worldwide opening
- Boys' basketball: Saturday's scores
- EGYPT: Government under fire for new Gaza barrier
- Girls' basketball: Saturday's scores
- Kiefer Sutherland, naughty or nice? Jack Bauer interrogates Santa ...
- PHOTOS: The best, worst and just plain weird celebrity websites
- Opinion: A Sunday Thought: Some old guy talks slowly about being American in another time
- Money doesn't always buy the office
- Discoveries: 'The Theory of Light and Matter' by Andrew Porter
- PASSINGS: John 'Jack' Zilly, Richard Saylor
- 'Boilerplate' by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett
- Los Angeles Times bestsellers for Dec. 20, 2009
- 'The Paris Review Interviews, Volumes I-IV'
- In Iran, a blind musician leads the way for a women's orchestra
- Robert Lloyd's best of 2009 list
- BEST OF 2009
- The measured Bill Moyers
- Dennis Lim: Best of 2009 list
- USC Thornton School of Music serves up honors
- Hole aces aren't always winners
- Productivity rises as workers do more with less
- Toxic flame retardant to be phased out
- Crenshaw hangs for a half, but De La Salle wins title
- USC wins Women of Troy Classic
- Race on the big screen
- WWOOF INFO
- Volunteer has to bee there
- Democrats will invoke Bush in 2010
- Hollywood freelancer seeks strategies to make sporadic earnings last
- After a decade of fear, we're connected to writing in new ways
- A preview of the 2010 NBA draft
- In Kenya, reason for hope
- These matchups could relight some old fires
- Women's AP top 25 results for Saturday
- Volunteer vacations: Spend less, give back, get more
- Travel literature that may inspire the philanthropist in you
- Malibu rock kept threatening to roll
- Senate healthcare bill set to pass by Christmas
- New Jersey can't catch Lakers when they drift
- 'Up in the Air' is at the gate
- In Iran, a blind musician leads the way for a women's orchestra
- LAPD to keep its policy on immigration checks
- A holiday gift list for the frequent air traveler
- There's no valor in too much discretion
- B.B. King gives Vegas a voice with his blues
- Events & Revivals
- J Brand teams with Henry Duarte
- A volunteer-minded traveler leaves a bit of his heart behind
- Schwarzenegger has options for post-gubernatorial act
- Technology becomes friendlier to older generations
- What Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth have to say
- 'District 9' landing on a disc near you
- Fond memories of growing up in Vancouver
- Up next for USC: Tuesday vs. Western Michigan
- A power struggle in Carson
- France's Chirac faces another inquiry
- National Briefing
- Trojans are playing with fire
- Brett Favre keeping it together
- Phil Jackson no help in determining future with team
- Councilman under fire for atheism
- If you go
- TV in real time isn't so bad
- Trouble in the Anglican church; Jonah Goldberg on reality shows and America; the deficit problem
- Sweden makes U-turn on nuclear power
- Planning your trip to Nairobi, Kenya
- Kobe Bryant rises above any rivalry
- Readers weigh in on girl's plan to sail around the world
- Q & A: The compromise on abortion
- Taliban attack California Guard soldiers
- Reality? Hardly
- The long and the short of TV series
- 'Boilerplate' by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett
- Let the bubbles lead the way
- Cambodia sends Uighur asylum-seekers back to China
- Robert Woods leads Gardena Serra to Division III state football title
- Helping the environment while traveling the globe
- The Times' NBA rankings
- BEST OF 2009
- Military deaths
- Court overturns California ban on violent felons owning body armor
- Bob Baffert wins pick four at Hollywood Park
- Loyola Marymount gets past Cal State Bakersfield, 84-71
- A look at Sunday's bowl game
- Kelly Pavlik defeats Miguel Espino to retain his middleweight titles
- Kids Stuff
- Volunteering in New Orleans and elsewhere
- Good deeds, good karma
- Beauty power tools the pros use are available for consumers
- Consumer Briefing
- 'Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas'
- In Kenya, reason for hope
- Good deeds, good karma
- Marc-Andre Fleury stops 31 shots, helps Penguins past Sabres, 2-1
- Spurs rally to give Gregg Popovich his 700th coaching win
- Remembering California's war dead
- Planning your trip to Nairobi, Kenya
- Bruins' struggling running game faces a challenge against Temple
- PASSINGS: John 'Jack' Zilly, Richard Saylor
- Ducks get crucial scoring from unexpected sources
- 60th senator wields power over healthcare
- Neo-Nazis protest at Riverside synagogue
- Senate plan would tax tanning services
- Up next for Lakers: Sunday at Detroit
- Recipes for getting kids off the street
- The Dickensian state of film
- Rail passengers spend a cold, dark night stranded in Chunnel
- Tijuana's security chief needs all of it he can get
- Theater: Amid the many bloated musicals, originality sneaks in
- 'Up in the Air' is at the gate
- Time to privatize the Postal Service?
- European Champions League Final 16
- Up next for UCLA: Tuesday vs. Colorado State
- Senate sends Obama a defense bill that also extends jobless benefits
- Montazeri, a senior cleric and defender of Iranian opposition, dies at 87
- BESTSELLERS LOS ANGELES TIMES Dec. 20, 2009
- Readers recommend: Seaside villa near Cabo
- Karzai's Cabinet list balances conflicting demands
- Sheryl Kayne's favorite volunteer vacations
- Iran's Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri dies at 87; prime defender of the protest movement
- California Guard troops attacked in Afghanistan
- Like Marshall Faulk before him, Titans' Chris Johnson finds true purpose
- Mike Gerrity leads USC in upset of Tennessee
- Bruins' D is low-grade again in 84-73 loss to Notre Dame
- This time, the buzz is good for the Clippers
- Solid credit rating can crumble quickly
- Q & A: The Abortion Compromise
- The Tao of Tavi Gevinson
- MUSIC
- BEST OF 2009
- When love takes flight, the sky's the limit
- Steps to create an Israel-Palestine
- One debit-card overdraft can trigger an avalanche
- When love takes flight, the sky's the limit
- Cashmere's soft and warm appeal
- Nicholas Echeverry kicks Servite to state title
- Money doesn't always buy the office
- Recipes for getting kids off the street
- L.A. police investigate death of Brittany Murphy
- GALLERIES
- Helping to rebuild New Orleans
- Prime choices
- MUSEUMS
- This month's makeover
- Travel literature that may inspire the philanthropist in you
- Saints no longer perfect
- Owner of car USC's Joe McKnight drove denies wrongdoing
- Mary McNamara: Best of 2009 list
- Best films of 2009
- Discoveries: 'The Theory of Light and Matter' by Andrew Porter
- Farsi phone service helps bind a community
- Up next for the Clippers: Monday at San Antonio
- Tis the season
- Christmas in July -- and every other month too
- Her travels battled polio
- Buying and caring for cashmere
- Architecture: The best of 2009
- Boris Gelfand breaks through to win World Cup
- 'The Paris Review Interviews, Volumes I-IV'
- Book calendar
- Stylist B. Akerlund: She's helped Lady Gaga go go
- Climate summit hopes less is more
- War casualties
- Holiday handouts spread cheer in Los Angeles
- LAX flight schedule back to normal
- Sunday's Highlights: 'The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty' continues on A & E
- EVENTS
- The 'principled pragmatism' of the Obama administration
- The elderly need to beware of lenders--and relatives
- The match game
- Detective work yields a suspect in LAX bomb threats
- Life as performance art for a family not bound by typical assumptions
- Men's AP top 25 results for Saturday
- Business Letters
- It looks like Ugg love
- Calendar: events from December 2009 to January 2010
- Bulls end Hawks' winning streak
- Sale benefits unemployed illegal immigrants
- Looking ahead in the NBA
- Horoscope: Dec. 20
- Movies - Dec. 20, 2009
- For the record - Dec. 20, 2009
- For the record - Dec. 20, 2009
- For the record - Dec. 20, 2009
- L.A.'s growing pains, status
- From guesthouse to grandeur
- Antonio Pineda dies at 90; Mexican modernist silversmith
- Living detached from the larger world
- Home of the Week update
- Pico Iyer on the tyranny of the moment
- Word Play: The Secret Life of Santa
- Bar set low for lifetime job in L.A. schools
- The Vampirization of America
- Books provide solace and companionship
- Architecture: Star architects emerge, but even they find limits
- Cutting through the din of the dotcom age
- Alive and well
- Los Angeles Times bestsellers for Dec. 20, 2009
- Consumer agency could protect future home buyers and mortgage borrowers
- Army Sgt. Eduviges Wolf, 24, Hawthorne; killed by rocket-propelled grenade
- Dance: The 21st century awaits its next cue