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- No vacation for Wall Street
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- Critic's Notebook: In the glare of reality TV, a harsh truth
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- 'Fright Night' info
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- Michele Bachmann: Beware 'the Soviet Union'
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- Friday's TV talk shows
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- Student midwife is convicted of practicing medicine without a license
- Suspected members of an Iraqi drug-trafficking organization are arrested
- Brazil trip costs USC basketball much more than travel expenses
- Brawls erupt in China as Biden, players make 'goodwill' visits
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- Another former News of the World editor arrested in British phone-hacking scandal
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- Movie review: 'The Boy Mir: Ten Years in Afghanistan'
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- 'One Day' info
- California seeks probe of alleged community college job rigging
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- Huntington Beach Little League team dishes out most of punishment
- Robbie Keane says joining Galaxy 'an easy decision'
- Rwanda genocide trials leave a mixed legacy
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- PASSINGS: Dunn Lampton, Susan McLain
- Edie Wasserman dies at 95; Hollywood philanthropist and wife of studio chief
- Clair E. George dies at 81; spy was pardoned for Iran-Contra lies
- UCLA football: Westlake's Dashon Hunt commits to Bruins
- Boys' basketball: Servite hires John Morris as interim coach
- Joe Manganiello to join ridiculously hot cast of 'Magic Mike'
- Friday's Highlights: 'Tanked' on Animal Planet
- Friday's Talk Shows
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- Angels call up catcher Hank Conger, send Tyler Chatwood to triple-A
- Art review: Shi Guorui at L&M
- Football: Dashon Hunt commits to UCLA
- Rumor: RIM, record labels in talks for BlackBerry music service
- Asian shares join global slide in early trading
- Replica of Noah's ark planned in Kentucky
- Art review: Vincent Robbins at Cardwell Jimmerson
- Betty White voted America's 'most trusted' celebrity
- Slumping Vernon Wells on bench for Thursday night's game
- Theater review: ‘Madman William’ at the Lounge Theatre
- J.K. Rowling and PublishAmerica's unfulfillable promise
- Sightings: Kim Kardashian unveils clothing line with Kourtney, Khloe
- Weighing in on the Triple Double Oreo
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- Abner Mares agrees to rematch with Joseph Agbeko
- Robert Guerrero injures shoulder; Aug. 27 fight postponed
- Football: City Section gives approval for Carson QB to play
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- 'X-Files' veteran Frank Spotnitz developing new action series
- Opinion: Obama and Lincoln: trash-talking, Civil War-era style
- Loyola wins third consecutive Southern Section Commissioner's Cup
- Boys' basketball: Taft's Jason Hart to coach in Boost Mobile Elite 24
- USC's Jio Fontan will miss season because of knee injury
- Indie Spirit Awards contenders: Submit your entries
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- Baseball: Boston Red Sox call up El Camino Real's Ryan Lavarnway
- Geothermal-heated hotel planned for Mammoth Lakes
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- Hotel owner sought in Dominican journalist killing
- Baseball: The Max Fried effect
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- Mystery of the orange goo solved! (For real this time)
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- Filched Lincoln documents recovered by National Archives
- Judge rules McCourt's old law firm can't sue him
- Two plead guilty to hate-crime charges in swastika branding
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- Tom Schnabel sells Venice property
- Opinion: Cigarettes: What's different about scary warning labels for smokers?
- State lawmakers go after spread of mobile signs
- Just another Clayton Kershaw gem in Dodgers' 5-1 victory
- AT&T to offer only unlimited texting plans, starting Sunday
- Red Hot Chili Peppers unveil Venice Beach video for 'Rain Dance'
- U.S. Post Office closures: Get ready for a battle
- Kat Von D's 'L.A. Ink' is canceled by TLC
- Movie Projector: 'Conan' may not conquer 'The Help'
- Pukkelpop music festival stage collapses in Belgium, killing 3
- Gap reports second-quarter profit down 19%
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- Canada's Wonderland to add Leviathan coaster in 2012
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- Opinion: Is it time to reform the tax code?
- Tiny South Pacific island to accept Star Wars coins as real money
- Student workers protest at Hershey's, say their life not so sweet
- New 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' photos: Edward, Bella get cozier
- Rave Cinemas taps former Blockbuster chief as new chairman
- Stocks end day sharply down as economic fears are revived
- In an ungrammatical quote, where's the ?
- HP to kill TouchPad, may spin off PC business, buy British firm
- Melissa McCarthy: Emmy bridesmaid ... or upset winner?
- The Reading Life: Geoff Dyer on 'The Missing of the Somme'
- How Ridley Scott came to direct the new 'Blade Runner'
- Russell Armstrong's death: How the family wants Bravo to proceed
- Opinion: The capybara gets a free pass
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- News of the World editor arrested in UK phone hacking scandal
- Alleged foreclosure-prevention scam shut down by California
- Geena Davis confirmed to state commission despite opposition
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- Fox Sports announces deal with Ultimate Fighting Championship
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- Agency seeks to end sea otter relocations, to allow them off SoCal
- Elvis Presley's 'Blue Moon' at 57: His best ballad?
- Christine O'Donnell and CNN's Piers Morgan take it to Twitter
- Point to this: Frustration with Juan Uribe is a real pain
- EGYPT: Liberals approve cleric's suggestion for new constitution
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- Spot gold tops $1,800 an ounce
- Which star is most in need of an Emmy intervention?
- David Letterman death threat posted on jihadist website
- Mike Jacobs receives baseball's first HGH testing suspension
- Multiplex manners: How rude are patrons at your movie theater?
- Golden Gopher's 'liquor to go' gets a makeover
- Consumer Confidential: Consumer prices up, and so are bank fees
- Bill Plaschke: Don't be fooled by the 'new' Michael Vick
- With Ridley Scott, new 'Blade Runner' gets a credibility stamp
- 'Rescue Me' recap: 9/11 memories provide lessons for the living
- Back to school with Brooks Brothers Collegiate collection
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- No cheers for proposed bar in Ohio Statehouse
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- T.J. Simers: Miami has problems, but USC still cheated
- Late Night: Paul Rudd, Conan O'Brien and forbidden facial hair
- Photos: Joplin, Mo., tornado victims get back to normal
- To live and borrow in L.A.: Student debts, weighty mortgages
- California Pizza Kitchen hires new CEO from Texas Roadhouse
- Eric Rohmer's 'Le Rayon Vert': Kenneth Turan's critic's pick film
- New book claims Coco Chanel was a Nazi spy
- YouTube fine tunes music video recommendations
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- Govan: LACMA management shakeup not about cost-cutting
- Opinion: Joe Biden update: His GOP 'terrorists' quote reaffirmed
- Las Vegas launches another remake, but what about the leprechaun?
- Investor sues Motorola Mobility, Google over $12.5-billion deal
- Mortgage rates set fresh record low, Freddie Mac says
- FBI opens civil rights probe into Mississippi black man's death
- IKEA launches Share Space for customers' project photos
- Wall Street Roundup: S&P scrutiny. The Goldman switch.
- Anderson Cooper has a fit thanks to Gerard Depardieu
- Michael Emerson: I'm 'at peace' with Ben Linus association
- Brochu Walker’s line for Undiscovered launches Friday
- Football: Offensive linemen are in demand
- Big Audio Dynamite: An encore to the reunion?
- Monster Mash: Jeff Bezos of Amazon gives $10 million to museum
- Stocks sink worldwide, sending Dow down 470 points
- SYRIA: Latakia doctor says crackdown aims to divide and conquer
- The Morning Fix: 'Lone Ranger' may still ride. 'Spy Kids 4' will smell.
- Shooting of young couple stuns quiet New Jersey suburb
- Joplin returns to normal
- L.A. Phil announces more L.A. Phil Live concert simulcasts
- Martha's Vineyard and the humble home chicken coop
- Robert Wilson to revisit '77 L.A. performance piece at REDCAT
- Opinion: Ever seen a shooting star -- from above?
- Around Town: Peter Falk, rare Rainer Werner Fassbinder and more
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- Did skipping the boss's parties at TCW cost Jeffrey Gundlach his job?
- The Arts on TV: Secrets of 'Mona Lisa'; Vienna Philharmonic
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- Chi Dynasty's Chinese chicken salad
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- Opinion: Obama's bus tour themes: Washington (not him) really screwed up and we should spend a lot more
- Brawl between Georgetown and China's Bayi
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- Culinary SOS: Chi Dynasty's Chinese chicken salad
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- Charles Murray Jr. dies at 89; WWII Medal of Honor recipient
- Reality TV giant Endemol to make push into scripted fare in U.S.
- Immigrant advocates urge ending Secure Communities program
- Elisabeth Murdoch makes $214 million in sale of Shine to News Corp.
- Greek political rivals Papandreou and Samaras go way back
- University of California announces raises for non-union workers
- Stop and smell 'Spy Kids 4'
- Not for the faint of appetite
- Indian activist Anna Hazare ends standoff with government
- Rick Caruso to develop $550-million open-air attraction on Las Vegas Strip
- Thursday's TV highlights
- Hotel industry recovers as travelers fill rooms
- Pop music: Sade at Staples Center
- Fullerton police review video, acknowledge arresting wrong man
- Music: John Mauceri conducts 'Fantasia' at Hollywood Bowl
- Northrop execs bail out of L.A., but the firm is still grounded in the region
- Google's Motorola gamble
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- Sorry, VW, but Hyundai Accent is 'the people's car'
- Culinary SOS: Chi Dynasty's Chinese chicken salad
- City fees may quash this year's Sunset Junction
- A gnawing question answered: It's a capybara roaming Paso Robles
- Kings don't have a deal with Drew Doughty
- A brief history of theater odors
- Netflix prepares to launch in Great Britain, Spain in 2012
- Quick Takes: Katy Perry makes history
- ANALYSIS: Coliseum fight puts Rose Bowl ahead as potential fill-in NFL home
- Night life: Mattachine at La Cita
- Celebrating new voting districts
- Anderson Cooper, Gerard Depardieu and giggle incontinence
- The Triple Double Oreo is here, so gird your waistlines
- Friday Travel Ticker: What floats your boat?
- India anti-corruption activist remains in prison
- Rick Perry defends stance on Social Security
- Miami case is a matter of greed, not need
- Ron Paul 'forgets' Rick Perry's name, praises Jon Stewart [Video]
- Attacks in southern Israel leave at least 5 dead
- Golf construction is booming in China, though it's banned
- Lakers donate part of playoff bonus to help staff during lockout
- Clayton Kershaw wins 15th as Dodgers top Brewers, 5-1
- Mark Trumbo's dramatic homer lifts Angels past Texas, 2-1
- Day 1: Biden says U.S.-China partnership critical to global economy
- Rick Perry recovering well from experimental stem cell procedure
- More women should hold elective office, New Jersey voters say
- In China, reporters covering Biden get the heave-ho
- Britain's rioting; Texas Gov. Rick Perry's political donors; L.A. losing bus benches
- Four players get a do-over at UCLA
- Rep. Maxine Waters says blacks want Obama to get tough
- Markets plunge again as fears of recession grow
- Brain-eating amoeba? What is an amoeba/ameba anyway?
- Obama's vacation, like past presidents', the target of critics
- Rep. Maxine Waters says it's time for Obama to fight
- Obama's vacation, despite controversy, is good for his health
- Preseason college football countdown: No. 13 Texas Christian
- ADHD diagnoses on the rise
- Being a centrist is expensive
- Dust storm in Phoenix makes driving — and breathing — risky
- Trojans want to get Robert Woods back on the field
- 6.8 quake off Japan prompts brief tsunami warning
- Fast Track: Christine O'Donnell walks off Piers Morgan's show
- Abercrombie asks 'Jersey Shore' star to stop wearing its clothing
- Peru suspends coca eradication program
- Israel refuses to apologize to Turkey for flotilla deaths
- Don't link a cap on CSU presidents' salaries to graduation rates
- SpaceX rocket to make a test dock with space station
- Movies: Kevin Smith brings 'Red State' to New Beverly Cinema
- Taxing Warren Buffett
- The Game apologizes for tweeting Sheriff's Department number
- UCLA's Anthony Barr makes impression at running back
- Thursday's TV talk shows
- Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw looks great, but Javy Guerra gets work
- Ben Margolis and Gregory Ain: A meeting of radical minds
- Insurgent bombings in Afghanistan kill more than 20
- Ocean View looks to make a wave in Little League World Series
- Book review: 'Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind'
- Canada's Wonderland to add Leviathan coaster in 2012
- Former TCW executive takes excessive risk to boost returns, attorneys allege
- Switzerland: Resort hotel offers Tesla sports car package