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- Alan Buckner, 65; Judge Issued Unprecedented Ban on Public Gatherings by Gang Members
- FINALLY
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- Terror Suspects Released Temporarily Before Trial
- Judge Turns Down Request for Delay of Jackson Trial
- George L. Campbell, 92; Fluent in More Than 40 Languages
- Lorier and Efseaff Are Sent Home for Violating Rule
- Ohio State Suspends Smith
- A historical record that tends to contain blots and erasures
- IRS Ruling May Scuttle Marathon-Ashland Deal
- Still Struggling, Stocks End Mixed
- Liberty Media to Increase Its News Corp. Voting Stock to 18%
- Honda to Make CR-V Vehicles in Ohio
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- The 'Daddy' of TV Tastelessness
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- A convoluted holiday whodunit
- U.S. Upholds Tariffs on Shrimp Imports
- Exelon to Purchase PSEG
- Outdoors online and Page 2
- Grateful for Help in Getting Back on Road
- Floyd Appears to Top USC List
- Knight Before Christmas Is His Real Big Wish
- Lake Tahoe Warmer, Study Finds
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- Purloined Parrots to Get Trip Home
- Neil Schmidt, 63; Santa Monica and Malibu Schools Chief for 9 Years
- He Just Wasn't Fit to Be Tied Down
- U.S. publishers sought for Iranians
- Agnes Mansour, 73; Nun Freed From Vows Over Abortion Issue
- Talk radio format supplants rock
- Bush Extols Private Retirement Accounts
- Condor advocates seek lead bullet ban
- Police Recover Gorilla, Arrest Four Suspects
- Judge Rejects Pinochet's Appeal to Halt Case
- Gadfly's Messages Tout Moore for Mayor
- Woodson and Anderson Are Arrested
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- Kia Wants Spectra Sedan Retested
- U.S. Tourism Grows 1.1% in 3rd Quarter
- Former Biker Gets Life Term in Drug Ring Case
- New President Takes Office, Pledges Reforms
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- FISH REPORT
- The U.N.'s Electoral Mr. Fix-It
- Weekend box office
- Sum of his parts
- Grocers, Union Agree to Contract
- Wachovia, CSFB May Arrange Loan for Oracle
- Top Iraqi Politicians Show They're in Campaign Mode
- Darfur Monitors Halt Work Under Fire
- Prepped for the trail
- Library Gets a Warm Welcome
- Kittles Likely to Miss at Least Two Weeks
- It's Too Grisly for L.A. to Bear
- Cellphone Sexcapade Fuels Scandal in India
- To Tree or Not to Tree
- Tracing the Christmas tree's roots
- Card Stores Settle Credit Card Receipt Case
- Witness Says Cleric Led Terror Group
- Vintners Courted as Wine Sales Flourish
- Oak mistletoe
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- 'People Are Coming Here to Do Jobs That Americans Will Not Do'
- Former Carson Mayor Sentenced in Bribery Case
- Tower a Hazard, Pilots Warned
- My Fight Against American Phantoms
- Not Even Shaq Is as Big as This House
- Expos Still Headed for D.C. Home
- File-Sharing Website Ceases Operations
- Gasoline Prices Fall 8.6 Cents in State
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- Plea Deal Expected in Spam Case
- No Verdict for Accused Human Smugglers
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- The Unspoken Holiday Custom: Thievery
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- 7 Arrested in Hog and Dog Competitions
- Acupuncture May Ease Knee Arthritis
- Change in Lunch Regulation Is Pulled
- Insurgents Are 'Trying to Shake the Will of the Iraqi People'
- Man Wanted in Murder Killed in Shootout
- VA Tracking Files Aid Care, Study Shows
- Electronic Arts to Buy Major Stake in Ubisoft
- Suspicions Gather Where 3 Nations Converge
- FDA Warns Aleve May Increase Heart Risks
- Boat Sinks; 5 Crewmen Are Missing
- Bush Foresees a Deeper U.S. Role in Iraq
- Friends Mourn Angel of the Morbidly Obese
- Alarcon Proposes Contributions Limit
- Who's Really in Cahoots?
- Merry C-Word
- NOW YOU KNOW
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- Without Graham King, 'Aviator' wouldn't fly
- A Soft Retail Season at Present
- HealthSouth Founder Sues Paper for Libel
- More Suspects in Arson Fires
- Harry Ueno, 97; Hero to Japanese Americans in Internment Camps
- Muslims Hold Forum, With Absences
- He Just Wasn't Fit to Be Tied Down
- Her gratitude is ringing true
- Patriots Upset by the Dolphins, 29-28
- Cambridge Antibody Wins Abbott Ruling
- D.A. Opens Inquiry on Donations
- Drug Makers to Team on AIDS Pill
- Workers puncture Dutch painting
- Corruption Spotlight Now on Panama
- U.S. Settles Claim by Holocaust Survivors
- The GOP's Sabotage of Social Security
- Bison to be vaccinated
- State Sues Firm Over Mutual Fund Sales
- Kansas' Simien Has Thumb Surgery
- Short Story for Angels
- Renegade Soldiers Advance Against Troops
- Justice Says He Will Return Next Season
- Judge Quashes Big Award in Girl's Death
- Josh Brolin involved in spousal fracas
- Matchmaker EHarmony.com Attracts Nearly $110 Million in Venture Funding
- Bush Stands by His Man, Donald Rumsfeld
- Self-Esteem Is Earned Through Achievement
- A Silly Boycott Over a Holiday Greeting
- JUST BACK ...
- Destructive drinkers would have to pay
- Covering a War Zone on the Home Front
- 'Ownership Society'
- Balance Lawsuit Limits With Limits on Profit
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- Neil Schmidt, 63; Santa Monica and Malibu Schools Chief for 9 Years
- Bitter truths
- Chilling effects
- Dazzling, then they disappear
- Cloud ripper
- The cold chronicles
- FBI Claims More Arab Prisoners Abused
- Blake Trial Begins in Packed Courtroom
- Bush Presses Social Security Reform
- Majerus Cites Health for Turnabout on USC
- 50 Suspects Arrested in Iraqi Bombings
- Disney Settles SEC Complaint
- Bush: U.S.-Trained Iraqi Troops Not Ready Yet
- 10th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Set for April 23-24, 2005 at UCLA
- Wall Street to Watch Drug Makers' Stocks
- Shift to Foreign Stocks Sapping the Dollar
- Macao Marks 5 Years Under Beijing's Rule
- Grenade Found at Indonesian Hilton
- 'Blended Has a Splendid Day
- Doing justice to an assassin
- Kittles Should Get MRI Results Today
- The art of slow nurturing
- Studios Vie to Get DVDs Into Hands of Santa's Elves
- Disney Names New Head of China Unit
- Dozens of Vehicles Crash on Snowy Highway
- Medicare's Troubles May Be Sleeping Giant
- Unconnected Dots
- A Misguided Challenge to Affirmative Action
- House of Cards for Black Law Students
- O'Neal Makes Sure the Heat Stays Hot
- 'Meet the Fockers' cast is worth its weight in gold
- Older women may not need annual mammogram
- Seymour Melman, 86; Columbia Professor Favored Disarmament
- For Governors, Shoals Loom in Sophomore Year
- Reading Help for the Whole Family
- FIFA Rejects Woman's Deal With Men's Team
- It's Been Olson's Show All the Way
- Quitting Wasn't His Last Call
- Wishing the troops a return to normalcy
- Demanding students test their teacher's resolve
- Chiefs of Old Show Up
- Discontinuing painkillers can raise heart risk
- A Man of Muscle, Mystery
- 5 Held in Heist of 198 Pounds of Cocaine
- Manning Won't Bend to Fans' Will
- Migraines linked to greater stroke risk
- A Pragmatic Europe Warms to Bush
- Women Reach Out After Doing Time
- Chargers' Title Is a Bolt Out of Blue
- A glittery 'Kennedy Center Honors'
- Hark -- was that a flat note? Who cares!
- Spikes Gets in the Way and Bills Beat Bengals
- Stretching the budget deep into Brooklyn
- Truce Deadline Missed in Sudan
- A Jumbo Idea for Big Fires
- Neighborhood Mourns Slain Store Owner
- Musicians Have a Score to Settle
- Illinois Stuns UCLA, 78-63
- Cubans Wrap Up Emergency Exercises
- Kidnapping Suspect Files for Divorce
- A Yule standard, in swing time
- Owens Injured in Big Win
- Deaths from natural causes spike during the holidays
- Fiery Opposition Leader Keeps the Heat on Ukraine's Regime
- Report: U.S. Will Post Military Officer in Taipei
- A Child Is at Heart of Blake Case
- In satiric grip of 'Nutcracker!'
- Old Courthouse in Santa Ana May Get Its Crown Back
- Religious Hostility Surfacing
- Practices to Resume With Focus on Game Plan
- A Game Paddling Against the Tide
- Builder Sues Forest Service Workers Under RICO Act
- Lions' Point Man Falters
- Offense Leads the Way
- File-Sharing Tool Gaining Users
- Church Gathers to Mourn Its Loss
- Radically good design
- NetZero-ing In on Small Spenders
- Credit Card Bill for State Skyrockets
- A season's greeting to 'merry'
- A graceful greeting to the sun
- Small Russian Firm Wins Yukos Auction
- Couple Die in Crash of Small Plane
- White House Stands By Beleaguered Rumsfeld
- MTV networks around the globe
- It's mommy dearest versus Mary Poppins
- Bush May Be Borrowing Trouble With Social Security Plan
- 9 Nepalese Soldiers Killed in Ambush
- 99 Cents Stores Avoid Strike
- MSM touted as a varied pain reliever
- Alarcon, Hahn in Opposite Lanes on Tollbooth Idea
- Stress and disease may be linked, but how strongly?
- Katdogawn Looks to Repeat
- Packers: Hit on Ferguson a Cheap Shot
- Step lively -- give contra dancing a whirl
- Clippers Fail Again
- Sitcoms' decline: What's wrong with those guys?
- Colts Reach Deal for New Stadium
- Ill-Starred 'Star Wars' Tests
- Diageo Wins Bid for Chalone
- Election Comes to Voters in Turkmenistan
- Police Link 4 Bodies to Disappearances
- A San Clemente Charity Finds Itself in Need of a Home
- A bountiful benefit
- Packers Left Out in Cold
- Getty Deal Raises Questions
- More Than Gangbusters
- Treatment Sought for Muslim Leader
- They Hear Him
- Coaching Situation Still in Limbo
- Backing Into the NFC Playoffs
- Azusa Has Gun Club in Its Sights
- Rams Blow Chance With Loss to Cardinals
- A strong reopening for the Ambassador
- The 'kid' wants back in the picture
- Curb that holiday nibbling
- Pfizer Defends Painkiller Despite Federal Warning
- 2 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Kuwait Traffic Accident
- Toxic levels of metals found in some ayurvedic remedies
- Therapy targets cause of chronic fatigue
- Time Names Bush Person of the Year
- Flash Floods in South Kill 34, Injure 43
- He Has Nowhere to Go but Up ... or Down
- Wolfpack Falls to Huskies, 68-64
- Dodgers Aren't in a Rush
- Car Bombings in Iraqi Holy Cities Kill 62
- Renata Tebaldi, 82; Soprano Was a Star at Met, La Scala
- Grant, George Rejoin Practice
- Widow's Lawsuit Blocks Offering of Hong Kong REIT
- Space Crunch for Charter Schools
- Historic Minneapolis theater sets its stage
- Pharmaceutical Group Chiefs March to Individual Beats
- Arrest of EBay Unit's CEO in India Sparks Outrage
- 170 Palestinian Inmates to Go Free
- U.S. Advisor Affirms Bush Support of W. Bank Barrier
- Lorenzo J. Ponza Jr., 86; His Pitching Machine Became a Players' Staple
- All it takes is a ball, a hoop and good shoes
- A fortunate event for Paramount
- GT Live Borrows Page From X Games
- 100,000 Displaced in Congo
- Two New Commissioners Could Help to Energize California PUC
- CIA's Connections to Pinochet Overlooked
- Going Back to the Moon Would Enrich Science
- Governor's Fantasy
- Some Casualties From Iraq Can't Be Bandaged
- Social Security Crisis, or Crisis of Faith?
- Debating Who Pays for Mandatory Healthcare
- China and the West
- Hatch Misleads on Judicial Filibusters
- Sharper minds
- When it comes to kids and flying, the ground rules shift
- An Italian Requiem for a Mistreated Truffle
- Fidget Away to Eat Up Holiday Treats
- Light Up the Palms and Telephone Poles
- In S.F., Weighing Strippers' Rights
- A's Are Down to a 'Big One'
- Knight's 30 Lead Loyola's 72-68 Victory
- Frames of reference: originality and daring
- Beltre Could Wait for Only So Long
- A jukebox in your pocket
- An endurance test for literary greats
- Pentagon Pressed to Cut Its Budgets
- Loud Blast Heard; Meteor May Be Cause