- Southern Section seeks stiffer interaction rules
- Hormone skin patch maker in deal with P
- Melrose on guard after 7 robberies
- There continue to be Manny surprises
- Man, 18, dies of gunshot wounds
- Oracle CEO's earnings up 38%
- Film critic and artist was iconoclastic and influential
- Problems reported before crash
- MORNING BRIEFING
- Mao's successor as Chinese leader
- Rights groups allege Colombian atrocities
- Awaiting delivery from far, far away
- 9 prisoners die in escape attempt
- State laws do not extend to EBay
- 'Bush Lied' T-shirt is cleared
- 12 Darfur rebels get death penalty
- Denver versus Twin Cities: What's the difference?
- Quick Takes - Aug. 21, 2008
- For the Record - Aug. 21, 2008
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- Deaths at rehab hospital in Pasadena draw scrutiny
- California's ballot billions
- Opinion: Home on the Change
- U.S. women shock Cuba in volleyball
- Bolt celebration draws rebuke from Olympic boss
- PhilCam: Misty, play anyway
- Brew your own in time for Oktoberfest
- 'Project Runway': Good queen fun
- In Beijing, park upon park but with different themes
- A U.S. Olympic team doctor blogs from Beijing: The guts, the glory, the gastrointestinal problems
- FDIC: New 3% mortgage rates for some IndyMac borrowers
- Beach volleyball: May-Treanor, Walsh win gold
- Opinion: Ralph Nader has celebrity backers too -- like Sean Penn and Val Kilmer
- A victory for fair use?
- Martinis in the morning? You may be a retrosexual
- Adventures in reservations: Apple says no jeans
- Opinion: L.A Times/Bloomberg poll: Views on the U.S. economy a bit better
- Lot 1 update
- Opinion: Biden pays off much debt, Giuliani a little, Ron Paul still has zero
- Medals Per Capita blip: Netherlands Antilles
- Time to open an Aston Martin DBS
- Olympian as housing developer
- Raw milk program ends after 15 people get sick
- Merrill brokers try to push Pimco on auction-rate buyback
- Hybrids vs. pedestrians
- Free gas, soldier!
- Weight-loss surgery helps drop pounds, but it may not cure sleep apnea
- Emmanuel Ekpo ready for soccer's Olympic stage
- NBC updates ratings from Beijing Games
- Opinion: Barack Obama, other Democrats call for fixes to caucus/primary scheduling
- Football: Colorado keeping the pressure off Scott
- Devouring the Olympics for lunch
- The California Coastal Commission's voting record: not so activist?
- When it comes to Barack Obama book, booksellers are not 'luddite idiots'
- 'Game' reminds Chris Bridges of 'The Running Man'
- Millie Quan named senior features editor
- For sale: in dollars, euros OR pounds
- Staff changes on the National desk
- Court: Consumer protection laws don't always count on EBay
- IRAQ: U.N. looks to solve Kirkuk problem
- Opinion: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver talk, but sometimes they forget
- Oil's slide peters out; Goldman repeats $149 year-end target
- Bruce Wallace named Foreign Editor
- Phil Spector Trial
- Brazil's Lula: 'I've never been so angry'
- ISRAEL: Arms amnesty for Israelis
- Food section story wins Missouri Lifestyle Journalism award
- Endangered tortoise found burned to death
- Opinion: My dog ate my badge
- Football: Barrett is big man on campus at Notre Dame
- Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh: 107 wins and counting
- Timo Glock's Win at the Toyota Race of Legends
- Football: Mission Viejo self-reports rule violation
- Palm takes on the BlackBerry (and the iPhone is in sight)
- A tail of a whale in Long Beach
- Opinion: 'Rain man' apologizes for anti-Barack Obama video (but his cause remains alive)
- An 'Angel' of a pit bull saves lives of tabby kittens
- How cable works: Inside a Time Warner head-end center
- Albino alligator makes its debut in San Francisco
- Jones and Nott take fifth in synchronized swimming
- Girls' soccer: Two locals make All-American team
- Bill Heisel joins Business full-time to report on housing
- Gao advances in women's table tennis
- Opinion: Rudy Giuliani to keynote GOP confab; Joe Lieberman also will speak
- In today's Times
- Around the Web 8.20.08: FTC fine with a Take-Two deal, phones get better
- FirstFed's stock jumps on improved loan data from July
- Rachel Maddow promises to stir things up with her new MSNBC show
- Wilkinson, Ishimatsu advance to platform semifinals
- At least 100 dead in plane crash at Madrid airport
- San Clemente man arrested in plot to kill ex-girlfriend
- Opinion: In today's pages: Reagan Republicans, the FBI and predatory lenders
- Opinion: Barack Obama's 'celebrity' zinged again by John McCain ad
- U.S. men's volleyball beats Serbia to advance
- Argentine disco blaze trial gets underway
- Coaching clinic coming to Indian Wells
- Football: Loyola has a powerful mom on its side
- Mexico church assailed for maligning miniskirt
- U.S. men's volleyball goes to fifth set against Serbia
- Mexican cement company "irritated" by Chavez
- Football: For once, City coaches are perfect
- The son of illegal immigrants, American wrestler hoists his flag with pride
- Men's volleyball medal hopes fading?
- U.S. vs. Serbia: Volleyball update
- Unrest in Bolivia continues
- If CAA plays matchmaker for Jennifer Aniston, do they get 10% of her wedding gifts?
- ...and Mexico wins its first gold medal in Beijing
- Hello volleyball, goodbye gymnastics
- Football: Oaks Christian's Jones picks up first offer
- Mexico wins its first gold medal at Beijing Games
- The politics of gift giving
- While you were sleeping
- Usain, a weapon of mass destruction
- Phelps: More girlfriends than gold medals?
- All four U.S. BMX riders advance to semifinals
- AFGHANISTAN: Marines ready to go if ordered.
- Opinion: On Barack Obama's to-do list? Coalesce Democrats
- Baseball: Newbury Park players not happy with Drootin's departure
- L.A. animal services unprepared on spay-neuter law, audit finds
- Sprinter Michael Johnson: Can we quote you?
- Let's set the record straight
- 'Star Trek' loses warp power in Vegas
- PhilCam: A little late, less sun
- Heptathlete's positive test no surprise
- Plaschke: A moment to remember. Thanks, Henry Cejudo
- Track and field: To Dawn Harper, it's a lock
- Gotham's landscape, Chicago style
- Opinion: Denver's homeless get free haircuts to look good for Obama and his Democrats
- Olympic boxing's weird moments
- Shawn Johnson will stay for the finish
- Vegetable-stuffed Hungarian peppers
- Hungarian tomato and pepper stew
- Hungarian pepper salad
- Maple bacon biscuits
- BLD's blueberry ricotta pancakes
- No medal in the race, but gold for Lolo Jones later
- Chinese gymnasts inspired by bulletin board material
- Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson: Back or not
- Track and field: Sanya Richards was sleepless in Beijing
- Opinion: In Wednesday's Letters to the Editor
- Opinion: Presidential debate outrage! Libertarian Bob Barr wants in -- and a poll majority agrees
- Opinion: Culture warriors and the Anglican Church
- LACMA lands Ed Kienholz's 'The Illegal Operation'
- Restaurant breakfasts make a comeback in L.A.
- 'Architecture School' on the Sundance Channel
- Review: Animal restaurant in Los Angeles
- Review: 'The Rocker'
- Let Russia join NATO
- 'Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar' by Paul Theroux
- Best breakfast spots in Los Angeles
- 'The Rocker's' Teddy Geiger finds harmony
- Hungarian peppers: a walk on the lighter side
- Coffee's trained tasters know their beans and brews
- Culture warriors and the Anglican Church
- Best breakfast spots in Los Angeles
- 2006 Source Napa Gamble Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc
- Best Asian breakfast restaurants in Los Angeles
- Bigfoot on display! Museums, collections salute sasquatch
- Jonas Brothers notch third-biggest debut of 2008
- Nukes to the rescue?
- Best Asian breakfast restaurants in Los Angeles
- State's home sales rise 12%
- Fears bloom of new crisis in financials
- Ex-cop charged in bank robbery
- Elite Iraqi troops storm governor's office in Diyala
- The storm that keeps trying to be a hurricane
- Auto wheel maker to close plant, cut 29% of workforce
- Out of a walker and onto a horse
- Sticking up for L.A.
- CHIVAS USA TONIGHT
- Lomong through the eyes of his parents
- ICM to settle age bias suit
- Asset purge no tonic for Merrill
- Being seen and heard
- Harper follows in golden footsteps of Joyner-Kersee
- Wagging the dog in Georgia
- Bigfoot? Big foot in mouth, at least
- Bombers challenge execution method
- Big expectations
- 'Gemini' pioneers, comic strip-style
- One cop, but a million stories
- Angels again are done in by base relief in loss to Rays
- Stars line up for Toronto film fest
- Dalhausser and Rogers to play for gold medal
- Two titans of Alaska politics may be toppled
- O.C. gives 1,200 acres to trust backed by developer
- Galaxy trades Ruiz and is expected to sign Lewis
- Light at the tunnel's end
- Receding floodwaters reveal damage in Texas
- Federal probe focuses on Delgadillo's wife
- Come back, GOP
- Sweet spice of Hungarian peppers
- U.S. rolls past South Korea
- God and gasoline
- Prominent artists, city divided by an alley
- Heelys rejects Skechers bid
- Umpires have issues with replay setup
- RESULTS
- Running back Gable is injured in practice
- L.A.'s breakfast club
- Is the FBI investigating Delgadillo?
- CBS hires reality show executive
- Johnson finally mines her gold
- On Rodeo Drive, doing just fine
- Rocket from Gaza closes checkpoints
- Long Beach port's truck loans criticized
- Man pleads not guilty in stabbing
- Beamon's greatness endures for decades
- Offensive line still is taking some hits
- 2006 Source Napa Gamble Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc
- Who should bear the cost in Iraq?
- Pop's top sirens sing for charity
- Go native
- Medical debt balloons, study finds
- U.S. beats the clock
- Given a sporting chance
- Google to invest in geothermal
- ABC names creative exec
- Japan pushes hard, but U.S. reaches gold-medal game
- Practicing on replica track pays off big for four American riders
- The Kobe dynasty
- Tibet bullied by China? Oh, contralto
- There's nothing for schools to say
- O.C. supes wrangle over funding
- 12-year term for British terrorist
- Chasing the news all night
- Sport by sport
- Southland men held in child porn probe
- County OKs law targeting taggers and their parents
- Dunn helps Arizona take one-game lead
- Francis seeks to undo settlement
- Speculation says Biden is the pick
- Stocks tumble, oil rises
- Set out to explore Asia -- for breakfast
- Feinstein injured, will skip Denver
- 32 slain in Pakistan suicide blast
- Missing hikers are found safe
- O.C. man ordered to pay $22 million
- Aerospace exec started acclaimed Sonoma winery
- MGM seeking financing
- Waltzing around the piracy issue
- For the carnivores
- Home Depot's profit declines 24%
- Give Russia room
- TiVo relay team nears the finish line
- Top 25 countdown
- NATO terms Russia's use of force 'disproportionate'
- Shriver calls out for some partying unity
- Drummed out
- Ardoin gives up No. 36
- Prefab drama not in plans
- Gymnastics bias simple as N-B-C
- Georgian displays his media savvy
- National Guard suffers defeat in budget fight
- HP profit rises 14% on computer sales
- At 18, is it time for a drink?
- Missing shields
- FTC restricts prerecorded sales calls
- Obama ratchets up negative advertising
- Saxophone player in Dave Matthews Band
- A call for sexual responsibility
- Staples gives grim full-year outlook
- LACMA adds Kienholz but not the furor
- A 49ers resurgence? That's Martz madness
- Profiling policy is changed
- Robber plays cop in theater holdup
- Fruit fly find spurs eradication effort
- Gary Glitter has been released
- Patience in Pakistan
- Turkey urges Sudan to resolve Darfur
- Fire is brought under control
- Architect worked on public projects
- Karzai to seek reelection
- RESULTS
- Housing's good news
- BEIJING 2008
- Donovan to fulfill national service
- Deadly Afghan trend emerges
- Venezuela takes over Mexican firm's plants
- This guy smelled a possible payday
- U.S. beats Taiwan, 4-2, and clinches spot in medal round
- Maddux glad to be back in a race
- 5 Bolivian states strike for autonomy
- Day laborers, O.C. sheriff settle lawsuit
- Sales tax hike push riles GOP
- From humble beginnings, an American dream
- O.C. limits use of Tasers
- Iraqi employees are offered help
- Appalling lawsuit
- Gov. gets bills on guns, taxis
- How to twist Russia's arm: Let it join NATO
- Principals join mayor's school plan
- Zambian president denounced Mugabe
- Anger focused on West
- Bass singer for The Spinners
- Top coffee tasters mind their beans and brews