- Humane Society Legislative Fund launches 'There Oughta Be a Law' contest
- Source: Sparks' Candace Parker absent in tonight's game because of a family-related issue
- Sparks' Candace Parker listed as day to day
- Sparks starting lineup includes Betty Lennox and Noelle Quinn
- Sparks' Candace Parker won't play in tonight's game against Phoenix
- Brian Kamenetzky: The Dodgers perform a successful Mile Heimlich
- Theater review: 'The New Testament' & 'Helter Skelter' at Open Fist Theatre
- Dodgers' Belisario enters not guilty plea in DUI case; hearing set for October
- Opinion: Michael Steele: For Medicare and abortion before he's against them
- Farmers Insurance to gut workforce at 21st Century unit in Woodland Hills
- Theater review: 'The Drowned World' at 6470 Theatre
- Opinion: Republicans looking for 'great white hope' to counteract Obama? Congresswoman says she didn't mean it that way
- Bleacher Report: Manny Ramirez really is to blame for Dodgers' offensive woes
- Style profile: George Esquivel's shoe-in for the CFDA / Vogue Fashion Fund award?
- Theater review: 'Blackbird' at Elephant Theatre Lab
- Friday's TV Talk Shows: 'Rachel Ray' welcomes Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus.
- Nonprofit asks to run Will Rogers State Historic Park
- Smog-producing leaf blowers can be exchanged for cleaner models
- The vaccines-autism debate: on 'Dateline' this Sunday
- Air quality still unhealthful in some areas of Southland
- Pomona man accused of running Ponzi scheme has companies shuttered
- 'Top Chef: Las Vegas': The Voltaggio brothers bring the charm
- Theater review: 'Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins' at El Centro Theatre
- State will cut off interest on IOUs after Sept. 3
- Big as an 'Apocalypse Now'-era Brando, it's the 2010 Triumph Thunderbird
- Literary offspring turn to rock 'n' roll. Early.
- PHOTOS: Jaguars at Eagles
- UCLA football: Wide receiver Terrence Austin tutors others
- Architecture review: Anaheim's rail hub
- Is beer price increase justified?
- Photo Gallery: 1,200 show for UFL Florida Tuskers tryouts at Citrus Bowl
- Movie projector: 'The Final Destination,' 'Halloween II' splitting horror audience
- Scott T. Sterling
- Opinion: Palin to headline abortion notification event. Or will she?
- Fox News beats CNN and MSNBC with more limited Kennedy coverage
- Hangar 25 at Bob Hope Airport wins environmental award
- Jeremy Piven's sushi defense holds water, arbitrator says
- Fashion Diary: Tales from the retail trenches
- FTC bans most robocalls
- The plastic sea
- UPDATED: Television news remains focused on Kennedy coverage
- Barkley named USC starting quarterback
- Minnesota police officer under scrutiny for allegedly feeding Pop-Tarts to gorillas
- NASCAR's Bobby Allison to appear at Orange Show Speedway
- Kristin Chenoweth named as 'Idol's' next guest judge
- Pucks 101, or hockey as a teaching tool
- College students pack a heavy bag of mental illness
- BlizzCon, Blizzard's annual convention, recharges gamers and developers
- Oscar winner among plans to attend LACMA 'popcorn summit'
- AIG hammers the bears again as stock nears $50
- Opinion: In today's pages: Ted Kennedy, charter schools and interstate rivals
- Complete book coverage for Aug. 30, 2009
- Athletic mouth guards protect teeth, but may pose other problems
- 'Inglourious Basterds' and the art of scalping
- Oh, baby: Christie Rampone's happy secret
- Auto News Roundup 8-27-09: Clunker sales for Big 3 totalled 38.6%, Chrysler Nissan deal canceled
- Hot Property: Producer picks up Ruth Buzzi's Hollywood Hills home for $1,021,000
- Judge OKs Michael Vick's bankruptcy payment plan
- Your morning adorable: Fennec foxes at the Krakow Zoo
- Disney, Hearst, NBC strike complex deal to simplify cable ownership
- AMC moves back to Hollywood
- UPDATED: As boycott continues, Glenn Beck's audience swells
- Baseball: Burbank shortstop commits to Stanford
- Valspar shows some love, changes its website
- The soloists
- Thursday's TV Highlights: Pandora's Party ends badly on 'Skins.'
- Brad Penny is looking for work
- Jason Schwartzman is back with the Band (of Outsiders) for fall
- State calls in IOUs after getting $1.5-billion bank loan
- UCLA football: Rick Neuheisel wants more from his quarterback
- Thursday's TV Talk Shows: 'Good Day L.A.' visits with Buzz Aldrin.
- Domino's meal is a carb bomb
- Swine flu: Are blacks and Latinos at higher risk?
- Finding a use for kudzu
- Ben Harper and David Arquette do things the Propr way
- Art or obscenity? A nude model is arrested at the Met
- Mr. and Mrs. Blagojevich to visit 'The View'
- AllPosters' sale on thousands of artful wall prints
- Opinion: Gov. Corzine: Libya's Kadafi 'not welcome in New Jersey'
- Dodgers: Jason Schmidt placed on the 60-day DL; career likely over
- Bud Light's 'fan can' leaves a bad taste
- Football: Banning has a QB to follow
- EGYPT: Returning fishermen accuse ship owner of stealing the glory
- Monster Mash: LACMA film program gets stay of execution; Stew talks about L.A. indie rock; Seattle's public-art mystery
- Berkeley Breathed, Lisa See, T.C. Boyle nominated for SoCal book awards
- Opinion: Obama, called the last Kennedy brother, to eulogize Ted at Saturday funeral
- On the set of 'Melrose Place'
- Who are the new residents of 'Melrose Place'?
- Red velvet cake: Duty calls
- NBC adds 4 years to U.S. Figure Skating coverage
- Picklers unite: Canning Across America this weekend
- The Morning Fix: VH1 wants redemption; Viacom's Beatles bet; Tennis Channel gets slammed; what will Howard Stern do?
- If a recovery is coming, one size won't fit all
- Stew gets 'down and dirty' on the L.A. sounds of 'Passing Strange'
- The Deal: Frontgate drops price on outdoor screens
- Sunset Plaza Tent Sale starts Saturday
- Are we born to multi-task?
- One year ago: Could Dick Fuld have saved the world?
- Two Food Events You Should Know About: Foodie art and artful wine
- Robots + virtual worlds = Robini-i
- Microsoft whacks $100 off the price of Xbox 360 Elite
- 'Top Chef': Men dominate the battle of the sexes ... and one of the ladies goes home
- Baltimore Ravens player Trevor Pryce sells Calabasas home for $2.1 million
- Ted Kennedy's milestones and missteps
- Former Viking Robert Griffith lists Lake Arrowhead site
- Torture and the CIA: Investigate White House higher-ups?
- Charting a way out of the mess in the Capitol
- Swine Flu - What You Need to Know
- Propofol dosage reported in Michael Jackson case is low, experts say
- Oprah Winfrey Network stumbles
- HP to design airline reservations system
- LAX simulator puts trainees in the hot seat
- Massachusetts law makes swift Kennedy succession unlikely
- A fresh start at Oakridge
- Stocks dip at open after 6-day advance in the Dow
- Former O.C. deputy charged with obstruction in lobster poaching incident
- VH1 reassesses its reality show focus
- Sanford rejects understudy's call to quit
- Ted Kennedy stirs conservatives again -- this time with respect and some fondness
- Carroll wants to see Corp on the move
- Dodgers go on a power trip
- In the heat of USC, UCLA scrimmages, he's seeing things: wine bottles, ghosts and potential
- Chivas lose game and Zach Thornton
- Those '70s movies rock out at the Aero
- Bengie Molina lifts Giants to victory
- Let the bidding begin
- Up next for Sparks: Thursday vs. Phoenix
- Brewer's campaign leaves a bad taste
- Ellie Greenwich: mover and shaper of American pop
- Funding of bank passes audit
- Slain model's car found in grocery store lot
- CIA inquiry will target contractors
- Death may lead to Iraqi power struggle
- Coming of age in TV land
- Angelenos conserving water and power
- Oliver has next year in mind
- ANG LEE FEELIN' GROOVY
- For Obama, a missed chance for a mentor
- A politician who 'really understood' California
- Ex-premier faces tough reelection battle in Japan
- Some Labor Day trips won't work
- By Janet Hook and Jim Oliphant
- L.A. Unified puts into place pay incentives for high-level officials
- Damien Thigpen is Tennessee's gift to Bruins
- Making the best of a hair-razing event
- Building roadblock may clear
- NATIONAL BRIEFING
- Revamp community colleges, study urges
- Nevada vs. California: It's war
- Angels end slide, beat Tigers 4-2
- How to shake Loney out of his home run rut? He's got a plan
- Short films for the soul
- 2 toddlers found on railroad tracks
- 'The Bear'
- BUSINESS BRIEFING / MEDIA
- Dalai Lama visit OKd by Taiwan president
- LETTERS
- Xbox prices set to be slashed in console battle
- NATIONAL BRIEFING
- WORLD BRIEFING
- NATIONAL BRIEFING
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING
- WORLD BRIEFING
- Makeup gets in on the anti-aging craze
- China to launch nationwide organ donation system
- French hostage escapes from Somali kidnappers
- Interim LAPD chief might be necessary
- A rare accord on cable news
- Is Fiorina's business resume a good foundation for Senate bid?
- Court: Return test records
- Calendar
- 16 indicted in California drug-smuggling probe
- State to reach even further into taxpayers' wallets
- Prosecutors to seek death penalty in Jamiel Shaw II case
- Keeping up service to country
- An India battle royale follows the death of a legend
- David Ortiz's second homer lifts Red Sox
- Chris Dufresne's preseason top 25: No. 8 Ohio State
- Live: Green Day at the Forum
- 'Inglourious Basterds'
- Dear Mr. Obama:
- FDIC shifts on rules for bank deals
- Psyllid found in L.A.; bugs in O.C. don't carry citrus disease, though
- Sacramento's fundraising season is in full swing
- Astrophysicists puzzle over planet that's too close to its sun
- A Cape Cod village mourns
- Letters to the editor
- Robin Williams pulls out a razor to play 'World's Greatest Dad'
- The end, but not the last word
- Milestones and missteps
- Kuroda pitches a bullpen session
- He's mean, and that's nice for quarterbacks
- The British folk singer has written new lyrics to Beethoven's famed chorale. It receives its U.S. premiere Saturday in Santa Monica.
- Window coverings recalled
- New-home sales surge
- Smoke blankets L.A. Basin
- Karzai extends his lead in election
- Norwegian hamlets saw riches but lost big
- 'Cash for clunkers' final tally: 700,000 cars sold
- Dominick Dunne, author and former Hollywood producer, dies at 83
- Not only loss, but a void
- Made-up teams can get real coverage
- Kennedy helped shape many laws that affect average Americans
- Bearish sentiment lowest since 2007
- A doable fix for Capitol mess
- Beckham is high on England
- Release of police interviews leaves Louisville's Rick Pitino fuming
- Posada and Pettitte lift the Yankees
- Padres defeat the slumping Braves
- BUSINESS BRIEFING / EARNINGS
- COMPANY TOWN
- NATIONAL BRIEFING
- WORLD BRIEFING
- LETTERS
- LETTERS
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING
- Colombia files OAS complaint over Chavez
- Zuma to visit Zimbabwean leader
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING
- BUSINESS BRIEFING / AUTOS
- LETTERS
- MUSIC REVIEW
- BUSINESS BRIEFING / EARNINGS
- BUSINESS BRIEFING / AIRLINES
- WORLD BRIEFING
- PLEDGES EXTEND FILM AT LACMA
- Australia military court ruled unconstitutional
- NATIONAL BRIEFING
- BUSINESS BRIEFING / BANKING
- BUSINESS BRIEFING / EARNINGS
- FOR THE RECORD - Aug. 27, 2009
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- 'I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-up Comedy's Golden Era' by William Knoedelseder
- Ellie Greenwich dies at 68; co-wrote 'Da Doo Ron Ron,' 'Chapel of Love' and other '60s hits
- THE NATION - News from Aug. 27, 2009
- Lake Los Angeles: Tammy Howland, 34
- Long Beach: Jacob Benavidez, 15
- Shadow Hills: Christobal Lira, 32
- Compton: Kevin Sipert, 17
- Our new favorite website: UpsideDownDogs.com
- 'Canine disarming'? Many readers state their opposition to controversial dental procedure
- Adopt-a-Pet: Betsy the Chihuahua-dachshund mix
- DVD Reviews: 'Playing Shakespeare' and 'She Stoops to Conquer'
- Sen. Ted Kennedy is remembered as a dog lover and animal advocate
- Lance Armstrong returning to Tour Down Under
- It's not easy to be a U.S. Open qualifier
- Same old Milton Bradley game
- Dominick Dunne's literary legacy
- Salad bars in the nation's salad bowl
- It's tennis time at the U.S. Open
- Dodgers: Sherrill undergoes MRI exam, Kuroda throws a bullpen session
- Soccer threats and outrage
- Opinion: A 140-character blueprint for California
- Pregnant and worried about swine flu?
- Too much radiation from medical testing?
- Boys' basketball: May resigns at Los Alamitos
- Cheese for wheels: Camaro owners get free Papa John's pizza
- FDIC eases rules for private-equity firms to buy failed banks -- sort of
- More Fashion's Night Out in Los Angeles
- VH1 wants less love, more redemption
- AAA projects Labor Day weekend travel will drop 13.3% this year
- Valspar, the heterosexual paint
- Free pizza today at Papa John's for Camaro owners
- Google Books embraces EPUB standard
- Tap water at the farmers market ... and it's free!
- Swine flu vaccine: Want to talk back to the CDC?
- Review: Placido Domingo and Yo-Yo Ma together for the first time
- Sparks' Kristi Harrower to miss next three games
- UCLA football: Coleman runs on and on
- Dominick Dunne: Excerpts from his work
- Popular home searches in L.A. County
- A zombie that never sleeps: Rob Zombie has 'sickness' that keeps him in motion
- 'Hell's Kitchen': Big Daddy's gone home
- Bob Costas, the traveling man
- North Texas middle school football player dies day after practicing in heat
- Takeout from your iPhone
- Market for electronic 'paper' to hit $9.6 billion by 2018
- Study: Football injuries more common in the middle of games
- Boys' basketball: Penn gets another commitment
- The Lakers against the East
- The Deal: Sale on Amana's dry-erase Jot refrigerator
- Bearish sentiment on stocks at lowest since 2007
- Boys' basketball: Let the transfers begin
- Auto News Roundup 8-26-09: Toyota to slash production by 10%, VW Golf TDI coming soon
- Six companies recall window blinds and shades after deaths and near-strangulations
- More injuries, death at Del Mar
- Ted Green: Why did Joe Torre use James McDonald?
- Rheumatoid arthritis sufferers have their own online show -- with a twist
- Football: NPR to focus on 'Friday Night Lives'
- Ring Festival LA launches website