- Shoppers won't use credit cards as much this holiday season, survey finds
- External defibrillators need checkups; here's how to make sure yours works
- Rental cars get higher marks in new customer survey; Enterprise on top
- Beware of holiday-season schemes over the Internet
- ADHD gene may be the link to daydreaming
- Man shuns body scan, prompting flap with TSA and celebrity status on Web
- Television review: 'Glory Daze' on TBS
- DNA tests reveal mother of babies whose remains were found in old trunk.
- China's rise in the Middle East
- Stop the sex offender fear-mongering
- Pow! Bruins' dynamic duo earns them trip to Gotham
- Happening Tuesday: Jonathan Gold with Bret Easton Ellis and more
- Philip 'Flippy' Hoffman dies at 80; big-wave pioneer co-owned surfwear-related fabric company
- Former Israeli soldier seeks to shine a light on Hebron
- An Appreciation: Henryk Górecki
- Las Vegas deal: What can $22 buy? An Excalibur hotel room with extras
- Horoscope: Nov. 16
- Automakers are finally plugged into the electric-car era
- USC basketball uses Oregon's football team as a model
- Connecticut women extend winning streak to 80 games — barely
- Man sentenced to eight years in prescription drug scheme
- UCLA football prepares for the worst, weather-wise
- Plan to sell state properties to raise money for cash-strapped California clears final hurdle
- Raiders-Steelers is among must-see games this week in NFL
- Alzheimer's disease vaccine is effective in mice
- 'The Biggest Loser' set picketed by crew, labor officials
- Angels' Tony Reagins doesn't tip off-season hand
- Astronomers say former star is a nascent black hole
- New York jury trying Al Qaeda suspect is at risk of deadlock
- Defibrillators less useful in hospitals than in public places, study finds
- Home Depot 3rd-quarter net income rises
- Lakers go looking for a big man
- Job stress: Take a page from these playbooks on how to cope
- Shannon Brown gets hot on weird night as Lakers beat Milwaukee, 118-107
- Southwest Airlines: Hook up with Mexico flights on Volaris
- Roy Halladay wins NL Cy Young Award
- Apple says iTunes will sell music from Beatles
- Bank of America CEO urges settlement of foreclosure crisis probe
- On tax cuts, a deal begins to take shape
- Virginia Thomas may step down from 'tea party' group
- Slain Riverside Officer Ryan Bonaminio pleaded for his life, officials say
- Thailand extradites alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout
- No motive, no suspects in slaying of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen
- Are video games bad for kids? Not so much, study says
- L.A. Unified will no longer run the CIF City Section
- 'Glory Daze' info
- Orange County arts groups suffer box-office decline, study finds
- L.A. City Council to consider which of 13 measures to put on March ballot
- Quick Takes: Are the Beatles headed to iTunes?
- So long to caffeinated alcoholic beverages? FDA will ban them, one senator says
- USC's Marc Tyler is sore but happy
- Pictures: Carrie Underwood in Baltimore
- For the record - Nov. 16, 2010
- Theodore Kheel dies at 96; labor mediator helped resolve thousands of disputes
- PASSINGS: Ed Kirkpatrick
- 'The Event' recap: What do you want?
- Signing of Hiroki Kuroda gives Dodgers imposing rotation
- 'Chuck' recap: Scared yet?
- Final in San Jose: Sharks 6, Kings 3
- 'Gossip Girl' recap: Everybody hates Serena
- 'Food Justice' : A playbook for the future of food
- 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Semifinal showdown
- Kings after 2: San Jose 3, Kings 2...and some strange moments
- 'House' recap: And the Emmy for best pustules goes to ...
- USC basketball: Behind Joneses, Trojans top Santa Clara, 86-73
- 'How I Met Your Mother' recap: Beavers, long division and space
- Kings after one: Sharks 2, Kings 1
- Bad timing: California seeks bond buyers amid rout in muni market
- USC basketball: Trojans lead Santa Clara at halftime, 39-34
- Tuesday TV Highlights: 'Glee' on Fox.
- Tuesday's Talk Shows
- Farm Sanctuary asks Obama to send pardoned Thanksgiving turkeys to its rescue facility
- USC basketball: X-rays reveal fracture in senior forward Alex Stepheson's left hand
- Baseball: Ron Miller is headed to UNLV
- French horror hit 'Martyrs' will undergo an American exorcism
- Opinion: Just back from Asia, President Obama proclaims a need for more recycling, especially of electronics
- Girls' tennis: El Camino Real reaches City final
- Housing affordability in California on the rise
- Google's Eric Schmidt tries to quell television network backlash against Google TV
- Dodgers, Kuroda reach agreement
- California tops nation with 'powerful' brands
- A 'Borat' reunion on Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Dictator'?
- Review: Bruce Springsteen's 'The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story'
- USC basketball: Santa Clara pregame
- Samsung Galaxy Tab comes to AT&T on Sunday for $650; U.S. Cellular on Friday for $599 or $399
- Tom Shadyac: Life begins after you give away your Hollywood toys
- Google's Eric Schmidt shows off mystery Android phone, talks mobile payments
- Darren Criss has more singing to do as Blaine on 'Glee'
- Ed Ruscha, David Hockney use their talent to create dog bowls
- Opinion: Sarah Palin's 'refudiate' named dictionary's word of the year
- Alinea chef Grant Achatz gives L.A. a taste of what's to come at his new Chicago bar Aviary
- CalPERS changes tactics on poor performers
- NBC to change the rules on scheduling sitcoms
- Video: David Lazarus on the battle over the new consumer complaints database
- Community spirit can affect local economic growth, survey finds
- NBC's head of television Jeff Gaspin leaving the company
- EGYPT: Youth group calls for 'total boycott' of election to strip it of legitimacy
- Mystery missile still swirling around the Web
- PREACH It! 'Family Guy' may employ manatees, but 'South Park' risks eating crow
- House votes to outlaw sales of 'crush videos' documenting animal cruelty
- Level 10 Lux opens on Melrose, offers affordable prices in a glamorous setting
- L.A. loves to eat on the cheap; dineLA says fall Restaurant Week sets record
- Here comes the 'Men in Black' hiatus
- 'Tangled' premiere: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi get animated
- Comcast app turns Apple devices into remote controls
- San Diego's ASR trade show is a no-go
- Animal rights activists plan to disrupt Providence dinner, foie gras menu
- Virginia researcher works to save Atlantic sturgeon
- USDA: More families had trouble buying food they need amid recession
- The delicious awkwardness of interviewing Christian Bale
- Opinion: Obama's special message to Muslims on the Hajj
- Bond yields soar amid backlash to Fed's purchase plan
- KCRW and Disney to host preview of Daft Punk's 'Tron: Legacy' score on Saturday
- Windows Phone 7 fries memory cards, AT&T says
- 'Sarah Palin's Alaska' breaks TLC record with 5 million viewers for premiere
- Donovan McNabb agrees to five-year extension with Redskins
- James Conlon extends contract with L.A. Opera through 2012-13 season
- World of Waves
- NBC renews '30 Rock,' brings new three-hour comedy block to Thursday night
- Home in the Wild West: Devendra Banhart, Beck and Caetano Veloso at MOCA
- 'The Buried Life': Crashing parades and heading to the big screen?
- Girls' basketball: Inglewood's Deajanae Scurry signs with San Diego State
- In our pages: Buying banned books in the Middle East
- Electric Literature invites fictioneers to join Aimee Bender
- Big changes are coming to City Section sports
- Opinion: Debating the FDA's graphic cigarette warning labels
- Goldeneye 007 for the Wii is a worthy successor to the original
- Confirmed: Mel Gibson tapes were all from the same day
- OWN acquires three documentaries
- Swedish hockey official will work Tuesday's Ducks-Stars game
- Bill Clinton to make cameo appearance in 'The Hangover 2'
- MOCA's stylish happening
- More details on Wal-Mart's plan to open stores at midnight on Black Friday
- Comcast exec calls for limited government role in Internet
- Giants' Buster Posey, Rangers' Neftali Feliz are baseball's rookies of the year
- Adidas accuses California soccer clothing company of infringing on its logo
- Muni bond sell-off deepens after last week's losses
- Former Angels outfielder Ed Kirkpatrick dies at 66
- Michael Jackson fans shouldn't question new single 'Hold My Hand' (should they?)
- The effect of midterm elections on the U.S. healthcare agenda will be examined in a forum
- Scarlett Johansson is GQ's babe of the year
- Majority of Americans support unemployment insurance extension
- Facebook rolls out new messaging system
- Museum of Tolerance award makes Clint Eastwood's day
- Your morning adorable: Giant panda holds a stuffed animal, looks darn cute doing it
- Mob Museum in Las Vegas commemorates Kefauver Hearings
- LeBron James named finalist for Time magazine's person of the year
- Jean-Luc Godard on what his honorary Oscar means to him: 'Nothing'
- Tech companies hope to profit from airport delays
- Bill Lockyer opposes state property sales
- Collaboration Nation: Burton Snowboards gives 'Tron' the boot
- Los Angeles Times Holiday Cookie Bake-Off -- enter now, or else
- Linda Evans puts her Beverly Hills Post Office-area home on the market
- Dov Davidoff, Neal Brennan buy lofts at Dogtown Station in Venice
- Impac Dublin's long, long, longlist
- Lisa Leslie, Michael Strahan to be honored at March of Dimes luncheon in N.Y.
- Jason Calacanis sues Mike Arrington over TechCrunch50 conference
- Girls' basketball: Long Beach Poly defeats Mater Dei
- Currently coveting: Mango's cheap(ish), chic outerwear
- Consumer Confidential: Retail sales rise, video screens shrink, Black Friday expands
- Document: Mel Gibson admits slapping Oksana Grigorieva, not punching her
- Quantitative easing for -- or is it by? -- dummies
- 'Next Iron Chef' recap: 'You were simply outcooked'
- Google teases Android 'Gingerbread' update
- Opinion: Larry King is no fan of social media networks, his 1.8 million Twitter fans aside
- State sets preliminary yields on $10-billion note sale
- Food for thought at culinary crossroads in Yemen
- Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson are engaged
- Destroyed Apple products become photographic works of art
- Wall Street Roundup: The battle over the Fed, CEO pay keeps ballooning
- Question of the day: Which college football team is better, Auburn or Oregon?
- Apple to make big iTunes announcement Tuesday -- cloud-based music everywhere?
- Flu protection, fashionably
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: Jessica Simpson's engagement ring from Eric Johnson. Contenders for Britain's 'most fashionable.'
- Opinion: America 'never will be' at war with Islam, Obama declares in Indonesia speech (full text)
- Monster Mash: Art owned by Dennis Hopper exceeds $10 million at auction; Intiman Theatre's financial dilemma
- The Deal: Outdoor furniture 60% to 80% off at Restoration Hardware and Grandin Road
- Your Stylist: Getting a handle on the perfect party clutch
- First Take: Kamala Harris takes the lead. Ted Lieu clears the field. Interpreting Proposition 26.
- Daily Dodger in review: Hong-Chih Kuo and one of the team's greatest seasons for a reliever
- The Morning Fix: 'Megamind' is unstoppable. D.C. puts Comcast-NBC on front burner. Keith Olbermann at odds (as usual) with his MSNBC bosses.
- Decoding 'Sarah Palin's Alaska': Top 3 lessons from the debut episode
- MIDDLE EAST: Bahrain, UAE seek to beef up missile capabilities as Iran tensions rise
- What happened to Harrison Ford?
- Times Past: Before the power door lock, there was ...
- 'How I Met Your Mother': Robin Sparkles makes a 'racy' return
- Talking Mark Twain on Monday
- Marathon Drama Redux: 'Gatz' and 'Angels in America'
- The Deal: Cottage chic from a surprising source
- Opinion: Late-night joke collection: Obama, Oprah, Pelosi, Biden, Bush and that Chilean miner
- Secrets of the Somms
- Datebook: Events, classes, exhibits for the week ahead
- One year ago: Ken Ober
- Summer ends on 'The Big C': A chat with executive producer Darlene Hunt
- Football: The Harry Welch effect at Santa Margarita
- Book review: 'William and Harry' by Katie Nicholl
- Wes Santee dies at 78; track star set records in 1,500 meters and indoor mile
- Disney encourages sales of digital movies
- Freshman guard Maurice Jones comes up big as USC beats Santa Clara, 86-73
- Buster Posey, Neftali Feliz named rookies of the year
- Rating 2011's new team of bicycles
- Cee Lo Green explores new musical frontiers
- Offbeat Alex Cox film gets second chance
- Cutting salt shouldn't be hard for teens, not for those hooked on fast food, anyway
- In about-face, Sen. Mitch McConnell backs ban on earmark spending
- Rep. Heath Shuler says he'll likely challenge Nancy Pelosi for leadership post
- Employers ready to raise the stakes for health incentives
- Gift basket firms thinking outside the box to boost sales
- Up next for Clippers: Monday vs. New Jersey
- Israeli actions jeopardize two-state solution
- UP NEXT FOR USC: Monday vs. Santa Clara
- Loyola Marymount wins easily over La Sierra
- Delay on lawsuit shows lack of evidence in Bell case, defense says
- Simple steps can cut deadly risk of heart disease, study finds
- 'Fusion centers' at a glance
- Lebanon arrests radical Islamist cleric Omar Bakri
- Breast cancer wristbands send a different message at one school
- Clippers hurting without Chris Kaman
- Ben Howland says Pepperdine presents several challenges
- 17.4 million U.S. families went hungry at some point in 2009, USDA says
- Introduction: Psychological fads
- Victory has style and substance
- Thailand agrees to extradite alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout
- Up next for Lakers: Sunday vs. Phoenix
- Ducks lose in overtime to Chicago, 3-2
- Letters: More food for thought
- Alienating Latinos
- Palin and Reagan
- Unintended pregnancies aren't 'accidents'
- Up next: Kings at San Jose on Monday
- Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to joyous crowds in Myanmar
- Heart disease risk can be evaluated without a lot of tests
- Alzheimer's disease: If you're worried, consider a memory screen Tuesday
- Free-agency market for Manny Ramirez could be slim
- Book review info
- Sex addiction rehab a thriving industry
- Corvallis hasn't been kind to Trojans
- Up next for Ducks: Tuesday at Dallas
- 7 troops die in Afghan attacks
- Newest senators Coons and Manchin sworn in
- Lemon slice may come with extra germs
- Remembering Tyrone Power
- '127 Hours' makes steady progress
- 'Fusion centers' gather terrorism intelligence – and much more
- Critic's Notebook: A deeper meaning off-Broadway
- Book review: 'William and Harry' by Katie Nicholl
- Hiroki Kuroda re-signs with the Dodgers
- UCLA receiver Nelson Rosario is closer to 100%
- Rating 2011's new team of bicycles
- Mexican American ID puzzle
- Horoscope: Nov. 15
- Tainted PG&E groundwater plume again threatens residents of Hinkley, Calif.
- Freshman class arrives in Washington
- Lawmakers seek conditions on arms sale to Saudis
- San Jose has the pieces but Stanley Cup is a package deal
- Injuries slow down UCLA in 79-69 win over Pepperdine
- The database debacle
- Who's starting at quarterback is a big deal for many teams
- Colorado ski deal: $150 resort credit at Viceroy Snowmass in Aspen
- Chamber to unveil pro-business lobbying effort
- Happening Monday
- Newport Harbor mooring proposal rocks the boat
- Classic Hollywood: Kay Thompson
- Financial reform law offers look at lobbyists' efforts to shape it
- Heavy smoking during pregnancy can set your baby up for a life of crime, researchers say
- Prescription fish oil capsules (Lovaza) don't help atrial fibrillation, study says
- This week's Stanford-California is a Big Game, indeed
- Help for a tight torso
- Mourning lost soldiers; the memoirs of George W. Bush; Israeli settlements and Mideast peace
- Company Town: 'Megamind' repeats as weekend box-office leader
- Monday's TV highlights
- West Bank heretic
- Jimmie Johnson gets strong performance from Jeff Gordon's pit crew
- Flu vaccine mandates for medical workers
- Small-business advice: Launching a company
- In Jordan, a bookstore devoted to forbidden titles
- Job stress taking its toll? Here's what to do
- Illegal immigrants can qualify for in-state college tuition, court rules
- Shanghai high-rise blaze kills 53
- Lakers' road trip starts with a little less help
- Food for thought at one culinary crossroads in Yemen
- Republicans are spoiling for a healthcare fight
- NASCAR's Carl Edwards is head over heels
- Kings' winning streak ends with 6-3 loss to Sharks
- EMC plans to buy Isilon Systems for $2.25 billion
- A Closer Look: A new blood thinner option
- Tough times hurting a flea market
- Fast fame: Kay Thompson's big break
- Path, a new social network, limits users to 50 friends
- Pain catches up to Lakers' Lamar Odom, and so do referees
- UCLA's Kai Forbath is a kick in the clutch
- Deadlock possible in trial of Guantanamo terror suspect
- Clippers continue slide as they fall to Nets, 110-96
- A look at four psychology fads
- A sampling of lobbyists' talks with regulators
- Classic Hollywood Trio: Kay Thompson
- Netanyahu lobbies his Cabinet on U.S. peace talk incentives
- The Times' high school football rankings
- USC's Nikola Vucevic gets aggressive
- Hall of Fame runner