- National Magazine Award finalists announced
- Elle's Joe Zee plus Sam Shipley & Jeff Halmos to speak at Otis College on Wednesday
- SpaceX announces Falcon Heavy: a low-cost, heavy-lifting, 22-story rocket
- Brown budget faces lawsuit over children’s programs in first legal challenge
- Ding! Charlie Sheen spoofs his '20/20' interview
- Opinion: April 5 Buzz: Seeking truth -- airbag safety, Israel, Watergate
- Donald Trump to drive pace car at Indianapolis 500
- Motley Crue rocker Vince Neil faces domestic violence charges
- Dodgers Web musings: Is the next lawsuit Frank McCourt vs. Bud Selig?
- Kirstie Alley and Maksim Chmerkovskiy fall on 'Dancing With the Stars,' get back up
- Today: J. Rocc drops long-awaited debut album 'Some Cold Rock Stuf' on Stones Throw Records
- Will Kirstie Alley's crash hurt 'Dancing With the Stars'?
- Opinion: The conversation: Can Goldstone's flip-flop change the way the world views Israel?
- Tonight: Michael Connelly talks 'The Fifth Witness'
- Currently coveting: Stella McCartney's citrus prints
- Dave Alvin receives pardon from Davis mayor, Blasters no longer banned from playing there
- Is Julie Taymor going on the PR counteroffensive?
- Album review: Hollywood Undead's 'American Tragedy'
- Gerard Butler begins playing the field
- Jerry Brown downplays budget rift in Sacramento speech
- Preview of the Erik Morales-Marcos Maidana fight
- Angels Notes: Scott Downs, Kendrys Morales making strides
- Album review: 'Tron: Legacy Reconfigured'
- Opinion: A change of venue might have brought Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to U.S.
- Michael Jackson statue outside Fulham soccer stadium even more appalling than feared
- Gauguin painting's attacker isn't the only crazy one
- FTC may launch antitrust probe into Google's search engine dominance
- Hollywood farmers market stays open -- for now
- Profanity and more to be found in uncensored 'From Here to Eternity' e-book
- Exactly how extreme is TLC's new series 'Extreme Couponing'?
- Blockbuster creditors currently leading Dish Network, Carl Icahn in auction
- 'Shark Men' premieres Sunday on National Geographic Channel
- Poll: What do you think of Taylor Swift winning the top ACM Award?
- Angels' Jered Weaver aims to give battered bullpen a break
- 'The Hunger Games' filmmakers explain why they chose Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth
- On Location: L.A.-based effects company Engine Room rides the wave of 'Soul Surfer'
- Solar panel manufacturing and disposal -- is it green and safe?
- Dodgers offer $25,000 reward for information in beating case, bringing total to $50,000
- Legislation would complicate Kings' move to Anaheim
- How to dip your toes into spring's bold color trend
- Julian Louie makes eye-catching Ikat shoes for Aldo
- Rita Rudner's stage adaptation of her novel and a new folk music revue highlight Laguna Playhouse 2011-12 season
- Baseball: 15 strikeouts for Scott Barlow
- Financial Times and Apple negotiating App Store subscription terms
- Football: Uzoma picks up first college offer
- Masters 2011 tee times: Late starts for Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson
- News Corp. completes acquisition of Elisabeth Murdoch's Shine Group
- Poll: Was Maine's governor right to remove the 'pro-labor' mural?
- Wall Street Roundup: Apple of Nasdaq's eye. Buffett bashing.
- Question of the Day: Should and will UConn coach Jim Calhoun retire after winning the NCAA title?
- Christian Slater: Life in pictures
- Baseball: Monday's scores
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: Kanye West gets into scarves, Reese Witherspoon wears pink, American Apparel launches denim line
- Softball: Monday's scores
- Climbing the bestseller list: Kate Atkinson's 'Started Early, Took My Dog'
- NYC Health Department cracks down on French fries
- Songwriter Ester Dean steps out front after penning work for Britney Spears, Chris Brown, Katy Perry and others
- Natural History Museum, 'Mad Men' among winners of L.A. Conservancy's Preservation Awards
- Masters 2011: Lee Westwood's flight to Augusta makes emergency landing just after takeoff
- Monster Mash: Growing concern over Ai Weiwei; Mohamed al Fayed unveils Michael Jackson statue
- Video: L.A. Times Food Editor Russ Parsons shows you how to prepare spring vegetables
- <b>Photos:</b> Slime rules at Kids' Choice Awards
- Eco-friendly label Liv Grn launches a line of yummy-smelling, sustainable fragrances
- The Morning Fix: Zaslav gets lots of TLC from Discovery! Hollywood goes after Zediva. YES says no to iPad app.
- UCLA Live names new artistic director
- Drought-tolerant garden workshops, plant sales for inland residents
- ‘Nurse Jackie’ recap: You are stuck with me
- About (Late) Last Night: Suri Cruise plans her own birthday parties, thank you very much!
- Ninth edition of 'Baby Bargains': New essential reading for Mom and Dad
- Art review: 'David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy' at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Turntable tables from Bughouse and Diesel
- Chase branch expansion continues as BofA scales back
- Lego royal wedding: 'Prince William' and 'Kate Middleton' exchange vows at Legoland Windsor
- After a defeat for the Lakers, a victory for the Los Angeles Lakers Youth Foundation
- Wells Fargo ATM system breaks down for second time this year
- Larry King returns to TV - as Tavis Smiley's interviewer
- Opinion: Obama picked a strange time to launch his 2012 reelection bid; Or did he really?
- Book review: 'The Fifth Witness' by Michael Connelly
- Wisconsin judicial election testing GOP's power is a nail-biter
- Jerry Brown downplays budget rift in Sacramento speech
- Spero Dedes said to be replacing Joel Meyers as Lakers' TV announcer
- Mini-scrimmage is an appetizer for UCLA veterans, baptism for freshmen
- Cutting bus service in L.A.; Koran burning's fatal outcome; the Dodgers' declining fan culture
- Pew poll: 57% say Libya policy lacks clear goal
- Billionaire Richard Branson plots deep-sea adventure with solo submarine
- Two skilled lawyers ready to square off in NFL labor case
- The man behind the Manhattan mosque
- T.J. McDonald and his dad Tim McDonald, USC safeties present and past, are studies in perseverance
- Britain tabloid journalists arrested in phone-hacking scandal
- GOP bets voters will choose fiscal well-being over healthcare safety net
- Tiger Woods has fallen from great
- Cold storm system on its way, complete with possible thunderstorms and snow
- Supreme Court upholds tax break for Arizona religious schools
- Google's Person Finder helps locate loved ones in Japan
- Jered Weaver and Hank Conger bring out the best in each other
- Might a military jury deny 9/11 suspect's death wish?
- House Republican budget would slash $5.8 trillion over the next decade
- Secondhand smoke isn't just bad for kids' bodies, it's bad for their brains
- Mark Gottfried will coach North Carolina State
- Maple syrup the hot new superfood? Oh, come on ...
- Are you sure you need that second piece of pie? Guilt as a lifestyle motivator
- Dodgers go meagerly against Rockies, 3-0
- Afghan policeman kills 2 U.S. soldiers
- 'Addicted to Food' and 'The Judds' info
- Rahm Emanuel aide Ben LaBolt to take up press duties for Obama campaign
- Up next for Clippers: Wednesday at Oklahoma City
- Gunman found dead in Sylmar
- Television review: 'Pregnant in Heels' on Bravo
- Ryan Anderson is The Times' boys' basketball player of the year
- Up next for Clippers: Tuesday at Memphis
- After ID theft, free fraud protection is worth it
- Family of injured Giants fan asks for civility, help catching suspects in Dodger Stadium beating
- Many heart failure patients may avoid bypass surgery
- Obama administration won't pursue civilian trials for 9/11 suspects
- More Yemeni protesters killed in fresh wave of bloodshed
- Alternative angioplasty route gains favor
- Tuesday's TV highlights
- At the new Watergate Gallery, the truth finally wins out
- Southwest incident may delay expansion
- Up next for the Kings: Wednesday vs. Phoenix
- Google senior executive Jonathan Rosenberg resigns
- Obama expresses urgency on budget deal
- Next start is up in the air for Rockies' Ubaldo Jimenez
- Phillip Garrido is expected to plead guilty to kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard
- State to transfer some inmates
- Frank McCourt's representatives call on commissioner's office
- Guns silent in Ivory Coast but fear persists
- There's only one word for Lakers' 86-85 loss to the Jazz: 'Inexplicable'
- Michael Kinsley: The Washington lobbying dance
- Rivals refuse to go soft on Lakers' Pau Gasol
- Democrats revive bills vetoed by Schwarzenegger
- After more than a decade, a park's entrance is finally resolved
- Estrogen-only therapy less risky than first thought
- For Obama, it's business before friendship with world leaders
- Singer Michel Martelly wins Haiti presidency
- Attack puts rivals on same team
- The lighter side of intelligence agencies
- Southwest plane with torn fuselage averaged 7 flights a day over 15 years, FAA says
- Movie exhibitors welcome Foo Fighters to their screens, live and in 3-D
- 'Pregnant in Heels' information
- Budget meeting at White House ends with no deal
- Lego royal wedding: 'Prince William' and 'Kate Middleton' exchange vows at Legoland Windsor
- A sleeve for the intestine: As effective as bariatric surgery, without the surgery part?
- Lakers hope to start new winning streak after loss to Denver
- Happening Tuesday: Neil Finn and more
- House Republicans to propose $6.2 trillion in spending cuts
- Google bids $900 million for Nortel patents
- Hacking of data firm Epsilon exposes customers of 50 firms
- 2011 Times high school girls' basketball all-star team
- Small L.A. special effects firm rides a wave with 'Soul Surfer'
- Ecuador: Explore the Andes and more for 8 days -- and save $300
- The Times' girls' basketball player of the year: Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis of Mater Dei
- Experts back new drug for diarrhea-causing bacterial infection
- Like caffeine? There's a gene for that -- two of them, actually
- Stocks finish little changed
- USC's number of injuries leads to tough assessments
- Cue the violins — it's OWN reality show time
- 'The Fifth Witness' info
- Gaining a lot of weight after surviving breast cancer may carry risks
- Amid bailouts, banks spent big to thwart foreclosure legislation
- Book review: 'The Fifth Witness' by Michael Connelly
- Udvar-Hazy's aircraft leasing start-up plans $805-million IPO
- Disney to start building Shanghai park and resort
- Your Scene: Horseshoe Bend near Page, Ariz.
- Cut your risk of heart disease, even at work
- Perhaps new athlete-death stats will prompt new look at screening costs
- Shelter is barely a refuge for Japanese survivors
- Supreme Court restores death sentence in 1982 Tarzana murders
- U.N., French troops strike military bases in Ivory Coast
- Nasdaq slashes Apple's weighting in benchmark index
- CT scans in children on the rise
- Up next for the Ducks: Wednesday vs. San Jose
- Rebel leader in Libya demands more of NATO
- If food addiction exists, blame the brain -- not the cookies
- Kristy Edmunds named director of UCLA Live
- Japan clears discharge of some radioactive water into sea
- Up next for Lakers: Tuesday vs. Utah
- Tom Hofman is The Times' boys' basketball coach of the year
- Southwest's short-haul operations may be linked to jetliner rupture
- Pipeline safety forum called after deadly Pennsylvania blast
- Angels turn to Jordan Walden to close out 5-3 win over Tampa Bay
- Tuesday's TV talk shows
- Horoscope: April 5
- California fares better than the nation as a whole in recession, USC report shows
- Real Madrid, Schalke '04 get Champions League wins
- Wells Fargo ATMs raise money to help Japan
- Obama summons budget negotiators as talks stall
- Jonah Goldbeg: Obama's sideline strategy
- FAA orders airlines to inspect older Boeing 737s for fuselage cracks after Southwest incident
- Tours & cruises: Portland's public gardens and nurseries
- Fast Track: Madonna's charity reportedly under FBI scrutiny
- With new rocket, SpaceX is poised to make a giant leap
- My Biggest Mistake: Thinking that good credit meant easy financing
- What's behind Goldstone's flip-flop?
- Judge dismisses murder charges against man who spent more than 20 years in prison
- U.S. will hit debt limit by May 16, Geithner warns
- Time to restart Waters probe
- Federal guidelines issued to fight campus sexual violence
- Texas Instruments to buy National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion
- Kings would like to do their own celebrating
- For the record - April 5, 2011
- Quick Takes - April 5, 2011
- Edwin Gaustad dies at 87; scholar of American religion
- 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Once upon a dance
- Butler-UConn: Huskies claim NCAA championship with 53-41 victory over the Bulldogs
- Kings' celebrations put on hold by 6-1 loss at San Jose
- Butler-UConn: Huskies win the title, 53-41
- Butler-UConn: Huskies leading big with five minutes left
- Butler-UConn: After 30 minutes
- Discovery's David Zaslav awarded $42.6 million in compensation in 2010
- Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'NCIS' on CBS
- Tuesday's Talk Shows
- Baseball: El Toro's Mundell throws no-hitter
- Butler-UConn: After 25 minutes
- Baseball: Milestone for Bob Zamora
- Dog plucked from debris in dramatic Japan rescue is reunited with her owner
- Corporate takeover deals boom as money flows
- Butler-UConn: Halftime
- Football: Loyola's Whitfield picks up UCLA offer
- Butler-UConn: Bulldogs lead at halftime, 22-19
- Butler-UConn: After 15 minutes
- Butler vs. Uconn: After 10 minutes
- Billy Crystal joins Twitter, promises Funny or Die project
- Butler vs. UConn: First five minutes
- Charlie Sheen delivers violent torpedoes, audience boos the truth
- J. Ralph and musician friends sing the sound of autism in 'Wretches & Jabberers' album
- Butler vs. UConn: Who's going to miss Sir Charles on colleges?
- 'Rock of Ages' director Adam Shankman: Constantine Maroulis wasn't right for the lead role
- Butler vs. UConn: The pregame
- Theater review: 'Burn This' at the Mark Taper Forum
- Madden Football games' creator disputes lawsuit against Electronic Arts
- L.A. Jordan, Roybal, Community Charter put on probation
- Miley Cyrus rejoins Twitter for Charlie Sheen and Liam Hemsworth?
- Keeping tabs: Lonnie Kauppila
- U.S. bishops condemn nun's book on spiritual seeking, 'Quest for the Living God'
- Jack Nicholson property in Malibu is for sale
- Lakers Moments: The start of something great
- 'The Borgias' delivers strong numbers in Showtime bow
- Movie studios sue DVD streaming website Zediva
- Reese Witherspoon's blush Monique Lhuillier wedding dress revealed
- Orange County Great Park is calling all artists, offering grants and residencies (updated)
- I know what you ate this weekend
- Jerry Brown hones budget message before hitting the road
- Molycorp to expand rare earth operation to Estonia
- Sprint to launch wave-and-pay service in 2011, before AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon
- FDA launches Web page on recalled foods
- Brad Pitt takes kids for Easter egg hunt, 'Hop' screening in L.A.
- Dow index hits new multiyear high, and so does oil
- Google's product head Jonathan Rosenberg resigns as Larry Page becomes CEO
- Opinion: Crime and classical music: Another reason Sarah Palin should support the arts?
- Andrew Young and son of MLK help found network aimed at African Americans
- Opera review: Centennial 'Der Rosenkavalier' at San Diego Opera
- Will Smith and Jaden Smith team for M. Night Shyamalan sci-fi flick
- 'The Killing' delivers best AMC premiere behind 'The Walking Dead'
- U.S. will hit debt ceiling by May 16, Geithner warns Congress
- Jennifer Egan wins the Tournament of Books
- 'Insidious' becomes a scary hit for the 'Saw' guys
- Shaka Smart agrees to eight-year deal to stay at VCU
- Kings can clinch playoff spot with win at San Jose
- Justin Timberlake and Olivia Wilde share 'cozy' night out
- Schwarzenegger returns as comic book Governator
- Four days later, where is the Dodgers' response to Giants fan being attacked?
- 'Chopped All-Stars': Did the best man win?
- Architect Thom Mayne joining SCI-Arc's board of trustees
- Footage of Ryan Reynolds' 'Green Lantern' shines a light ... for some
- Opinion: April 4 Buzz: Defending teachers, a noble profession; debating Obama's race
- Fans split on Josh Hutcherson as Peeta in 'The Hunger Games'
- Happy birthday, Jamie Lynn Spears!
- WEST BANK: Pro-Palestinian Israeli filmmaker killed in West Bank city
- Tex Winter, Dennis Rodman among 2011 Basketball Hall of Fame class
- 'The Hunger Games': Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth complete the love triangle
- 'The Kennedys' miniseries premiere sets ratings records for ReelzChannel
- J.K. Rowling could cast her spell with Harry Potter e-books
- PolitiCal Roundup: Gay issue debated, questions about lawmakers' cars
- Track: De'Anthony Thomas' status is uncertain
- USC football: Scout.com ranks Trojans commit Arik Armstead top nationwide player in class of 2012
- Zynga adds Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation CEO, to board
- Pandora says regulators are scrutinizing privacy and data security on mobile apps
- Opinion: The supply of dollars and the demand for healthcare
- EBRI survey: 1 in 5 people delaying retirement
- A look at the Giants' new reality show on Showtime
- Opinion: Obama's reelection bid: Has Obama alienated 9 million multiracial voters?
- 'American Idol's' Steven Tyler gets busy
- Brandon Belt's first four games with Giants are a sign of great things to come
- Question of the Day: How much does the loss by the UConn women diminish their legacy?
- Charlie Sheen tells Chicago crowd he'd like to return to work on 'Two and a Half Men'
- Britney Spears and sons take in 'The Lion King' in Las Vegas
- Wahoo's and Five Four launch co-branded taco menu
- Jeffrey Katzenberg jumps on board Zynga-ville
- Architecture: More photos of Neil Denari's HL23, a new building next to the High Line in New York
- Matt Barnes hustles T-shirts to the 'Net after Dallas clash
- Former F1 champ Kimi Raikkonen coming to NASCAR truck series
- At typewriter: Dorothy Parker
- Track: State championships to stay in Clovis
- IRAN: Tehran cuts ties with Louvre in dispute over Persian artifacts
- Oxygen announces new projects, premiere date for 'The Glee Project'
- Football: The replacement for De'Anthony Thomas
- Fergie and L.A. designer Michael Schmidt make Legos hot
- Football: A Westlake-Crespi game for 2012?
- Arsenal goalie Jens Lehmann sues Werder Bremen's Tim Wiese over 'Muppet Show' comments