- Baker is a humble leader for USC
- Workers face uncertainty after Maytag plant closure
- Frank Stanton, 98; TV pioneer who helped brand CBS 'Tiffany Network'
- Colts will get no rest in regular-season finale
- Somalia could be Ethiopia's quagmire
- Slay bells ring, but don't listen
- Doctors try to breathe life into National Children's Study
- Pioneering and volatile -- the stage was his world
- New Snowzilla to dwarf last year's
- O'Neal briefly weighs in on Jackson
- Feud may cast mosque beside swine
- Tick, tick, tick
- Man is shot to death in Los Angeles
- Online poll
- Yankees in talks to trade Johnson
- Is Ben Stiller funny? Don't ask
- 2006: We the reasonable
- Sheer hosiery sales continue to slip
- Israel central bank reduces key rate
- Secrets and spies
- ANONYMOUS TESTIMONY PUSHES LIMITS
- Military helicopter lands on golf course
- In the freezer, he's hot
- Say it loud: He gave music some new moves
- Overwhelmed by the Masses
- Macy's escalator grabs boy's thumb
- Governor in hospital for leg surgery
- Eagles claw their way to top in NFC East
- An unlevel playing field
- West Bank roadblocks to ease
- Analysis says Iran's oil revenue is plummeting
- Going universal
- 'Civil unions' for gays get legal rights
- Determined to bring last Nazis to justice
- Reading between the lines of naughty songs
- Trinidad blocks Alcoa aluminum smelter
- The future's so bright?
- Why L.A. jail cells have revolving doors
- Booker makes the most of it
- In humanity's failings, pope sees need of God
- Shirley Walker, 61; won Emmys for film scores
- Heeding a call to duty, Jews move to Israel
- Jets overcome the weather and Dolphins to stay in hunt
- Commitment to goodness transcends past in 'Fish'
- Toyota's production up for 25th straight month
- HEROIN FROM AFGHANISTAN IS CUTTING A DEADLY PATH
- TONIGHT
- Should Georgia blue law be forgot?
- Winter storm rips into Florida counties
- Mom or Dad goes off to war
- Rebels kill 14 in Colombia
- L.A. tops Silicon Valley in giving
- Pro skateboarders ramp up apparel firm's appeal
- Funds for children stolen from church
- In Iraq, Christians come out to worship
- Hoodia fever takes a toll on rare plant
- KINGS TONIGHT
- Linebacker Hale digs himself out of a hole
- More 'Prada' bosses, in the literary world
- Bertram A. Powers, 84; led strike against eight New York papers
- Robert Bilheimer, 89; organizer for the World Council of Churches
- Gay wedding industry is booming
- Corrections chief was on target
- Judging the Japanese
- The Democrats' prospects
- Goode's intolerance
- Litton's fine example
- Density is fueling change
- A strike against Giuliani
- Extreme game
- Book with a buried treasure
- What you can do to help
- dont B a h8r
- Cutting across black history
- Artest is high on wish list
- The man in charge of 'Iwo Jima'
- High-performance team
- See the menu -- see the calories
- Gunman kills 1, fires on police at mall
- Hollywood woman, 56, dies in fire
- 'Instant runoff' voting touted
- It's Young again as Titans stay in race
- Title confounds us Muggles
- Knight, Smith reach top taking different routes
- That 1971 dinner had a late kick
- Comedy writers aren't laughing about '60'
- Count on celebrity countdowners
- Jackson gives O'Neal a body slam
- Italian in poison case arrested
- High desert's boom shrinks valued vistas
- He uncovers a rare gem and shares it with the artist
- No preview of 'Black Christmas'
- Officials' city loans probed by D.A.
- Uri Dan, 71; Israeli journalist, Sharon spokesman
- Brady, Patriots wrap up East title
- Poetry and motion
- Our shared affliction
- Leading Spanish surgeon to treat Castro
- Brennan sets mark for Hawaii
- A fractal fracture over true Pollocks
- Women's business wear plays to its strongest suit
- A heavenly Christmas gift
- Transplants and cancer risks linked
- Good morning, L.A.
- Christmas parade on march with stars
- Jolson, Gable at Santa Anita
- Dayne breaks out as Texans beat Colts, 27-24
- Yo, just call him Chaucer's homie
- Brain exercises pay off
- Flight rerouted for threatening note
- Rural mothers are learning lines for TV
- Long Beach police search for gunman
- Bo Mya, 79; longtime leader of Myanmar guerrilla group
- John O. Gonzales, 91; fought for the rights of Mexican Americans
- The call of the wild fuels explorer's North Pole dream
- Elaborate funeral honors Niyazov
- FBI is rebuked on Okla. bombing case
- Keep identity under a virtual lock and key
- Jackson keeps Rams in running
- Something's rotten in the Big Apple
- Leaders and those who play catch-up
- Study finds rise in teen abuse of legal drugs
- At 80, she's still teaching her mom
- 'Night' dawns as No. 1 in theaters
- ALARMING 9/11 CLAIM IS BASELESS, PANEL SAYS
- State's bipartisanship can be a model for Washington
- WARMED OVER
- Saints add to the Giants' woes
- Past, present and ... future?
- A low profile, lofty standing
- Mapping out a serene scene for teens
- Double duty for the arms
- Memories fill the void on a block in New Orleans
- Markey's skills put him close to rare milestone
- Marketing moms
- Dosing where it hurts
- Lost art, found heart
- Health crises take cheer out of family's holidays
- Hit-makers, hip shakers
- Caught in a visa ordeal
- Rebels aid crew of disabled ship
- Chargers' finish is stunning
- Hairstylists enlist in battle against abuse
- Bryant expresses some regret
- IMing for the older set
- The film is good; it's the genre that's overworked
- Troops in Iraq get jolly for a day
- Blood tests fail to predict heart risks
- Bengals botch chance at end
- Once again, a war has 'chosen' Roberto Benigni
- Will Papa Noel make it to Gaza?
- Pressured to prescribe
- Their fight to be understood
- Children in jeopardy are focus of pope's homily
- Heart of Bruins is centrally located
- Thai official says new policy vital
- Late shoppers disappoint
- Famed architect's work gets reprieve
- Beijing's babies
- Scripture by the plateful
- Now You Know
- Magnetic insoles attract interest, but do healing claims stick?
- Over here, over there
- A night of improv from Rickey Woodard
- FDA approves infant cooling cap
- Ethiopian airstrikes target Somalian towns
- Undoing alcohol's damage to the mind
- President, rebel make peace pledge
- Still standing
- Vallely looks for good in the bad
- Rechargeable battery upgrades powered by consumer demand
- To help protect the spine, roll and stretch your way to core strength
- Housing slump seen moderating
- Soul singer James Brown dies
- Shiite-on-Shiite violence racks south Iraq city
- First lady mistook cancer for bug bite
- Can we live longer?
- Suppan goes from Series to Brewers
- Rockefeller rink turns 70 years old
- Latest loss leaves Vick fuming
- Jones-Drew starts and stars for Jaguars
- College libraries: the condensed version
- Governor on mend in Idaho
- NFC West is hardly at its best
- More than 1,000 Christmas Eve flights take off from Denver
- Clues to the hepatitis mystery
- Bolivia's Morales faces biggest test
- Pinochet letter sheds light on rule
- Quotebook
- Pessimistic view of the Mideast
- Big brothers all
- Other side of a model community
- ADD meds don't benefit the kids
- A big man in every sense of the word
- Death penalty takes a painful turn
- Save up first, then change careers
- Mormon list seen as disrespectful
- latimes.com's most searched-for people in 2006
- Slowing a tide of pollutants
- Going to the snow
- Federal science is lacking on food contamination
- The meaning of Brown vs. the Board
- Opinion: ...but it serves you right for skiing in Idaho
- San Francisco's Hayes Valley, epitome of cool
- Championship cycle still muddled
- As toys get pricier, grown-ups pay up
- Marjorie Arundel, 104; active in flora and fauna conservation worldwide
- The new Pop is everywhere you look
- FCC defends fine for Jackson flap
- Frank Tremaine, 92; wire reporter sent Pearl Harbor news flash
- Funny Money
- Troops' new Iraq mission: Secret Santa
- Sweet Revenge Can Come in the Unlikeliest Places
- Ducks play as if in a fog and lose to Coyotes, 2-0
- Rangers trade for McCarthy
- Regan's ouster is L.A.'s loss
- An issue with several shades of gray
- Heroic in war, she's tormented at home
- Empathy, even to the darkest character
- Sister morphine
- Poet! Poet! Burning bright
- The Saints would have rather gone marching in
- Collectors' additions
- Swap homes to find the love of your life?
- How your cashmere pollutes the air
- San Francisco police officer killed in shootout
- Lines drawn from life
- The meaning of home
- Ringing in the new laws
- Where the Back-Seat Driver Is Your Muse
- Expanding the military, without a draft
- U.N. SLAPS IRAN WITH SANCTIONS
- COAST TO COAST
- Knight poised to tie Smith's win record
- Injury might force Cassell to sit out
- On his own, in a new spirit of community
- 'Rules' polished to original luster
- Bright lights, outer 'burbs
- For you, for me, for evermore
- ISRAEL EASES HARD LINE ON PALESTINIANS
- For many survivors, tsunami has not receded
- War casualties
- Suspected drunk driver dies, family hurt in crash
- There are some crooks even a police officer could love
- COMING ATTRACTIONS
- Enthusiasm that is almost like a kid's
- Even more 'Jackass' than before
- And nothing but the truth
- Lodge opens at snow park
- Take a Seat, and Dr. Connell Will Erase All Those Years
- Poem By Simon Armitage
- Castro's imprint
- Next stop: a world they've never seen
- Kate Fleming, 41; narrator was a star in the audio book world
- Arts program inspires students
- If it is Christmas Day, it must be Miami time
- Bruins play it up for crowd
- Zarf becomes Zoe, and a soap evolves
- DISCOVERIES
- Exponentially yours
- A picture of devotion
- Think of the best toy ever
- Excess at Christmas goes way back
- U.S. returned 46 inmates to home nations
- Gov. breaks a leg in ski accident in Idaho
- Predators frustrate Kings in 7-0 win
- One for the home team
- Knight ties Smith with win over Bucknell
- All joys equal in this critic's book
- Neocons and Bush deserve each other
- BESTSELLERS / PAPERBACKS
- Shiites resist isolating Sadr
- Mauled keeper may lose her arm
- A sharper concept than his Blur days
- The Real Deal
- S.F.'s Hayes Valley, epitome of cool
- Lack of negatives equals a big year
- Major Taliban figure is killed in airstrike, U.S. military says
- Israeli women battle a culture of harassment
- Official's land deal is a ploy, critics say
- 3 security guards are shot outside nightclub
- We've learned a lot in 2006
- Coming and going
- The voice that launches a thousand movie trailers
- Giving the people what they want
- A Mammoth year?
- Beijing's unlikely pal
- Warning to Radio, TV Marti: Congress is watching
- A cast of hundreds of special effects
- Young actors storm 'The Coast of Utopia'
- Air Canada believes Fluffy invites sneezy, dopey and docs
- From a master of many styles
- 90706
- Vietnam: French cuisine lingers
- 1940
- They rock, and not just in chairs
- Life's mysteries at 100 and counting
- Pythons put squeeze on Everglades
- Iraqis see uses for more U.S. troops
- Boy killed, man wounded in car-to-car shooting