What could be the biggest storm of the season arrives today -- good news for skiers, bad for commuters. >>

Holiday orders to L.A.'s Toy District are slumping because of fears of Chinese-made goods. Regulators should restore consumers' faith by bolstering safety standards for imports and holding manufacture >>

Thieves posing as maintenance workers have taken 370,000 feet of wire. The city has spent $1 million on repairs. >>

Two decades after the woman first told of seven clerics having sex with her, and of one fathering her child, she receives $500,000 from the L.A. Archdiocese. >>

Los Angeles Unified School District officials have pushed back a deadline to recoup most of the $53 million that is believed to have been overpaid to about 32,000 employees because of its faulty payroll system. >>

Los Angeles County's election agency has punched a hole in its overtime budget every year for the last six years, racking up nearly $8.3 million in extra costs, according to a county audit made public Tuesday. >>

Pasadena and Lynwood campuses respond when two veteran educators are nabbed in Internet child porn sting. >>

DNA evidence led to the arrest of a man in Alabama for the murder of a Norwalk woman in 1982. >>

A tiger living at actress Tippi Hedren's wildlife sanctuary mauled a caretaker Monday afternoon, leaving the man in critical condition with multiple bites, a Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman said. >>

Union officials say replacing L.A. County's Yvonne B. Burke in February's election is crucial because she is one of three votes counted on when contracts are at issue. >>

A three-year battle to restore a cross to the county emblem ends as federal justices decline to take up the case. >>

A sheriff's spokesman said the man fought with deputies when they arrived at the scene of a disturbance in South L.A. >>

Westside residents ratcheted up opposition Monday to a city proposal to change traffic patterns on Olympic and Pico boulevards. >>

When someone calls to alert me to a "news conference," the term implies that news will be part of the deal. But these days in City Hall, news is kind of an extra -- like a side salad instead of the main course. >>

Union's proposal calls for local, grass roots control over schools and gives instructors more breathing room to formulate curricula. >>

Non-Latino Catholics in L.A. are drawn to the Virgin of Guadalupe. >>

The automaker will tout its hybrid Vue sport utility vehicle and Aura sedan on buses, at gas stations and elsewhere. >>

Want to know more about water contamination in the Los Angeles area? >>

After a bullet paralyzes a pregnant mother in Los Angeles, her family is learning to live again. >>

Trojans supporters are aghast that the football team's win against UCLA might be its last game at the Coliseum before moving to the Rose Bowl. And Bruins backers are in no mood to share their turf. >>

According to estimates cited in The Times ("Many shows could take weeks to roll after the walkout ends," Nov. 28), the current writers strike -- if it ran 22 weeks (a very big "if") -- could cost $380 million to $1 billion. >>

Under new management, the New Otani Hotel & Garden is now the Kyoto Grand Hotel and Gardens. >>

The Los Angeles Police Department would need $9.3 million to clear up a backlog of untested DNA evidence that could hold the key to solving hundreds of sexual assaults and other violent crimes, but state and local money is falling far short of covering the cost, officials say. >>

South L.A. businesspeople and residents express pride in the stadium. But some say it is not a boon for business. >>

The convicted arsonist is accused of setting eight small fires as crews fought flames across the Southland last month. >>

The L.A. agency looks to install turnstiles at its stations after a study finds 5% of weekday riders don't pay fares. >>

About 150 passengers, including airport critics, take part in the giant Airbus A380's demo flight out of LAX. >>

L.A. Unified won't continue demolition work on Cocoanut Grove. A hearing is set for February. >>