Archdiocese of Los Angeles ordains four new priests

The four men were dressed in white and cream-colored robes. They knelt on the stone floor, ending up face down in a supplicating sign of obedience and respect. In front of thousands of onlookers, they were about to become Catholic priests.



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EPA to make President Obama's big move on climate change

— When the Obama administration unveils its much-anticipated proposal to curb power plant emissions, this cornerstone of the president's climate change policy — the most significant environmental regulation of his term — will not be declared in a sun-bathed Rose Garden news conference or from...



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The Times' baseball rankings

Last week's ranking in parentheses, statistics are through Friday's games:



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Push for cheaper alternatives to immigrant detention grows

Luis Segura, a construction worker from El Salvador facing deportation, recently spent more than six months behind bars at an immigrant detention center in the Mojave Desert. His stay, at $118 a night, cost taxpayers about $22,000.



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In L.A. County supervisor campaigns, spending is likely to soar

Candidates competing for two rare open seats on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors have raised a combined $4.6 million in advance of Tuesday's primary election, and analysts say spending will likely spiral much higher in coming months, as at least one race appears certain to head to...



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Hanley Ramirez drives in five runs as Dodgers crush Pirates, 12-2

Just maybe Manager Don Mattingly was onto something with his belief that as Hanley Ramirez goes, so go the Dodgers.



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Kings' Justin Williams has been the calm in a storm of Game 7s

The Kings' stress of two straight losses and a hostile road date against the defending-champion Chicago Blackhawks is eased by the fact Justin Williams is on their side.



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Palestinian unity government to be sworn in Monday, Mahmoud Abbas says

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday that a coalition government to be formed by his Fatah party and its rival, the militant group Hamas, will be sworn in Monday.



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Clubhouse Ride, at age 6, shows veteran moves to win at Santa Anita

Clubhouse Ride, a versatile 6-year-old with more than $1.1 million in career earnings while competing in races from 61/2 furlongs to 11/4 miles, keeps finding ways to stay relevant.



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Kings try to get L.A. talking hockey

All the empty seats began to frustrate Jack Kent Cooke.



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Six climbers on Mt. Rainier presumed dead

Four mountain climbers and two guides escorting them to the summit of Mt. Rainier are presumed dead after searchers found a trail of scattered equipment on Saturday, an official said.



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125 years after Johnstown flood, U.S. dams need expensive fix

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Angels' Mike Trout sidelined by upper-back stiffness

Just when Mike Trout was heating up at the plate, the Angels' center fielder was scratched from Saturday night’s game against the Oakland Athletics because of upper-back stiffness.



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Angels pitcher Jarrett Grube could make big league debut this weekend

Wade LeBlanc relieved struggling starter Garrett Richards in the first inning Friday night and threw 94 pitches over 6 1/3 innings in a 9-5 loss to Oakland, saving the Angels bullpen for the final two games of a series against the American League West-leading Athletics.



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Red Sox's Dustin Pedroia out with hand injury; X-rays are negative

Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia missed Saturday's game against Tampa Bay with a right hand injury suffered in his last at-bat a night earlier.



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Bubba Watson leads at Memorial after another round in the 60s

Bubba Watson has never been so happy at the Memorial. It helps to be in the lead.



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Civilians flock to Camp Pendleton for World Famous Mud Run

The values of the event are simple: Mud is honorable; the more mud, the more honor.



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Up next for the Galaxy: Sunday at Chicago

When: 1 p.m. PDT



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Political standards, passion and a bit of hope fuel election underdogs

Zein Obagi Jr. paid a filing fee to get on Tuesday's primary ballot, joined his competitors at a few candidate forums and has been appearing "here and there and sharing what thoughts I can" during the campaign season.



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U.S. Coach Juergen Klinsmann has decisions to make before World Cup opener

Time is running out for U.S. Coach Juergen Klinsmann, who has a lot of decisions to make before his team opens play in the World Cup this month.



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Kevin Baxter's all-time U.S. all-star team

Ten of the 23 players selected to the U.S. World Cup team play their club games in Major League Soccer, the league that stands as the legacy of the 1994 tournament, the only World Cup played in this country. So who are the most decorated MLS vets to also excel in the World Cup? Here's one...



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Up next for the Sparks: Sunday at Washington

When: 1 p.m. PDT



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Maya Angelou appreciation 'The ache for home lives in all of us'

Maya Angelou said she had thousands of daughters. I wonder if she ever knew really how many

Maya Angelou said often that although she gave birth to one son, she had thousands of daughters. "I have daughters who are black and white, Asian and Spanish-speaking, and native American," she said. "I have daughters who are fat and thin, pretty and plain, gay and straight. I have all sorts of daughters who I just claim. And they claim me."

I wonder if Angelou ever knew really how many girls who were told about her, named after her, or like me, growing up in a suburban corner of England, clinging fiercely to her books and even when not reading them, inhaling the spirit of her struggle from the titles alone: A Song Flung Up to Heaven, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Gather Together in My Name.

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World Cup in 1994 gave U.S. soccer the kick in the pants it needed

Ask just about anyone on the U.S. soccer team for their earliest World Cup memories and chances are they'll point to 1994, the only time the tournament was held in this country.



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Dodgers, TWC could take legal action over SportsNet LA

This is not the first time the Dodgers moved to a new cable television channel that most of their fans could not see.



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Josh Beckett unable to duplicate gem in Dodgers' 2-1 loss to Pirates

The once-in-a-lifetime performance remained a once-in-a-lifetime performance. Five days removed from the first no-hitter of his career, Josh Beckett didn't throw a second.



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Once poised for a third-round knockout, Kings are now on the ropes

Now, the Kings know how they made the San Jose Sharks feel after the first round of the playoffs and the regrets they left the Ducks to brood over just a couple of weeks ago, in the second round.



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Angels don't make the grade over A's in 9-5 loss

The Angels and the American League West-leading Oakland Athletics opened a three-game series in the Oakland Coliseum on Friday night with 1 1/2 games separating the clubs.



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Kings face another test of seven after Game 6 loss to Blackhawks

Did anyone truly think that the Kings and Chicago Blackhawks would manage to settle the issue in four, five or six games?



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Patrick Kane's assessment of pressure no joke to Kings now

In a personal slump, his team trailing the Western Conference finals by two games, Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane drew some chuckles from Kings players earlier this week when he said they were the ones under the most pressure.



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Josh Beckett struggles with encore; Dodgers fall to Pirates, 2-1

The trouble with an outstanding performance is trying to follow it. Harper Lee wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird” and called it a career. Steam never could follow up “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye,” which was a genuine American tragedy.



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Maker of powerful rat poison will cease production in July

After years of battling federal environmental officials, the maker of d-CON has agreed to stop producing for the consumer market certain rat poisons that have accidentally harmed children, wildlife and pets.



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Grad student has already made a mark in consumer privacy, U.S. spying

The gig: Jonathan Mayer is not a typical Stanford University graduate student. Already, at age 27, Mayer is an expert on consumer privacy and government surveillance. His research has been cited by a presidential task force on National Security Agency operations. He's also taken on...



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Cal State Fullerton, Long Beach State win NCAA openers

J.D. Davis hit a two-out eighth-inning grand slam, lifting Cal State Fullerton to a 5-1 victory over Nebraska in the first game of the Stillwater, Okla., regional Friday.



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L.A. County sheriff candidate Todd Rogers says he's gone 'by the book'

Todd Rogers saw his life before him, and things looked pretty good. He had completed his student teaching and had been offered a job teaching social studies and coaching the junior varsity girls softball team at Carson High, his alma mater.



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Southland gets a leg up on aerospace, advanced manufacturing grants

The Southern California region received a federal designation this week intended to funnel money into its aerospace and advanced manufacturing industry. The designation gives the region the first crack at $1.3 billion in federal grants.



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Donald Sterling's antitrust suit against NBA adds new wrinkle to saga

Minutes before the NBA announced a settlement with Shelly Sterling on Friday afternoon to sell the Clippers, co-owner Donald Sterling provided another twist in the monthlong drama surrounding the franchise.



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Bullet train funding is bargaining chip in state budget debate

As the biggest cheerleader for California's $68-billion bullet train, Gov. Jerry Brown has battled lawsuits from angry landowners and intractable opposition from Republicans. And two years ago, the project barely survived a vote in a Legislature controlled by Brown's fellow Democrats.



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Delahoussaye sees possibilities for California Chrome in Belmont Stakes

Eddie Delahoussaye has been there, done that.



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Report faults prison care of state's mentally ill inmates

A federal court official says that treatment of California's most severely mentally ill prisoners is haphazard and often inadequate, delivered by a fractured, understaffed system in which doctors discharge patients because they are afraid not to.



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Heat crush Pacers in Game 6 to advance to NBA Finals

For the entirety of the regular season, the supremacy of the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference was brought into serious question by the Indiana Pacers.



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Birmingham wraps up graduation gift, a 4-3 playoff win over Kennedy

"Get on the bus! Get on the bus!"



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Coming out in high places

"I was not a victim," declares John Browne, the former chief executive of BP, in his new book, "The Glass Closet: Why Coming Out Is Good Business," published by Harper Business. "We must own up to our choices and I had made some bad ones."



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Edison's San Onofre settlement mirrors bailouts of banks

The concept of a corporation "too big to fail" is typically applied to big banks, usually as an explanation of why they haven't been brought to book for their role in the 2008 crash and why their top executives still roam free through corporate suites and across country club fairways.



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VA chief and White House spokesman resign, fueling unease

President Obama sought to stem a growing political furor Friday by accepting the resignation of Eric K. Shinseki, the beleaguered secretary of Veterans Affairs, the second Cabinet-level official to resign under fire this year.



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