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    November 30, 2011

    Occupy L.A. Eviction: Is LAPD Restricting Coverage With Last-Minute 'Pool Media'?

    [Update, morning after: Awesomely, the "pool" reports turned into a sort of crowd-sourced feed; LA Weekly reporter Gene Maddaus says he received constant email updates throughout the night from news outlets with soldiers in the pool. So it seems the chosen ones didn't adhere to the LAPD's silly, une ... More >>

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    April 13, 2011

    L.A. Firefighter Puts Oxygen Mask on Kitty

    LA Daily NewsWait til you see the big one​In an LA Daily News slideshow that could melt the hearts of a thousand evil dictators, we are introduced today to an absurdly soft-looking gray kitty, a lifelong resident of Woodland Hills, and his human savior: L.A. City Firefighter Mike Hayes. Behold ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    While We Were Thawing Our Toes This Morning, We Noticed That Unemployment Benefits Had Been Terminated For 2 Million Americans

    ZastavkiWhad'ya say we all just move to Antarctica​What a bone-chilling way to slide into December. Not to mention the holidays. We woke up this morning after a night of visible breath and twinkly lights to the news that unemployment benefits will likely terminate for 2 million people by th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    L.A. City Council Election 2011: Remaining Stragglers Turn In Candidacy Paperwork

    LA Talk RadioFrank Sheftel, the guy who once carved chocolate statues in the likeness of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley for their '90s wedding, now thinks he can run City District 4​The last of the L.A. City Council candidates have filed for the March 2011 municipal election. There are ... More >>

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    August 1, 2010

    Dr. Keith Richman near death: respected San Fernando Valley Jewish Republican formed rare bipartisan effort to force reform in Sacramento

    Los Angeles Daily NewsKeith Richman ​ UPDATED: Keith Richman died Friday night at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, according to an extensive obituary by Kevin Modesti in the Los Angeles Daily News. This post is updated throughout. Dr. Keith Richman, a fascinating mix of Jewish doctor, Repub ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    Today in Photographs: September 16, 1947

    ​"Harbor Freeway Is Unnecessary" and "Build the River and Alameda Freeways First" are some of the signs carried by Angelenos protesting an eminent domain decision by the Board of Supervisors that would take away their homes to make way for the Harbor Freeway.LA Daily News/UCLA

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2009

    Trutanich's Anti-Graffiti Injunction Draws Fire

    The response to L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich's proposal, reported in yesterday's L.A. Times, to criminalize the mere gathering of members of graffiti-tagging crews has not been pretty. Graffiti is one of those quality of life issues that people can point to when explaining why Los Angeles is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    L.A. Federal Building Standoff Continues

    Update: The Daily Breeze identifies the suspect as Joe Moshe, 56, of Westchester. Moshe's mother and neighbors are quoted in the story as saying he is depressed, unemployed and does not take needed medication, which is not specified.The L.A. Times' Andrew Blankstein reports that the LAPD tried to en ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    Mysterious Bounty Hunter Shooting

    It was a story that captured people's attention this morning because it conjured images of Dog the Bounty Hunter in a reality TV episode gone wrong. The Associated Press reported that a Sun Valley man had been shot in the leg last night during an altercation with three bounty hunters who had come to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    City Checks Bounce, Bank Blamed

    LA Daily News​Whoops, there goes another rubber check! The L.A. Daily News' Rick Orlov reports that 924 checks worth $6 million issued July 24 by the city to vendors have embarrassingly bounced. L.A. is pointing the finger, however, to Wachovia Bank, which it says suffered a transition glitch when ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Little Tujunga Fire Quelled A 130-acre blaze in a canyon of the Angeles National Forest has been almost completely contained, with no loss of life or structures. L.A. Daily NewsViolence Ends Amber Alert A man who sexually assaulted his girlfriend, then shot a woman while carjacking her vehicle -- an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Look Homeward, Antonio In his Wednesday inaugural speech, a humbled Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pledged to recommit himself to serving Los Angeles, promising to focus on "deadlines over headlines." L.A. Daily NewsSouthwest Headed South? The Autry National Center of the American West's proposal to tra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    May Day Cops Dodge Bullet No LAPD officers involved in the 2007 May Day melee in MacArthur Park will be fired, although Chief Bill Bratton had called for four terminations. L.A. TimesCut the Comedy Birmingham High School administrators will be disciplined for allowing Sacha Baron Cohen to use the sc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Jackson Unburied Funeral arrangements for Michael Jackson remain pending, according to his father, who says the family is still seeking answers to the singer's death. L.A. Daily NewsBaby, the Rain Won't Fall Los Angeles is poised to record its fourth straight year of below-normal rainfall. L.A. Time ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Don't Call Him "Padre" Sheik Qazi Asad has become the LAPD's first Muslim chaplain. The Pakistani-born cleric had previously worked as a Sheriff's Department liaison to the county's Islamic community. L.A. Times Time to Pay Los Angeles County's sales tax jumps half a percent to 9.75 percent on July ... More >>

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    June 25, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Protest Student Claims Blackballing An "A" student says she was barred from delivering her school's valediction, and dropped from a tutoring job, because she participated in a sit-in against increased class sizes and the ending of college-prep courses. L.A. TimesCounty Air Doubles Cancer Risk An EPA ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    School Board to Cut $1.6B The LAUSD has voted to make deep cuts in a three-year budget, almost guaranteeing further layoffs and the elimination of summer school. L.A. TimesHollywood Denies Murder Former pot dealer and fugitive Jesse James Hollywood told a Santa Barbara jury he did not order the murd ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Common Cause Different segments of L.A.'s huge Iranian community are uniting to protest their homeland's presidential election results. L.A. Times, L.A. Daily NewsSpecial Order 40 Upheld A state appeals court upheld the LAPD rule banning officers from seeking information about suspects' immigration ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Social Insecurity A federal "desktop raid" that exposed false Social Security numbers of 260 undocumented workers has left a Vernon food processing plant devastated. L.A. TimesEvicted for Following Orders Residents of a North Hollywood apartment building that was foreclosed upon were told by a bank ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    Some L.A. Teachers Get a Reprieve from Ax

    L.A. school superindendant Ray Cortines announced today that the LAUSD is rescinding layoff notices for 505 teachers. The breakdown, according to the L.A. Daily News,  includes "271 non-permanent, secondary English teachers; 114 non-permanent, secondary social studies teachers; and 120 non-perm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Intoxicating Salaries The high wages earned by administrators of the publicly funded Tarzana Treatment Center are raising eyebrows. L.A. TimesProp Company Clears the Set The second-largest film and TV prop company is folding, a victim of production slowdowns due to Industry strike fears. L.A. Daily ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2009

    Today in Photographs: May 31, 1953

    A vigil for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, held outside L.A.'s Federal Courthouse. The Rosenbergs, convicted as "atom spies," were executed three weeks later.LA Daily News/UCLA

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Some Came Running Kenya's Wesley Korir set a finish-time record for the 24th Los Angeles Marathon, which got very lucky with cool weather despite its latest start yet in the calendar. L.A. TimesFootball Prospect Shot Dead Dannie Farber Jr., a promising football player who had just graduated from Nar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    We Have a Budget L.A.'s City Council unanimously passed a $7.01 billion budget that compromises over the issue of freezing new police hires. L.A. Daily NewsMurdered Cop's Mom Shot A stray bullet fired during a West L.A. street altercation Friday entered a nearby home and struck the mother of Ricardo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Gun Suit Shot Down A Ninth Circuit Appeals panel has rejected a lawsuit, filed against gun manufacturer Glock, related to the 1999 Granada Hills shooting at a Jewish community center and the subsequent murder of a letter carrier. Two judges ruled that Glock cannot be held responsible for the illegal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    UCLA Lab Fire Fine The University of California, Los Angeles, was fined more than $31,000 by Cal/OSHA for safety violations in a 2008 fire that led to the death of a research assistant. L.A. TimesOakridge Residents Return After 170 days, residents of the mobile homes not destroyed by last year's Say ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Taco Slay Arrests Two men and a woman have been arrested in connection with a Wednesday night rifle-shooting at a Lennox taco truck that left one man dead and five other people wounded, including two boys. Associated PressMission Accomplished? Three brothers from Hong Kong hoped their plans to expan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Eyesore or Landmark? The Century Plaza Hotel and its fate are a bone of contention between city preservationists enamored with its curving, Jet Age architecture, and the hotel's owner, who wants to raze it and raise a mixed-use development in its stead. L.A. TimesNo YouthTube for L.A. Times The city ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    School Board v. Tenure The L.A. Unified School District is making moves to empower itself to remove teachers on the basis of teacher performance rather than seniority. L.A. Daily NewsMayor Seeks Mail Ballots to Approve Fee Increases Antonio Villaraigosa is supporting a proposal to have homeowners vo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Hospitals Blocked From Skid Row Dumping City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has secured protocols -- and a $1.6 million settlement -- with Orange County's College Hospitals to prevent them from future patient-dumping on L.A.'s Skid Row. Associated Press, City Attorney's OfficeHate Tags A white Los Alamit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    Today in Photographs: March 31, 1954

    Teenage girls with raygun water pistols on Easter vacation, Newport Beach Pier.Photo: LA Daily News/UCLA CollectionClick image to enlarge 

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    March 26, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Ah, Wilderness! The House of Representatives has passed a massive conservation bill that would declare as wilderness almost as much land as George W. Bush did during  eight years in office. Included are a new wilderness area centered on Magic Mountain and the cleanup of San Gabriel Valley groun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    The Last Roundup Kevin Kachikian, the final defendant in the Anthony Pellicano RICO trial to be sentenced, is scheduled in federal court Monday morning. See story here later today.Mini-Madoff Fallout A $10 million contribution to the ailing Children's Museum may turn out to be a financial mirage, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Wilshire Theater Renamed for Saban Family

    The L.A. Daily News reports this morning that the iconic Wilshire Theater will be rebranded as the Saban Theater, in honor of a $5 million donation given to the Beverly Hills Performing Arts Center by philanthropists Haim and Cheryl Saban. The theater, built in 1930 for live performances and fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    Today in Photographs: March 5, 1930

    L.A. Reds riot during an unemployment protest downtown.Photo: L.A. Daily News/UCLA CollectionClick image to enlarge

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    March 3, 2009

    Bizarre to see Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa winning just 53.99%

    These are the early returns from absentee ballots only. The showing for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is so low, given that he outspent all his competitors by orders of magnitude that are positively Hubble Telescopian, and got gushing, glowing free media coverage from both the Los Angeles Times and Los ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Bloody Sunday Two people were shot dead in Echo Park, and third was wounded by a suspect police describe as driving a black pickup truck. City News ServiceSink or Swim Southern California's faltering economy has led to an increase of people applying for lifeguard jobs. L.A. TimesNo Leap of Faith A n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    The Emptying Sky Both LAX and LA/Ontario airports are experiencing substantial decreases in their numbers of travelers, despite a wave of fare reductions. L.A. TimesFreeway With a View Rows of noise-break trees have been cut down by the side of the 405 Freeway in Sherman Oaks, and by an apartment co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Slumdance Film Festival It was all Slumdog, all the time at the 81st Academy Awards, or so it seemed. DHD, VarietyNo L.A. Rustbelt Yet Manufacturing is still the king of L.A. County's economy -- even if people see less of it around -- according to an ombudsman from the L.A. Economic Development Corp ... More >>

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    February 20, 2009

    Today in Photographs: February 20, 1947

    Remains of the Day: Residents and workers mill around the O'Connor Electro-Plating Corporation at 926 E. Pico Boulevard. Meanwhile, rescue crews comb the wreckage of the city's worst industrial accident, which claimed 17 lives and injured 150. Photos: L.A. Daily News & L.A. Times/UCLA Collection

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    February 20, 2009

    Perps on Parade: L.A.'s Most Wanted

    The LAPD's Web site offers a nifty rainy day diversion -- a photographic list of the city's most wanted suspects. While the database only provides an alphabetical listing and does not rate the 207 alleged criminals by the gravity of their crimes, it does offer a Top Ten slideshow and is searchable b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2009

    Stimulus Database: A Lo$ Angeles Breakdown

    The L.A. Daily News, Stimulus Watch and US Mayors.org offer nifty search engines permitting readers to look through the 321 projects that the city of Los Angeles is submitting to Washington for its $7.3 billion cut of the $790 billion stimulus plan, which the House passed today. The database shows t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2009

    Valley Water Show Means Money Down the Drain

    Why is it that water always gets wasted when it rains? Early on in last week's storm there was the image of a gushing fountain in Oxnard, created when a car, skidding in the rain, sheared off a hydrant.  Then, on Monday, a 12-inch main burst by MacArthur Park and shut down Alvarado Street for h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Here They Come: Court Orders Prisoners Released

    A special panel of three federal judges ruled this afternoon that California must begin releasing tens of thousands of prisoners in order to alleviate overcrowding."The judges," reports the Associated Press, "say no other solution will improve conditions so poor that inmates die regularly of suicide ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2009

    Next for L.A.'s Hottest Winter: Snow

    "Wintry driving conditions" -- when was the last time you heard that in an L.A. weather forecast? We'll be hearing a lot, nevertheless, over the next few days. The L.A. Daily News reports that "rain, snow, possibly thunderstorms and sharply lower temperatures" are on tap, beginning Thursday morning, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    Has the Daily News Become the Recycler?

    Among L.A. Observed's daily reports of newspaper triage comes word that the Los Angeles Daily News is one of several papers belonging to the Los Angeles Newspaper Group whose newsrooms have been ordered to play without pay for an entire week. Just how the news is going to appear on its pages (paper ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    Will Newest City Car Uproar Hit Green Wall Again?

    If you've ever wondered about your neighbor's pickup truck having a city seal on its doors, you have only to turn to L.A. Controller Laura Chick's latest cry of outrage to learn of the expanding armada of city cars that are parked in employees' driveways. Chick's audit charges that "a total of 1,131 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    Ricardo Montalban Remembered

    http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-montalban15-2009jan15,0,4189863.story

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    January 15, 2009

    Economy Goes South, But So May Office Rents

    File this under Silver Linings: A wire report carried by The L.A. Daily News says that the economy is so bad that Los Angeles-area landlords may be forced to lower office rents. More durable and stable than gold prices, L.A. residential rents have long been impervious to downward adjustments, no mat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2009

    Today in Photographs: January 4, 1940

    Gypsy (Roma) women sit in L.A. County Jail, held on larceny charges.(Photo: L.A. Daily News/UCLA Digital Collection)

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