AM News - LAX, Brandy, Obama, iPod, Prison Smokes

- Is LAX really trying to more than double the rent on several low-cost airlines? - Daily News

- Speaking of LAX, SkyWest celebrated their 30th anniversary with the airport - Yahoo

- Speaking of anniversaries, Little Ethiopia is preparing to celebrate Big Ethiopia's millennium - Nazret

- Brandy is being sued by the sons of the woman who died in last year's car crash - AP

- The LA Daily News takes a field trip to the California Science Center's Star Wars special exhibit - Daily News

- Add music and movies to your iPod without going through iTunes - Lifehacker

- Local woman wishes that Obama would have run as a third party candidate to really shake up Washington - LA Weekly

- East LA High School No. 1 will be finished fall of 2009, so get ready - Aztlan News

- Who knew you'd need to write a law prohibiting dumping hospital patients out on the streets, but it has come to this and the law is right around the corner - LAT

- Federal judge makes millionaires out of two local soldiers who were seriously injured when a gearbox in a helicopter malfunctioned which resulted in the chopper falling from the sky in Iraq. Boeing was ordered yesterday to pay over $13 million - Army Times

- A pack of smokes is selling as high as $125 in jail - OC Register

- Phil Jackson has never had a team lose six games in a row, until last night. LAist was in the stands and the Lakers stunk up the place, and lost to an equally bad team - LAT

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