Extra, Extra - Is Our Burelage Showing?

- National Spelling Bee is down to just 15 adorable nerds - LA Times (spoilers if you are going to watch it tonight)

- Headline of the day: Lady Who Fucked Up Iraq to Fix It - Wonkette

- Gang crimes down 32%, slackers - LAT

- Tommy Lasorda, representing the LA Dodgers, acquired a 40-foot bus from the MTA with help from Tom LaBonge and donated it to some underprivileged sports writers in the Dominican Republic - MLB.com

- Monorail? Monorail! - Bottleneck Blog

- Jerry West "absolutely not" coming back to the Lakers. Which means he'll be right over. - Daily News

- Mayor Tony backs Hillary Clinton - All American Patriots

- Look at those bigass Santa Barbara prawns - Yummy LA

- Transformers will premiere at LA Film Fest - Hollywood Reporter

- Lady burned by church candles in Pacoima gets paid - AP

- Jill Hill interviews the hottest highschool track n fielder... ever, and concludes "you go girl" - KCBS

- J.A. Adande, out - LA Times

- David Hyde Pierce, out - Defamer

AP photo of Andrew Lay, after he spelled negus, by Jacquelyn Martin