Extra, Extra: Birth Control for Pigeons & More...

• Could changes finally be coming to Sepulveda Boulevard after more than eight long years of debate?
• Who knew comic book fans could be so violent? Times reporter Geoff Boucher was attacked covering Comic-Con this past weekend.
• Sounds like a good idea: Hollywood residents are turning to birth control pills to control the pigeon population.
• Al Gore's son pleaded guilty to possessing marijuana and other drugs this morning.
• Seriously, you guys deserve it: members of Congress are considering giving themselves a pay raise of $4,400 per year.
• New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited Bush at Camp David today.
• Happy, happy, joy joy: Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrates his 60th birthday on planet earth.
• 2 LAPD Die Yesterday, 3 CHP today. When the cops are getting in car crashes, you know it's getting dangerous out there. The 60 freeway is now open after this afternoon's crash that shut down a stretch of the eastbound lanes and injured 3 CHP officers.
• 14-year-old kid looking for that money shot. In that paparazzi way that is.
• Hall of Fame coach Bill Walsh dies at 75.
• More death in the news today: the mother of William Bratton, LAPD Chief of Police, dies at 80.
• Of taser guns and pepper spray: 1 of 3 street robbers arrested in a West Valley crime spree.
• "The list of departed [City Attorney Rocky] Delgadillo media aides is too long even for the Web." Today, Jonathan Diamond leaves Delgadillo's press office.

Zach Behrens also contributed to this post.

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