Extra, Extra: USC and UCLA in the News and the State of the Budget Bill

• USC plans on selling comic Jack Oakie's historic estate in the San Fernando Valley to a developer.
• A UCLA police officer guilty of repeatedly shocking a student with an electric Taser was accused of violating department rules in a recent report.
• Things aren't looking too good for the King-Harbor Hospital.
• ESPN X Games 13 begins today at The Home Depot Center and Staples Center.
• What would our City Council members look like if they were Simpsons-ized?
• Want to guess how many more votes are needed to pass the stalled state budget bill? That's right: just one.
• The House passed the CHIP bill; the Senate is likely to follow, precipitating a potential veto from the president.
• File this under the "no-brainer" department: might Britney Spears have some type of "behavioral" problem?
• Chauncey Bailey, the newly appointed editor to the Oakland Post, was gunned down this morning walking to work.
• Do more Democratic voters dislike Barack Obama than dislike Hillary Clinton?
• Catch the first instances of the Minneapolis bridge's collapse here.

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