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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