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- What do you get your husband--one of the star players of NBA Champ team the Lakers? A Rolls-Royce, of course!
- The movie theatre monopoly on Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade belongs to AMC.
- Congrats to former LAPD Officer Kristina Ripatti-Pearce, who completed the Race Across America in Annapolis, Maryland yesterday. Ripatti-Pearce was paralyzed from the waist down in a 2006 shooting.
- Maywood lays off 100% of their City Employees and Police, and goes 100% contract.
- An ordinance passed today will see to it that all pit bulls in San Bernardino County be spayed or neutered.
- Authorities in Montebello find over 600 roosters and bust what appears to be a cockfighting site.
- If you're a city-livin' apartment dweller, why on earth should you be composting?