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- Candidates are already gearing up to take on an incumbent City Councilmember in the 2011 election.
- It's 19 now, and it was 19 in 1972: California's pot legalization ballot proposition.
- The mother of missing woman Mitrice Richardson has filed suit against LA County seeking unspecified damages. She's alleging wrongful death, although her daughter--or her body--has not been found since she disappeared in September.
- It's not just the LAUSD: Several school districts in the state are in serious financial peril, and many more, include ones in LA County, are at risk of losing stability.
- Longtime CNN talk host Larry King announced today that he is planning to retire from his show in the fall.
- Janitors who service LAX are threatening to go on strike, possibly over the upcoming 4th of July holiday weekend.
- A onetime Hamas spy has been in Southern California since 2007, and is seeking asylum.