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- National Spelling Bee is down to just 15 adorable nerds - LA Times (spoilers if you are going to watch it tonight)
- Headline of the day: Lady Who Fucked Up Iraq to Fix It - Wonkette
- Gang crimes down 32%, slackers - LAT
- Tommy Lasorda, representing the LA Dodgers, acquired a 40-foot bus from the MTA with help from Tom LaBonge and donated it to some underprivileged sports writers in the Dominican Republic - MLB.com
- Monorail? Monorail! - Bottleneck Blog
- Jerry West "absolutely not" coming back to the Lakers. Which means he'll be right over. - Daily News
- Mayor Tony backs Hillary Clinton - All American Patriots
- Look at those bigass Santa Barbara prawns - Yummy LA
- Transformers will premiere at LA Film Fest - Hollywood Reporter
- Lady burned by church candles in Pacoima gets paid - AP
- Jill Hill interviews the hottest highschool track n fielder... ever, and concludes "you go girl" - KCBS
- J.A. Adande, out - LA Times
- David Hyde Pierce, out - Defamer
AP photo of Andrew Lay, after he spelled negus, by Jacquelyn Martin
