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Here are a few top news stories making the rounds today: 6.0 Quake Rocks Central California on Tuesday AM, Los Angeles Times...Wonder if UCLA's Vladmir Keilis-Borok feels vindicated "Virgin Galactic Joins SpaceCraftOne in Vying for Commercial Spacecraft Prize," Los Angeles Times "Desert-Dwelling Students Granted Shorter Week to Beat the Heat," Los Angeles Times "LA City Council Bans Silly String at WeHo Halloween Celebration," Los Angeles Times "Roy Disney Still Not Satisfied," Los Angeles Times "Bryant...

Daryl Kelly reported, in Sunday's edition of the Los Angeles Times, "For Thousand Oaks, one of the safest large cities in the nation, authorities say Jason Wines was a one-person crime spree. Wines, 25, who lived in bushes next to a Thousand Oaks freeway, was recently sentenced to a year in Ventura County Jail after pleading guilty to eight felony counts of grand theft, vehicle burglary and receiving stolen property. Wines' crimes, committed over...

Banned Book week commenced September 25th and ends October 2nd. Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena will have in-store displays of favorite books that have banned in the past, such as those authored by Dr. Suess and Mark Twain. Also, their staff will be wearing quotes from their favorite banned book. If patrons can guess the title that their quote is from, staffers will give them a kiss — a Hershey's kiss that is... Speaking of...

Gentle Reader, LAist changed servers over the weekend and the little gremlins inside those gray boxes just completed their finishing touches... We will be fully-loaded with images and proper contributor attributions tomorrow. In the meantime, forgive today's irregular format and enjoy. Thanks for your patience....

Oilman Marvin Davis died Saturday at his Beverly Hills home. He was 79. The Los Angeles Times pubished his obit in Sunday's edition. "The wealthiest individual in Los Angeles for much of the last two decades, Davis was recently estimated by Forbes magazine to be worth $5.8 billion. Although his fortune was built in the dusty oil fields of Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Wyoming and Texas, where he was known as "Mr. Wildcatter," Davis was inexorably...

Tony Bruno's contract expired on Friday at Fox Sports Radio, and the station could not agree on terms for a new deal. So Bruno is suddenly out as LA's morning sports talk host. LAist has some words of advice for Fox Sports Radio: Whatever Bruno is asking for, pay it. As one of the four Sports Talk radio hosts worth listening to in Los Angeles, LAist will miss Bruno. We loved his Philadelphia humor,...

Los Angeles Times's staffer David Pierson reports that county officials closed 80% of the Angeles National Forest on Sunday, forcing canyon residents to evacuate: "It's [the evacuation] a predicament dozens, maybe hundreds, of residents living full- or part-time in the remote mountain areas found themselves in after officials announced Friday that 80% of the 680,000-acre forest would be closed today [Sunday] at midnight. Residents say they need more time and would prefer to stay to...

Take that, Shane. We're looking forward to our shipment of rice-a-roni. The Dodgers took two out of three from the Giants this weekend, grinding out both victories. The only blemish was Yhencey Brazoban giving up a grand slam Pedro Feliz, and who knows what is wrong with Jose Lima. In the meantime, the Shawn Green issue worked itself out, Odalis Perez cemented himself as the team's ace, and if people like Alex Cora are...

While perusing LAPD logs, we came across a story that shows that crime doesn't pay cause most criminals are stupid. On August 17, 2004 officers were summoned to a Comfort Inn on W. Sunset Blvd. A hotel manager tracked down the suspect at the second hotel after discovering that he'd stolen a painting when he was asked to leave the first hotel. The irate hotel manager recognized the thief's vehicle in the Comfort Inn...

Vromans Bookstore in Pasadena has scheduled some intriguing book signings this week. On Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:00 PM, Kevin Starr discusses & signs Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003. Starr, widely acknowledged as California's premiere historian, examines our state in a decade when it was sometimes stumbling, sometimes humbled, but, more often, flourishing with its usual panache. Ask him how he feels about the semi-enthusiastic reviews, via LA Observed, he's getting...