The Port of Los Angeles had a strong April, as we posted on Tuesday, but the Port of Long Beach continues to see declines.

I pretty much gave up on the Laker center - and on the Lakers in general - after he was caught on camera parking in handicap spaces. The latest infraction is much tamer, but it's telling.

The ads connect Skechers Shape-ups with great sex, and federal and state regulators say that's false advertising (ya think?). Manhattan Beach-based Skechers has agreed to a $40-million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.

Some Valley voters are getting campaign mail that shows Rep. Brad Sherman with his wife and three young children. The lucky ones also get his mother, apparently photo-shopped in to the same scene.

All fierce development battles have to end sometime. This one, which has pitted real estate interests and environmental groups for decades, appears to be drawing to a close.

Still no sign of a definitive turnaround, but there's enough going on to get our attention. For all of Southern California, the April median price was up 3.6 percent from 2011, the first time prices rose year-over year in 16 months.

The plan cooked up by politically connected investors to deliver water from a remote corner of the Mojave to thirsty Southern California cities refuses to die after more than two decades. How the LA Times can do a new story on Cadiz without mentioning Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa or Arnold Schwarzenegger (and barely mentioning their pal who is at the center of things, Keith Brackpool) is a mystery. Note: No time for the Morning Buzz today.

Facebook ups its IPO, L.A. City Council looks to avoid layoffs, cellphones in flight (oy), and Aaron Sorkin to adapt Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography to the screen.

District Attorney Steve Cooley made his first public comments about his unit's investigation into possible corruption in the operation of county Assessor John Noguez. If anything, it sounds as if the investigation is white hot.

OK, right about now the hockey fans of North America have to be getting a little itchy. Confused. Not sure they understand what they're feeling, but maybe just because they have never seen it before. Post-game video

The Dow falls another 63 points, dropping to a four-month low. There are the usual concerns about Europe and banks and housing, but the broader question is whether these down days are more than a temporary blip.

Admittedly, many Los Angeles Times print subscribers didn't know the Times still printed a magazine every month. Even some high-income Zip codes didn't receive it with any regularity. But now the magazine is gone again. Here's the memo from LAT president Kathy Thomson.