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A quick breeze through the local news, after the jump.
News
Air rights downtown
Final approval could come today for a revised ordinance that gives the mayor veto power over transfer of convention center air rights to private development that want to go higher than codes would ordinarily allow. The City Council caved to Mayor Villaraigosa yesterday and altered the proposed law he vetoed. LAT, DN
VA deaths
Five in three months at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center has triggered a probe. LAT, NYT yesterday
Downtown homeless count rises
Latest LAPD census found an uptick in street sleepers. LAT
Goliath can knock you out
Eighteen riders blacked out last year on Six Flags Magic Mountain's giant roller coaster, says a watchdog group. They mean it as a bad thing. DN
Spector and his women
Prosecutors will introduce evidence that Phil Spector has threatened women in the past and held a gun to the head of his former assistant. LAT, DN
No discipline for Bratton
Five city council members had complained when Bratton said they didn't know what they were talking about with their criticism of department hiring practices. It went to the police commission, which said yesterday that Bratton won't be sanctioned. LAT, DN
Opening statements in Turner trial
Chester Turner is "possibly the most prolific serial killer in the history of the city of Los Angeles," prosecutors said. DN
Noted
Helping out Dad
Tagg Romney has left the Dodgers front office to work in his father Mitt's presidential campaign.
Kerrys on the circuit
John and Teresa Heinz Kerry speak at Dutton's in Brentwood at 6 pm on their new book.
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As newspapers and television pull back from investigative reporting, foundations and other organizations are beginning to fill the void. One of the most interesting is Accountable California, a project of Local 721 of the Service Employees International Union.
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