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Weekend shorts
- There's talk of UC Irvine's chastened chancellor re-offering the law school deanship to Erwin Chemerinsky. Orange County conservative Hugh Hewitt says the offer should be made. LAT, Register
- More than 1,000 pedestrians have been hit by cars on Valley streets since 2006, the Daily News says in a story with online map. Sherman Way, Victory and Roscoe are the worst streets for pedestrian accidents.
- It's Emmy night in L.A.
- Michael Parks, former Editor of the Los Angeles Times, is stepping down at the end of the school year as director of the journalism school at USC Annenberg. A search committee has begun looking for a successor.
- Los Angeles Times old timers gathered Saturday at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena for a memorial service for Tony Day, the paper's former editorial page editor and columnist. Ex-publisher Tom Johnson traveled from Atlanta.
- Former LAT Investigative reporter Gary Cohn is now doing the same at Bloomberg Markets, working in the L.A. bureau. At the Times he was lead reporter on the Schwarzenegger groping stories in 2003.
- The Kings have hired former KCAL sportscaster Tom Murray as a contributor to LAKings.com.
- The LAPD's main in-house blogger, Lt. Ruben De La Torre, is being promoted to department spokesman.
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