- KCRW and KPCC have jumped on this morning's assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Warren Olney's shows, "To the Point" and "Which Way, L.A.?," are both devoting extensive time to the turn of events in Pakistan. Ted Chen, sitting in for Larry Mantle, talked to the LAT's Laura King in Rawalpindi, and Patt Morrison got to Brian Jenkins of Rand.
- The DWP says it has restored power to 19,000 customers affected by the winds and still has about 2,300 to go, most of them in Los Feliz and the Hollywood Hills.
- A shooting amid shoppers in Old Town Pasadena is being blamed on a drug deal gone bad. Wonder if boosters are thinking of Karen Toshima, whose death in a 1988 gang shooting is blamed for driving nightlife crowds out of Westwood Village.
- Once again they forget: construction of a transit line is brutal for business, as the Eastside is realizing. Sometimes the lucky ones recover after the line opens.
- An L.A. sheriff's deputy has some explaining to do after his patrol car was stolen, with the keys inside, while he was some place he said he wasn't.
- Unfortunate timing: today's L.A. Times landed with a project on Alzheimer's the day after a bigger Alzheimer's project ran in the New York Times.
- The Daily News now plans its move to leased digs in Warner Center in September. The paper's current headquarters on Oxnard Street has been sold.
- Author Lionel Rolfe writes that he had his doubts about Laura Huxley.
- Remembering the late Irv Letofsky in the Twin Cities.
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