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Snow and record rain
Snow closed I-5 and the California 58 dodge around the Grapevine, while four inches of rain fell at Santa Barbara in 24 hours. Streets through Sepulveda Dam basin closed. LAT, DN
Suge Knight named in gang injunction
Officials want the Mob Piru gang to stay out of Compton, but Knight says, "This is crazy. I'm a 42-year-old businessman, not a gang member. I don't even live in Compton anymore." AP
Dispute over Chinese bones
Should the remains from L.A.'s original Chinatown dug up by the Gold Line work be studied or re-buried? LAT
How's that recruiting of women going at LAFD?
Multi-million dollar disaster, says the LA Weekly.
Reviewing and rethinking Proposition 13
Legacy of Howard Jarvis' 1978 property tax initiative consumes several writers this week at CityBeat.
Kevin Reed leaves LAUSD for UCLA
The general counsel at L.A. Unified will become the vice chancellor for legal affairs, the top lawyer on campus. UCLA Newsroom
Water flowing out of Silver Lake
The emptying has begun and will take 45 days. Curbed LA
Times' missing MLK Day holiday box
Readers complained that there was no holiday closures box in the Monday LAT. "There's a simple but unfortunate answer: Two editors each thought that the other was doing it, and it wasn't placed at all," the paper explains. Readers' Representative Journal
Fox News host mocked Heath Ledger death
John Gibson laughed and made fun of clips from "Brokeback Mountain" in announcing Ledger's death, says Perez Hilton. (Hilton also won $85,000 in damages from a friend of Lindsay Lohan who sued the site. AP)
Archdiocese sells headquarters to Dr. Lee
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles got $31 million for its administrative home at 3424 Wilshire Boulevard and will leace back four floors from Jamison Properties. The sale was fallout from the $660 million settlement of civil litigation related to claims of sexual abuse. Jamison, the group headed by Korean-American physician David Lee, is the dominant owner of commercial office space in Los Angeles. The Tidings
Celebrating BCD Tofu House
Hee-sook Lee is "Koreatown's queen of tofu stew." LAT
S.F. Chronicle editor out
Phil Bronstein will shift to a strategic role as editor-at-large for the Chronicle and the Hearst newspapers division. He may also write more. Romenesko
Book sale
Nancy Spiller, a Betsy Amster client, has sold Counterpoint "Entertaining Disasters," described this way: "...in which a Southern California food writer who has long been serving up fictional dinner parties as fact faces her first real dinner party in a decade while all hell breaks loose in her personal life." Publishers Lunch
Special this morning on 'Airtalk'
KPCC today airs a two-hour live statewide broadcast on issues of importance to Californians. It goes on at 9 am, to be followed by a delayed broadcast of NPR's "Day to Day" at 11 am.
Bernie Boston, former Times photographer was 74
Boston was the photojournalist who took the iconic 1967 image of a young Vietnam War protester placing a flower in the barrel of a rifle held by a National Guardsman. He later became an LAT staffer in Washington. He died from complications of amyloidosis.